Pratt - Historic Preservation Program

Ashley Adams-Stauble is an interior designer working in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and graduated from the Pratt HP Master’s program in 2024. Ashley is passionate about the harmony between modern design and heritage preservation. After graduating, Ashley started the Gingerbread Project, which focuses on the preservation of vernacular homes in Trinidad and Tobago, advocacy, and education surrounding local historic architecture. Her involvement in restoring a gingerbread house on Ana St in Woodbrook, Port of Spain led to a lot of public interest, and Ashley was invited on the local news twice and interviewed in the national newspapers once!

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13 years! A few recent projects that Chris has worked on at Ascendant include Metro North Plaza, part of a NYCHA PACT project that aims to rehabilitate public housing using state and federal Historic Tax Credits, and The Beacon, a project on city-owned land that will rehabilitate a former city school building as a community facility space while adding new affordable rentals. Chris is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Pratt HP program, where he teaches Current Issues in Historic Preservation.

Chris Cirillo is a 2016 Pratt HP alum and Executive Director/President of Ascendant Neighborhood Development for over 13 years! A few recent projects that Chris has worked on at Ascendant include Metro North Plaza, part of a NYCHA PACT project that aims to rehabilitate public housing using state and federal Historic Tax Credits, and The Beacon, a project on city-owned land that will rehabilitate a former city school building as a community facility space while adding new affordable rentals. Chris is also a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Pratt HP program, where he teaches Current Issues in Historic Preservation.

Rebecca Krucoff, a 2016 Pratt Historic Preservation graduate, has been working at the intersection of the heritage, education and community engagement fields for over 20 years. She has engaged in field-research units and programming with high school students and teachers in NYC public schools through her organization The Urban Memory Project since 2005.

She has been applying those same teaching strategies in her work with undergraduate and graduate Pratt students in both the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and the Art and Design Education Department, where students apply the strategies of oral history research, field research, and archival research to uncover educational and neighborhood-based histories for a variety of public-facing projects such as exhibitions, presentations, and reports.