Associate Conservator and Professional Member of AIC, Elena holds a 2020 M.A. in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials from the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program. She received her bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Wellesley College. At RLA, Elena manages public sculpture collections at several prominent universities in south Florida and serves as lead conservator managing the museum quality collections for a number of private clients. This has included the treatment of works by Fernando Botero, Fernand Leger, Robert Indiana, Yayoi Kusama, Beverly Pepper, Antony Gormley, Ugo Rondinone, Harry Bertoia, Damian Hirst, Donald Judd, and Duane Hanson. She has also worked on a number of National Parks projects in the southeast and Caribbean including collections surveys as well as treatments. In collaboration with Rosa Lowinger and Christina Varvi, she has conducted several Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) surveys for the American Institute of Conservation. Prior to joining RLA in 2021, she completed pre-program internships at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Caryatid Conservation, and the Penn Museum. She completed graduate internships at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and the Carlos Museum at Emory University. She has also worked on archaeological sites in Peru and Greece and has experience working with Native and local communities as well as with artist foundations. She is a certified operator of aerial and scissor lifts and OSHA 30-hr certified for the construction industry.