Francesca Costa
Public Historian, Palisades Interstate Park
Francesca Costa is a Public Historian at the Palisades Interstate Park in New Jersey where she oversees the Interpretive Ranger Program, and the park website. Other duties include assisting with park programming, giving illustrated talks, and leading history hikes. Francesca has digitized countless park documents that are now available to the public. She graduated with a minor in Public History from Gettysburg College, and got her Master of Science in the Classics, History & Archeology from the University of Edinburgh. In her spare time, she volunteers at her local Nature Center, and the Closter Historical Preservation Commission. She is an organizer of the Bergen County Silent Book Club, where the unofficial motto is "literacy and justice for all." Francesca enjoys drinking jasmine tea and reading about indigenous peoples, labor movements, and other aspects of civilian history.
