Roddy Schrock
For most of my career I've been trying to answer one question: what does it take to build the conditions under which transformative work can exist, and endure?
Today I serve as Executive Director of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, which trains caregivers and meets people in illness with real presence. My job is to tend the operational ground so the teachers can teach. I found Zen at nineteen; this role brings more of my life into one place than ever before.
For a decade before that I was Executive Director of Eyebeam, New York's center for art and technology, where we redesigned the residencies around what artists actually needed and grew direct support to artists by over 500%.
I'm also a composer and sound artist (MFA, Mills College), the maker of Informer, a podcast from the early pandemic years, and the founder of Ultradilute, an intentionally small online homeopathy practice for people who build creatively, from founders to artists.
I split my time between New York and a historic home near Providence, Rhode Island, with my partner, the writer Joon Oluchi Lee, and our two moderately well-behaved dogs.