Exhibition Opening Celebration for "Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors"

Michelle Fitzgerald is the Curator of Collections at the Johns Hopkins University Museums. With an interest in Chesapeake furniture in the 18th and 19th centuries, she has previously held positions at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Maryland Center for History and Culture, and the Maryland State Archives. She received her MA from the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and is published in the University of Chicago Press’ Winterthur Portfolio and AASLH’s History News magazine.

Amy Young is the Communications Manager for the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, a Baltimore County-based land trust and watershed restoration nonprofit organization. Amy has worked in a variety of habitats and plant communities: desert, mountain, prairie, wetland, rainforest, coastal dunes, and Fall Line Sandhills. Her projects have been similarly diverse, including monitoring forest regeneration after a wildfire, studying the reproductive biology of an endangered plant, mapping historical changes in a large wetland complex, and collecting native wildflower seeds for use in large-scale restoration projects. She has a B.A. in Biology with an Environmental Studies concentration from Swarthmore College, and an M.S. in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia.