Outreach, Public Engagement, and Publications
ICON 2025 Nigel Williams Award- Student Prize
After being awarded the biannual ICON Nigel Williams Award I was given the opportunity to present my project at the 2025 ICON Ceramics & Glass Group Annual Group Meeting.
My 20 minute presentation covers my treatment considerations and methodology (including discussing a couple novel approaches I developed for the project), and my visit to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton to take molds from a similar object.
Public Demonstration
and Talk– October 21, 2024
While working on the Stanley Arts project with my colleagues Duncan McCall, Tiago Oliveira, and Ross Hodges, Duncan and I were tasked with leading an hour talk on the conservation process to local community members as part of a outreach initiative to foster collective ownership of the historic space.
Our presentation included demonstrations in tile cleaning and color mixing for retouching, historic context, and project milestones.
ICON Ceramics & Glass Group 2024 AGM
As Student Representative for 2023-2024 I assisted the ICON CGG directors in the organization of skill workshops, conference focus groups, and the Annual Group Meeting.
My role included corresponding with UK based conservation training programs about ICON events and opportunities, hosting lunch & learns, and writing event articles for ICON’s journal- Iconnect.
2024 Student Organized Forum
Conservation Connection Forum:Building Supportive Communities Through Advocacy
My colleague Emily and I co-led the organization of this student forum which aimed to address critical themes in our industry around advocacy and what to expect in post-graduate early career.
For the write-up on this event please go to pg 40 at the link below:
2023 Student Organized International Conference
Should It Stay or Should It Go?: Repatriation and Decolonization in Conservation
I headed the organization of this internationally attended conference with a team of 6 fellow students as team lead. The hybrid event included 2 panels, 9 presentations, and a printed zine which included speaker bios, presentation abstracts, and the responses from a pre-event writing prompt activity.
My responsibilities included liaising with speakers, writing the funding proposal, co-writing the writing prompt activity, managing the IT team for the event, and hosting the panels.