Experience

South Shore Art Center

• United States
• Artists and Writers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Apr 2017 - Present

  • Energized 68-year-old institution with new program directions and more inclusive audience engagement. – Stimulated community dialogue with timely exhibitions. – Introduced digital media studies and interdisciplinary arts and STEM learning. – Expanded arts access to under-represented populations through partnerships with under-resourced school systems and organizations serving disenfranchised individuals. – Partnered with local leaders on regional creative placemaking initiatives. – Tapped into international audience with online classes, exhibitions, and events, supported by social media. • Forged more equitable leadership structure and organizational ethos. – Restated Nominating Committee’s recruitment policies to strengthen Board diversity. – Created Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Committee, now in development. • Reimagined fund development. – Created organization’s first Fundraising Plan, with greatly expanded institutional giving goals and strategies, revised approaches to Major Gifts and corporate sponsorship, and annual campaigns. – Initiated quiet phase cultivation for Comprehensive Campaign to activate endowment match, fund capital needs, and introduce program innovations. • Invested in creative youth development. – Designed a paid art apprenticeship program to spark self-discovery among South Shore teens during critical out-of-school hours. – Launched a free and intensive program for middle school students. • Transformed the challenge posed by COVID-19 shutdown as an opportunity to recalibrate operations, build better efficiencies and introduce new programming. • Oversee seven administrative staff and 30+ faculty and consistently cultivate their enthusiasm and commitment to making community change. • Programmatic and infrastructural investments yielded: – 300% increase in public access to free programming. – 35% increase in contributed income. – 20% increase in student-base, membership, and audiences. Show less



Artists For Humanity

• United States
• Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Director

  • May 2001 - Mar 2017

  • Directed all efforts for $4,000,000 annual operating budget and two capital campaigns for youth entrepreneurship organization. Managed five-person development team. • Successfully completed a $6,800,000 capital campaign to design and develop Artists For Humanity’s permanent youth arts facility, the EpiCenter, in 2004. • Successfully completed Phase I and initiated Phase II of a subsequent comprehensive capital campaign to expand facility and program impact by raising $22,000,000 toward $28,000,000 goal (from 2015-2017). • Collaborated with leadership team on scaling AFH impact through building expansion and replication model. • Oversaw all educational initiatives and program evaluation, including high school credit bearing program, literacy programming, tutoring, college readiness and college retention. Managed Education Coordinator. • Developed integrated arts and STEM curriculum, and oversaw its implementation, evaluation and documentation. Secured a $1,200,000 grant from National Science Foundation to deepen interdisciplinary impact. • Crafted compelling narratives to capture the agency’s disparate core competencies, through print and online communications. Show less



The Arc of the South Shore

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Development Director

  • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012



Massachusetts Society of Optometrists

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Communications And Public Relations

  • Sep 1999 - May 2001



NOAH (Neighborhood of Affordable Housing)

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Resource Development Coordinator / Executive Assistant

  • Feb 1997 - Sep 1999