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• Developed an international matrix team of 200+ freelance educators, artists, and creatives using virtual digital storytelling platforms.
• Led social media and UX distribution strategies, with interactive content production bringing about an augmented public access archive of 6,000+ works from leading voices within the BLM, DEIA, Culturally Responsive.
• Generated a 30% increase in participation in accessible arts programs by implementing inclusive marketing campaigns and expanding outreach efforts via reiterative UX and Design Thinking idea generation methodologies.
• Concurrently launched and managed community-based, anti-racist, DEIA online contemporary arts interpretive educational and exhibition platforms while serving the needs of international blue-chip museum and gallery.
• Aligned exhibit content and independent news output with editorial integrity - in light of calls for urgent social justice reform and equity.

New York, New York, US

• Developed a suite of new digitally published products, boosting gallery engagement by 80%, private tours by 15%, donations by 17%, and exhibition book sales by 12%.
• Hosted 20+ museum education private after-hours gallery talks and fundraising events in collaboration and coordination with various community partners and local organizations.
• Managed branded content and narrative for weekly public immersive storytelling and interpretative in-gallery experiences for groups of 20+, attracting 8,000+ participants during the fellowship term.
• Implemented new online and in-person DEIA docent-led learning experiences for students, families, and patrons while serving as the public-facing point of contact for HNWI/VIP private tours, special access groups.

• Overhauled accessibility, branded content, and interactive content engagement strategies at 4 NYC cultural organizations, including The New York Public Library, The Center NYC, and the Bureau of General Services-Queer.
• Designed 3 innovative digital storytelling scholarly and interpretative exhibitions while leading collaborative workshops.
• Conducted diversity and inclusion research/archival work, facilitating culturally responsive teaching sessions with staff, the public, and volunteers.
• Led the mentoring of junior team members, internal departments, and matrix teams in mitigating known and unknown barriers to entry to historical materials and archives.

• Concurrently managed digital content at 22 live sites - serving 100,000 daily active participants, reaching 73% of the UK’s population within the first 12 months of exhibit/project operation.
• Leveraged an emerging AR and VR digital media landscape, achieving a 21% increase in exhibition visitors and a 15% growth in charitable giving stemming from the critically acclaimed “LIVELIVE Project” for the London.
• Boosted digital media engagement by 12,000,000 participants while synchronously developing live cultural engagement programming for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad & LOCOG.
• Led the creation, curation, pitch, and delivery of the world's first digital civic practice project, a live arts engagement platform for BBC Live Sites nationwide (UK).
• Engaged Arts Council England to publish a study outlining best practices in digital cultural engagement, scholarly research, and public art engagement.

Farnham, Surrey, GB

Eep, Steering Complex Projects

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Design And Applied Arts

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Bachelor Of Technology (Btech), Critical Writing And Analysis