Tessa de Alarcon has been a Project Conservator at the Penn Museum since 2012. She received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2004 where she majored in studio art and minored in archaeology, and her M.A. from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials in 2012. She has done fieldwork in Turkey and Guatemala and she has also taught workshops in Guatemala on documentation and archaeological conservation.