What Our Future Holds: Preservation for All

Pamela Hatchfield
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (emerita), and Held in Trust
Prerecorded talk: “The Future is Now: Resilience in Conservation and Preservation”

Pamela Hatchfield serves as project coordinator for Held in Trust, a collaboration between the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project evaluates the present state and future directions of cultural heritage preservation and conservation in the United States. She is also head of objects conservation emerita at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds degrees from Vassar College and New York University. Hatchfield is a fellow of the International Institute for Conservation, American Institute for Conservation (AIC), and American Academy in Rome, and received the Robert L. Feller Lifetime Achievement Award from AIC in 2021.

Held in Trust is part of a “A More Perfect Union,” an initiative supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Sanchita Balachandran
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and Johns Hopkins University
Prerecorded talk: “Whose Future?”

Sanchita Balachandran is a conservator of archaeological materials, a writer, a researcher, and a teacher. She is currently associate director and conservator of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum and senior lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Balachandran is also the founder and director of Untold Stories, a nonprofit organization that seeks to center BIPOC voices working in the preservation of cultural heritage.

Isabel Rivera-Collazo
University of California, San Diego
Prerecorded talk: “Climate Change and the Future of Cultural Heritage”

Professor Isabel Rivera-Collazo is the director of the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology and associate professor in biological, ecological, and human adaptations to climate change at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. Focused on Puerto Rico, Rivera-Collazo’s research centers on sea level change, vulnerability of heritage to climate impacts, the dynamism of coastal geomorphology, and human response to climate change.