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Consultants

This growing directory includes consultants who provide a variety of services to New York-based media arts organizations and artists. To search by the type of services provided, expand the "Search + Filter" window to the left. 

Please note, the following individuals have been reviewed for basic eligibility appropriate to media arts consulting.  NYSCA does not recommend or endorse these resources otherwise. 

To request that information be added to this list, or to request a revision to the information currently included, please contact Wave Farm's Media Arts Grants (MAG) program: mag[at]wavefarm.org.

  • Seth Anderson  New Haven, Connecticut

     

    Digital Storage Consultant.

  • The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)  Arlington, Virginia

     

    The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents nearly 31,000 members in more than 200 chapters throughout the world, working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. Founded in 1960 as the National Society of Fund Raisers, AFP fosters development and growth of fundraising professionals and promotes high ethical standards in the fundraising profession.

  • Lee Azzarello  Series Digital,  New York

     

    Series Digital offers technical consulting in support of solutions they design, develop, and integrate. Series Digital also acts as outside advisers to help select and deploy technology. In this capacity, they make themselves available as consulting technologists, business analysts, and project managers. Series Digital offers brand ID, logo development, graphic design, and UX design services. They specialize in design that works across the full landscape of devices, from workstations to mobile phones. Series Digital has been developing software solutions since 2006.

  • Yona Backer  Third Streaming Advisory Services ,  New York

     

    Third Streaming Advisory Services (3SAS) is a New York-based research and strategic consultancy. We develop strategic plans and specialize in organizational development. Moreover, we implement and bring to successful completion integrated solutions that reflect our clients' core values, resulting in increased efficiency and impact. Our distinctive capabilities come from our team’s varied backgrounds, on-the-ground experience and field knowledge. The foundation of success imbued in the 3SAS process is attributed to two primary components: (1) a clearly outlined plan which advances a comprehensive organizational vision and goals; and (2) collaborative and informed decision-making throughout the entire process.

  • Peter Berry  Supercosm,  Atlanta, Georgia & Seattle, Washington

     

    Peter Berry is a software engineer, database designer, systems administrator, and platform architect. He holds a Master of Computer Science and has been solving problems for fifteen years on a variety of platforms including C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Transact-SQL, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, Solaris and DirectX. Peter's clients include Dia Arts Foundation, Sony Station, MTVi, Alltrue Networks, Electronic Arts Intermix, GameLab, one9ine, PBS Online and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. His recent work includes 3D&I, a kid's site about design that won the 2003 Education Webby, a web-based catalogue management system for the Dia Arts Foundation, and a demo game for a new experimental "glove" input device.

     

     

  • Diane Bertolo  Web Design Consultant

     

  • Anna Brady (Nuse) Marcus  Project Director / Associate Director of Pentacle's Movement Media Project,  New York

     

    Anna Brady (Nuse) Marcus is a choreographer, filmmaker, writer, curator, and arts administrator. Her work in screendance has included directing and choreographing her own short videos through her production company Straight to the Helicopter, as well as producing the cable access television series Move the Frame featuring screendances from across the country and around the world. In August 2006 Nuse traveled to India with a grant from the US Embassy: Cultural Affairs Division, to be an International Resource person at Danzlenz, a seminar on dance film organized by the Kri Foundation in New Delhi. In 2007 Nuse was the Festival Coordinator of the 35th Annual Dance On Camera Festival produced by the Dance Films Association and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. In 2008 her paper on curating screendance was presented at the Screendance Conference at the American Dance Festival. Currently she publishes the blog Move the Frame (movetheframe.com) and continues to develop services and programs for dance artists to make and distribute their work in media through Pentacle’s Movement Media Project.

  • Edgardo Burgos  Upgrade Your Business - Amicus Consultants, Inc.,  New York

     

    Strategic Consultant.

  • Rebecca Chandler  Senior Consultant at AV Preserve,  New York

     

    Rebecca specializes in collection care and management in support of preservation, planning, and advocacy. Rebecca is an experienced audio engineer, having worked in post-production at Broadway Video, Creative Group, and Sony Music Studios. She earned her MLIS with an Archives certificate from Pratt Institute and holds a BM in Music Technology from NYU. Rebecca’s recent clients include the National Gallery of Art, National Library of Medicine, UCLA, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority. Rebecca teaches and presents throughout the United States on the topics of audiovisual preservation, collection management, and digitization.

  • Howie Chen and Andrew Lampert  Chen & Lampert,  New York

     

    Based in New York City, Chen & Lampert (C&L) is a creative consulting and artistic management firm that delivers targeted strategies and incisive solutions to every level of the art world paradigm. As curatorial and business consultants, C&L have provided content and advisory services to well over 80 major museums, galleries, artists, estates and organizations. From archive management and estate administration to career development and infrastructure assessments, C&L provides unprecedented support for all the large and small quandaries associated with maintaining creative practices and doing aesthetic business.

  • Chill/Radd  Multiservice Content Developer,  New York

     

    We start campaigns and launch products. We refresh what's old and polish what's new. Our menu includes: advertising, custom content, branding, media, social, digital, creative, collateral, and events.

  • Catalina Cipri  Social Impact Designer,  New York

     

    Catalina Cipri is from New York City, with a B.A. in International Relations from Loyola University Chicago. Her background is in sociolinguistics, refugee and forced migration rights, and community-based activism in the Americas and the Middle East.  Her work includes designing multilingual career development strategies and job-readiness platforms with underserved communities to increase employability.

