About
Amanda Roper is a public historian who has spent her career working to preserve historic places and share traditionally underrepresented stories from America's past. Amanda holds a degree in history from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina and worked for Charleston County Parks to help open McLeod Plantation Historic Site in 2015.
After relocating to Northern Virginia, Amanda worked for the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. She was also Director of the Lee-Fendall House Museum and most recently Sr. Manager of Public Programs and Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House, sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation located in Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2018, Amanda was recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation 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.
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