Chris Barber has been a collections care professional in the commercial sector since 2002. In addition to his operational contributions to best practices in packing and crating are comprehensive proprietary IT tools for guided crate design and problem-solving with predictive models for MRP, labor, carbon, cushioning, and related data management. More recently he has also supported operations through process improvement, systems design, global standardization, training, and governance in storage, project management, and crating. In 2023 he collaborated with STiCH to build ICEFAT’s carbon calculator for crates. Chris volunteers with the AIC Materials Working Group and serves as Publications Chair for PACCIN.

Dale Kronkright is Head of Conservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dale has been gathering vibration, shock and climatic data for the museum’s collections in travelling exhibitions and loans since 2011. In 2016, Dale began working with co-author Vikrant Palan and Polytec Inc. to study the natural frequencies of the museum’s paintings using laser Doppler vibrometry. In 2021, Dale began working with co-author Robert White at White Noise LLC to test a reusable art transport system that attenuates all vibration impulses above 6 Hz. This year they successfully achieved that engineering goal! He is extremely excited about this achievement. Dale co-authored three vibration attenuation and damping patents related to art in transit.

T. Ashley McGrew is PACCIN’s longest continually serving volunteer, starting in 2003 when he was invited to join the steering committee. As the first subcommittee chair for the Preparation, Art Handling and Collections Care Network, he was educated by professional peers while managing Publications which meant moderating the Website, Forum and Listserv from 2008 to 2017. He is currently a member of two PACCIN subcommittees and is the organization liaison to the American Institute for Conservation.

Mark Wamaling has been an advocate for the collection care professions throughout his many years of staff training at Artex Fine Art Services and as a contributor to workshops, webinars and museum conferences around the country. He has over twenty-five years of experience in art handling, packing, and crating design for museum exhibitions as well as large collection relocations. In 2014 he became Chair of the Preparation, Art handling, Collections Care Information Network (PACCIN) and has been involved in organizing workshops and training for the collections care community. 

Bob White is a Ph.D. noise, vibration, and modal analysis (NVH) engineer and owns White Noise LLC, a NVH and dynamics testing service in Waterloo Iowa. Bob was the Senior NVH Test Engineer for John Deere for 31 years where he authored six patents related to vibration and power transmission testing and engineering.

Pil Rasumussen is the Director of Conservation at the SMK – National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. Originally trained as a paintings conservator at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, she worked for a number of years in Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art before joining the SMK in 2012. She has been leading SMK’s conservation department since receiving a masters degree in the Psychology of Organizations (MPO) from Roskilde University in 2017. Driven to find sustainable solutions, she has been spearheading multiple initiatives within her institution and beyond.

Dr. Nina Quabeck is Head of Conservation at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in  Dusseldorf, Germany. She studied paper conservation at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, and has devoted herself to the conservation of modern and contemporary art at the Kunstsammlung since 2003, with small interruptions. In 2007/2008 she was a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and from 2016 -2018 she was a PhD candidate in the EU research project "New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art" at the School of Art History at the University of Glasgow. Nina received her doctorate from the University of Glasgow in 2019, and has since been responsible for managing the conservation team at the Kunstsammlung. She has been sharing her museum’s shift towards more sustainable practices through presentations and papers for the last several years.

Jane Dalley began her career as a student in the Conservation Department at the Royal Ontario Museum, trained as a bench conservator at the National Maritime Museum (UK), worked privately in Montreal, spent 12 years as Chief Conservator for the Manitoba Archives and 18 years as a provincial conservation advisor. She is currently a conservator with Parks Canada. Jane has been involved in disasters in museums and archives since early in her career, responding to small and large-scale disasters, organizing an annual spring flood watch and assisting museums with flood threats, dam failure and tornadoes. She recently completed a BSc (Honours) in Applied Disaster & Emergency Studies and has IICRC certification in Water Damage Restoration, Applied Microbial Remediation, Odour Control, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration and Infrared Thermography. She enjoys applying her practical experience, training and academic studies to disaster situations and emergency management in the heritage sector.

Kelly McCauley Krish is the Preventive Conservator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where she helps implement preventive practices in the historic houses and fine arts museum. Prior to joining CW, she was the Senior Preventive Conservator at the National Museum Cardiff and a Preventive Conservation Specialist at the Image Permanence Institute, where she offered consulting services, research, and educational opportunities to support sustainable preservation practices. Kelly holds an MS from the University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and a BA in Historic Preservation from the University of Mary Washington.

Lorraine is director of LFCP, which is accelerating the cultural heritage sector’s climate and environmental actions through research, knowledge sharing and resource creation.