  • CollectiveAccess  Whirl-i-gig,  New York

     

    Consultants: Seth Kaufman, Aniela Coveleski, Jonathan Byerley, and Sophie Byerley. CollectiveAccess is a free, open-source, and fully customizable collections management and presentation software designed for museums, archives, and special collections. Whirl-i-Gig, CollectiveAccess's development team, works directly with end-users who require assistance in realizing their projects. Consulting may include specific services such as data migration or new feature development, or may span a full project lifecycle from design to implementation to publication. Free technical support is also available through the CollectiveAccess online forum. 

  • CultureHub  New York

     

    CultureHub provides video production services and professional consultation to private companies and not-for-profit organizations looking to creatively integrate telepresence, livestreaming, and other technologies into their work. Past clients include Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and the Ford Foundation/Artspace Art Bridge Program.

  • Betsy Dale  Staff Attorney at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA),  New York

     

    Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) is the leading legal aid and education organization dedicated to New York artists and its arts and cultural organizations. VLA strives to protect the artistic community’s livelihoods, businesses, and creative works through access to dedicated legal representation and focused education programs. VLA provides legal services to the arts community in every discipline, including: acting, animation, architectural design, bookmaking, choreography, composition, computer design, costume design, craft and folk arts, dance, directing, fashion, film, graphic design, installation art, literary arts, modeling, multimedia, music, photography, playwriting, poetry, printmaking, screenwriting, songwriting, theater, three-dimensional design, video arts, video game design, visual arts, and web design.

  • Erin Donnelly  Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    As an independent arts manager, Erin Donnelly consults with artists applying for grants, preparing applications for public art projects, and seeking fiscal sponsorship. Her services include grant writing and editing, project management, drafting budgets, preparing resumes and artist's statements as well as compiling support materials for applications.

  • Kevin Duggan  Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    Kevin Duggan has over 35 years of experience working with the non-profit media arts community, with a focus on development and fundraising, strategic planning, board development, and project management. He specilaizes in helping small and mid-sized organizations, and artists, in working creatively with technology to achieve their goals.

  • Julia Dzwonkoski  Database Consultant / Artist,  Los Angeles, California

     

    Julia Dzwonkoski is a visual and media artist and curator based in Los Angeles, California. She received a BA in media study and art history from the University at Buffalo and an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. While in Buffalo she worked as a video programmer at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center and as the assistant director of Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources. She then became the director of the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

    Since 2002 Dzwonkoski has collaborated with artist Kye Potter on paintings, videos, ceramics, books, and other projects. In addition to creating their own work, they have curated exhibitions of paintings, prison art, and experimental film and video. In 2012, they started Orion Read, which specializes in records, prints, and books by artists.

  • Lukas Eigler-Harding  Artbase Design Consultant,  New York

     

  • Dragan Espenshied  Preservation Director at Rhizome,  New York

     

  • Stacy Ferrar  Marketing Consultant,  New York

     

    Stacy is a dynamic marketing consultant and project manager with twelveyears of experience across a wide range of media brands. Her experience in integrated marketing, strategic brand development and creative services has allowed her to become an exceptional marketer who combines a strong work ethic with a commitment to excellence in all projects undertaken.

  • Walter Forsberg  Digital Specialist Consultant

     

  • Paul Galando  Educational Consultant / Technical Mentor,  New York

     

    Paul Galando is an executive, educator, and emerging media artist working in collaborative digital film, technology and entrepreneurship in the arts community, educational institutions, and corporate and non-profit organizations. He is passionate about creating opportunities for movement media artists. Paul served as President and Chair of Education for Dance Films Association (presents Dance on Camera Festival with Film Society of Lincoln Center). He leads the inter-university Emerging Movement Council. As founding director of the Dance & New Media program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he conceived of and formed a department wide initiative and a MFA concentration designed to teach and encourage dancers’ involvement in all areas of digital media: filming stage works, creating film/dance and interactive work, multi-media collaborations, and internet-based art. Paul designed courses in the graduate and undergraduate divisions of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts covering academic, aesthetic, and technology subjects including: dance for the camera, dance and new media, live-filmmaking and streaming, digital portfolio development, creative coding for dance, virtual reality, and digital performance production. Paul has media partnerships and collaborations with leading organizations in the fields of dance; these include: Gibney Dance, New York City Ballet, The Merce Cunningham Trust, Lois Greenfield Studio, The Harkness Center for Dance at the 92Y, Martha Graham Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Center, New York Live Arts and the Dance Films Association / Film Society of Lincoln Center. He launched the community driven Digital Technology Initiative at Gibney Dance in New York's financial district. He has produced and directed films and live performances for companies and artists around the world.

  • Orit Gat  Writer,  New York / London

     

    I'm a writer living in New York and London. I'm a contributing editor at The White Review and I've written about contemporary art and digital culture for magazines including frieze, e-flux journal, ArtReview, art-agenda, Art Papers, Cultured, the Times Literary Supplement, The World Policy Journal, Flash Art, The Art Newspaper, Mousse, VICE, AIGA Eye on Design, The Brooklyn Rail, Apollo, Art in America, Metropolis M, Spike Art Quarterly, Camera Austria, Review 31, Momus, and LEAP. In 2015, I won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category. I was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the IAAC Award (2017, 2018).

    'm currently working on a nonfiction book, tentatively titled Istanbul, that looks at football (soccer) as a prism through which to explore questions about immigration, nationalism, race, gender, money, and love. It's in progress, but if you're curious about it, you can read an archive of a newsletter I wrote daily about the 2019 Women's World Cup because I'm a football-loving feminist here.

