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Season 3 Episode 1: The Mission and Impact of APOYOnline with Beatriz Haspo

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Lindsey Williams

"Preservation is a state of mind, it is a mission...so we have to allow this opportunity for everyone to be able to preserve."

To start out this new season, Roxy is joined by Beatriz Haspo, volunteer executive director of APOYPOnline: which serves a similar role as AIC does for North American conservators. Beatriz explains the goals of the organization through the topics presented at their latest conference in Panama. She builds on themes presented by multiple previous guests, including Josefa and Bianca, about the value of sharing knowledge within more Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, and expanding training opportunities beyond North America and Europe.

As the conservation community continues to expand globally we see this priority of cross-pollinating of training, lived experiences, and sustainability paradigms becoming more predominant. Beatriz emphasizes the importance of a circle of learning: public communities, Early Career Professionals, and experienced conservators alike can all learn from each other. The responsibility for preservation of our shared heritage is a collective effort and its practices shouldn’t be siloed nor its trainings gate-kept.

She shares how she has seen the value in a human-centered approach to disaster relief and what work that APOYOnline members have done to strengthen the resilience of their communities through their work with material culture.

This episode ends with Beatriz giving a brief review of the topics discussed in the episode in both Spanish and Portuguese. We hope that by including other languages into our programming that we can expand our audience and facilitate more connections between conservators around the globe by breaking down language barriers.

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