Lorraine is a sustainability leader who advocates on the international stage for sustainability in cultural heritage participating in conferences, leading workshops and training, publishing books and articles and collaborating with leaders in the field in the USA and Europe.

Lorraine is founder and Chair of the Institute of Conservation’s Sustainability Network. In recognition, she was presented with a David Middleton Sustainability Award. Lorraine is a Director of Climate Museum UK and an accredited conservator of archives, photographs, film and sound.

Eric Hemenway is an Anishnaabe/Odawa from Cross Village, Michigan. Eric is the Director ofRepatriation, Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Eric oversees themanagement, collecting and preservation of historic documents and materials for the tribe. Thesematerials are used to support LTBB government functions and its citizens. Eric works on numerous educational initiatives that include but are not limited to: museum exhibits, media, curriculumdevelopment, publications, historical interpretation, signage, web content and presentations.Collaborations on exhibits and programs have included the National Park Service, state of Michigan,Mackinac State Historic Parks, Emmet County, Welt Museum Wien Vienna, Austria and the HarborSprings History Museum, as well as other museums. Educational partnerships include: Harbor SpringsPublic Schools, Charlevoix Public Schools, Western Michigan University, Amherst College, BrownUniversity, Newberry Library, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Harvard, Yale andAquinas College. Eric also has extensive work experience under the Native American Graves Protectionand Repatriation Act, working on over thirty successful repatriation claims and authoring a manual onperforming repatriation work.He currently sits on boards for the Michigan Historical Commission, Central Michigan University ClarkeLibrary, Michigan Historical Society, King House Association and Little Traverse Conservancy. Eric is aformer board member of the Michigan Humanities Council, Emmet County Historical Commission,National NAGRPA Review Committee, Harbor Springs Historical Museum and the Michigan Commissionon the Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. He is the recipient of the Grand RapidsPublic Museum Casey award 2010, Harbor Springs Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award2015, Michigan Humanities Council Humanities Champion of the Year 2019, Petoskey Chamber ofCommerce Marty VanDecar Inclusivity Award 2024 and received an Honorary Doctorate from OaklandUniversity in 2024.Outside of work, Eric spends his time with family and friends. Family includes two dogs, Sammy theSamoyed and Prim the Pitbull. Eric also spends as much time outdoors in beautiful Northern Michigan,exploring trails, two tracks, beaches and generally anywhere off the beaten path. Good food andconversations are appreciated, as well as meeting new people and seeing new places. Eric would like toacknowledge all the people and experiences that have helped him along his path, as well as beingAnishnaabe in the lands of the ancestors.

Lisa Goldberg, Goldberg Preservation Services, LLC, is a conservator in private practice with a focus on preventive care as well as health and safety issues. She has been involved in a wide range of conservation consultations and treatment projects to help resolve issues related to exhibit, support and storage, transport and environment for individuals and institutions of many sizes. She is a member of SPNHC and AAM, and is a Fellow of AIC and IIC. As long time editor of the AIC News, she regularly works with authors and various committees to help bring publication projects to fruition. Lisa is one of the founding members of the FAIC website, Storage Techniques for Art, Science, and History Collections (www.STASHc.com) and continues to serve the project as Editor-in-Chief. 

Kerith Koss Schrager is an objects conservator and Head of Conservation at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Kerith specializes in occupational health and safety for cultural heritage workers and has degrees in both Environmental Health Sciences (2022) and Conservation (2008) from New York University.  Prior to her current position, she was the owner of The Found Object Art Conservation, LLC and has also held positions with the Brooklyn Museum, Field Museum, and National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian. Kerith also serves as adjunct faculty at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) and a former Chair of both their Health & Safety Network and Conservators in Private Practice (CIPP) Specialty Group.

Nancy Odegaard served as Conservator, Head of Preservation Division at the Arizona State Museum and Professor of Anthropology, Materials Science & Engineering, Historic Preservation, and American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona from 1983 to 2021. She previously worked at the Smithsonian Institution, Peabody Museum – Harvard University, and with many museums throughout the country and internationally on special projects, conservation assessments, workshops. She has received resident scholar awards from the Fulbright Commission, Getty Conservation Institute, Winterthur Museum, ICCROM- Rome, Canadian Conservation Institute, and University of London as well as receiving an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016. Among her many publications are books including The Care and Handling of Anthropological Collections (WAAC 1991), Materials Characterization Tests for Objects of Art and Archaeology (Archetype 2000, 2005, Kress Award), Old Poisons – New Problems A Museum Resource (Altamira 2005), Curating Human Remains: A Guide for Museums and Academic Institutions (Altamira 2006, Kress Award), and A Visual Dictionary of Artistic and Domestic Arts (Rowman & Littlefield 2022- American Alliance of Museums Award). She is currently Conservator Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona and continues to research, write, and conduct collaborative projects with museums and communities.

