Our Team
Staff
Susan McMahon
Executive Director
Susan has a background in community development and historic preservation. Historic preservation has always been a professional pursuit and a personal passion of hers. This is evident in her conscientious restoration of her 1770 Cape. Prior to joining The Landmark Trust USA, she was the Associate Director at the Windham Regional Commission, where she helped numerous municipalities, neighborhoods, and nonprofit organizations succeed in turning their vision into reality. Susan has a Master’s degree from Tufts University and lives in Putney, Vermont, with her family. On most weekends, you will find her enjoying seasonal activities outdoors, such as gardening, skiing, kayaking, or hiking.
Claire Joslyn
Operations Manager
A UVM Class of 2010 graduate, Claire is delighted to be back in Vermont serving as Landmark’s Operations Manager. Prior to joining the organization in 2025, Claire spent the last 15 years working various Art Department positions in the film industry. During her time in the film industry, she developed strong teamwork, organizational, and project management skills, all of which assist her in managing the day-to-day operations at Landmark’s unique properties. Claire paints, draws, and is an avid motorcyclist.
Jeremy Ebersole
Public Outreach Manager
Jeremy uses his years of experience with nonprofit communications and historic preservation to share the important stories of our Landmarks and preservation mission with the world. Jeremy manages our marketing and communications, plans creative place-based events, develops educational programs, and assists with donor stewardship. Prior to joining The Landmark Trust USA, he served as Executive Director of the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance, an award winning historic preservation advocacy and education nonprofit. He has degrees in Communications and Historic Preservation from Elizabethtown College and the University of Oregon. Jeremy and his family reside in Greenfield, MA, where he serves on the Greenfield Historical Commission. In his free time, he attempts to keep up with his kids, explores fascinating new places, and helps save neon signs and diners with the Society for Commercial Archeology.
Suzanne Tessitore
Customer Relations
Having grown up in New York, Suzanne spent much of her life visiting family in the Brattleboro area before making it her home in 2010. She spent the past 25 years in the food business, first owning a catering company in NYC, then the Guilford Country Store for nearly 10 years. With a deep desire to continue working in the community, Suzanne joined Scott Farm in the summer of 2023, running Pippin’s Café. Since then, she has also become Events Manager at the farm as well as overseeing reservations at The Landmark Trust USA. She says she has worked in many beautiful locations, but nothing beats the beauty of Scott Farm!
Tesia Hoszkiewicz
Bookkeeping and Special Projects
Tesia was born and raised in southern Vermont and earned her degree in business at the University of Delaware. After a decade in global operations, she rooted herself in a more local role at Scott Farm in 2024, later expanding to the Landmark Trust USA team in 2026. She is proud to support the creative, sustainable stewardship of historic places.
Tom Kuralt
Head of Maintenance
While his forte is historic restoration, Tom does a little bit of everything! He learned many of his skills working alongside his father as a young boy. Tom started at The Landmark Trust USA more than 20 years ago as a carpenter with his uncle, restoring the Amos Brown House. That fateful project turned into a career working at Landmark and Scott Farm. Tom is a lifelong resident of Brattleboro, Vermont, and is married with three beautiful daughters. His interests include camping, hunting, golfing, and spending time with his family.
Raechel Bennett
Head Housekeeper
Raechel keeps our historic properties looking spotless for our guests and takes great pride in her work. A Townsend, VT, resident and former newspaper marketing director, she enjoys being part of a team wholeheartedly dedicated to historic preservation. Being in the properties every day, she loves learning something “new” about something “old” on a regular basis! Raechel and her partner spend as much time as possible hiking, kayaking, and foraging for the amazing medicinal and edible plants and mushrooms that can be found in our area.
Board of Directors
Eric Gradoia, President
Northfield, MA
Eric is an Architectural Historian with the Albany firm of Mesick, Cohen, Wilson, Baker Architects. Prior to his current position, Eric was the Director of Historic Preservation at Historic Deerfield, where he was responsible for the repair and restoration of the museum's fifty-five buildings which range in age from the early eighteenth-century to the late twentieth-century. Eric has worked as an adjunct faculty member in the Historic Preservation Program at Roger Williams University and the Boston Architectural College (BAC).
Margo Jones, Vice President
Greenfield, MA
Margo is a retired architect, having practiced for 40 years in western Massachusetts, designing schools, civic buildings, cultural facilities, and historic preservation projects. She was designated a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for her service to the profession on state and national registration boards, and she continues to provide architectural service on National Architectural Accreditation Board visiting teams. She sits on the Greenfield Historical Commission and is an active Greenfield Tree Committee member.
Erin Fink, Secretary
Plainville, CT
Erin is an Architectural Preservationist at the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office. Prior to this role, she worked at the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation (Preservation Connecticut) from 2013-2019, Mystic Seaport Museum from 2011-2013, and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center from 2010-2011. In addition to these positions Erin has worked as an independent architectural historian preparing State Register of Historic Places nominations and town-wide Historic Resource Inventories. Erin also serves as a volunteer with organizations and technical schools to encourage younger generations to enter the historic trades.
