Experience

Consultant / Director, Communications and Marketing
The Garrison Institute | October 2024–March 2025

  • Increased website traffic by 50% in less than six months

  • Rebuilt department workflows for content creation, including email and social media

  • Conducted online profile and account reclamation for all social platforms, Google presence, and Google for Nonprofits status

  • Restored broken analytics data streams (Google Analytics, Hootsuite), identified relevant conversion events, and translated data insights into applicable solutions

Communications Manager (Reporting to the Executive Director)
The Architectural League of New York | January 2019–October 2024

  • Increased email subscriber list from 10,000 to over 20,000 and Instagram followers from 4,000 to over 24,000, contributing to significant gains in online and in-person program attendance

  • Managed media coverage in various industry publications, including The Architect’s Newspaper and Bustler/Archinect, and in regional news outlets and the New York Times

  • Worked closely with the Urban Omnibus staff, digital features editor, public programs and development staff, website developers, and graphic design partner, Pentagram

  • Planned and executed numerous successful campaigns promoting League initiatives, Calls for Entries, RFPs, fundraising appeals, and event ticket sales

Communications and Marketing Coordinator
Van Alen Institute | April 2018–December 2018 

  • Production and copywriting for newsletters, board memos, and campaign collateral 

  • Maintained and monitored online presence, including all social media channel content

  • Member of VAI Branding Committee, comprising the communications director and key members of the board

  • Hired and managed seasonal interns

Museum and Curatorial 2015–2018

  • Curatorial Department Intern | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY

  • Curatorial Special Projects Assistant | The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY 

  • Curator | Wood, Revisited, The Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA 

NY Film and Television Production 

Extensive time spent as a staff first team production assistant for union feature films under assistant directors Joseph P. Reidy and Amy Lauritsen. Selected credits include: 

SHUTTER ISLAND, 2010, Paramount Pictures: Directed by Martin Scorsese 
IT’S COMPLICATED, 2009, Universal Pictures: Directed by Nancy Meyers 
THE OTHER WOMAN, 2009, IFC Films/Incentive Filmed Entertainment: Directed by Don Roos 
DOUBT, 2008, Miramax/Scott Rudin Productions: Directed by John Patrick Shanley

Education

Cornell University Certificate, Marketing: Strategic Storytelling
Bard Graduate Center Master of Arts in Design History and Material Culture
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Sustainable Infrastructure course
Iowa State University, College of Design Bachelor of Arts in Art and Design: Art + Culture
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater Conservatory Program Graduate

Selected Skills

AI prompt creation and implementation

Adobe Creative Suite

All major project management and marketing-related SaaS

All major website CMS and CRM environments

Audio and visual equipment management

Crisis communications

Digital usage and accessibility standards

Media / public relations, prep, talking points

Video production / editing