Board of trustees

The LAMoG’s Board of Trustees is tasked with oversight of the director and staff of the Museum, ensuring that the work and exhibits stay true to the mission and pushing for continued growth and innovation.

Peter  bachman

 is the current headmaster of Flintridge Preparatory School, where he teaches Great Books and is a lecturer in Identity. A member of the faculty since 1980, Mr. Bachmann received his BA with Honors and Distinction in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MA in history from the University of Virginia.

 sarah cooper

teaches 8th grade U.S. history and is Dean of Studies at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada, California. She is the author of Making History Mine: Meaningful Connections for Grades 5-9 (Stenhouse, 2009) and most recently of Creating Citizens: Teaching Civics and Current Events in the History Classroom, Grades 6-9 (Routledge, 2017). Sarah lives just outside Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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Carson Dietz Hartmann

currently works as a research analyst at the Preservation Green Lab in Seattle, Washington. He spends his days conducting GIS and statistical analysis to make maps and visualizations of older and historic buildings in American cities. Before working at the Trust, Carson lived in Portland, Oregon, and the West Bank, organizing and teaching among displaced and homeless populations. Carson’s experience, as well as concern for displacement, inclusion/exclusion and affordability in cities are what initially led him to the field of urban planning. Born and raised in Seattle, Carson endured 4 Vermont winters to earn a degree in Geography, Arabic and French from Middlebury College

nia   freshman

is a set-decorator and designer. Growing up the daughter of an avid movie buff father, Nia was nourished in childhood with such cinema classics as Orson Welles’s Citizen Kaneand David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia. This, and her own youthful movie-making efforts, stirred an early hunger for Hollywood. After graduating with a concentration in production design from Columbia College Chicago in 2010, Nia moved from the blustering Midwest to sunny Los Angeles to peruse her film career. Nia’s first Hollywood job was as an art department production assistant on CBS’s Criminal Minds. She excelled at various other creative tasks, particularly floral designing for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Experience on such major network programs landed her a set-decorating job on CBS’s Big Brother; where she has held a standing position for five seasons. Nia has been a set decorator for various other TV shows and commercials since 2012.

Max  kanter

is the CEO of Saturate, a company that is working to raise the bar for landcare in Southern California and beyond, leading the way toward a verdant and water resilient future. Through his work at Food Forward, Good Eggs and now at Saturate, Max has worked in communities from the Pasadena to Long Beach and all the way to Malibu. A native of Arizona, he proudly calls Los Angeles home after 6 years of exploring the city’s dynamic and stunning geography.

phil  freshman

grew up in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s. He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, lived and worked in the Middle East and Africa, reported for newspapers, and taught English as a Second Language before becoming an art editor. He’s worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Minnesota Historical Society Press. He lives in Minneapolis. A freelancer since 1999, Phil has edited 125 books and dozens of exhibitions. He is president of the Association of Art Editors.

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midge  kimble

is the Dean of Students at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada.  She went to Michigan State University and lived in Texas before moving to California.  She is married and has two daughters and one granddaughter.

 Josh   perlman

 was born in Los Angeles, attended Columbia University, and got his Masters Degree in International Affairs from Georgetown University. He is currently in the Head of the History Department at Flintridge Prep, where he has taught for six years. His hobbies include songwriting, meditation, learning foreign languages, dancing, and political activism.