Our Staff

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Our Staff

Kirk Fitzhugh, Ph.D.
Curator, Polychaetes

Kirk's research is focused on the systematics and evolutionary biology of a family of polychaetes known as "fan worms," as well as the philosophical foundations of phylogenetic systematics.

Dre'Shawn Frencher
Program Manager, UNLAB Mentoring Program

Dre'Shawn is the Program Manager for UNLAB (Understanding Nature and Los Angeles Biodiversity), our research mentoring network for recent college graduates funded through NSF's RaMP program.

Viridiana Garcia
Assistant Registrar

Viri plays a central role in our Registrar's Office, working on transactions such as loans and acquisitions for the museum's collections.

Kimball L. Garrett
Collections Manager (Retired), Ornithology

Collections Manager Kimball L. Garrett is responsible for the care and use of the ornithological collections, additions of specimens to the collections, and the databases associated with the collections

Marina Gibbons
Associate Conservator, Conservation

Marina Gibbons is the Associate Conservator at the Natural History Museum, where she treats natural history specimens as well as cultural heritage objects, and performs testing on new materials proposed for use in exhibit case design.

Doug Goodreau
Senior Paleontological Preparator, Dinosaur Institute

With over 15 years of experience, Doug has organized crews and equipment for national and international field expeditions in an effort to help build NHM's dinosaur collection.

Lindsey T. Groves
Senior Collections Manager, Malacology

In 1988, Lindsey came to the Museum as a Curatorial Assistant on a National Science Foundation (NSF) collection grant. He is now Collections Manager for Malacology.

Cathy Groves
Collections Manager, Echinoderms (retired)

After working as a volunteer in the Echinoderms Department, Cathy was hired as Curatorial Assistant in 1989. In addition to her collection care duties, Cathy is active in our museums' field trips.

Amy Gusick, Ph.D.
Curator, Anthropology

Dr. Amy Gusick is Curator of Anthropology and Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Officer. She is an archaeologist who studies human-environment dynamics, development of maritime societies, peopling of the Americas, initial human dispersals around the Pacific Rim, and maritime cultural landscapes.

KT Hajeian, M.A.
Senior Collections Manager, Anthropology (Ethnology)

KT Hajeian received her M.A. in Artifact Studies from the University College of London in 2002 and began working for the Natural History Museum in 2005.