Anna Rasche is a historian and gemologist who has previously worked in the jewelry collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and as a curatorial fellow at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She is currently the Fine Jewelry Education Expert at The RealReal, as well as a member of the teaching faculty at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has a master’s degree from the Cooper Hewitt’s history of design program. Anna’s debut manuscript is based on original research she conducted on the uses of gemstones in medieval medicine at the Cooper Hewitt Museum and on site in Italy. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and infant daughter.
