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 to the public in 2015.
After relocating to Northern Virginia, Amanda worked for the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington, D.C. She was also Director of the Lee-Fendall House Museum and Sr. Manager of Public Programs & Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House 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.
Amanda serves on the board of the Historic House Museum Consortium of Washington, D.C., Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages, and the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites.
Amanda is currently researching and writing a book about the history of women in preservation. She is a 2025-2026 Research Fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
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