Thank you for your interest in joining our webinar, "Rediscovering Places Using Story Maps, Social Media and VR Technology," presented by Andrea Mauk on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. The webinar will run 10:00-11:30a.m., Arizona time.

As managers of change, heritage conservationists are often being called upon to tell stories of groups not included in original historic nominations, or of treasured places that no longer exist. In this webinar, we will examine how lost places are being remembered from the simplest to complex ways. Technologies such as social media, AI, story maps, short format documentaries, 3-D models and VR will be explored to see how they assist heritage conservationists bring these lesser-known stories to light. Andrea will share how she made her documentaries using simple tools with no budget.

Andrea Mauk will be graduating in August 2025 from the University of Southern California with a masters in Heritage Conservation. Her thesis examines how a community land trust can help to alleviate the affordable workforce housing shortage using Clifton, Arizona as a model. In 2024, she was awarded the USC Architectural Guild/Gesundheit Family Traveling Fellowships. She has served as an intern for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation where she produced two documentaries on endangered Latino sites. She is currently a member of the University Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone Board, and the West Adams Neighborhood Association Housing Committee co-chair, where she advocates to prevent the overbuilding of student co-living developments in the USC area. Andrea grew up between Clifton and the Greater Phoenix area. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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