Cassia has been interested in conservation since she was fourteen years old, and enjoys working with all types of material culture. She graduated summa cum laude from Marist College, completing herstudies in Florence, Italy. There she focused on frescoes and polychrome wooden sculpture. Since then she has primarily worked at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia as a Conservation and Gallery Maintenance Technician, participating in a wide array of projects ranging from small ceramics to monumental Chinese murals. At the same time, Cassia has been part of a storage move project for the Decorative Arts Section of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a new collection inventory and condition survey at Hagley Museum and Library that focused on automobile collectibles. Most recently she has ventured into document-based materials, spending six months at Historic Odessa Foundation focusing on paper conservation as well as working on a large tracing cloth grounds schematic at Winterthur Museum and Library. While Cassia will try any craft once, if she finds spare time she most enjoys painting and baking.