Board of Directors

Joanie DiMartino

President

Joanie DiMartino is the Museum Curator and Site Superintendent of the Prudence Crandall Museum, a National Historic Landmark in Canterbury, Connecticut.  She earned an MA in Public History from Rutgers University, where her scholarly focus was the Progressive-Era militant suffrage movement.  She has been in the museum field for over 25 years, working at many different sites, from large institutions such as the Kentucky Historical Society and Mystic Seaport Museum, to small historic houses.  DiMartino serves on the Executive Committee of the Connecticut League of History Organizations (CLHO) Board, the Connecticut History Day Advisory Council, and is the Connecticut representative for the Votes for Women Trail through the National Collaborative of Women’s History Sites, which she represented on the Connecticut Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission.  She lives in Mystic, Connecticut with her family, and serves her community as a Justice of the Peace.

Katherine Jellison

Vice President

Katherine Jellison is Professor of History and Director of the Central Region Humanities Center at Ohio University. Her books include Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (1993), It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (2008), and (with Steven D. Reschly) Amish Women and the Great Depression (2023). She has written numerous journal articles and book chapters about topics ranging from the Civil War correspondence of a Massachusetts farm family to U.S. First Ladies. Her commentary on gender and politics appears frequently in such media outlets as the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.

Rosie Click

Secretary

Rosie Click is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University. She received an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in 2022, and a BA in Latin American Studies and English from Tulane University in 2019. Her dissertation research focuses on students from Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, and the Philippines who came to the continental US for higher education from 1898-1917, often on government or privately funded scholarships to attend programs designed for students from overseas. Rosie is a proud member of the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE), the graduate student labor union at Georgetown, and has served in various executive board and organizing roles.

Outside of Georgetown, Rosie serves as the secretary of the NCWHS. Related to this work, Rosie has been working with the Clara Barton National Historic Site since 2022 as part of the Section 106 process for the restoration of that site. Rosie is also a museum captain for the Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, a group dedicated to the documentation and protection of the Smithsonian collections and museums.

Andrea Malcomb

Treasurer

Andrea Malcomb is Director at Historic Denver’s Molly Brown House Museum. She is focused on elevating the house museum as a nationally recognized women’s history site while also expanding the museum’s education partnerships across Denver. Under her leadership, the museum has elevated its public history impact through programs and interpretation that superimpose feminized narratives of historical events onto contemporary place-based activities, prompting audiences to explore a new, woman-centered dynamic between past and present.

This has led to education curriculum that elevates diverse stories of place-making, establishes higher standards for collections care and accessibility, and generates programming for evolving audience needs. Malcomb has also ensured the historic house will stand for another century with the recent completion of $1million+ in capitol restoration and the addition of accessible programming spaces.

She has served on the NCWHS RIC since 2018 and is in a second term on the Historic House Museums Committee of AASLH. She enjoys reading, cooking, championing for women’s rights, sits on the Board of Irish Network CO, and volunteer’s with the League of Women Voters.

Paula F. Casey

Paula F. Casey of Memphis has dedicated more than 30 years educating the public about Tennessee’s pivotal role in the 19th Amendment’s ratification with a video, book, e-book, audiobook, and public art. She is also an engaging speaker on the 19th Amendment and voting rights.

She produced the video, “Generations: American Women Win the Vote,” in 1989 and the book, The Perfect 36: Tennessee Delivers Woman Suffrage, in 1998, and the e-book and audiobook in 2013. She helped place these suffrage monuments: bas relief plaque inside the State Capitol (1998); Tennessee Woman Suffrage Monument (Nashville’s Centennial Park 2016); Sue Shelton White statue (Jackson City Hall 2017). The Memphis Suffrage Monument “Equality Trailblazers” was installed at the University of Memphis law school after 5 years of work. The dedication ceremony was held on March 27, 2022, and is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YTNND5F1aBw

She co-founded the Tennessee Woman Suffrage Heritage Trail (www.tnwomansuffrageheritagetrail.com) that highlights the monuments, markers, gravesites and suffrage-related sites. She is the new chair of the National Votes for Women Trail and is also the state coordinator for Tennessee.

Kenetha Harrington, Ph.D.

Kenetha Harrington, Ph.D., is a historical anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in African American history and culture. She has conducted historical, ethnographic, and archaeological research throughout the United States. As a public scholar dedicated to collaboration with descendant communities and community based organizations, she has helped develop new exhibits, implement programs, host presentations, and create educational resources that make history more accessible to the public.

As a creative professional with a background in theatre and film, Kenetha has written and produced historical content, including plays, short films, and books. She currently works as an adjunct professor and serves as the principal researcher for Diaspora Research & Consulting. She is also a founding member of the Central Louisiana African American Historical Society.

