Tessa Young, Membership Coordinator
Tessa Young is PACA's Membership Coordinator, elected to the Board of Directors in 2018. After earning her B.A. in Theater and East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University in 2013, Tessa discovered conservation while working with Chinese Theater Works' collection of historic southern Chinese shadow puppets. Since then, she has kept Philadelphia as her home base while taking a variety of pre-program internships both domestically and internationally.
Tessa has worked locally at the Winterthur Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has also interned at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, the National Park Service in Lowell, MA, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan. In 2017, Tessa won AIC's Wooden Artifact Specialty Group Scholarship and spent a five-week internship with Fine Wood Conservation, Ltd. in Brooklyn, NY. She is now working in wooden artifact conservation at Colonial Williamsburg.
"I have been a member of PACA since I started working in conservation," Tessa says. "PACA has introduced me to new facets of the field and allowed me to interact with established conservators as well as other pre-program candidates." As Membership Coordinator, Tessa is a welcoming voice for new members of the Association, showing that PACA has both scholarship and collegiality to offer to its members. She tracks PACA's membership records and communication and designs PACA's event publicity.
Tessa has worked locally at the Winterthur Museum, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has also interned at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, the National Park Service in Lowell, MA, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan. In 2017, Tessa won AIC's Wooden Artifact Specialty Group Scholarship and spent a five-week internship with Fine Wood Conservation, Ltd. in Brooklyn, NY. She is now working in wooden artifact conservation at Colonial Williamsburg.
"I have been a member of PACA since I started working in conservation," Tessa says. "PACA has introduced me to new facets of the field and allowed me to interact with established conservators as well as other pre-program candidates." As Membership Coordinator, Tessa is a welcoming voice for new members of the Association, showing that PACA has both scholarship and collegiality to offer to its members. She tracks PACA's membership records and communication and designs PACA's event publicity.
