162 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SOCIAL WORK, PUBLIC SERVICE, NONPROFIT AND HUMANITIES SAMANTHA HUNT-DURAN OWNER, FOUNDER Mountain Museum Management LLC Aurora, CO Samantha Hunt-Duran is distinguished in the field of preservation and museum management, with more than 12 years of professional excellence. Since 2023, she has served as the owner and founder of Mountain Museum Management LLC, providing specialized consulting services to a diverse client base, including private clients and larger federal museums. Ensuring compliance with the Secretary of State, Mrs. Hunt-Duran manages all staff and contractors, directing routine business operations to achieve peak performance consistently. Mrs. Hunt-Duran was inspired to enter the museum industry at a formative age, and during her early employment opportunities in the museum sector, she recognized widespread systemic challenges, including limited funding and inadequate employee treatment. Desiring to enact meaningful change in the field, she decided to pursue an external support role for museums that would still enable her to advocate for change and preservation techniques. She began her career in 2013 with two apprenticeships at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, where she focused on the conservation of archaeological artifacts and paintings. She later completed an outdoor sculpture conservation internship at the Denver Art Museum in 2014. As her career progressed, Mrs. Hunt-Duran served in a myriad of roles between 2014 and 2015, including positions as a paper conservation intern at Beth Heller Conservation LLC, an archives processing assistant at the University of Denver Library Archives, a regional liaison for the Emerging Conservation Professionals Network, and a paintings conservation intern at Clyfford Still Museum. From 2015 to 2016, she was a paintings conservation intern at Kuniej Berry LLC. Following her internships, Mrs. Hunt-Duran served as a conservation assistant at the Denver Art Museum. From 2019 to 2021, she served as the vice president of the Cultural Council in Commerce City, Colorado, where she promoted community engagement with the arts, and from 2019 to 2023, she was a conservation and collections associate at Pacific Coast Conservation. Mrs. Hunt-Duran’s elaborate
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