I began my career in art conservation by obtaining my BA in Art Conservation at the University of Delaware in 2009. After preprogram internships working on silver, paintings, furniture, and archaeological collections, I traveled to London to obtain my MA in Principles of Conservation (2013) and MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums (2015) from University College London. While completing my graduate coursework I interned at the Natural History Museum, London; The Frick Collection, New York City; The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK; and The Wallace Collection, London.
After my graduation from UCL, I was the Kress Fellow in Conservation at Winterthur Museum, focusing on preventive conservation and the conservation of Chinese export lacquer in 2015-2016. In the fall of 2016 I began a Mellon Fellowship with Historic New England where I worked on objects and furniture from a range of periods from the 37 historic homes they maintain. In 2017, I joined the staff at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the Assistant Conservator of Furniture and Woodwork, focusing on the treatment of the early American furniture collection in preparation for the opening of the new American art galleries in 2021 and the accompanying publication. After completing that contract, I was hired as Project Assistant Conservator to organize and execute a massive multi-gallery cleaning after construction had completed.
In the fall of 2021, I joined the Library of Congress as the Conservator of Objects. I treat, research, and rehouse a wide variety of materials within the collection.