Experience

L Marks

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Manager

  • Jun 2022 - Present

  Leading the delivery of an innovation program for the North American arm of a large hospitality and venue management company. Leading the delivery of an innovation program for the North American arm of a large hospitality and venue management company.



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programming & Events Project Manager

  • Jan 2019 - Present

  I develop fun, engaging programming across multiple industries. I have conceptualized and managed many successful projects -- everything from academic symposia, skill based workshops, art openings, live performances, and digital publications. I've worked on live, virtual, and hybrid events with attendances of 100-300+, managing talent acquisition, preparing venue contracts, establishing budgets, maintaining calendars, and assisting day-of. I also have experience developing marketing strategies, including creating and circulating promotional materials. Show less



School of the Art Institute of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - Jun 2021

  Responsible for creating and executing all departmental programming. This includes the M.A.VCS graduate lecture series, two visiting artist lectures for Fall 2020, as well as virtual social events for the MAVCS cohorts. Duties also include serving as a liaison between M.A. students in the department and the administration, when needed.

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

  Visual and Critical Studies Undergraduate Thesis II (Spring 2020 and Spring 2021). Assisting professorKaren Morris with class facilitation and working individually with undergraduate students on their thesis writing. Responsibilities included providing weekly individual feedback to students (including editing, reading suggestions, and in-class meetings), tracking assignments and attendance, general class logistics, and facilitation.



n/a

• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Artist Assistant

  • Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  Assisting Joseph Grigely with preparations for forthcoming exhibitions and book projects. Included exhibition-relevant research, work with the Hans Ulrich Obrist archive, video transcription, and light fabrication. Assisting Joseph Grigely with preparations for forthcoming exhibitions and book projects. Included exhibition-relevant research, work with the Hans Ulrich Obrist archive, video transcription, and light fabrication.



The Film Posse

• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Researcher

  • Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

  Brought on as an external researcher to confirm factuality for narration and interviews for a American Experience documentary, American Oz (PBS). Brought on as an external researcher to confirm factuality for narration and interviews for a American Experience documentary, American Oz (PBS).



Yale University Art Gallery

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

• Rhode Island Furniture Archivist

  • Aug 2017 - Aug 2018

  Tasked with transcribing construction notes, accurately placing photos to accessioned objects, and updating these entries in The Museum System (TMS). There are over 6,000 objects in this collection, which is part of the larger American Decorative Arts collection at the YUAG. Includes multi-stage copy editing for web usage.

• Education Department Assistant

  • May 2016 - May 2018

  Trained in EMS (Electronic Management System) and The Museum System. Duties include clerical tasks as well as creating the gallery's weekly events schedule, tracking attendance data, and specialty projects under the curators. Projects included creating YUAG call numbers from a partnered institutions database of objects for an Ancient Americas exhibit, building a database of Wurtele Gallery Teachers, and analyzing tour structure and scheduling of similar museums to improve our process.

• Furniture Study Assistant

  • Jun 2016 - Sep 2017

  Photographing, scanning, and cataloging items within the YUAG's American Decorative Arts collection and logging them into The Museum System (TMS). Major projects included the building of an Excel database of dimensions for all objects within furniture study, fixing TMS dimensions, and running TMS reports, and the full archival cataloguing of over 200 of YUAG's Swid-Powell papers in preparation for their accessioning.



Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Inc.

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Generation Action Intern

  • Sep 2014 - Aug 2017

  Bringing PPSNE's resources to Yale's campus, engaging in intersectional movement building on- and off-campus, and advocating for reproductive justice in local and state legal reform. Bringing PPSNE's resources to Yale's campus, engaging in intersectional movement building on- and off-campus, and advocating for reproductive justice in local and state legal reform.