Nancy Slade comes to The Cultural Landscape Foundation after working at the National Park Service, Historic Landscape Initiative (HLI) in Washington, D.C. There her job responsibilities included management of the Index of Designed American Landscapes. She also coordinated several HLI publications, including Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture II (2004), Design with Culture (2005), and Shaping the American Landscape (2009). In addition, she has authored essays on John Simonds and Lester Collins for Shaping the American Landscape. She holds a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech.