Jonathan Anderson Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Provides high-level oversight for the Gilder Lehrman Institute's Educational Programs Department. Responsible for departmental day-to-day activities including budgeting, long-term strategic planning, program implementation, hiring, and mentoring full-time and part-time staff.• Oversees Gilder Lehrman's Teacher Professional Development programs, including the annual summer Teacher Seminars, Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College, National Endowment of the Humanities grant programs, and professional development offerings throughout the academic school year.• Negotiates with external partners, speakers, and scholars. This includes creating contracts and ensuring contractual obligations for all parties are met. • Responsible for the production, development, and promotion of academic year professional development opportunities for teachers, annual special events, summer Teacher Seminars, and annual Teacher Symposium.• Strategizes Programs Department operations and logistics.• Liaise with other departments internally as well as external partners and programmatic sponsors to ensure the successful implementation of programs.

New York, Ny

• Develop and lead research-based, compelling walking tours of New York City’s landmarks• Curate relationships with community organizations and nonprofit agencies to grow audiences• Develop relationships with press and local media outlets to promote programming, including New York Magazine, Travel and Leisure, and Metro New York• Utilize social media to drive business and increase engagement• Work with community organizations and non-profit agencies to grow audiences• Devolved and presented lecture series for the New-York Historical Society, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Brooklyn Library on how to create a successful walking tour• Adjusted walking tours to be successful virtual programming and lectures

115 West 45Th Street, 8Th Floor, New York, Ny 10036

• Oversee Edge Studio's Voice Over Education Department in all aspects, including payroll, new hires, budgeting, maintain personalized accounts for thousands of students, oversee an international staff of full-time and part-time employees, and create new programming for Edge Studio’s extensive training program• Curate a robust calendar of special classes and events designed to bring in new students as well as retain current students to generate further revenue and develop international presence• Develop relationships with artists, studios, press, and organizations both nationally and internationally• Organize professional development for corporate partnerships, nonprofit groups, and government agencies, utilizing institutional pedagogy and designing framework to measure success to ensure the success of all future partnerships• Oversee all Education Department Marketing, including email campaigns, articles, monthly contests, and all community outreach (using Mailchimp and Constant Contact)• Manage all contracts signed by students and participants, and ensure that all contractual obligations are met including completion of training and monthly payments are collected.• Re-developed Edge Studio’s core curriculum through working with teaching artists and creating new lesson plans based on coaches’ individual strengths. Classes now include diverse elective programs, special events, as well as core classes that are designed to be more accessible to a larger audience• Carefully maintains yearly budget, including cost-benefit analysis of all new programs, classes, and quarterly/annual budgetary goals and projections• Curates a sense of community and togetherness that sets Edge Studio apart from other similar programs• Re-developed Edge Studio’s core curriculum, focusing on remote learning alternatives, including a diverse elective program, special events, and core classes that are designed to be more accessible to a larger audience

12 Fulton Street, New York, Ny 10038

• Researched, developed, and implemented new school, family, and public programs that utilized the Museum’s fleet of historic ships, art installations, and the historic Seaport District, creating programs appropriate for Pre K-College students, as well as adult groups and local community audiences• Represented the Seaport Museum at citywide events and presentations, including print and radio interviews as well as community festivals such as City of Water Day and Taste of the Seaport• Responsible for hiring, training, and managing Education staff members, as well as mentoring new educators, college interns, and volunteers in an effort to enhance and grow their current skills• Managed the Education Department’s strategic outreach to new schools and community organizations, including online campaigns, creating promotional material and writing/editing copy for website and social media to cultivate relationships with the DOE and government agencies• Organized open houses and professional development sessions for school teachers, administrators, and community organizations, delivered detailed presentations on the Seaport Museum’s mission and collections• Responsible for daily operations of the Education Department, ensuring all programs ran smoothly and efficiently, including ship-based programs, in-school programs, public events, and grant initiatives• Managed all aspects of grant-funded programs, as well as new initiatives for city-funded after school programming. Worked closely with the Seaport Museum’s Development Department to write grants, maintain careful budgets, and identify additional grants for which existing programming would be applicable• Instrumental in evolving the Seaport Museum’s early childhood program, miniMATES, attracting a wider audience of children and families to participate and learn

170 Central Park West, New York, Ny 10024

• Worked in classrooms within the New York City public school system teaching Pre K-12 students on a wide range of topics, adhering to the NYC Department of Education Scope and Sequence, as well as the Common Core Standards of Learning• Used artifacts, artwork, documents, and theater to lead students in object or image inquiries, learning the history of New York City and the United States• Made use of artifacts from the touch collection, provided programs on the history of New York and the surrounding areas to public school children in all of New York’s five boroughs• Assisted in museum-wide family programming, and was responsible for encouraging families and children to actively participate in art activities and historic interpretations

Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, Ny 10023

• Led tours for the public and school groups K-12; gave visitors an understanding of the history of Lincoln Center and explained the missions of the various organizations therein• Guided large groups in all the buildings on campus, including the Metropolitan Opera House

99 Schermerhorn St, Brooklyn, Ny 11201

• Wrote, developed and performed a number of historic and fictional characters to engage school groups and families in the history of the New York City subway system, using theater as a teaching modality• Taught the Transit Museum’s “Subway Sleuths Program” which focuses on supporting students with autism and other developmental disabilities• Created Costumed Interpretation curriculum for the 2014 and 2015 summer programs focusing on New York City’s World’s Fairs and public art in the subway system• Developed week-long family drop-in programs for school breaks which utilized art, theater, and history as a means of storytelling and community engagement

Master Of Arts - Ma, Arts Administration

Master Of Arts - Ma, History, 4.0

Wrote graduate thesis paper "Death, Destruction, and Fire: The Spectacle of Disaster in Early Coney Island"

Bachelor'S Degree, Theatre/Theater