Experience

NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development and Public Engagement Manager

  • Sep 2022 - Present

• Development Associate

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  Manage development and fundraising efforts, institutional events, communications and social media presence for the institute. Develop and execute unique and effective strategies to meet fundraising goals and deadlines for multiple funds and departments. Cultivate relationships with prospective and active donors through a number of events and direct communication. Maintain development records with event attendance, donation processing in NYU’s systems, and tracking fundraising campaigns. Produce and oversee multiple weekly events working with internal staff and external vendors. Compile and disseminate community news and events via social media and regular e-blasts to our 8000-person distribution list. Communicate with donors and the interested public on topics pertaining to the subject matter and mission of ISAW.



University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Archaeological Registrar for UPenn's Excavations at Gordion in Turkey

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2019

  -Oversee a number of assistants helping with the cleaning and organization of the finds and worked with the team of experts to gain insight into the artifacts and keep them abreast of the current findings. -Assist with the supervision of all activities in the storage depot that house the archaeological material excavated over the last fifty years. Together with a small team, took an inventory of everything in the depot which had been recently relocated. Work with researchers to find specific artifacts in the collection and ensure they are returned to their proper location under the new organizational scheme. -Have maintained an ongoing consulting relationship with the project training subsequent registrars.



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Event Production Assistant

  • May 2014 - May 2019

  Freelance Event Production Assistant -Primarily with Empire Entertainment, Inc and occasionally Bank Street Productions. -Fulfill a variety of roles for large-scale events including zone manager, production assistant, talent wrangler, office manager, registration lead, and creative assistant. Freelance Event Production Assistant -Primarily with Empire Entertainment, Inc and occasionally Bank Street Productions. -Fulfill a variety of roles for large-scale events including zone manager, production assistant, talent wrangler, office manager, registration lead, and creative assistant.

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2016 - 2017

  Project: Documents from Berenike Volumes 1-3 under Roger Bagnall -Organized and inventoried two archives of respectively 4,000 and 7,000 images of ancient graffiti and texts on ostraka and papyri from the archaeological sites of Smyrna in Turkey and Berenike in Egypt. -Compared the digital image databases with their associated slide collections adding relevant information to the artifact files and digitizing over 200 additional slides. Renamed all the files according to the protocol I established to meet the digital preservation requirements. Further prepared the images for online publication and digital preservation by creating spreadsheets with descriptive artifact and file information.

• Research Assistant

  • Nov 2015 - Aug 2016

  Project: EpiDig: Digital Epigraphy Bibliography under Tom Elliott -Enlisted and facilitated a group of projects that publish epigraphic data online for a best practices workshop pertaining to data management and digital preservation in the digital humanities. Researched content, created surveys, tested an online program and then taught collaborators how it worked with a practice model, and arranged international group video calls. Project: EpiDig: Digital Epigraphy Bibliography under Tom Elliott -Enlisted and facilitated a group of projects that publish epigraphic data online for a best practices workshop pertaining to data management and digital preservation in the digital humanities. Researched content, created surveys, tested an online program and then taught collaborators how it worked with a practice model, and arranged international group video calls.

• Managing Editor, Ancient World Image Bank

  • Nov 2011 - Jun 2015

  Executed all aspects of the 9000-image project’s operation, including research, image processing, digitization, file management, and community building. •Community Building—Increased public engagement on Flickr by capitalizing on their community of "Groups". Started the AWIB Group Pool which now has over 20,000 images and over 400 users who engaged with our content through comments and discussions relating to copyright issues and subject matter. Designed models for the next generation of the AWIB website which would be consistent with the ISAW brand, hosted internally and promoted across various social media platforms. •Digital Curation — Digitized different slide collections equaling roughly 700 slides and transferred all relevant information associated with the physical slides to the digital files. Ran a series of scripts to process all digital image files converting them into the requisite format for online publication and digital preservation. Researched every ancient site and artifact pictured in the database, edited the associated metadata fields for the image files, and prepared captions for the online publication of each image. •Contributor and User Outreach— Engaged potential contributors and handled the transfer and publication of their collections. Coordinated and oversaw the beginning stages of hosting the personal archaeological and art historical photographic collections of members of the ISAW community. Answered copyright and content questions pertaining to our collection from both contributors and users. •Pleiades Gazetteer- Contributed to the Pleiades online, open-source, and community-built gazetteer of the ancient world. Part of my work for AWIB was to ensure that all the images of ancient sites in the AWIB database were connected with their geographical entry in Pleiades, by a URI entered into their metadata. To this end I also created a number of new place entries with authoritative geographic points and basic information.



New York State Schools

• United States
• Manufacturing

• Social Studies Resource

  • 2013 - 2014

  Volunteer Historical Resource, Sixth grade Social Studies Dept., New York State. - Assisted with the Ancient Civilizations portion of the curriculum at Michelangelo Junior High School 144 in the Bronx, NY and at Monroe Woodbury Middle School in Monroe, NY. As a resource I consulted with the teachers about what topics they were covering in class and made a lesson plan supplementing the curriculum with greater detail about archaeology and ancient Egypt including my own experiences in Egypt. During one day at both schools I presented to all of their sixth grade classes returning to Michelangelo Junior HS for a second year



The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Oct 2010 - Jan 2011

  - Under Evan Levy, helped plan and run events for various membership and school groups. Responsible for ordering supplies, creating samples, and designing different participatory activities to engage children with the museum collection. -Shadowed Lena Sawyer on her weekly tours for children introducing them to different works of art in the museum collection. These tours made use of hands-on activities, storytelling, and history to inspire the kids to start thinking about and looking at art in new ways.



Solutions from the Heart, LLC

• United States
• Fundraising

• Volunteer and Assistant to Linda Argila

  • May 2007 - 2011

  Started out volunteering for the Artrageous Gala Dinner and Art Auction May of 2007, 2008 and 2009. Following the 2009 event I began working for Linda on a part-time basis doing office work and helping with Solutions' charity and fund-raising events. Started out volunteering for the Artrageous Gala Dinner and Art Auction May of 2007, 2008 and 2009. Following the 2009 event I began working for Linda on a part-time basis doing office work and helping with Solutions' charity and fund-raising events.



Barnard College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Library Desk Attendant

  • Sep 2006 - May 2010

  Worked the circulation desk locating books and checking them in and out. Assisted with managing and organizing the stacks. Attended to inter-library loans, course reserves, and overdue notices and fees. Worked the circulation desk locating books and checking them in and out. Assisted with managing and organizing the stacks. Attended to inter-library loans, course reserves, and overdue notices and fees.



Anthropology Department, Columbia University

• Assistant to Terence D'Altroy

  • Jan 2008 - May 2008

  Converted Professor D'Altroy's personal publications and the articles he used for his classes into PDF format. Researched images for his class slides. Converted Professor D'Altroy's personal publications and the articles he used for his classes into PDF format. Researched images for his class slides.