Katherine Malone-France

The Better Angels Society

Katherine Malone-France is the president & CEO of The Better Angels Society, the only national non-profit organization dedicated to supporting excellence in American history documentaries. Her entire career has focused on supporting meaningful engagement with American history through historic places, archival research, and the arts, previously serving as the Chief Preservation Officer and the Senior Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This work continues at The Better Angels Society where she works with a dedicated board and staff, and outstanding partners, to support outstanding documentaries on public media; create community around documentaries that explore our full, shared history; and build the next generations of American history documentarians to tell the stories that are meaningful to them in their voices.
Katherine holds a BA in history from Wofford College and a Masters of Historic Preservation from the College of Environment & Design at the University of Georgia.