Leadership
Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing 2022– 2023
Fellowship: Selected from a national pool for the inaugural cohort of 40 professionals for an 18-month leadership experience supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program follows the Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) framework to strengthen the ecosystem of practitioners who are advancing racial and health equity in their work. Part of the “Narrative Change” group, training from June 2022 onward supports a funded project through December 2023.
Curatorial Network Accelerator of Boston 2017 – Present
Founding Director: Secured a grant to convene institutional and independent curators across Greater Boston to develop a co-mentorship program. The structure: facilitated workshops that address barriers to access and inclusion in the curatorial profession, interrogate exhibition models, critique interpretation rhetoric, and accelerate a city-wide curatorial network through co-authored exhibitions, events, or essays. The goal: to encourage creative partnership within and between institutions, expand art audiences, illuminate and retain talent, and build cultural equity. First step: Public panel of national speakers and day-long curatorial summit of 60 colleagues scheduled that took place February 28-March 1, 2019.
Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL), New York, NY 2017
Fellowship: Selected from an international pool of curators as the 10th class of colleagues to train with Columbia Business School faculty and keynote speakers on executive leadership in the arts; certified in coursework on strategic planning, organizational alignment, evaluation and decision making, budgets, team building and collective intelligence, management, negotiation, philanthropy, and moral leadership. Completed a residency with Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern, and a weeklong practicum on Diversifying the Curatorial Profession.
Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) 2015 – 2021
Voting Board Member. Recently: Vice President, Programs: May 2016- May 2019 Executive Committee Board Member, responsible for supporting the organization’s fiscal health, public positioning, and quality programming for members; oversee the Professional Development, Career Support, and Conference Committees since May 2016; Founding Co-Chair of the Inclusion and Access Task Force: May 2015-May 2017. Organized and led the 2016 conference panel Diversifying the Curatorial Profession: How the Internship/Fellowship Track Can Be Our Essential Path Toward Change (2016). Co-Chair of the Professional Development Committee 2014-2016, member since 2012: Organized and led webinars: Curating Social Justice: Three Case Studies (2016) and Working with Living Artists: A Roadmap to Navigate Commissions, Interpretation, and Contracts (2014). AAMC Member since 2008.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2015 – Present
Museum Council Steering Committee Member: guide membership, fundraising projects, and member events for MFA patrons under age 50.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston, MA 2016 – Present
Board of Advisors Member: guide the leadership of the School, which became part of Tufts University, July 2016.
Contemporary Curators’ Conference (CCC) 2011 – 2017
Steering Committee Member: determined locations, invites, programming and evaluation of this annual conference for curators of contemporary art affiliated with institutions in the U.S.; Co-chair 2011-2013; in 2013, led first steering committee retreat to review organization, format, and future; Organizer and Host in 2012 of the twelfth conference in Boston for 70 national colleagues; Invited as conference attendee since 2008.
Careergirls.org 2011
Online speaker: nationally and internationally promoted professions in the visual arts for girls ages 9-13.
VOCA Artist Interview Workshop at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 2019. Image courtesy of voca.network