Josephine Ren received her dual MA/MS in paintings conservation from the SUNY Buffalo State University Garman Art Conservation Department. She completed graduate internships in paintings conservation at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Detroit Institute of Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The Conservator's Easel, LLC. Following her graduate studies, she was the Fulbright/American Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellow at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. Josephine is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Postgraduate Fellow in Paintings Conservation at the Cleveland Museum of Art.