    I work as an editor at art-agenda. In the past, I used to be the features editor of Rhizome, as well as the managing editor of WdW Review, the online art editor of BOMB Magazine, and senior editor of Modern Painters. I graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College in 2011 and now teach media studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. I have also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, CCS Bard, and the City College of New York and guest-lectured at a number of universities, including Sandberg Instituut (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, NL), The Royal College of Art (London), Goldsmiths, University of London, The New School and Columbia University (New York), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Yale University. I regularly give talks in museums and cultural institutions around the world, including the New Museum and MoMA in New York, Chisenhale Gallery in London, NTU CCA in Singapore, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

    In 2013, with my friend Clara Halpern, I founded a reading group focused on art magazines which meets monthly in cities across the world. You can read about it here. At a certain point, groups were organized in London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Atlanta, and other cities. Many of them are currently inactive but email me so I could tell you more or explain how to start a branch of the group.

  • Lary Gawoski  Lary 7 / Analog Media Consultant

     

  • Roger Getzoff  Cinema Technology Services,  New York

     

  • Salil Ghandi  Partner at Goodwin,  New York

     

    Salil Gandhi is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology & Life Sciences group. Mr. Gandhi specializes in the representation of emerging growth companies throughout their lifecycles as well as venture capital funds and other private equity funds. For emerging companies, Mr. Gandhi advises on a variety of general corporate and governance issues, including corporate formation, venture capital financing and exit transactions. For venture capital and other strategic investors, he advises on structuring and executing investment transactions ranging from angel to control investments as well as portfolio dispositions. He also advises investors and companies in emerging markets, with a focus on India & South East Asia.

  • Elnian Gilbert  ZingTrain,  Ann Arbor, Michigan

     

    With the founding of ZingTrain in 1994, we began to formally share our approach to business through 2-day seminars, 4-hour workshops and also books and training DVDs.

    ZingTrain’s founding and managing partner, Maggie Bayless, specializes in training and instructional design and developed Zingerman’s Bottom Line Training® approach. Maggie worked out of her attic for the first couple of years, eventually moving into “real” office space in a basement across the street from Zingerman’s Deli. No longer a one-woman show and no longer in an attic (or a basement!), the ZingTrain team now works out of a custom-designed training facility on the south side of Ann Arbor, near Zingerman’s Bakehouse, Creamery and Coffee Company and across town from Zingerman’s Deli.

    ZingTrain offers public seminars on a range of business-related topics, ranging from customer service and leadership to marketing and HR, and regularly conducts private sessions of those seminars for individual organizations.

    The tools, techniques and methodologies taught at ZingTrain have been tested and honed by implementation and constant improvement at each and every one of the eight Zingerman’s businesses. Our clients tell us that while many things make the ZingTrain experience special, one of the most important is the fact that they learn about systems in our classroom and then see those very tools in action when they visit our businesses.

  • Hunter Gray  Versimilitude,  New York

     

    Verisimilitude is a film company with a steadfast commitment to tell challenging, unique stories in the most compelling of ways. We work with directors to create cinematic visions which span the full spectrum of style and imagination, while always striving to find the truth, and verisimilitude within the story beneath.

  • Brighid Greene  Director of Programs and Dance Films Association liason with Creative Capital,  New York

     

  • Marco Fernando Guarino  Tech-Based Designer,  New York

     

    Guarino's background is in music performance and production, with an academic background in Sociology, Latin American Studies, Applied Art, and Technology and is a researcher at the Association of Cultural Equity, a non-profit foundation in NYC that promotes indigenous music and dance from around the world.

  • Donna Hardwick  On and On Marketing & Communications,  Cambridge, Massachusetts

     

    On and On Marketing & Communications specializes in building and implementing marketing campaigns for transmedia projects. The company was founded in 2008 in Los Angeles and is now based in Brooklyn. The agency handles strategic planning, cause-related marketing, public relations, event planning, project management, development and educational outreach. Client areas include entertainment, film, television and non-profit genres, especially those tied to social issues. Notable clients include National Black Programming Consortium in Harlem; Slavery by Another Name for Sundance Film Festival world PBS broadcast premieres; Unity Productions Foundation; and Reconciliation in America project.

  • Linda Hartley  Hartley Consulting, Inc.,  New York

     

    Linda C. Hartley offers an integrated approach to planning and development that is informed by an MBA in management from NYU and more than 30 years experience in meeting fund-raising goals, working with and training volunteer leadership, directing capital campaigns, and managing development and communications programs for both large and small nonprofit organizations.

    Prior to establishing Hartley Consulting, Ms. Hartley was Vice President for External Affairs at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, responsible for raising $7-8 million annually, recruiting and restructuring a staff of 30 and developing plans for a $200 million capital campaign. As Associate Vice President of Bard College she helped plan and implement a $134 million capital campaign; reconstituted the College’s planned giving program; built an advisory board and established the first professional development operation for Bard Graduate Center, increasing its annual giving from $375,000 to $1.2 million in the first 20 months.

    As associate dean at Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, she led a staff of seven responsible for raising $6 million annually; increased the annual fund by 10% in the first 18 months and developed a plan for $50 million capital campaign. Previously, she led development, campaign and major-planned gift efforts at the New School, The New York Public Library, and New York University.

