Managing Director Managing Director | Oct 2022 - June 2023

In addition to leading all special projects, as managing director I was primarily tasked with stewarding The Village with focus, integrity, and agility. I developed and implemented strategies to maximize the synergies among program/project areas while cultivating relationships with core team. Stewarding and facilitating the day-to-day “life” within The Village’s Creative campus which is comprised of 5 buildings and over a dozen parks and green spaces.

Cultivating relationships with community leaders, elders, and youth on a daily basis as a leader of the organization was imperative. Instilling a sense of accountability among team members by modeling oversight of individual, program, and organization performance and communicating my efforts around each effectively. I was often tasked with reporting on organizational progress and challenges to Board of Directors and funders while working alongside Board of Directors to support organizational governance, structure. In my role as Managing Director, I was responsible for leading multiple teams to deliver outstanding client work and community engagement and care.

The last project I led was The Village Oracle - a temporary exhibition, program series, and tool for envisioning communal spaces. The Oracle’s 26 archetypes and symbols guide the philosophy of The Village’s upcoming Futures Gallery.

Collective ideas and lessons are represented by 13 archetypes and 13 symbols as interpreted by 14 Philadelphia-based Black Artists.

The exhibition also features an immersive 30-minute soundscape created by three sound artists. The soundscape is inspired by the Oracle and comprises audio recorded on-site, in focus groups and research interviews, and original beats and rhythms. Visit the full project site that I co-created: www. thefuturesgallery.org

Senior Manager, Special Projects | Jul 2021 - Oct 2022

As Manager of Special Projects I handled a broad and diverse range of responsibilities and assignments to support the organizations leadership, both internally and externally, and to advance various dimensions of the The Village of Art and Humanities’ work.

Project Manager, Staying Power Art Exhibition + Program Series | (Freelance) Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

Staying Power is an outdoor art exhibition and program series in the Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood of Philadelphia. Staying Power asks artists, residents of the neighborhood, and visitors: What is your staying power in your neighborhood? What is your staying power in a city and world that are rapidly changing? Staying Power was curated with Monument Lab. The exhibition includes monumental outdoor sculpture, photographic installations, storefront activations, and research and performance engagements, presented alongside The Village’s existing public collection of legacy artworks on the Germantown Avenue.

Project Manager, #CareNotControl Poster Campaign | Feb 2021 - Apr 2021

Hired by the Project Director of Care Not Control to amplify youth organizer voices and vision project managing the creation of 5 posters featuring original artwork by local artists that expresses youth organizers’ vision for ending youth incarceration in order to: (1) galvanize support for C,nC campaign demands, (2) raise awareness of campaign issues and demands, (3) shift public perception of youth incarceration (narrative change), (4) crowdsource citizens’ ideas for putting an end to youth incarceration in PA.

Outcomes: Youth engage art development and visioning, expand audience for campaign, increase petition signatures.

'Care Not Control' aimed at reforming juvenile justice system. Covered by Mike Grenidge for Fox29