I have served as the Executive Director of the New York City AIDS Memorial since 2019. Founded in 2011 to honor the more than 100,000 New Yorkers who have died of AIDS, this permanent, architecturally significant Memorial aims to inspire visitors to remember and reflect, acts as a platform for dialogue, discussion, advocacy, and action around the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, and is a crucial place for engaging and cost-free public educational and cultural programs, including regular public art commissions. During my tenure, the Memorial has successfully entered its secondary phase, launching a consistent and well-regarded series of programs, more than tripling our annual operating budget and raising over $8 million in strategic, long-term funding. On-site and digital projects, artworks, commissions, performances, and collaborations have included those with Jim Hodges, Steven Evans, Neil Greenberg, the Arthur Russell Estate, the David Wojnarowicz Foundation, Peter Cramer & Jack Waters, Nick Hallett, Pamela Sneed, Jim Hubbard, the Recollectors, the Poetry Project, Legends of Drag, National AIDS Memorial/AIDS Memorial Quilt, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Jenny Holzer, Avram Finkelstein, and many others.

I earned an MS in the Theory, History, and Criticism of Art, Design, and Architecture from Pratt Institute and a BFA in the History of Art from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where my work was honored with the Ella Munsterberg Award for Excellence in Critical Studies.

Previously, I held roles at noteworthy arts and AIDS-service nonprofit organizations in programming and fundraising capacities. Following an internship in the Education & Media Department of the New Museum, I was appointed the Visual Art Curator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a role I held from 2006—13, where I produced numerous thematic exhibitions, public art commissions, and annual fundraising auctions. From 2013—16, I joined the early-stage team at a technology-driven auction startup, overseeing new business opportunities for museum and foundation clients in the US and Europe. From 2016—19 I held director-level positions at the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) and Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), where I worked in communications, events, and fundraising, executing cultural projects and earned income opportunities, including publishing editions by artists including Anne Collier, Jack Pierson, and Emily Mae Smith.

Independent projects have included exhibitions and public programs both locally and internationally. Highlights include three exhibitions at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and an invitation to curate an exhibition as a part of curated by_vienna, co-curated with Martha Kirszenbaum; panels at the New-York Historical Society; the New Art Dealers Alliance Fair, New York/Miami; OG Gallery, Istanbul; ViennaFair, Vienna; Unpainted, Munich; and Centquatre, Paris; and lectures at New York University, School of Visual Arts, The New School, Columbia University, and the University of Indiana Bloomington Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. I have sat on the boards of directors of artist-centric organizations like NUTUREart and Shandaken Projects, where I have served as President since 2012. Many of my projects have been reviewed in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Der Standard, The Brooklyn Rail, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic, and ArtNet News.