  • Harvestworks  New York

     

    The Harvestworks Project Management Program provides individual consulting and project team development to independent producers working on immersive media systems for theater, exhibition and listening experiences. Clients include Paul Pfieffer, Simone Subal Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, Oberlin College, California Institute for the Arts and Rochester University, among others.

  • Joe Herzig  IT Consultant,  New York

     

  • Athena Christa Holbrook  Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    Athena Christa Holbrook is an audio-visual archivist dedicated to the history, preservation, and presentation of time-based media art. She has extensive experience working for artists, private art collections, and major arts institutions. She specializes in the preservation and collection management of film, audio, analog and born-digital video, software-based artwork, and performance. Services offered: collection assessment, inventory and cataloging, risk assessment and recommendations, database and storage advisement, communication with vendors, short and long-term analog and digital preservation planning.

  • Susan  Board Consultant,  Seattle, Washington

     

    Consultant to thousands of nonprofits across North America over the last 25 years, Susan previously served as a board member, development director and executive director. She is also the author of Boards on Fire.

  • Shelley Hubert  Director of Membership at Union for Reform Judaism,  New York

     

    Finance executive with extensive non-profit experience, including healthcare practice management. Possessing exceptional communication, problem solving, and team building skills. Enthusiastic and innovative leader who fuses program and finance perspectives, fostering trust and cooperation throughout complex and decentralized organizations. Consistently establishes and meets operational goals through implementing a performance metrics culture.

  • Andrew Ingall  Pandamonium Productions,  New York

     

    Pandamonium Productions provides curatorial and program content for film, visual art, and performance, as well as guidance on philanthropy, planning and project management. Ingall has worked as an arts and culture professional for over twenty years. Pandamonium offers services to diverse clientele who appreciate clear objectives, a collaborative approach, and respectful dialogue to produce meaningful work and maximize impact. Projects in 2015 include organizing the exhibition "Videofreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television" for the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, fundraising and strategy for the documentary film "Cooked," and strategic/technology planning for United Palace of Cultural Arts.

  • Olivia Jack  Computer Programmer / Creative Coder / Media Artist

     

    Jack frequently works with open-source software, live video, and experimental interfaces. Recently, she worked designing and programming interactive installations for the Oakland Museum of California. She holds a B.S. in Engineering Design and minor in Computer Science from Stanford University.

  • Danielle Jackson  Nonprofit Development Consultant,  New York

     

    Danielle Jackson has worked with leading photographers, filmmakers, and cultural institutions to develop projects, partnerships, and initiatives for social impact. She has worked with Magnum Photos, Stanford University, NYU, WNYC, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, MoMA, Tribeca Film Institute, and Open Society Foundations. She is the co-founder and former co-director of the Bronx Documentary Center, an internationally-recognized gallery dedicated to photography and social change. Her projects have been covered in media outlets including CBS Evening News, the Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Slate, New York Magazine, The Guardian, among others. She currently teaches for Stanford in New York and International Center of Photography.

  • Tanisha Jones  Librarian Consultant / Director of Moving Image Archive at New York Public Library of Performing Arts ,  New York

     

    Tanisha Jones has worked in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division since 2007. In collaboration with the Dance Division’s curator, she is responsible for managing the collections and outreach of the Moving Image Archive. The collection, which ranges from the earliest films of the late 19th century to the latest recordings of contemporary artists, contains more than 25,000 dance films, videotapes and digital videos that preserve the ephemeral art of dance. Jones received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and her MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University.

  • Lindsay Karty  Content Management Consultant,  Detroit, Michigan

     

    Karty is a designer and developer with over 15 years experience working with non-profits, agencies, and publishers (books/music).

  • Celine Katzman  Writer / Curator / Educator,  New York

     

    I'm a Singaporean-American writer, curator, and educator based in New York. My research is primarily concerned with time-based media, performance, and other forms critically engaged with new technologies. I am committed to supporting historically overlooked practitioners in these areas. Currently, I am completing a year-long curatorial fellowship at the Queens Museum.

    I also work at the School for Poetic Computation where I have been a teaching assistant since February 2018. I assist the co-founder with developing and implementing the curriculum for a professional development class for artists. Our class is one element of a ten-week course including programming, electronics, poetry, and media art history and theory.

    From June 2017 to December 2018, I curated and facilitated programming at bitforms gallery. I co-curated Outside the Palace of Heavenly Purity, a group exhibition presenting artists using speculative models to complicate prevailing narratives of globalization in Asia. I also curated the first commissioned artist project in the director’s office, The Pointer by Ryan Kuo, which addressed the construct of whiteness and its involvement in technological aesthetics and productivity. I invited American Artist to engage Ryan in a public discussion about their complementary approaches to whiteness and software interfaces. I organized several other events including an evening of performances by women of color in electronic music and a lecture by Casey Reas and Jeffrey Alan Scudder on the intersecting histories of drawing, animation, and coding systems.

    In 2017, I co-founded EST (Eastern Standard Time) with artists Diane Zhou and Son Kit. We are a curatorial collective that questions the Western imaginary of Asia as a monolithic entity. While overly-expansive, orientalist definitions make it impossible to ascribe cultural, political, or geographical unity to Asia, we’re interested in its potential as a call to organize across a spectrum of experience. In 2018 we curated two exhibitions touching on these topics.

    I hold a B.A. in Visual Art from Brown University, where I graduated in 2015 with honors. My writing appears in publications such as Rhizome, Art in America, SCREEN 介面, and recently in the catalog for the New Museum's The Art Happens Here: Net Art’s Archival Poetics.

