A Monthly Speaker Series Featuring Some of Our Neighborhood’s Most Fascinating People

Tuesday Talks

April 22, 2025, 7 pm

Lynn Parseghian
Executive Director, Tregaron Conservancy

Tamara Belt
Chair, Tregaron Conservancy Landscape Committee

Tregaron: Stewarding an Historic Landscape for the Future

Free and in person at the Cleveland Park Library but must register at:
 https://clevelandwoodleypark.helpfulvillage.com/events/2664 

Have you visited our neighborhood gem, Tregaron? Learn about its storied history, as well as
Tregaron Conservancy’s 19+ years of work to rehabilitate the landscape and steward it into the
future.
Lynn Parseghian has served as Executive Director of Tregaron Conservancy since 2015.
Previously, she practiced law in Washington in areas ranging from antitrust to the environment.
Lynn served as outside counsel to the Corcoran Gallery of Art and has held leadership roles in
DC’s nonprofit and philanthropic communities with organizations including Adventure Theatre,
Cultural Tourism DC, and Maret School. She currently serves on the Board of Washington
Performing Arts. She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the
University of Chicago. 
Tamara Belt is an award-winning landscape designer and owner of Hawthorne Garden Design. 
She is chair of the Tregaron Conservancy Landscape Committee and for almost twenty years
has helped rehabilitate the Conservancy landscape based on careful study of its historic plans

and ecology. Previously she worked on biodiversity conservation and forestry projects at the
World Bank.  She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.