Board of Trustees - National Association for Olmsted Parks

Jerry Baum

Baltimore, MD
Morton J. Baum (Jerry) served as co-chair of NAOP from 2001 to 2005. He joined the board in April 2000, and served as chair of the Development Committee through 2009. Jerry was the treasurer of a state affiliate, Friends of Maryland's Olmsted Parks and Landscapes, from 1984 to 1987 and lives in a neighborhood landscaped by the Olmsted brothers, Roland Park in Baltimore, MD.

Christopher T. Bayley

Seattle, WA
Chris Bayley is the co-founder of Stewardship Partners and Chairman of Dylan Bay Consulting. He has been active in the Seattle community for 45 years. He began his law career in 1966 as an associate attorney with Lane, Powell, Moss & Miller, then worked under Attorney General Slade Gorton as the Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Consumer Protection and Antitrust Division. In 1970, Christopher was elected King County Prosecuting Attorney and served until 1979. He then became Partner in Charge of Public Finance at the Perkins Coie law firm.

Ethan Carr

Amherst, MA
Ethan Carr is the Associate Editor of Volume 8 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. He is a landscape historian and preservationist specializing in the public landscapes of the United States. Ethan worked for the Central Park Conservancy and served as the New York City park historian before becoming a National Park Service historical landscape architect. He was an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, and is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses in heritage landscape research, management, and interpretation.

Daniel Chartier

Montréal, Québec Province, Canada
Daniel Chartier has worked as a landscape architect for the City of Montréal Parks Department for more than 32 years, planning numerous large-size public green spaces. Since 1991 he has worked almost exclusively on the restoration of Mount Royal to ensure that the planning process better corresponds with Olmsted's original intentions.

Julie Crockford

Jamaica Plain, MA
Julie Crockford has served as President and Executive Director of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, a public private partnership, since 2007. The Conservancy, founded in 1998, brings people together to renew, enliven and advocate for the Emerald Necklace park system in Boston and Brookline designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded its stewardship capacity, doubling the number of volunteers for the parks and launching an environmental education and summer employment program for city youth, among other initiatives.

Philip M. Cuthbertson

Atlanta, GA
Phil is the founder and former executive Director of the Grant Park Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Atlanta's oldest existing public park (Olmsted Brothers development plan commissioned 1903). He is currently completing a book on Grant Park, including the park and surrounding area, as part of the "Images of America" series published by Arcadia Press. He is also researching several other titles in this series.

M. Eliza Davidson

Seattle, WA
Eliza is a consulting arborist, landscape designer and licensed architect. She is the Principal of Arbutus Design LLC, a multidisciplinary practice offering landscape and urban forestry services. Since 1996, Eliza has authored long-term vegetation management plans for several Olmsted heritage parks in Seattle, including Green Lake, Seward, Interlaken and Volunteer Parks, and the WA State Capitol. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from North Carolina State University and a Master of Forest Resources in Urban Horticulture from University of Washington.

Lauren Shuler Donner

Beverly Hills, CA
Lauren Shuler Donner, of the Donners’ Company, has, in the past three decades, established herself as one of the most successful and versatile producers in Hollywood. To date, her films have grossed approximately $3 billion worldwide.

Sarah Earley

Bloomfield Hills, MI
In the process of completing course work in landscape design, Sarah Earley realized that her adopted hometown of Detroit, Mi held one of the unpolished gems of Frederick Law Olmsted's portfolio of urban parks. Having been born in Boston, and lived in cities across the U.S., including New York, she was quite familiar with Olmsted’s body of work. Concerned that too few Detroiters recognized the historic and cultural significance of Olmsted's only "island" park in the Detroit River between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, in 2004 she founded the Belle Isle Women's Committee. That organization raises funds on a project basis to help restore and preserve Belle Isle. She mobilized influential women across Southeast Michigan to raise awareness of the need to preserve this gem.

Bridget Fisher

Denver, CO
Bridget Fisher is the past president and a member of the Executive Committee of The Park People, a small private foundation working to preserve, enhance and advocate for Denver's parks, recreational resources and urban forest. She has been active with The Park People since joining its board in 2001. Previously, Bridget worked in the banking industry until her retirement in 2000. She is a graduate of Vassar College.

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