Staff

Jerrad Alexander is an objects conservator specializing in aerospace objects and other large technology. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist and Flight Engineer.

Elizabeth Beesley is an objects conservator and began working at the Museum in 2017. She holds an MEng in Materials Science from the University of Oxford, an MA in Principles of Conservation, and an MSc in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, both from University College London.

Malcolm Collum is the Engen Conservation Chair and has been the Chief Conservator at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum since 2008.

Kate Brugioni Gabrielli joined the Transformation team in 2022, following an Engen fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum, where her treatment-based research explored the reduction of iron staining from paint films.

Christine Haynes started at National Air and Space Museum as Objects Conservator in 2022 as part of the Transformation Project.

Lauren Anne Horelick has been an objects conservator at NASM since 2012.

Beth Knight joined the Museum as a textile conservator in 2020. She was previously the textile conservator for Girlhood (It's Complicated) at the National Museum of American History.

Deborah Duerbeck Parr holds an M.S. in Art Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, where she studied the conservation of wood and paintings. Prior to that, she earned a B.A.

Lisa Young is a Supervisory Conservator at the National Air and Space Museum and has worked with the conservation unit since 1999.