  • Nora Khan  Writer

     

    Nora N. Khan is a writer. She writes criticism on emerging issues within digital visual culture, experimental art and music practices, and philosophy of emerging technology. She is a professor at RISD, in Digital + Media, where she currently teaches MFA graduate students critical theory and artistic research, critical writing for artists and designers , and history of digital media. She is a longtime editor at Rhizome based at New Museum in New York. She is currently editor of Prototype, the book of Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence Group forthcoming in spring of 2019. In 2020, she is the Shed’s first guest curator, organizing Manual Override, an exhibition featuring Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Morehshin Allahyari, and Simon Fujiwara.

    Khan’s writing practice extends to a large range of artistic collaborations, which includes shows, performances, fiction for exhibitions, scripts, and sometimes, librettos. Last year, she collaborated with Sondra Perry, Caitlin Cherry, and American Artist to create A Wild Ass Beyond: ApocalypseRN at Performance Space, New York.

    Her most recent work is a short book published by The Brooklyn Rail, titled Seeing, Naming, Knowing. She consistently publishes criticism in places like 4Columns, Art in America, Flash Art, Mousse, California Sunday, Spike Art, The Village Voice, and Rhizome. Last year, she wrote a small book with Steven Warwick, Fear Indexing the X-Files, published by Primary Information in New York. She has contributed essays and fiction to exhibitions held at Serpentine Galleries, Chisenhale Gallery, and the Venice Biennale, within books published by Koenig Press, Sternberg Press and Mousse.

    Her writing practice has been supported by many awards over the last decade, including, most recently, a Critical Writing Grant given through the Visual Arts Foundation and the Crossed Purposes Foundation (2018), an Eyebeam Research Residency (2017), and a Thoma Foundation 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art for an emerging arts writer.

  • LynnAnn Klotz  Entertainment Attorney,  New York

     

  • Marion Koltun Dienstag  The Koltun Group,  New York

     

    The Koltun Group provides strategic planning and development services to not-for-profit organizations seeking hands-on partnership for results with lasting impact.

  • Julia Kramer  Deputy Editor at Bon Appétit,  New York

     

  • Karen Lee  Lee + Associates Architects,  New York

     

    Karen is a seasoned architect with exceptional leadership and creative skills. She has proven ability to lead collaborative teams, to coordinate constituent goals and successfully complete projects of the highest standard. Her work has garnered numerous design awards and research fellowships. AIA recognized works include the Bridgehampton Library, E.180th Station / Morris Park Headhouse restoration,and Nike European Headquarters, the latter with William McDonough + Partners. Other recognized projects include the Kitchen Theatre, Asia Society and the Riant Cultural Center. Urban scale public work such as the architectural design leadership for the public spaces within the $8.4BEast Side Access NYC project; the restoration of the 4/5 historic subway platform and other high end design projects within the Fulton Transit Center, and the role of (Associate) Partner-in-Charge for the $200m Newark Liberty International Airport, Terminal B restack and renovation. She has participated in the design of many high end, houses and interior renovation projects. Karen has taught architecture at GSFA, University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, and Temple University in Rome, Italy. Presently, she is a visiting juror at Pratt Institute of Architecture. Karen’s work has been exhibited at the GSFA and published in periodicals and academic journals including Architecture Week, Building Design and Construction, Environmental Design and Construction, Interiors, Architectural Review, the New York Times Magazine and the Ithaca Journal.

  • Jeffrey Leib  Jeffrey Leib Consulting,  New York

     

    For over 20 years, Jeffrey Leib has provided fundraising, marketing, ticketing, and point-of-sale expertise to over 100 organizations of all budgets and in all sectors of the non-profit space. From database selection, analytics, custom reporting, project management, and integrations, Jeffrey builds close relationships with clients to find the right solutions for growing revenue. Jeffrey began his non-profit career as an intern while attending Bennington College, first at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia and later at The Poetry Society of America in New York. Upon graduation he moved to New York to take an individual giving position at the Academy of American Poets. Following a brief layover at Brown as a graduate student, he returned to New York City to write grants for PEN American Center and then to lead the newly created Fundraising Database department at the Whitney Museum. At age 26, Jeffrey formed Jeffrey Leib Consulting. He has provided fundraising technology expertise to over 100 non-profits in all sectors of the market and in many parts of the country.

  • Eve Levy  Fundraising Consultant,  New York

     

    I am a seasoned development professional with more than 20 years of experience raising grants from national and international foundations, and major gifts from a wide range of individual philanthropists. The threads of my career have included improving access to an excellent public education in the K-12 and university arenas, arts education, engaging civic leadership, and influencing corporate and public policies. I have managed or been a senior executive on diverse fundraising teams. Since 2007, I have been a strategist and principal gifts senior officer, and the lead grant writer for the President of Hunter College, CUNY. My biggest concern now is climate change and its impact on a myriad of issues, including water and food security, social conflict, and public safety. My personal passions include the visual and performing arts, and fostering community development through the arts. My dream is to help create a museum and university-linked learning center that focuses on environmental sustainability.

  • Cynthia López  Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    Cynthia López is the former Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, where she was the steward of the Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. López implemented strategies to support production of film and TV production throughout the five boroughs, and oversaw NYC Media, the City's official TV, radio and online network. During her tenure, New York City’s entertainment industry increased its direct annual spend from $7.1 Billion to $8.7 Billion to the local economy, an increase of 21 percent. Television production in NYC, increased from 29 episodic series to 46 series and feature film production rose from 192 to 253 films.

    López joined the City of New York from American Documentary | POV, where she had worked since 2000. Previously, she served as executive vice president and co-executive producer of the award-winning POV (Point of View) documentary series, where she was responsible for all aspects of the organization’s development, working with key stakeholders in education, public policy and community development. Her ability to forge strategic partnerships among corporate and public interest media has been a signature of her work.

    She joined the City of New York from American Documentary | POV, serving as executive vice president and co-executive producer of the award-winning PBS documentary series. López is \nthe founding chairperson of the board of directors of the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). López was named by People en Español’s 25 Most Powerful Women, The Imagen Foundation’s Top 20 Most Influential Latinos in Entertainment in 2013 and 2014, and Variety’s Top 50 New York Entertainment Elite.

    She is the recipient of 11 National News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

  • Michelle López Torres  Art Therapist and Museum Access Specialist,  New York

     

    Transferred 9 years of prior business management experience to the Museum field. Committed to making museum and library collections more accessible for all audiences and believe that museums and libraries are spaces in the community where children can progress educational and social skills; and that a well-supported and invited relationship with cultural institutions provide a unique opportunity for rich interactions and learning across the lifespan; while improving the health of the community overall.

    Specialties: Museum Education, Arts for People with Special Needs, Autism, Art in Education, Community Engagement, Advocacy, Creative Collaboration, Program Design.

  • The Management Center  Washington, D.C.

     

    We help leaders working for social change build and run more effective organizations.

  • Paula Manley  Paula Manley Consulting,  New York

     

    Founded in 1999, Paula Manley specializes in supporting media arts organizations throughout the U.S. in building their capacity to enact their missions. As an experienced executive director, program director and nonprofit board leader, she brings extensive practical knowledge to her consulting services including: facilitating dynamic meetings and retreats; assessing organizational and program effectiveness; developing actionable strategic plans; strengthening board and staff leadership; building collaborative cultures and teams; and planning for leadership transitions.

  • Christie Marchese  Picture Motion,  New York

     

    Christie Marchese is the founder and CEO of Picture Motion, where she leads a team of impact producers, marketing strategists and communication specialists in developing grassroots marketing and social action campaigns for films. Since its launch in 2012, Picture Motion has run campaigns for over 40 feature and short films. Prior to launching Picture Motion, Christie served as Director of Social Action at Righteous Pictures and led digital strategy for the social action team at Participant Media, managing campaigns for Waiting for “Superman”, Food Inc, and The Cove among others. Prior to a career in impact film, Christie ran digital strategy for Norman Lear’s nonprofit, Declare Yourself, and spent time at Human Rights Watch and the International Rescue Committee. Christie is known as an expert in utilizing film and storytelling to mobilize change, presenting at film festivals and conferences, including Sundance, SXSW and TIFF, and for the Peruvian and Pakistani Governments. She has also served as a contributing writer for Mashable and The Huffington Post. This expertise and experience earned her the title Business Insider’s 30 Most Creative People in Advertising Under 30 in 2014, and has been profiled on IndieWire and NPR. She sits on the Documentary Board at the Paley Center for Media and the advisory board for Filmmakers Without Borders. Christie currently serves as an Expert in Residence for the IFP Media Center and on The Leadership Council for the Media for Social Impact Summit at the United Nations. She holds a BA from SDSU, in both International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR) and Comparative Religions, with a concentration in Arabic and the Middle East.

  • Fruma Markowitz  User Experience Strategist and Designer,  New York

     

    Creative, and award-winning interactive professional, with accomplishments representing fifteen+ years in User Experience Design, consulting both at digital ad agencies and independently for private clients. Constantly seeking to leverage proven HCI skill-set and leadership potential to make engaging, interactive web, tablet, & mobile design interfaces and innovative digital products that improve how we work, play and live together on this planet.

  • Sarah Maryam Moosvi  Producer and Media Strategist at Tara Digital,  New York

     

    We pair independent marketing consultants with in-house teams so you can connect with audiences in a way that feels fresh, engaging and authentic.

  • Steve Masur  Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP,  New York

     

    Mr. Masur is an attorney with over 20 years of experience advising digital media and entertainment clients on their corporate and intellectual property transactions and day-to-day business issues. He has counseled clients in a wide variety of industry and has experience working with both enterprise level clients, as well as early stage entities. Mr. Masur is passionate about helping businesses succeed, and frequently assists clients with formalizing partnership opportunities with both celebrities and established brands. Additionally, Mr. Masur serves on a variety of corporate and nonprofit boards, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and events worldwide.

  • Kelly S. Matthews  Financial and Accountability and Compliance Services / COO at NYCON (New York Council on Nonprofits),  New York

     

    Joining NYCON’s fiscal team in November 1997, Kelly Mathews, since 1999, has led NYCON’s Financial and Accountability and Compliance Services, an innovative program providing financial management technical assistance and training to nonprofit staff and boards of directors throughout New York State, both directly and via partnerships with New York State agencies and foundations. She also serves as NYCON’s Chief Operating Officer, providing leadership on organization-wide initiatives, public policy and infrastructure and acting on behalf of the CEO as delegated. A recognized expert on financial management in the nonprofit environment, Kelly’s areas of expertise include accounting information systems analysis, selection, conversion, implementation and training; fiscal procedures and internal control assessment and documentation; reporting and regulatory compliance assessment; preliminary audit preparation; IRS form 990 preparation; fiscal staff oversight, support, and coaching; fiscal infrastructure analysis; chief financial officer search assistance; and board/staff training and facilitation regarding nonprofit financial management, reporting, and governance structures. She developed and now leads NYCON’s financial management conference, Camp Finance, held annually in October at Mohonk Mountain House.

