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Current Preserve WV AmeriCorps Members

Learn more about our newest class of Members below and visit Preserve WV Stories to read about the service they are providing to revitalize our Mountain State.

Elizabeth Nicholson

Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission
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Charles Town, WV
​2024-2025 Service Term

Nicholli Matheny

World Scouting Museum
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Charleston, WV
2024-2025 Service Term

Vicky Neal & Aly Ludwig

Greenbrier Historical Society
Lewisburg, WV
​2024-2025 Service Term

Sharon David

Ritchietown Renaissance & Preservation Alliance of West Virginia
2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 Service Terms
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Third year AmeriCorps Member Sharon David is helping to revitalize south Wheeling. She is also serving with Preservation Alliance of West Virginia on projects to encourage young people to consider a career in preservation trades. Following a stint in the Navy, she spent a year interning with the White House National Service team to launch AmeriCorps, then joined the newly formed Corporation for National Service to help establish the National Civilian Conservation Corps. When considering how to spend her retirement years, Sharon decided to combine her passion for transforming herself, places, and things with service. Sharon graduated from the Building Preservation and Restoration Program at Belmont College in 2023 and plans to help communities preserve their heritage and create economic opportunities by finding new uses for their special buildings and places.

Barbara Hudson

Cockayne Farmstead
2024-2025 Service Term

Riley Phares

Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex
2024-2025 Service Term
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Hi, My name is Riley Phares and I’m serving the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex. This is my second service term with Preserve WV AmeriCorps after formerly serving with the Morgantown History Museum.  I graduated from West Virginia University with a BA in History and Anthropology. Prior to this, I worked for a year as an archaeological field technician. I have a passion for history and I want to share this with the community I grew up in.
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Beside archaeology and history, I love hiking, reading, and drinking copious cups of tea.

Lois Hilbert

Main Street Ripley
2023-2024, 2024-2025 Service Terms

Ethan Wimer

Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.
​2024-2025 Service Term

Sarah Potter

Morgantown History Museum
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Morgantown, WV
2024-2025 Service Term

Vanessa Pena

West Virginia Humanities Council
2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 Service Terms
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Vanessa is a Preserve WV AmeriCorps Member and a resident of Charleston, serving at the West Virginia Humanities Council for her second term. She is assisting the State Folklorist, Jennie Williams, with transcriptions, fieldwork, and archival preparation for the West Virginia Folklife Program. Vanessa graduated from West Virginia State University in 2023 with a degree in Communications with an emphasis in visual media and a minor in Studio Art.

​During her time in college, Vanessa worked for the chemistry department as a lab assistant for 2 years, then worked for the office of student affairs and enrollment management as a graphic designer and social media manager for a year and a half. In her spare time, Vanessa creates traditional art using a variety of mediums as well as cooking new foods.

Adeline Smith

The City of Ravenswood: Great Bend Museum
2024-2025 Service Term

Trent Dayton

Marshall County Historical Society, Cockayne Farmstead
2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 Service Terms


My name is Trent and I am a Preserve WV Americorps member serving with the Marshall County Historical Society and Cockayne Farmstead. I am from Wheeling WV and currently live in Moundsville WV. After I graduated from Wheeling Park High School in 2019, I got a job at the Former West Virginia Penitentiary where over my time there, I was trained on just about everything. I also created a TikTok account for it and that gained over 50,000 followers, accumulated over half a million likes, and received millions of views.

I already had a love for history prior to working there, but my love turned into a passion. I would like to, one day, manage and operate a historic site. I am so thrilled to be working with Americorps in order to gain more experience in a field I care so much about.

Devin Richards

Northern Appalachian Coal Mining Heritage Association 
​2024-2025 Service Year

Beth Gain

Clarksburg History Museum
2024-2025 Service Term

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  • News
  • Contact
    • Ways to Give to PAWV
  • Advocacy
    • Most Endangered Properties
    • Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credits
  • Programs
    • Annual Awards >
      • 2025 Awards
    • Blair Footsteps Interpretive Trail
    • Frances Benjamin Johnston: A West Virginia Icon >
      • Selected Photos
      • Behind the Lens Activity
    • West Virginia Historic Preservation Conference
    • Webinars >
      • Webinar Archive
    • West Virginia Historic Theatre Trail
    • WV New Deal Trail
  • Resources
    • Fund Your Preservation Project
    • Preservation Techniques >
      • Historic Building Assessment
      • How to Recycle Asbestos
      • Mothballing Property
      • Window Rehabilitation
    • Preserve WV AmeriCorps