Allison Holcomb has been a book and paper conservator working for the National Park Service at Harpers Ferry Center in West Virginia for nine years. After graduating from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2012 she held fellowships working with special collections at Northwestern University Library and at the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts in Philadelphia. During her time in the National Park Service she has taught numerous workshops on preventive conservation and care to museum professionals.