As the Director for Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Braden helps good ideas move around the world and helps sites build the knowledge, skills, and relationships they need to thrive. He leads the Methodology and Practice team in supporting member development of programming, exhibitions, and engagement strategies that address their communities’ most pressing challenges. Braden has personally trained hundreds of organizations in dialogue, community engagement, planning, and operating at the intersection of history and justice. Before joining ICSC, Braden worked with the National Park Service at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site where he oversaw public, education, and professional development programs and in exhibits at Old Sturbridge Village.

Braden’s writing has focused on making transformative connections and building civic engagement through historic sites, and the role of victims, survivors, and perpetrators in catalyzing positive change. He has a masters in Museum Studies with a focus in American Studies from George Washington University. Braden is looked at with some curiosity by his colleagues for stubbornly riding his bicycle in from Queens every day when he lived in New York. Now, he’s very happy living further north, heading to the New England woods, and engaging in dorky word games whenever he can.