Communications Committee

Katherine Kelly is a book conservator at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Previously, she has worked at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, the National Archives, Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Cornell University. She received her MS in Information Studies and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.

Lisa Goldberg is a private conservator with a focus on preventive care as well as health and safety issues. She is a member of SPNHC and AAM, and is a Fellow of AIC. As long time editor of the AIC News, she regularly works with  authors and various committees to help bring publication projects to fruition.

Rachael Perkins Arenstein is a Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation and a principal of A.M. Art Conservation, LLC, the private practice that she co-founded in 2009.  She has worked at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  She completed internships at the British Museum and the Israel Museum as well as other international institutions.  Rachael's degree in art conservation is from the University of London where she studied at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.  She received her B.A. in Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology from Cornell University where she wrote her honors thesis on Dendrochronology, excavated at Tel Miqne-Ekron in Israel and has been the on-site conservator for Tel Gezer excavations. She is also active in several professional organizations including positions as the e-Editor for the AIC, AIC's Collection Care Network, and Co-Chair of the MuseumPests Working Group. Rachael has been a Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) assessor since 2007. She has a strong interest in preventive care including environmental monitoring and control, integrated pest management, and collection management. Her treatment interests include antiquities and archaeological artifacts, ethnographic and indigenous collections, metals, natural science specimens, taxidermy and dioramas.

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Megan Brakob Narvey is a graduate of Carleton College (BA in chemistry) and University College London (MA in Principles of Conservation; MSc in Conservation for Archeology and Museums). She worked as the postgraduate intern in Objects at the Canadian Conservation Institute, and then as an Objects Conservator at the Western Archeological and Conservation Center in Tucson, Arizona. Megan is currently the Outreach Conservator at the Minnesota Historical Society, where she helps individuals and small organizations across the state learn about conservation and take care of their collections.

Ellen Chase has been Objects Conservator in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Freer|Sackler, the Smithsonian Institution’s Museums of Asian Art since 1999. Prior to that she was a contractor or fellow at a number of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the British Museum. Ellen is a graduate of the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she received her master’s degree in 1993. 

Rebecca Anne Rushfield, a New York City-based consultant in conservation and Associate Director of the FAIC Oral History Project , earned a Master’s degree in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and a diploma in conservation at the NYU Conservation Center . She has worked on projects for many institutions, has been a member of several committees of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, and has been Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator of a number of Working Groups of the International Council of Museums Committee on Conservation. Her special interests include the history of conservation, the transfer of conservation knowledge by both formal and informal means, and the public perception of conservation and conservators.