George Washington: General and President

Dr. Lorri Glover

Lorri Glover is the John Francis Bannon Endowed Chair in the History Department at Saint Louis University. Her books include Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries (Yale University Press, 2014); The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016); and Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2020). Glover has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians and on the Executive Council of the Southern Historical Association, and in 2020 she joined the author team for McGraw-Hill’s high school and middle school U.S. history textbooks. 

Allison Wickens

K. Allison Wickens, Vice President for Education, joined George Washington’s Mount Vernon in the summer of 2014. She currently leads the Education and Guest Services division and oversees the learning goals for the institution for onsite, offsite, and digital outreach programs.  She represents Mount Vernon in national discussions about museums, historic sites and how they relate to history and civics education today.  

Before arriving at Mount Vernon, she had been at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum, serving as their Director or Education and Visitor Services. She received her Master’s Degree in History at the University of Colorado, Boulder where she got a certificate in Museum Studies. Between her undergraduate work at Grinnell College and graduate school, she lived and worked in Washington D.C. at a wide variety of Smithsonian museums and offices.

Kathleen Pate

Kathleen Pate was born and reared in Augusta, Georgia. She has an undergraduate degree in sociology and a certificate in women’s studies from the University of Georgia.

Kathleen completed a thesis on the evolution of presidential library site selection to earn her master’s degree in public history from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She began her career in museum education at the Historic Arkansas Museum in the fall of 1998. Kathleen joined the National Archives as the Education Specialist for the Clinton Presidential Library in November 2002. She became the inaugural Director of Education and Public Programs in October 2024.

Kathleen serves as the library liaison for the National Archives America 250 and the America 250 in Arkansas initiatives.

Kathleen lives in Pine Bluff with her husband Matthew and their clowder of cats.