NECA Board

Cristina Morilla
Membership Coordinator, Board Member (2024-Present)
Cristina Morilla is a painting conservator specializing in artworks from medieval to early modern Europe. Her career has been dedicated to the study of polychromed surfaces and pigments in both panel and canvas paintings. Morilla's expertise extends to the technical aspects of art history, color technology, and conservation ethics. Her current projects focus on the technical examination and conservation of Spanish and viceregal canvas paintings.

Oa Sjoblom
Membership Coordinator, Board Member (2025-Present)
Oa Sjoblom is a Book and Paper Conservator in the Boston area. She earned her MA and certificate of advanced study in Art Conservation from The Garman Art Conservation Department at SUNY Buffalo State University in 2020, specializing in Library and Archive conservation. Most recently she worked as a term Book Conservator for Special Collections at the Weissman Preservation Center for Harvard Library. Oa has worked on contracts at the National Park Service, Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering (NPS/HACE) conservation lab in Lowell, Mass., the Wunsch Conservation Lab at MIT Library, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard Art Museums. Before graduate school, she worked as a book and paper conservation technician in New Orleans for seven years. She completed graduate internships at the Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard Library, University of Michigan Library, and Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Katrina Wilson
Secretary, Board Member (2024-Present)
Katrina Wilson is an artist and emerging conservation professional with a background in project management in the field of historic home preservation. She has a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She currently works as the Conservation Technician at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where she previously started as a Collections Maintenance Technician in 2023. She serves as secretary on the board of the New England Conservation Association.

Terra Huber
Treasurer, Board Member (2024-Present)
Terra Huber (he/they) is the Book and Paper Conservator at the John Carter Brown Library and the John Hay Library of Brown University. A Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation, Terra has studied and worked in the field of conservation since 2009, earning an M.A. in Art Conservation with a concentration in library and archival objects from Buffalo State College in 2014. Terra has most recently worked at the Boston Athenaeum and the MIT Libraries' Wunsch Conservation Laboratory. They have also held positions at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Newberry Library, the Walters Art Museum, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. As an undergraduate, Terra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, drawing, and art history from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University. They are a member of the Guild of Book Workers and the New England Conservation Association.

Babette Gehnrich
Co-Treasurer, Board Member (2008-Present)
Babette Gehnrich received her formal training in bookbinding, and book and paper conservation in Berlin, Germany and the Centro Del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland in the early 1980s. After moving to the US, in 1985, she completed an internship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ICCROM paper conservation course in Vienna, Austria, and worked as assistant book conservator at Yale University. Since 1989, she has held the position of Chief Conservator at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is a member of the advisory board for the North Bennet Street School’s bookbinding program.

Allison Jackson
President, Board Member (2019-Present)
Allison Jackson is the Associate Conservator of Frames at the Harvard Art Museum’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and is the owner and lead conservator at Allison Jackson Frame Conservation & Gilding in central New Hampshire. She graduated from the University of Vermont in 2002 with a degree in Studio Art and subsequently trained with a master carpenter in Hawaii. After further training in private conservation studios throughout Massachusetts, Allison spent 6 years in frame conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In her private practice, she works with individual collectors and museums throughout the Northeast. She is a Professional Associate of the American Institute of Conservation and a second-generation frame conservator.

Heini Korhonen
Communications Coordinator, Board Member (2025-Present)
Heini Korhonen is the current Post-Graduate Fellow at Studio TKM Associates, and a graduate of the Paper Conservation program at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland. She additionally holds an MFA in Printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. Through her work at Studio TKM Associates, Heini has had the pleasure of collaborating with numerous New England institutions and organizations, and is eager to further strengthen connections within the regional conservation community through her role with NECA.

Seth Irwin
Board Member (2025-Present)
Seth Irwin is the owner of Irwin Paper Conservation LLC. A book, paper, and photograph conservation practice in Maynard, Massachusetts that he has operated since 2010. He holds a Master's in Art Conservation degree, specializing in paper conservation, from Queen's University in Kingston Ontario, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He previously served as the Conservator for the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana and the Paper Conservator for the University of Hawaii Library in Honolulu, Hawaii. Throughout his career, Seth has worked on a variety of high-profile projects, including the 2017 project at the Alaska State Museum to treat the Treaty of Cession documents for the Alaska sesquicentennial. He was also a former President of the Midwest Regional Conservation Guild. He holds an international accreditation from the Institute for Conservation in the United Kingdom with the status of Accredited Conservator-Restorer (ACR) and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.