  • John McCann  Partners in Performance,  Durham, North Carolina

     

    John McCann has more than 25 years experience in helping leaders work more effectively. His clients have ranged from the American Association of Retired Persons to the New York Youth Orchestra. In the area of innovation and strategy, McCann has worked with more than 300 of the nation’s leading cultural institutions including the Association of Arts Presenters, Dance/USA, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Chicago Opera Theatre, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and the National Symphony Orchestra. His clients within the philanthropic community have included the Wallace Foundation, Bush Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Grantmakers in the Arts, Grantmakers in Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts. McCann has assisted in the formation of unique partnerships and strategic alliances including Latino New South, a coalition of the Levine Museum of the New South, Atlanta History Center, and Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; and the Global Artist Network involving the Museum of International Folk Art, International Folk Art Alliance and leading folk artists from Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ghana, and seven other nations. Both projects are initiatives of the Innovation Lab, a program of EmcArts, Inc. He has also facilitated the discussions leading to the merger of Tribeca Film Institute and Renew Media; Company of Fools and the Center for the Arts; and of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop to form New York Live Arts. At the graduate level, he has taught management and leadership at Drexel University and Virginia Tech, where for ten years he served as the Director of the Institute for Cultural Policy and Practice. He has delivered guest lectures at Duke University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. His pro bono work includes engagements with the Clinton Global Initiative, New Orleans Recovery and Rebuilding Coalition, and the Women’s Regional Network (Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan). McCann is co-founder and currently a board member of EmcArts, a nonprofit social enterprise for learning and innovation in the arts.

  • Brian J. McCormick  Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the New School / Social Media Expert,  New York

     

    Brian McCormick is an activist, writer, and educator. 25 years ago, he received a Mayor’s Volunteer Service Award and was nominated for a President’s Volunteer Action Award for coordinating a writing workshop with homeless youth. He ran a creative writing workshop for Youth Enrichment Services at The Center in the early 1990’s, and since 1997 he has been a contributing editor at Gay City News. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Advocate, Movement Research Journal, Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life, and BAMbill. He served on the New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies) committee from 2002-2012, and was producing director of Nicholas Leichter Dance from 1996-2012. He is on the board of directors of Pentacle/Dance Works, Inc.

    Since 2003, he has taught for the nationally recognized Teen Reviewers and Critics (TRaC) program of Arts Connection, facilitating critical engagement with art across multiple disciplines, including media. In 2012 he created the after school program at Baryshnikov Arts Center, developing new approaches to critical engagement with teens from NYC public high schools. He has been a teaching-artist for Scholastic Arts, The Rubin Museum, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, and Hong Kong Arts Festival Young Friends program. He has been a panelist, moderator, guest curator, or adjudicator for Theater Communications Group (New Generations Program), New York Foundation for the Arts, Joyce Theater Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, LMCC, The Ailey Certificate School, Movement Research, National Performing Arts Convention, and the CMJ Music Marathon.

    n addition to teaching graduate courses in media studies at The New School, Brian has taught at Pratt and worked with Hollins University MFA in dance program; and starting in fall 2017 he will be teaching courses in theater and communications at Lehman College.

  • Amanda McDonald Crowley  Independent Cultural Worker / Curator at Public Art Action,  New York

     

    I create new media and contemporary art exhibitions and events. I am currently working on artist Mary Mattingly’s Swale, a floating food forest on NYC waterways, and has been commissioned to develop an exhibition for the Bronx Arts Alliance in 2018.

    I have recently developed exhibitions and public art programs with Kulturföreningen Triennal (southern Sweden), PointB (Brooklyn), New Media Scotland and the Edinburgh Science Festival (Edinburgh), the Austrian Cultural Forum (New York City), Pixelache and the Finnish Bioart Society (Helsinki), Gallery CalIT2 at the University of California, San Diego (San Diego), and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha).

    I have held executive leadership positions with Eyebeam art + technology center in New York, Australian Network for Art and Technology, and the Australia Council for the Arts. I have also worked on several significant international Festivals – for which I curated and produced programs of internationally significant artist residencies, symposia, and exhibitions – including ISEA2004 (International Symposium of Electronic Art) in Helsinki, Finland, Adelaide Festival 2002, and the Australian Video Festival. I've had articles published in journals such as Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA), ArtLink, and Art Asia Pacific; and I've done curatorial residencies at Helsinki International Artists Program (Finland), Santa Fe Art Institute (USA), Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), Sarai New Media Institute (India), and Banff Center for the Arts (Canada).

    My work has largely been at the intersection of art + technology, and her experience and interests often revolve around working with artists and groups who have a research based practice. In my curatorial work, I am especially interested in developing platforms to generate dialogue, bringing together professionals and amateurs from varied disciplines, and creating space for social change and audience engagement.

    Most recently, a key curatorial research focus has been around the topic of food + art. Projects include Agrikultura, a major public art event in Malmö, Sweden in 2017; the exhibition food nostalgia, at Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, NYC, 2016; Circuit of the Senses, a celebratory meal and participatory event conceived by artist Emilie Baltz at Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska in 2014; GastroLabs, a program series developed with New Media Scotland for the Edinburgh Science Festival 2014.

