Rosa Lowinger is a writer and an art conservator. A Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation and the American Academy in Rome, she is the author of Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub (Harcourt, 2005) and many articles on Cuban art, architecture, and preservation. Rosa is president and chief conservator of RLA Conservation, a studio specializing in care of sculpture, objects, and architecture with offices in Miami and Los Angeles. RLA Conservation is the lead researcher for the Getty Foundation‘s Keeping it Modern grant for determining conservation protocols for the Miami Marine Stadium’s restoration. Rosa has designed and led Cuba travel programs for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Menil Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, and the American Institute for Conservation, among other organizations, and was curator of the 2013 exhibit Concrete Paradise: Miami Marine Stadium at the Coral Gables Museum. She is presently serving as guest curator for the 2016 exhibit Paradise Found: Cuban Allure, American Seduction at the Wolfsonian Museum at FIU.