Tom Martyn, Treasurer
Newfane, VT
Tom recently retired from Brattleboro Savings & Loan, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. During his career, Tom held a number of positions, all encompassing matters financial but with a good slice of operations, technology, and marketing in the mix. He has worked in the nonprofit sector, for a surgical scissor manufacturer, a building products manufacturer, a global distributor of organic coffee and spices, and a public accounting firm, before finishing his career at the bank.
Debra Blair
Lakeville, CT
Debra is Principal of Debra Blair Design, providing a full range of design services for both residential and commercial clients in the New York metro area and throughout the country. Clients include The New York Society Library, The Hearst Corporation, and seasonal decorations for The White House. Debra’s outreach includes nine years as a trustee of Lyndhurst, a National Trust Historic site in Tarrytown, NY, and six years on the board of The Decorator’s Club, an elite group of all women interior designers organized in 1914. She presently serves on the board of trustees at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, where she oversees the interiors of the museum’s Gilded Age mansion, Glenview, designed in 1877 by Charles W. Clinton. She is a member of the Institute of Classical Arts and Architecture in NYC and FL chapters.
Erin Hammerstedt
Harrisville, NH
Erin is the Executive Director of Canterbury Shaker Village, an open-air museum featuring a tremendous collection of Shaker artifacts and more than 25 Shaker buildings on just under 700 acres of conserved land. Prior to this job, Erin served as the Executive Director of Historic Harrisville, Inc., which owns several buildings in and around the town’s early mill buildings that have been rehabilitated for commercial use and housing. In addition to her work with the LTUSA, Erin serves on the New Hampshire State Historic Resources Commission and the board of the New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program.
Charles Janson
Darien, CT
Charles has been a lawyer for over four decades and currently works out of Stamford, Connecticut, in Robinson + Cole’s Real Estate and Development Group. Charles has been actively involved in preservation-related nonprofit organizations for many years, including the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation (chair 2014-15). He is currently in his second stint as a board member at the CTHP. As well, Charles is on the Weir Farm Art Center board, the Dahesh Museum of Art board, The Darien Land Trust, and numerous other nonprofits with arts and preservation as their mission.
Alyssa Lozupone
Oakdale, CT
Alyssa currently serves as the Newport Restoration Foundation’s Director of Preservation. Prior to this role, she worked at the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office as a Grant and Tax Credit Manager and as the Preservation Policy Research Specialist at the Preservation Society of Newport County. In addition to these positions, Alyssa serves on the Board of Preservation Action and as adjunct faculty within Roger Williams University’s Historic Preservation undergraduate and graduate programs.
Jon A. MacClaren
Walpole, NH
Now retired, Jon most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Landmark College in Putney, VT. Prior work experience included the responsibility of managing the finances of various other not-for-profit organizations such as Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. In the beginning of his working career, Jon worked in historic preservation after earning his Master’s degree in Historic Preservation from Boston University and is pleased to be involved with Landmark Trust USA.
Susanne Brendel Pandich
Wellington, FL
Susanne is the Co-Director of the Westchester County Historical Society, one of the ten oldest historical societies in the country. Over the course of her career, she has held many history/preservation related positions: Manager of Public Programs for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund at the family’s Kykuit estate in Tarrytown, NY; Executive Director of Filoli, a National Trust Historic Site in Woodside, CA; Director of Lyndhurst National Historic Landmark in Tarrytown, NY; Interim Director of the Glass House National Historic Landmark in New Canaan, CT; and Curator/Manager of the Biltmore Estate National Historic Landmark in Asheville, NC.
Claudia Sauermann Wu
Newton, MA
Claudia is an attorney and educator. She consults to nonprofit historic preservation organizations and government agencies, providing advice and facilitation services on historic preservation, board development, and organizational priorities. She is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Service in Newton, MA, a nonpartisan resource on leadership, civics, and service for high school students. At the outset of her career, Claudia served as an Associate in the Real Estate Department of Hale and Dorr (now Wilmer Hale) and later as Senior Legal Liaison in the Northeast Regional Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She is past Board Chair of Preservation Massachusetts and currently serves on a number of nonprofit boards and committees, including The Trustees of Reservations, Historic New England, The Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition, the National Advisory Councils for The National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Strawbery Banke Museum.
Randi Ziter
Jaffrey, NH
Randi is a commercial and residential real estate agent with a diverse tableau of experience. She owned and operated an independent Vermont inn for 35 years and previously managed boutique hotel development for a national hospitality group. Along with serving on her local zoning commission, she is also active in child welfare and environmental causes and served as a volunteer economic sustainability advisor to a community in South Africa. She has served on the boards of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce, Putney Family Services, Windham County Youth Services, Brattleboro Music Center, Yellow Barn, and SPIN USA and was a gubernatorial appointee for Equality in the Workplace, Vermont Agency of Transportation.