Tara Kennedy is the Head of Preventive Conservation at Yale Library. She holds a MLIS and a certificate of advanced studies in Library and Archives Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin, an MS in Forensic Science from the University of New Haven, and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from Northwestern University. Before coming to Yale, she interned at the National Archives, and worked at the Smithsonian Anthropological Archives and the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She is a Professional Member with the American Institute for Conservation (AIC). She is a member of the AIC National Heritage Responders (NHR) Working Group, and a former Chair of the AIC Health and Safety Network. Outside of her preservation work, she is a volunteer for the Doe Network, the Online International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons.