Arts, cultural, and educational organizations are among our most valuable reservoirs of creativity, meaningful engagement with history, and connection with each other.

My pathway to supporting arts and cultural organizations, educational equity, and community development began as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, where I volunteered at a student organization that provided free after-school arts education at local schools that did not have the funding to support programming. As a student of art history, this experience underscored the disconnect between my academic encounters with art and the stark resource constraints of the immediate community. I worked as a docent at the Smart Museum of Art, where I again experienced art's potential to be a bridge between places and people, and a prompt for generative conversations.

I collected years of work experience across the arts ecosystem, from galleries to museum internships to arts tech, and poured my studies and multifaceted career experience into development work at Ithaka S+R, a nonprofit research and strategic advising firm focused on increasing access to knowledge through helping higher education and cultural institutions become more accessible and responsive to their communities. In my work at Ithaka S+R, I supported numerous portfolios, designing project proposals, overseeing the lifecycle of grants, and liasing with project partners to develop new research and program collaborations. As the Development Manager at the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation, I worked to advance AAMC's mission to highlight and support the work of art curators through opportunities for networking, collaboration, and career advancement.  

Additionally, I worked closely with JSTOR Labs on efforts to explore and build digital humanities tools and educational resources that engage with humanities scholarship in new and innovative ways. I co-authored a paper on JSTOR's decades-long endeavor to provide incarcerated students with access to academic research resources. 

I am driven to co-create with partners toward articulating compelling, inclusive ideas, helping a project or concept find its most refined form, and ultimately building and maintaining opportunities that will ensure a secure future for organizations doing invaluable, but often undervalued work. My development work with arts, cultural and educational organizations is animated by rigor, enthusiasm for collaboration and research, and the desire to continually learn. I am available for consultation on organizations' needs and challenges and to work together to build innovative solutions. 

I serve as Fundraising Committee Chair of Hagush, and am a Guide runner with Achilles International in my spare time. I also volunteer with Justice Arts Coalition, a national network and resource for those creating art in and around the criminal legal system.

Currently, I am a Consultant at FUND Consulting, a Chicago-based and women-owned firm that works collectively to facilitate positive social, economic, and environmental impacts in communities nationwide.