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Following a unanimous vote by the U.S. Senate, Charles "Chuck" F. Sams III has been appointed to lead the National Park Service. The first Native American to hold the position, Sams is Cayuse and Walla Walla and a tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

The National Park Service manages preservation programs to document historic places, develop standards and guidelines, and provide financial and technical assistance to preserve our shared heritage. As the State Historic Preservation Office, RIHPHC partners with the National Park Service on preservation programs in the state.

Liz Rochefort has left the RIHPHC to accept a new position as a Preservation Planner/Architectural Historian at Epsilon Associates, Inc. She began her preservation career as an intern at RIHPHC in 2007 and joined the staff in August 2015. As Principal Architectural Historian, she wrote and reviewed nominations that resulted in hundreds of properties being listed in the National Register of Historic Places. She also coordinated the recent revision of Rhode Island’s statewide historic preservation plan and represented RIHPHC as a Trustee of Providence Preservation Society.