Omar Eaton-Martínez

Senior Vice President for Historic Sites
National Trust for Historic Preservation

Omar Eaton-Martínez is the Senior Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he leads the preservation, interpretation and overall stewardship of 28 historic sites across the country to tell the full American story. Prior to this, he led the Prince George's County historical resources: historic house museums, an aviation museum, the Black History Program and archaeological parks. He also oversaw the programming of those sites with an emphasis on preserving, sustaining and enhancing these resources, as well as engaging and building communities through education, outreach and innovation. Recently, he managed the interns and fellows program at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Eaton-Martínez has worked at the National Park Service, the Office of the National Museum of the American Latino Commission and NASA, and he also was a K-12 teacher in New York City and Washington, D.C. He builds coalitions that support diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion.

Eaton-Martínez has had leading roles in racial equity organizations like Museums and Race: Transformation and Justice and Museum Hue, as well as the Museum as Site for Social Action project. His research interests are Afro Latinx identity in museum exhibitions; diversity and inclusion in museums and cultural institutions; and Hip-Hop history, culture and education. Moreover, he has supported public history projects centering blackness in Puerto Rico.

Eaton-Martínez participated as an American Alliance of Museums Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Senior Fellow dedicated to diversifying museum boards. He is a gubernatorial appointee to the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first commission of its kind in the country. He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., a husband and a father of four children.

Jason Steinhauer

Founder & CEO
History Communication Institute

Jason Steinhauer is a bestselling author and public historian who operates at the intersection of history, tech, social media and politics. Technology has profoundly re-organized our ways of knowing things about the world, and the positive and negative effects of technology must be balanced with a humanistic perspective. Steinhauer brings this approach to his work, where he writes and speaks about how social media, tech and the web are shaping our history, politics, democracy and future. Steinhauer is currently a Global Fellow at The Wilson Center and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute; a contributor to TIME and CNN; a past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum. He previously served as Founding Director of the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest. Prior to this, he worked for seven years at the U.S. Library of Congress.

Steinhauer is the founder and CEO of the History Communication Institute, which seeks to ensure the Web and social media foster healthy online information ecosystems that promote history, democracy and human rights. His best-selling book, "History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past," examines how history gets communicated on the Web. Steinhauer has traveled overseas three times with the U.S. Department of State as part of diplomatic exchanges between the United States and the European Union, meeting with government officials, scholars and students to discuss the effects of the Web and social media on public understandings of news, history and information. He has spoken at events across the United States and Europe and appears frequently in the media.

In his keynote, Steinhauer will discuss the rise of what he calls e-history, historical information designed for the social Web and which leverages the mechanics of the social Web in order to achieve visibility. In his talk he will demonstrate how e-history has come to shape and define what the public knows--or thinks it knows--about the past.

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