Mount Auburn Cemetery
Jacqueline Kluft is an experienced project leader and park interpreter, currently holding a position at Mount Auburn Cemetery since February 2021 and with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Conservation and Recreation since May 2015. Additional experience includes volunteering as an observer for Frog USA at Roger Williams Park Zoo, where involvement has begun in February 2012. Jacqueline has also worked as a park interpreter previously from June to September 2014 and engaged in freelancing from January 2011 to June 2014, focusing on various consulting and volunteer projects. Notable mentorship roles include serving as a Science Olympiad Mentor for Cambridge Public Schools. Educationally, Jacqueline Kluft holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of Rhode Island, a Master of Science in Marine Environmental Sciences from Stony Brook University, and dual Bachelor of Arts in Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, as well as Biology from Northwestern University.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery
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Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned. Our founders believed that burying and commemorating the dead was best done in a tranquil and beautiful natural setting at a short distance from the city center. They also believed that the Cemetery should be a place for the living, "embellishing" the natural landscape with ornamental plantings, monuments, fences, fountains and chapels. This inspired concept was copied widely throughout the United States, giving birth to the rural cemetery movement and the tradition of garden cemeteries. Their popularity led, in turn, to the establishment of America's public parks.