Thursday and Friday, November 2 and 3

The VETS, Providence, Rhode Island, and Livestream

INSPIRATION. IDEAS. SOLUTIONS. CONNECTIONS.

Introducing a few of our outstanding speakers!

Carol Coletta

Panel Moderator | The Future of Cities

Carol Coletta is CEO of Memphis River Parks Partnership, leading the relaunch of a nonprofit to develop, manage, and program six miles of riverfront and five park districts along the Mississippi. Previously, she was a senior fellow at The Kresge Foundation and VP of community and national initiatives at Knight Foundation. Carol led the start-up of ArtPlace, a broad collaboration to accelerate creative placemaking and was president and CEO of CEOs for Cities. She also served as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design.

Rosanne Haggerty

Opening Keynote | Built for Zero: Ending Homelessness

Rosanne Haggerty, president and chief executive officer of Community Solutions, is an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness. Community Solutions assists communities throughout the US and internationally in implementing systems that measurably end homelessness and change the conditions that produce it. Their large-scale initiatives include the 100,000 Homes Campaign and Built for Zero. Earlier Rosanne founded and led Common Ground Community, a pioneer in the development of supportive housing models and other research-based practices that end homelessness.

Philip Kennicott

Panel Moderator | Embodied Carbon: The Sustainability Imperative of Preserving Places

Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning senior art and architecture critic of The Washington Post. He is also a two-time Pulitzer finalist (for editorial writing in 2000 and criticism in 2012), a former contributing editor to The New Republic, and a regular contributor to Opera News, and Gramophone. His memoir Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning was published by Norton in 2020. His 2015 essay “Smuggler” was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and anthologized in that year’s volume of Best American Essays. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Why the Summit?

The Historic New England Summit is the region’s largest conference about our collective roles in creating livable and resilient communities. The 2023 Summit offers attendees INSPIRATION and CONNECTIONS to develop IDEAS that will lead to SOLUTIONS to today’s complex challenges. Thought leaders in preservation, arts and culture, social history, education, advocacy, and government will discuss a range of topics that are relevant to us now and most importantly for future generations.