Our Staff

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Kat is a specimen preparator that works on the new amber collection, databasing the historic Channel Islands collections, and sorting and mounting specimens from South America.