Allison McGuire Olson is Director of Preservation Programs at National Archives and Records Administration.
She has an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Art Conservation from the University of Delaware and a Masters of Art Conservation from Queen’s University, where she specialized in Paper Conservation. She has worked as a paper conservator, preservation officer and director at the National Archives and Records Administration.
She presented “Conservation of US World War II Propaganda Posters” that was published in the Book and Paper Annual, 2005 and “Stumbling toward Monitoring Fading”, at a Washington Conservation Guild Meeting in 2000. She co-authored with Susan Cote and Michele Phillips “The History, Treatment and Conservation of Three Shaped Crayon Portraits,” which was presented at the Association of Graduate Programs in Conservation, 1990.