Paul joined NAI's staff as art and publications director in February 2002 after earning a master of fine arts in visual communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. His responsibilities include laying out and editing NAI's publications and websites, including Legacy magazine, NAI Now (e-mail newsletter), national workshop and international conference materials, InterpNet.com, InterpPress books, and the Journal of Interpretation Research. In November 2007, Paul unveiled NAI's new logo at the NAI National Workshop in Wichita.

Paul co-authored the book Interpretation By Design: Graphic Design Basics for Heritage Interpreters with Shea Lewis and Lisa Brochu in 2008. He and Shea maintain the website www.interpretationbydesign.com for interpreters interested in graphic design.

He has presented sessions about graphic design and interpretation at NAI national and regional workshops and international conferences. He has earned Certified Interpretive Trainer, Certified Interpretive Host Trainer, and Certified Interpretive Host credentials from NAI.

A native of the Philadelphia area and son of academics—a philosophy professor and an art teacher—Paul earned a bachelors degree in French with a minor in journalism from the University of Richmond in 1995. Paul is passionate about traveling, the 2008 World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies, and his ongoing search for the world's best sandwich. Paul, his wife, Sheila, and their children, Joel and Maya, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

You can find Paul on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Caputo/1041998683 and you can download some of his photographs on the stock photography website Stock.Xchng at http://www.sxc.hu/profile/pcaputo.