Jada Lindblom and Frederick Farrar Join Board of N.H. Preservation Alliance

The N.H. Preservation Alliance is pleased to announce that Jada Lindblom of Laconia and Frederick Farrar of New Castle have joined the Board of Directors.

Jada Lindblom is UNH Cooperative Extension’s Community and Economic Development Field Specialist in Belknap County and a faculty member in UNH’s Recreation Management and Policy department. Her focus areas include sustainable tourism, downtown revitalization, workforce development, and outdoor recreation. Before joining the board, she was the project leader for Understanding and Advancing the Preservation Trades, a research study produced for the Preservation Alliance and the statewide non-profit preservation organizations in Maine, Vermont and New York.

Lindblom’s past experience with preservation includes managing urban historic sites for Preservation Utah and working as a natural and cultural heritage tour guide. As a researcher with Arizona State University’s Center for Sustainable Tourism, Lindblom led projects pertaining to public engagement with historic sites, from a Fremont culture village in Utah to heritage tourism sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Raised in Warner, she holds a Ph.D. in Community Resources and Development from Arizona State University, an M.S. in Parks, Recreation and Tourism from the University of Utah, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Scripps College.

Frederick Farrar retired this year from building stores globally for the Ralph Lauren Architecture + Design Studio after 26 years. Most recently, he served as Head of Global Retail and Wholesale stores.

From 1993 through 1996, Farrar served on the non-profit Board and then as the Executive Director of the Colonial Theatre in Keene, NH during the first phase of the 1924 multi-use building’s restoration and renovation and the beginning of its transformation to a regional cultural center. He has also served as the Board Chair for the Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat and as President of the Weathervane Theatre Alumni Association, which supports the Weathervane Theatre in Whitefield NH, and owns and maintains the Mt. Washington Grange Hall for the theatre.

A Keene native, he received an AB in Visual and Environmental Design from Harvard College and Master of Architecture from Yale University.