Theresa McCarthy

Theresa McCarthy is an Onondaga nation, Beaver clan citizen of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Ontario. She is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at SUNY-Buffalo. Theresa’s research interests focus on Haudenosaunee women, Haudenosaunee land rights and sovereignty, Haudenosaunee citizenship and Confederacy governance, and Haudenosaunee languages and intellectual traditions. She is the author of In Divided Unity: Haudenosaunee Reclamation at Grand River (UAP) which won the 2017 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Best First Book Prize. Theresa previously worked on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council- funded archival project that digitized and repatriated an extensive collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnographic material collected from Six Nations community members. She also worked as a co-producer on an educational documentary about the 2006 Haudenosaunee land reclamation near Caledonia, Ontario. For these, and other contributions, Theresa is recognized as Associate Professor /Iakorihonnién:ni of Indigenous Research at Six Nations. 

Theresa is currently Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences at UB, and she is Director of UB Indigenous, a campus wide hub for Indigenous research, student, and community engagement. A longtime advocate for the revitalization of Indigenous languages, Theresa has worked on reinstating Haudenosaunee language courses at UB, and on building relationships with nearby Haudenosaunee communities in support of Indigenous language learning. She is currently a Principal Investigator and the Indigenous lead on a 3.2 million Mellon Foundation grant supporting the formation of the new Indigenous Studies Department at UB. Theresa is also Principal Investigator on a new Mellon Foundation sponsored project to establish digital Haudenosaunee Archive, Resource and Knowledge Collection. She is both grateful and proud to be living and working on Seneca Nation territory in what is now known as Buffalo, NY.

Jolene Rickard

Jolene Rickard is an Associate Professor at Cornell University in the departments of History of Art and Art, and the former Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program 2008-2020 (AIISP). She is a visual historian, artist and curator interested in the intersection of Indigenous art and post-neo-anticolonialism with an emphasis on Hodinöhsö:ni perspectives. A selection of publications includes: Diversifying Sovereignty and the Reception of Indigenous Art, Art Journal 76, no. 2 (2017), Aesthetics, Violence and Indigeneity, Public 27, no. 54 (Winter 2016), Arts of Dispossession, in From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic: Landscape Painting in the Americas, Art Gallery of Ontario (2015), The Emergence of Global Indigenous Art, Sakahán, National Gallery of Canada (2013), and Visualizing Sovereignty in the Time of Biometric Sensors, The South Atlantic Quarterly: Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law, 110:2 (2011). Exhibitions include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts national exhibition, Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019-2021, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Art For a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950’s to Now, 2018-2020. She co-curated two of the four inaugural exhibitions of the National Museum of the American Indian (2004-2014). Her most recent curatorial intervention, Deskaheh à Genève, 1923-2023 : Défendre la souveraineté des Haudenosaunee / Deskaheh in Geneva, 1923-2023 : Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignity (Geneva, Switzerland, 2023). Jolene is on the editorial board of American Art, a founding board member for the Otsego Institute for Native American Art and an advisor to GRASAC – The Great Lakes Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture. Jolene is from the Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora Nation, Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy.

Amanda Rooper

Amanda Roper has spent her career as a public historian working to preserve historic places and share traditionally underrepresented stories from America’s past. She has worked for the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She was also Director of the Lee-Fendall House Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2018, Amanda was recognized by the National Trust on their list of 40 Under 40: People Saving Places for her significant impact on historic preservation and her contributions to the public’s understanding of why places matter. Amanda is a 2025-2026 Research Fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon where she completed research on the history of women in preservation. Amanda serves on the board of the Historic House Museum Consortium of Washington, D.C. and Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages.

Judith Wellman

Judith Wellman is Principal Investigator, Historical New York Research Associates, and Professor Emerita, State University of New York at Oswego. She has more than 40 years of experience in research, teaching, cultural resource surveys, and grants administration. She specializes in historic sites relating to women’s history, the Underground Railroad, and African American communities, with almost forty National Register nominations and a dozen cultural resource surveys. With a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, Judith Wellman taught history at the State University of New York at Oswego from 1972-2010. Scholarly writings include The Road to Seneca Falls (University of Illinois, 2004) and Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, N.Y. (New York University, 2014).

Dr. Wellman has worked as a consultant and principal investigator on award-winning projects with the National Park Service, National Endowment for the Humanities and many other organizations. She has extensive experience working local organizations and giving talks and workshops for teachers and public audiences. She is currently working on sites relating to women’s suffrage in New York State, as well as research on the Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls.

Liz Witherspoon

Liz has experience as a people and business leader of entrepreneurial start-ups and traditional organizations on both coasts. Most recently she was the Managing Director for MITRE Corporation where she managed a portfolio of businesses. Prior to MITRE, Liz was a Vice President at Forrester Research where she managed the company’s Analyst Advisory and Total Economic Impact businesses. This included developing tools and methods to evaluate and communicate the value and impact of technologies for business customers. She began her career in telecom, e-commerce, and edtech startups in San Francisco and worked at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt prior to Forrester. Liz earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan focused on postsecondary education and instructional technology. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Humanities at the University of Maryland Global Campus. Liz lives in Maryland with her husband Eric, three children and dog Spike. They can be found enjoying the wonderful parks Maryland has to offer and traveling to explore the country. Liz also enjoys playing clarinet in the NIH community orchestra.