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Progressive People Operations Leader | Tenacious Recruiter & Talent Advocate | Inclusion, Alignment, & Retention Advisor | Art & Culture Sector

I value—and as a leader, strive to model—warmth, thoughtfulness, wit, justice, and candor.

A creative, tenacious advocate for inclusion in the workplace, I think in systems and patterns and love to write in prose. Details are my jam. I'm an active listener and an open communicator who truly enjoys making connections between people and fostering individual professional growth.

An entrepreneur and people operations leader (SHRM-SCP), I have two decades of experience in contemporary art project management (exhibitions, new commissions, outdoor sculpture, & architecture projects), arts administration, curation, and registration, as well as a broad background in editing, writing, and art book publication / production.

WHAT I DO NOW: I am a Co-Founder (with Lise Ragbir and Ola Mobolade) and am the Chief Operating Officer of VERGE, an agency for people & culture. We partner with arts organizations and arts professionals in recruiting & placement searches and offer HR advisory services. Please get in touch with us if you're interested in learning more.

I also co-founded (with Kathryn Andrews, Andrea Bowers, Ariel Pittman, and Olivia Gauthier) the grassroots mutual aid and fundraising effort Grief & Hope. We raised and redistributed (with fiscal sponsor The Brick) over $1.7M+ in direct emergency relief grants to nearly 300 artists and art workers affected by the January 2025 Los Angeles area fires.

WHAT CAME BEFORE: My career trajectory is a non-linear one, but the through-line is in support of people (arts workers and artists), facilitating creative projects and workplaces that are organized, inclusive, and thoughtful.

I have held roles as Managing Director at David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Associate Curator at The Contemporary Austin (Austin, TX), and Registrar & Publications Director at Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago, IL).

PUBLICATIONS + EXHIBITIONS: I have many years of experience in co-creating exhibitions and in art book publication, and am passionate about the entire process of creating, researching, producing, editing, and printing books for and by contemporary artists. (It is, of course, a related biographical fact that my formative years were spent in an independent bookstore—Best Books First in East Liverpool, Ohio—run by my parents for eight years.)

As a visual platform, this website serves primarily as an archive of those visual creative projects. Thank you for taking a gander.

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