Kecia Fong is a conservation professional and PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. She has worked internationally for the Getty Conservation Institute, Aga Khan Trust for Culture, US National Park Service, World Monuments Fund and the Yangon Heritage Trust among others. Her doctoral research is sited in Yangon and examines how discourses of heritage and international conservation practices are transforming the physical, social, and ideational city of Yangon. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and Senior Associate Editor for Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment.