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Staff Highlight: Marie Desrochers

Marie Desrochers currently serves as the Preservation Outreach Coordinator for our division. In this role, she has launched the Utah Collections Preservation Program, which provides training for small collecting institutions across the state. This work is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and it strives to increase preventive conservation knowledge for all heritage stewards. Marie graduated in 2021 from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, where she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Graduate Fellow with a major in preventive conservation. She spent her third-year internship working at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.