Michaela Paulson is a Project Conservator at the Penn Museum working on monumental limestone architectural features for the renovation of the Egypt and Nubia galleries. She was at the American Museum of Natural History for four years, the latter two in the Natural Science Collection Conservation lab, working on an IMLS funded research project concerning the treatment of feathers. She migrated from two years in the Anthropology lab, working with Native American material from the Northwest Coast. She received her B.A. magna cum laude in Archaeology with a minor in Art History from Tufts University in 2012 and spent the next three years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Simultaneously, she was a pre-program intern in the Objects Conservation Lab at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Michaela is a graduate from the UCLA/Getty Master's Program ('18), during which she completed four graduate internships: on-site in Italy with a Rutgers University-led excavation at the site of Vacone working on in situ mosaics and wall paintings, the National Park Service branch in Lowell, MA at the Boott Mills, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Michaela is interested in the integration of treatment approaches and materials between specialties as well as outreach and promotion of the field to professionals in allied fields.