Ethel Soares is a manager of book and document preservation for bibliographic and archival collections, working exclusively in the Brazilian Amazon. Known for researching naturally climate-controlled environments for collections and for spreading guidance on preventive conservation in remote areas of the northern region where rare cultural documents relevant to the history of the Amazon are found. She is also a researcher of fibers native to the Amazon region for the production of archival-quality paper for restoration using the “Washi” technique. She is the founder of Instituto Pauxis for the preservation of Amazonian Culture, and the Fran Paxeco Library conservator at the Grêmio Literário e Recreativo Português (Belém do Pará, Brazil).

Fiona Graham, MAC, CAPC, CAHP, is a professional conservator specializing in preventive conservation. She holds a Master of Art Conservation degree from Queen’s University (Canada) and is accredited by the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators and the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals. Over 35 years, Fiona has worked at museums (Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Canadian Museum of Nature, National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal) and conservation centres (Canadian Conservation Institute, Centre de conservation du Québec), as a museum advisor for the federal and Ontario governments, and as Associate with GBCA, an architectural firm specializing in museum design and heritage conservation. She currently has a consulting practice based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and teaches in Athabasca University’s Heritage Resources Management program.

Hanna B. Hölling is a Research Professor at Bern University of the Arts, Senior Fellow at Collegium Helveticum/ETH Zurich and Honorary Fellow in the History of Art Department, University College London. She works on conservation, material culture and postwar art history. On these topics, she has led research and published monographs, anthologies and numerous critical essays.

John Moses is a member of the Delaware and Upper Mohawk bands of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. A former director (retired) of repatriation and Indigenous relations at the Canadian Museum of History, he is currently principal consultant at John Moses Authentic Indigenous Advisory Services for Museums and Heritage. He holds a diploma of applied arts in Museum Technology; a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies; a master’s degree in Canadian Studies; and he has completed PhD work to the “all but dissertation” stage in Cultural Mediations. John Moses is a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal for his services to museums.

Kirsty Robertson is Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability and Professor and Director of Museum and Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Arts at Western University where she also directs the Centre for Sustainable Curating (CSC). Robertson is a founding member of the Synthetic Collective and project co-lead on A Museum for Future Fossils.

Millard Schisler has been an educator for more than three decades. He began teaching at the Focus School of Photography, and later in the Certificate Program for Photographic Preservation at the George Eastman Museum, at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and School of Print Media. Today he teaches about digital preservation for the online Master’s program in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Over the past fifteen years he has worked on various projects in museums and archives. Many of these projects have focused on digitization and digital preservation of these new materials and born-digital materials. In August 2020 he assumed the position of Collections Manager at Instituto Moreira Salles.

Marianne Breault holds a Master’s in Painting Conservation from the Institut national du patrimoine. She joined the Preventive Conservation division of the Canadian Conservation Institute in 2019, where she provides preventive conservation advice to a variety of heritage professionals. Her interests include the effects of climate on heritage materials, risk management, and fire protection for heritage institutions.