 Hi, I'm Renee Coleman, Senior Director in the Preservation Services and Outreach Department at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Now, the topic of relevancy has been debated in our field for years. As a matter of fact, we unearthed 1991 conference schedule recently and learned that we were debating the future of preservation back then. The reason? The 25th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act. Fast forward to 2016, where we again had conversations about the future of historic preservation. And those conversations continue to gain momentum. Have you felt that preservation could be more relevant to solving society's problems? Do you feel that we as a movement need to take more action to become more relevant? A recent survey of our field found that you're not alone if you answered yes to any of these questions. Recently, Three Preservation Leadership Forum blog posts revealed the results of last year's survey of the field, and we had over a thousand participants take that survey. Now, despite our varied affiliations and where we are in our career, the survey revealed that 86% of us felt that preservation needed to innovate. We want to do our work better and to have a greater impact. In that same survey, 92% of us felt that preservation should help anyone live, work and play in neighborhoods despite their income status. And we want our work to be fair and equitable. And then even more whopping 96% of us see sharing multi-layered narratives as important. We want to tell a more full and complete American story. When answering the question, how preservation can be more relevant, the responses fell into the six categories you see here. Whether it's telling the full American story, addressing climate change or addressing housing needs, the survey revealed that we have many, many ideas about how to impact our nation and how to become more relevant. And I look forward to hearing from you today about your ideas on how to become more relevant. Thanks, Renee. Hi, everyone, and thank you for joining us. I'm Bonnie McDonald, and I'm the president and CEO of the statewide nonprofit Landmarks Illinois and also the board chair of the National Preservation Partners Network. Landmarks Illinois will celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2021. We saw this not only as an opportunity, but as a mandate to explore how to make our organization more relevant. We're trying to evolve into the organization that we need to be 50 years in the future to continue helping people save places for people, which is how we describe our work. We decided to undertake an extensive community engagement process to achieve relevance. The relevancy project is our shorthand for this journey. We formed a diverse task force of more than 30 people from inside and outside of preservation to identify and explore where preservation practice must change. Our work will ultimately create a new preservation philosophy for our organization that we can operationalize. Everything is on the table, our practices, our policies, as well as our funding models. And we look forward to sharing this work with you in the field at the end of 2021. Now, we recognize the need to talk with our peers around the country about their perspectives on relevance. Over the past year, I've conducted over 130 interviews with people nationwide, both in and outside of preservation, about how our field is or is not relevant for today's most pressing problems. This slide shows you just a few of the people that I want to thank for giving their time to this project. And also, I want to thank the generous support of the Peter H. Brink Mentoring Fund at the National Trust and the James Marston Titch Charitable Foundation 2020 Mid-Career Fellowship. Now, these candid interviews will be published as part of our open source digital guidebook to relevancy that Landmarks Illinois will publish in October of 2021. Nearly every interviewee voiced concern about preservation's relevance and their concerns reinforced Renee's survey findings. The overwhelming opinion of people who engage with preservation is that we aren't doing enough to be a solution for the pressing problems that face our society today. But the good news is that we all agreed that we could do more and that we can adapt and evolve to solve these pressing problems. The tools that we do offer go largely unnoticed or undervalued. And many believe that what we do bring to the table isn't relevant to the problem. We want to do more to impact these significant societal issues, including climate change, social justice, housing affordability, job training, income inequality, and displacement and gentrification. Our frustration is that our toolbox doesn't have what it takes to make an impact beyond a small group of people and on very few issues. Thank you for being here today. To be a part of this conversation, let's fix preservation together to create an equitable, just, applicable, and accessible future for our work. I look forward to talking with you more and thank you.