Anne Van Ingen

Van Ingen is a respected historic preservationist with extensive experience in advocacy, grantmaking and nonprofit management, a subject she has taught in courses as an adjunct assistant professor of historic preservation at Columbia University. In the private sector, she was a founding partner of an affordable housing company working in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and a director of Charles Pratt and Co. LLC, a financial services company based in New York. She has also served as president of the St. Regis Foundation, a land trust in the Adirondacks; secretary of the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation; a founding director of the Deborah J. Norden Fund; and as a member of the boards of the Preservation League of New York State, the Adirondack Museum and the Pratt Institute.

From 1983 to 2010, Van Ingen was director of the Architecture, Planning & Design Program and Capital Projects at the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), where she was responsible for leading funding programs in support for more than 200 arts groups and municipalities annually. As director, she also served as agency spokesperson for historic preservation, design, planning and capital issues to the public and New York State Governor and Legislature. Prior to joining NYSCA, Van Ingen ran a historic preservation consulting business and held positions with several nonprofits and public agencies in New York and Massachusetts, including Historic Salem and the Office of Urban Design and Pedestrian Planning for New York City’s Department of Transportation. She also served as an advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation from 1999 to 2008. She was also an adjunct assistant professor in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture, where she led a seminar in historic preservation. She was also founding director of the Lower Manhattan Emergency Preservation Fund, a director of Preservation Action in Washington, DC, and a trustee of Garrison Forest School in Maryland. In addition, from 1982 to 2010 Van Ingen served as a director and vice president of the Good Hope Corporation, a 15,000 acre timber plantation and hunting preserve in South Carolina. She has also spoken and written widely on historic preservation, fundraising and philanthropy.