Susan West Montgomery provides consulting services to local, state and national non-profits and government agencies in the areas of strategic planning, meeting facilitation, research, writing, project management, public advocacy, fundraising, and training. She is committed to acknowledging and addressing organizational biases, and exclusionary and inequitable practices and she presses organizations to think beyond their traditional allies to build broader coalitions to support their missions. She is a former Vice President for Preservation Resources at the National Trust and served as President of Preservation Action, the national grassroots lobby for historic preservation.