Jascin N. Leonardo Finger has worked for the MMA since the late 1980s, becoming curator of the Mitchell House, Archives and Special Collections in 1999. While at the MMA, she taught first through eighth grade social studies at the Nantucket New School and for four years, the MMA and the Egan Maritime Foundation employed her jointly, sharing her as curator for both organizations. Ms. Leonardo Finger holds an degree in history with a minor in art history from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in history with a focus on women and gender studies from Lesley University. Her master’s thesis is titled “The Daring Daughter of Nantucket Island: How Island Women from the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries Lived a Life Contrary to Other American Women.” Her master’s thesis was published in 2014 with the same title. Additionally, she has completed graduate work in preservation law. Under her curatorship, the Mitchell House and MMA were awarded an Architectural Preservation Award from the Nantucket Preservation Trust in 2012. 

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She is an active member of the historic preservation community on Nantucket. She is a past associate member of the Nantucket Historic District Commission, a member of the Nantucket Historic Commission, a member of the Historic Structures Advisory Board, a Trustee of the Historic Coffin School, and a member of the Nantucket Preservation Trust Award Committee. 

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Ms. Leonardo Finger is an originator of the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Symposium.