Maria Carrillo Colato
Maria Carrillo Colato is Special Collections Manager in the Division of Special Collections of A.K. Smiley Public Library, which includes the Lincoln Memorial Shrine and Museum of Redlands. She has a MA in History with an emphasis in Public History and a PhD in History from the University of California, Riverside. Her doctoral work focused on disunion efforts in California in the Civil War-era. As a graduate student, Maria completed an internship with the National Park Service at Fort Donelson National Battlefield in Dover, Tennessee. She coauthored Images of America: Early Redlands and Redlands in World War I and has worked in museums and special collections in Southern California for over two decades.
