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I am currently leading the delivery of a Strategic Intelligence project around deploying AI, ML, and other disruptive technologies within the capital projects field. I've previously led innovation programs for the Healthcare & Seniors, venue management, and Global Services segments of a multinational food service and facilities management company. These Innovation Labs brought senior stakeholders in direct conversation with startup partners to improve services. This included developing… Show more I am currently leading the delivery of a Strategic Intelligence project around deploying AI, ML, and other disruptive technologies within the capital projects field. I've previously led innovation programs for the Healthcare & Seniors, venue management, and Global Services segments of a multinational food service and facilities management company. These Innovation Labs brought senior stakeholders in direct conversation with startup partners to improve services. This included developing pilot scope, budget, and KPIs. Show less

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… Show more 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Women'S, Gender, And Sexuality Studies & Russian And Eastern European Studies

Activities and Societies: Broad Recognition, Yale International Relations Association, WYBC x Yale Radio, Urban Debate League, The Yale.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Visual And Critical Studies

Master Of Arts - Ma, Visual & Critical Studies