Ellen Pearlstein is a professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles in both Information Studies, and as a founding faculty member in the UCLA/Getty Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Her research interests include American Indian tribal museums and community practices toward cultural preservation; effects of environmental agents on Indigenous and natural history materials; introducing context into cultural materials’ conservation education; and curriculum development. She is co-director of the UCLA and Getty Conservation Institute feather research project, a Fellow of the AIC and the American Academy in Rome. Ellen Directs the Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation.