Dr Tammy Hodgskiss (married surname Reynard)was born and bred in Johannesburg, and lives there with her husband and two children. Since 2018 she has been the curator at theOrigins Centre museum at the University of the Witwatersrand and from November 2024 took on the additional role of Acting Head of Origins Centre. Tammy is an archaeologist and received her PhD from Wits University in 2013. Her research is focused on how humans collected, used and communicated with ochre and natural pigments in the past. She has numerous publications in local and international journals on archaeological ochre use, and given many international conference and public presentations, including a TEDx Johannesburg Talk. Tammy has worked at the Rock Art Research Institute and Maropeng & Sterkfontein Visitor Centres. In her role as the Origins Centre curator, she manages permanent and temporary exhibitions, organizes the public programming, and runs interactive workshops and discussion sessions. Tammy is the membership secretary for the Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists and is a founding board member of Pigments Revealed International. She is driven by a passion to learn about people, our pasts and our cultural knowledge systems-through cross-disciplinary research, collaboration and honest conversations.