Helene Tello has worked as a freelance senior conservator since 2020. Starting her career in 1980, she opened her own conservation studio in 1983. She then moved on to the Vonderau Museum in Fulda, Germany. Subsequently, she looked after the Indian collections at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany, from 1998 to mid-2020. There, she encountered the topic of pesticides formerly used on objects. She conducts research on decontamination methods of such treated cultural assets as well as safe handling of them for everyone who must deal with them. Due to the opening of museum collections to indigenous people, who started collaborating with the museums as well as repatriating their cultural assets, her many years of expertise are extremely important in our time. Her knowledge is spread out through numerous journal contributions, teaching activities and lectures at home and abroad. From May through October 2024, she was in residence at the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program. There, she conducted research on the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as part of her Fulbright scholarship. Her research takes place against the background of debates on neocolonialism that have risen in Germany and Europe and the demands of indigenous people to museums for collaboration and restitution of their cultural assets.

Melodi McAdams organizes the California Repatriation Community of Practice and the Tribally led Contamination & Repatriation Working group. She has her MA in anthropology with a focus in ethnography and 20 years of experience working for Tribal Governments and Museums on repatriation, Tribal Monitoring and cultural site protection.

David Hinkamp, MD, MPH (University of Michigan) is a Board-certified Occupational and Environmental Medicine specialist who has worked at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and Cook County Hospital since the 1980’s

In 1988, Dr. Hinkamp helped found and direct health programs for Valerie Wellington’s Chicago Blues Coalition and later, Willie Dixon’s Blues Heaven Foundation. In 1999, he founded the Health in the Arts Program at UIC School of Public Health. This program applies the Occupational Health approach to the work-related hazards in an underserved sectors of the visual and performing arts, as well as museum and collections professionals. In 2010, along with other health and safety experts, he wrote and edited the book, Health and Safety for Museum and Collections Professionals.

Dr. Hinkamp continues to work with local, national and international organizations on these issues. In 2024 he was elected President of the international Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) in London.

Mr. Ralph A. Froehlich, M.S., CIH, CSP, QEP, FAIHA, has more than thirty years of experience in the fields of environmental and occupational health and heads the industrial hygiene division of Helix Environmental, Inc.

Brandy Howard, PE, CIH, CSP, is the Group Manager of Industrial Hygiene and Asbestos at Terracon’s Denver office. Brandy holds a BS in Engineering and a MS in Environmental Science and Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. Brandy has been a consultant for over 15 years and works with clients in various industries to deliver cost-effective environmental, health, and safety solutions to support their operations. Brandy currently serves as the Vice Chair for the AIHA Museums and Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group and was a research partner on the Museum Poisons Test Kit project.

Marilen Pool is an objects conservator in private practice in Tucson, Arizona. She worked for the Arizona State Museum (ASM) Preservation Division for more than 20 years as Senior Project Conservator before retiring in 2024. She holds a PhD in Arid Lands Resource Sciences from the University of Arizona, an MA in Museum Studies, and is a graduate of the Sir Sanford Fleming Conservation Program in Canada. Before entering the field of conservation, Marilen worked as a Museum Curator and Director. Marilen is a former member of the AIC Health and Safety Committee. She has prepared pesticide use histories for ASM and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She recently transposed her extensive research on pesticide chemicals used in museums for online use on Museumspests.net in a relational database. 

Kate Compton-Gore is the NAGPRA Training Coordinator for the National NAGPRA Program and part of the NAGPRA team at the Museum of Northern Arizona. She received here PhD from Northern Arizona University focusing on NAGPRA policy, Indigenous environmental justice, and the ongoing problem of pesticide contamination in collections. She has supported NAGPRA compliance for the past 20 years both in and out of museum settings. In her role with the National NAGPRA Program, she supports Indian Tribes, NHOs, museums, and Federal agencies through training and guidance on the revised regulations. Throughout her career, Ms. Compton-Gore actively focuses on community engagement and support. She currently volunteers as the co-facilitator of the NAGPRA Community of Practice, dedicated to decreasing misunderstanding and hesitancy and fostering relationships and healing across the field.

Whitney Petrey is the Tribal Historian and Repatriation Coordinator for the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake. She has worked as an archaeologist and curator for agencies, cultural resource management companies, museums, and universities. She graduated with a B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Anthropology and with an M.A. from East Carolina University in Maritime Archaeology with an emphasis in object conservation.

Maeve Moriarty has been a member of the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) since 2017 and works on the analysis of heritage objects for pesticide residues. She has published numerous articles on arsenic analysis and obtaining data for risk assessments.