Downtown Kansas City, KS Historic Preservation Open House 2022
ammerman & associates
CYNTHIA M. AMMERMAN
Historian, International Organizational & Small Business Consultant, Urban Planner
Ms. Ammerman has developed a unique skill set related to the built environment, the arts and humanities including advocacy, cultural policy, event production, organizational branding, small business consulting. Her accomplishments include Co-Founder of the Kansas City Latin Jazz Orchestra, Instituto del Jazz Latino (Chile), authoring National Register of Historic Places nominations, conference presentations in Berlin, Germany, Graz, Austria, Prague, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland; Santiago, Chile and business development, film projects, & outreach in South America with local & federal agencies, artists and NGOs. Her public & private project experience includes the geographies of the California, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Midwestern United States.
Ms. Ammerman has degrees in history, philosophy, urban design & regional planning. She has continued professional development via the UNITAR platform with an emphasis in Heritage Tourism through Arts and Culture based Community Development, emergency management training, and is a member of the RollingStone Culture Council.
Years Active
Arts Management: 20
Cultural Heritage & Policy: 20
Marketing: 17
Non-Profit Strategic Planning: 15
Real Estate, Development & Urban Planning: 17
Small Business Ownership & Consulting: 17
“The Polis, properly speaking, is not the city-state in its physical location; it is the organization of the people as it arises out of acting and speaking together, and its true space lies between people living together for this purpose, no matter where they happen to be.”