Ronel Namde is an Associate Conservator of Photographs at the Getty Research Institute. She was previously a photograph conservator at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She graduated from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2015 with a specialization in photographic materials. She received her BA in Anthropology from Yale University in 2007 and worked at the Yale Library for five years as a conservation technician. Her work there involved both the general and special collections, including materials from the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She did her third-year internship at the Weissman Preservation Center after completing summer internships at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.