Sally Queen is the principal of Sally Queen & Associates and its product division Q Graphics. Her company's mission is providing connections to historic cloth and clothing, primarily through publications and special events. Ms. Queen's specialty is 18^th century dress and appearance in America.

Sally Queen & Associates plan special events at American museums from the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC to Gadsby's Tavern Museum in Alexandria, Virginia. Her events bring together professionals and enthusiasts in innovative learning opportunities.

Ms. Queen is the author of Textiles for Colonial Clothing - a workbook of swatches and information on textiles for authentic period clothing, currently in its third printing. Q Graphics publishes three additional workbooks, Textiles for Regency Clothing, Textiles for Early Victorian Clothing, and Textiles for Victorian and Edwardian Clothing. She is also the editor of the Historic Fashions Calendar Series, the foundation publication for Costume Society of America's book series. Ms. Queen is active in Costume Society of America and is a member of American Association for State and Local History, and Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums. Ms. Queen was named a Fellow of Costume Society of America in 2003.

Ms. Queen earned the Bachelor of Science degree in Clothing and Textiles from the University of Arizona. Previous to her current business, Ms. Queen was the Manager of the Costume Design Center at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women.

Ms. Queen's outreach role for Costume Society of America was learned as the wife of a career Air Force officer where meeting new people and sharing new experiences was a way of daily life. She and her husband Bruce are from Dallas, Texas but now live and work in the Washington, DC area.

Vicki L. Berger is the Director of the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Papago Park, Tempe. AHS is Arizona's oldest cultural institution, founded by the territorial legislature on November 7, 1864, charged with preserving Arizona history for the present and future. The state agency system includes other museums in Tucson, Flagstaff, and Yuma.

From 1988 to 2003, Dr. Berger was a staff member at the North Carolina Museum of History, located in the capital city, Raleigh. She held the positions of Collections Management Section Chief and Curator of Costume and Textiles. As Curator, Dr. Berger collected clothing (non-military) and textiles, provided patron services, gave presentations, and served on the Acquisitions Committee. She worked on several exhibitions such as North Carolina Women Making History, First Families of North Carolina (1997 and 2001), North Carolina Quilts: Layers of History, and Merci America: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the French Gratitude Train.

In 1990 Dr. Berger developed a graduate level Introduction to Museology course for the Department of History, North Carolina State University. She taught the class from 1991 to 2003, served on graduate student program committees, and supervised museum-related internships. In 2001, she began team-teaching the American Association for State and Local History workshop, Collections Management and Practices.

A member of several professional organizations, Dr. Berger has been most active in the Costume Society of America. Her service includes national board member, treasurer, and vice-president for education and programs; regional board member, president, treasurer, and secretary, and organizer of several mini-meetings and symposia. She is also active in the International Council of Museums and has attended conferences in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Poland.

Dr. Berger is a faithful Arizona Wildcat fan, having graduated twice from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She earned the Ph.D. in Historic Costume and Textiles with a minor in Theatre Costume from Florida State University in Tallahassee. She and her husband Roger live in Phoenix, where he is a professor of Statistics at Arizona State University-West.