Rosa Lowinger is 1984 graduate of the Conservation Center at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She founded Los Angeles' Sculpture Conservation Studio and RLA Conservation of Art + Architecture an architecture and objects studio based in LA and Miami specializing in contemporary art, historic buildings, and municipal public art collections. Rosa was the 2008-2009 Rome Prize Fellow in Conservation at the American Academy in Rome with a project researching the history of vandalism. She is a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology, a board member of the Amigos of the Cuban Heritage Collection at University of Miami, Dade Heritage Trust, and the Partnership for Sacred Places. Rosa has led disaster recovery efforts for dozens of fires, floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes and regularly lectures on the topics of disaster management and planning. Born in Havana, Cuba, She is the author of dozens of articles on conservation, and several books about conservation written for general audiences.