Your browser does not have JavaScript enabled.
For most of my career, I've been trying to answer the same question: what does it actually take to build the conditions under which transformative work can exist, and endure?
For a decade, I served as Executive Director of Eyebeam, New York's center for art and technology. I led a comprehensive strategic pivot: redesigning residency programs around what artists actually needed, rebuilding the funding base, and growing our direct support to artists over 500%. Over that tenure, I tripled the organization's net assets and established its first-ever board-designated reserve. During the same period, Eyebeam became the first artist residency to earn W.A.G.E. certification for fair artist pay.
My approach to strategy is grounded in my own life as an artist. I have lived and worked internationally, in Japan and the Netherlands, and my work as a digital and sound artist has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, and Ostrava New Music Days. I hold an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College. I've taught in SVA's Curatorial Practice MA Program and lectured at STEIM Amsterdam, California College of the Arts, and NYU's ITP. During the early pandemic years, I created Informer, a podcast documenting that strange cultural moment in conversation with artists and thinkers I admire.
Today I serve as Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. The Zen Center trains caregivers and meets people in illness, grief, and dying with real presence. My job is to tend the operational ground underneath so the teachers can teach. I found Zen at nineteen and this role brings more of my life into one place than ever before. I serve on the boards of the Shorinji Zen Association and the Netherlands-America Foundation Cultural Committee, and the advisory board of OPEN. I also operate Ultradilute, a small practice caring for the whole health of artists and creative leaders.
I split my time between an apartment in New York and a historic home near Providence, Rhode Island, which I share with my partner, the writer Joon Oluchi Lee, and our two moderately well-behaved dogs.
For inquiries or to say hello, please email.
Photo by Whitney Legge.
“The work you've done has meant so much to me and countless other artists, and I'm deeply grateful.”
Lauren Lee McCarthy, artist
“Your leadership has shaped such an important space for artists, thinkers, and makers—all of which will undoubtedly continue because of the work you’ve done.”
Jamie Allen, artist-researcher and organizer
“Eyebeam has been such a force under your leadership.”
Angelo Plessas, artist
“The opportunities you offered and the doors you opened still mean a lot.”
Laura Welzenbach, Ars Electronica