Alyssa Rina, Social Media Chair
Alyssa Rina is PACA's Social Media Chair, and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2018 after Nicole Passerotti's departure for the Chicago Field Museum. She is a pre-program graduate candidate with four years of experience working in the field, and she previously served as the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network’s Communications Co-Officer from 2016-2018.
Alyssa discovered conservation in 2013 when completing her undergraduate art thesis. "I decided to excavate my childhood cat and clean and reassemble his bones," says Alyssa. "Concerns on how to clean, handle, and assemble the bones brought me to conservation literature. So I guess I can say that my deceased childhood cat taught me about art conservation!"
When Alyssa joined the PACA Board, she was working as a conservation technician at the Penn Museum. In summer 2018, Alyssa interned in Cody, Wyoming, at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, working on a paper project that involved humidifying, flattening, and completing tear repairs on 500 historic letters. She also worked on a pXRF project to help record elemental analysis of prehistoric obsidian lithics found within the Washakie Wilderness. She is now a Project Conservation Assistant Intern working at The American Museum of Natural History in the Anthropology Department. As Social Media Chair, Alyssa coordinates PACA's presence on Facebook and Instagram, helping to connect PACA members and others who are interested in conservation and preservation.
Alyssa discovered conservation in 2013 when completing her undergraduate art thesis. "I decided to excavate my childhood cat and clean and reassemble his bones," says Alyssa. "Concerns on how to clean, handle, and assemble the bones brought me to conservation literature. So I guess I can say that my deceased childhood cat taught me about art conservation!"
When Alyssa joined the PACA Board, she was working as a conservation technician at the Penn Museum. In summer 2018, Alyssa interned in Cody, Wyoming, at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, working on a paper project that involved humidifying, flattening, and completing tear repairs on 500 historic letters. She also worked on a pXRF project to help record elemental analysis of prehistoric obsidian lithics found within the Washakie Wilderness. She is now a Project Conservation Assistant Intern working at The American Museum of Natural History in the Anthropology Department. As Social Media Chair, Alyssa coordinates PACA's presence on Facebook and Instagram, helping to connect PACA members and others who are interested in conservation and preservation.
