Janina Poskrobko is Conservator in Charge of the Department of Textile Conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), New York, supervising the work of 13 department members. The work incudes conservation treatments, and installation and display of textiles in the collections of twelve curatorial departments. Her particular interest is a broad collection of textiles/carpets from the Islamic world, which she oversaw for fifteen years, including their preparation for the New Islamic Galleries (ALTICALSA) in 2011. Born and educated in Poland, Janina received her M.A. in Preservation and the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (majoring in Conservation Management) from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She soon became Assistant to the Chief State Conservator at the Bialystok State Bureau for Preservation of Cultural Property. She also served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture, Polytechnic University, Bialystok, Poland, teaching courses on conservation. Her second M.A. is in Museum Studies: Textile and Costume Conservation at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), were she worked as Conservation Assistant at the F.I.T Museum. For three years Janina was Assistant Conservator at the Textile Conservation Laboratory of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, in addition co-teaching courses on dyeing for conservation, and carpet conservation, in F.I.T.’s graduate program. With a dissertation on the topic of the cross-cultural, artistic and technical aspects of Polish and Eastern silk textiles, she holds a PhD degree from her Polish alma mater. Janina has presented and published papers on Islamic textiles and their technique and conservation at international conferences.

Tricia Lawrence Powell, over 20 years, boast a fulfilling career in the library and information management field coupled with project management, compliance, risk, environment, safety and audit. She holds a graduate degree from the University of the West Indies Mona and several professional certificates spanning law, finance, audit, risk, IT and compliance. The diversity has propelled her to assume impactful leadership roles across public and private industries as well as assuming roles within her professional space being Advocacy Chair, Public Relations Chair and nominee for presidency of the Library and Information Association of Jamaica. Added accomplishments are noticeably conferred as advisor to Jamaica's Archives Committee as gazette by the Jamaican Government. She continues to chart her path beyond the boundaries through her writing and stakeholder engagements. She lives daily on the philosophy of being true to self and work toward excellence while giving an helping hand. She is married, and has two daughters.

Thiago Puglieri is a professor and conservation scientist at the Department of Museology, Conservation and Restoration and at the Post-Graduation Program in Social Memory and Cultural Heritage of the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. He works with chemistry applied to cultural heritage since 2009, was a visiting researcher at the Getty Conservation Institute (2019-2020), and got PhD and master degrees in physical chemistry (USP, 2015 and 2011, respectively). Works with material analyses, understanding of their degradation processes, development of new methodologies for their investigation, and heritage education. Has investigated objects of (or attributed to) artists like Pollock, Tarsila do Amaral, Volpi, Amedeo Modigliani, Emmanuel Nassar, Guignard, Rita Letendre, Utrillo, Jesús Soto, João Fahrion, Aldo Locatelli, objects from the artist Carmen Miranda, Jesuit sculptures, and archaeological ceramics. He is a founding member of the National Association of Heritage Science and Technology (ANTECIPA, Brazil), where is the current vice president; is coordinator of the thematic session of Investigation of Materials, Systems and Techniques in the Technical Committee for Cultural Heritage of the Brazilian Association of Non-Destructive Testing and Inspection (ABENDI); and is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the An International Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science project of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS).

Ellen Rand, Co-Owner of Monumenta Art Conservation & Finishing has 30 + years’ experience in the production and care of sculptures. The first half of her career was dedicated to working at art foundries and directly with artists. Her extensive experience welding, chasing, patinating and her knowledge of metal production techniques including casting & fabricating is invaluable in the context of preservation. Recognized as a master patineur, Ms. Rand consults and works with artist’s estates including Tony Smith Estate, and has taught patina techniques at high-end art fabricators in Italy and Asia. For the last 15 years Ms. Rand has focused on the preservation of sculpture and since 2015, she and Abigail Mack have held the contract for Sculpture Conservation at the Empire State Plaza Art Collection.

Sarah Reidell is the Margy E. Meyerson Head of Conservation in the University of Pennsylvania Libraries where she leads and manages the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory. A Fellow of The American Institute for Conservation (AIC), she has served in volunteer, appointed, and elected positions within AIC’s Publications Committee and the Book and Paper Group, most recently as BPG Chair (2019-2020). She contributed to the NEH Held In Trust initiative’s Field Sustainability Group and chaired that group’s Collections Sustainability sub-committee. A conservator of rare books, paper, and parchment , Sarah received an MLIS and Certificate of Advanced Studies in the Conservation and Preservation of Library and Archival Materials from the University of Texas and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. She held previous appointments at The New York Public Library and in the Harvard University Library’s Weissman Preservation Center. Sarah created and co-leads an Ivy Plus Conservation Group, an alliance for conservation programs at the libraries, museums, and galleries of 13 major research universities.

Suzanne Ryder has worked at the Natural History Museum (NHM) for 30 years and currently holds the position of Senior Curator in Charge of the Hymenoptera and Historical Entomology collections. She spent one year working at the Canadian Conservation Institute and the Canadian Museum of Nature. Suzanne has a keen interest in the care and conservation of natural history collections and has done a lot of work towards Integrated Pest Management (IPM) within cultural heritage collections. She was the IPM coordinator for the NHM for more than 10 years and continues to support IPM as a senior advisor for the NHM and secretary for the Pest Odyssey group. Suzanne is also the honorary curator of Entomology for the Linnean Society. She is interested in historical collections and has recently brought together and rehoused the Natural History Museums historic entomology collections and is now concentrating on digitizing this collection. Her current area of research includes Sir Josephs Banks’s insect collection.

Dr. Rachel Rivenc is the Head of Conservation and Preservation at the Getty Research Institute (GRI) where she is responsible for the conservation of the GRI vast special collections of archives, rare books, prints, drawings and photographs, film, videos, architectural models and contemporary multiples. Prior to that she worked at the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative, overseeing the dissemination and training activities related to the project and researching the materials and processes used by contemporary artists and the conservation challenges they pose. Before coming to the GCI Rachel did post-graduate work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, and the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute, Madrid. Rachel also taught conservation at the University of Malta and worked as a conservator in private practice in France, Spain and the UK. She was the coordinator for the Modern Materials and Contemporary Art working group of ICOM-CC for six years between 2014 and 2020, and currently sits on the steering committee of the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (INCCA). She was associate editor for Modern Materials and Contemporary Art for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) for three years and is now a member of the Award Committee of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). Rachel holds a master's degree in paintings conservation from Paris I- Sorbonne and a PhD in Cultural History of Contemporary Societies from the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. She authored the book Made in Los Angeles: Materials, Processes, and the Birth of West Coast Minimalism and was editor of the conference proceedings Keep it Moving? Conserving Kinetic Art and Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials Used in Contemporary Art.

Ariadna Rodriguez Corte studied Conservation at the National School of Conservation Manuel del Castillo Negrete in Mexico City. She has worked in the National Archives of Mexico and in the paper Conservation Laboratory at the National Direction of Cultural Heritage Conservation and in private practice. Currently, is the Photography Conservation Fellow at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Brooke Young Russell is a conservator specializing in the conservation of decorative finishes through paint investigations and microscopy and performing treatments on murals, gilding, glazing, and stenciling. Brooke graduated from Columbia University’s GSAAP in 2013, and has been with EverGreene Architectural Arts since 2016. She has had the honor of working on projects ranging from the Berlin Wall at the United Nations, Enoch Pratt Free Library, the United States Capitol, the Empire State Building, Trinity Church New York City and Moynihan Station-Farley Post Office. Brooke is a Professional Associate of AIC.