Conference Presenters
TIM ASKIN
is a Milwaukee native and the lead Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Milwaukee, where he has worked since 2016. He earned his M.S. in Historic Preservation at the University of Oregon, where he honed his research interest in the architecture of social welfare and carceral spaces. Publications have included the Oregon Encyclopedia, Lane County Historian, and the Historic American Building Survey. In Wisconsin, he recently won the Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions Award of Excellence for a survey of Milwaukee’s 20th-century religious architecture. He is also a founding board member of Docomomo-US/Wisconsin, which works to advocate for the preservation of Modernist architecture.
HEATHER BAILEY, Phd
has a Ph.D. in Public History from Middle Tennessee State University and over a decade of professional experience as a preservation planner. She has served as a technical adviser for the East Tennessee Preservation Alliance, board member for the Tennessee Preserva-tion Trust, and a board member for Colorado Preservation Inc. In April 2015, the University of Minnesota Press published her chap-ter “Does This Place Really Matter? The Preservation Debate over Historical Significance in Colorado’s Post World-War II Suburbs,” in Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America. She continues her research and advocacy for cultural conservation as the Preservation Planner for the City of Madison, Wisconsin.
Michelle Cook works as an Associate.
Michelle cook
works as an Associate Planner for the City of Racine and has held other roles in the Department of City Development since 2009. Michelle is highly skilled in brownfield management, remediation, grant funding, and cleanup with the Environmental Protection Agency and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Michelle is versed in Tax Increment District creation and implementation, municipal policy and procedure, and has experience in customer service, land use, archival research, zoning, and department administration. Michelle is a staff liaison to the City’s Com-munity Development Authority, Planning, Heritage, and Design Commission, and Joint Review Board. Michelle has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
Jonathan DeJardin
is a licensed architect and Senior Project Manager with Legacy Architecture, Inc., an award-winning firm based in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Legacy’s goal is to enable their clients to live and work more sustainably by providing creative, timeless designs and exceptional pro-fessional services aimed at preserving the past, designing for the present, and planning for the future. They are exist-ing building experts; over the past several years, about 80% of their work involves existing buildings.
Jeff hintz, cnu-a
works as the Assistant Director of City Development for the City of Racine, Wisconsin since 2021 and served as Associate Planner in Racine beginning in 2018. Prior to working in Racine, Jeff worked as a Planner II with the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa for four years. In Cedar Rapids, Jeff served as the primary liaison to the City’s Historic Preservation Commission. Prior to his experiences in Cedar Rapids, Jeff worked as a City Planner and Interim Senior Planner for the City of San Angelo, Texas for two and a half years and has experience with comprehensive planning, land use, zoning and subdivision code administration, development, historic preservation, GIS, and code writing and administration. Jeff has a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point with a minor in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is an accredited member of the Congress of New Urbanism.
Matt jarosz
is an educator and licensed architect specializing in historic preservation. His degrees are from Tianjin University, China, the University of Minnesota, and Columbia University. As director of foreign study trips at UWM SARUP, he has lectured in Australia, Japan, Italy, and England. Matt was appointed to the Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission in 1993. Originally from Milwaukee, he worked in Chicago and New York in the 1980’s and came to Milwaukee to work at Kahler Slater Architects where he focused on adaptive reuse and expansion projects. Matt has been the head of the historic preservation program at UWM for 32 years and created the Historic Preservation Institute there. He is Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward architectural review board coordinator, Midwest advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation and an advisor to the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation.
Amy lord, outreach and education manager
began her paid Alliance adventure in 2018. Through outreach events, she promotes the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and the Alliance to a broad audience. Amy raises awareness through presentations to community groups, hosts expo booths, and leads hikes. In addition, she plans and leads Trailtessa Retreats designed to introduce women to the Trail, manages the youth education Saunters & Think Outside programs, and spearheads the Mammoth Hike Challenge. She also oversees the Ice Age Trail Community initiative, a synergistic effort to promote the communities through which the Trail travels. Amy lives in Black Earth with her husband, Eric. Amy and Eric have been Alliance members for over 15 years. They love to garden, kayak, fish, hike, and snowshoe, and they enjoy taking the scenic route when heading to a concert or flea market.
steven madsen
works as the Planning Manager for the City of Racine and began his career with the City in September of 2021. Prior to joining the City full-time, Steven was a graduate intern for the City Development department during graduate school and worked at Nielsen, Madsen, and Barber as a land surveying assistant after college. Steven has experience in land surveying, drafting, comprehensive planning, land use, zoning and subdivision code administration, GIS, and civil engineering. Steven is versed in archival research of city records, historical land use, and plat mapping, along with historical zoning code analysis. Steven is a staff liaison to the City’s Planning, Heritage, and De-sign Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals. Steven has a Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Matthew g. Sadowski, AICP
as worked in urban planning for over 40 years with township, city, regional, state and federal governments, non-profits, and is currently in private practice. For 21 years Matt worked for the city of Racine where, among other duties, he was staff and advisor to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. During his career Matt has written multiple preservation related ordinances and guidelines, and conducted studies addressing restoration, preservation and architectural treatment of historic structures. Matt holds a BS in Geography, a MS in Urban Planning, and a MS in Architecture-Historic Preservation. Matt serves as Interim President for the WAHPC Board, is a member of the WHS Preservation Review Board, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Wisconsin Trust for Historic Preservation. Matt resides with his wife Anne in the city of Racine’s West Racine neighborhood where they raised their two sons and a headstrong beagle.
Jason Tish
is the Certified Local Government (CLG) & Preservation Education Coordinator for the State Historic Preservation Office and the SHPO Advisor to WAHPC. He began his career in cultural resources as a field archaeologist for the National Forest Service in South Dakota, and then evaluating historic Army Reserve properties in the Great Lakes region for the Department of Defense. He earned a Master’s degree in 2008 in Planning and Landscape Architecture from UW-Madison and studied architecture history, landscape design history, and federal historic preservation policies. He has worked in the public and private sectors as a specialist in historic preservation policies and practices. Jason has also been an advocate for historic places as the Executive Director of the Madison Trust for Historic Preservation, and as a self-employed consultant.
Amy Wyatt
has 24 years of experience in archaeology and historic preservation. She joined the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Office in 2006 as a database and project manager and in 2022 became the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. She is committed to using preservation to tell the stories of communities that have been marginalized in the historical record due to biases in history and preservation. In her career, she has sought and had the privilege to work on many projects to preserve places significant to the history of African American, Native American, and Hispanic American communities that had previously been ignored or unrecognized.