Lori Foley appointed vice president for emergency programs at NEDCC

Lori Foley to Lead Emergency Programs at Heritage Preservation
Succeeds Jane Long after twenty years

Heritage Preservation has announced that Lori Foley, Director of
Preservation Services at the Northeast Document Conservation Center
(NEDCC), will become its Vice President for Emergency Programs.
Foley will succeed Jane Long, who is leaving Heritage Preservation
after almost 20 years to become Preservation Program Officer at the
National Archives and Records Administration.

Among her responsibilities, Foley will coordinate the activities of
the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, a partnership of 41
national service organizations and federal agencies created to
protect cultural heritage from the damaging effects of disasters.
She will also lead the national Alliance for Response project, which
brings cultural heritage leaders and emergency responders together,
as well as a tribal preparedness project in cooperation with the
Department of the Interior.

   "Jane Long has provided extraordinary vision for Task Force
    efforts and developed innovative programs and publications that
    are serving the nation, and Lori Foley is her ideal successor,"
    said Larry Reger, president of Heritage Preservation. "Lori has
    demonstrated exceptional creativity and leadership in the work
    she has done at NEDCC, and we look forward to working with her
    at the national level."

Foley currently manages NEDCC's ongoing education and outreach
activities in New England and beyond.  In recent years she has taken
leadership roles in national and regional efforts regarding
emergency preparedness and response for collecting institutions. She
is a member of the Massachusetts Emergency Management Team; the
co-chair of the Emergency Committee of the American Institute for
Conservation (AIC); a member of the AIC Collections Emergency
Response Team; and a member of the Alliance for Response National
Advisory Committee. Ms. Foley was the project director for
dPlan(tm), a free online template for creating customized disaster
plans, and for the Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness
(COSTEP) program, a framework for model state partnerships.

Heritage Preservation is a national non-profit organization
dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the United States.
By identifying risks, developing innovative programs, and providing
broad public access to expert advice, Heritage Preservation assists
museums, libraries, archives, historic preservation and other
organizations, as well as individuals, in caring for our endangered
heritage.


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