  • Gilles Mesrobian  Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    Senior non profit manager with over 25 years experience in the non profit sector, specializing in health and human services. education, arts and cultural organizations. Experience includes transition management, executive search, training, strategic planning, development and interim leadership

    Specialties: Transition management, executive search, leadership training, strategic planning, interim leadership, fund raising/development, grant writing, non profit management, Board/Trustee development, community and volunteer relations, and Human Resources.

  • Lisa Metcalf  Arts and Cultural Management Consultant,  New York

     

    Combining a passion for arts and culture with 20+ years of experience in senior-level management and fundraising, I integrate vision and strategic planning with detail-oriented implementation for organizational growth. As demonstrated throughout my career, I have a proven record in elevating institutions during defining moments in their histories and at times of major change.

  • Nancy Meyers Preston  Key Consultant, Event Development, Consultation, and Facilitation,  New York

     

    Strategic Advancement Solutions for Nonprofits: Helping Organizations Work Toward Purposeful Change

  • Ruchi Mital  Documentary Filmmaker/Grant Writing Specialist,  New York

     

  • Phyllis Morena  Consultant at AM/PM Consulting,  New York

     

  • Anna Mosby Coleman  Development and Independent Organizational Strategist / Acting Executive Director of Dance Films Association,  New York

     

    Anna Mosby Coleman has consulted as Creative Director for Philanthropic Chameleon, MAXComPR, Light Speed Press, and ClientEarth. A multimedia content producer, campaign lead, and project strategist; Anna is a branding maven. Utilizing her design, tech, editorial, and management expertise via a variety of formats; she has developed successful growth and fundraising strategies including grant appeals and research initiatives.

  • Lyndsey Moulds  Software Curator at Rhizome,  New York

     

  • Oriana Neidecker  Tech-Based Designer / Creative Technical Producer at Hyphen Digital,  New York

     

  • Opeyemi Olukemi  Interactive Media Expert,  New York

     

    Opeyemi Olukemi is an interactive storytelling expert.

    Throughout her career as an interactive producer, funder and public programmer, Opeyemi has created spaces for interdisciplinary artists, communities, and content teams to experiment with and create innovative content. She is an advocate for technological equity and eliminating bias from social innovation and is also deeply invested in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Opeyemi is Vice President of Digital Production and Innovation at American Documentary's award-winning independent non-fiction film series P.O.V. Opeyemi was previously the senior director of interactive programs for Tribeca Film Institute, where she oversaw the TFI New Media and TAA Prototype Funds and led the institute’s interactive programs. She also led the Tribeca Hacks program to the global stage through 21 distinct events. Opeyemi began her career in the tech industry as a producer for ScrollMotion, where she oversaw teams of designers programmers, and third-party vendors to produce new media applications for clients such as Disney, O: The Oprah Magazine and Genentech.

    Opeyemi has served on numerous festival juries and has mentored through the IDFA’s Doc Academy, New Museum’s NEW INC and Oculus’ VR for Good. Opeyemi has served as an assistant professor of integrated media at Brooklyn College’s Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and is a Rockwood (Ford Foundation) JustFilms Fellow.

  • Matthew Ostrowski  Digital Media Consultant,  New York

     

    A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski has worked as a composer, performer and installation artist, exploring work with music, multimedia, video and theater. Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian materials — sonic, physical, and cultural – Ostrowski’s work explores the liminal space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds. His work, which has been seen on six continents, ranges from live electronic performance to installations incorporating video, multichannel sound, and computer-controlled objects. He is a freelance developer of interactive technology for artists, and teaches at NYU and Columbia University.

  • Greg Paliotta  Digital Media Systems Inc., Owner,  New York

     

    Continually promote and support the equipment and technology which drives theatrical motion picture presentations. Both post production and cinema exhibition applications. Provide expert consultation, impeccable engineering and exceptional service to our clients. The bottom line starts and stops with me.

    Specialties: Christie Digital Systems, Dolby Digital Cinema, Barco, NEC, GDC, Doremi, JBL, USL, QSC, Mid Atlantic, Crestron, Schneider Optics, Kelmar Sys.

  • Jake Perlin  Director of Cinema Conservancy at Artists Public Domain

     

  • Barbara Perlov  B Perlov Consulting,  New York

     

    Current and past clients include Alliance for a Healthier Generation, The Relationship Foundation, Grand St. Settlement, Wassaic Project, American Friends of the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba, National Guild for Community Arts Education, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, LaGuardia Community College, Irish Arts Center, Inwood Academy for Leadership Charter School, ArtsConnection, Service Women's Action Network (SWAN), Newark Public Radio WBGO-Jazz 88, AFS-USA, Read Alliance, Literacy Partners, and International Center of Photography. 

  • Olive Persimmon  The Engaging Educator,  New York

     

    The Engaging Educator is a fierce group of dedicated ladies who are committed to helping others find their best, most unapologetic and confident voice, communication style and self. We know you are full of ambition, ideas and goals – and we want to help you best express those AND achieve them with our brand of improv-based adventures. Our goals are simple: we want you to leave our programs with a clearer idea of WHO you are and WHERE you want to be – and have actionable steps to get rolling on that path of awesomeness. We LOVE fun for fun’s sake – we also LOVE plans, ideas, action-items, progress and positive-risk-taking. Come grow with us!

  • Joshua Peskay  Vice President of Technology Strategy at RoundTable Technology,  New York

     

    Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) Faculty and Idealware Expert Trainer.

    Joshua is usually one of the first people new clients of RoundTable meets. And this explains why so many of them go on to enjoy a long and profitable partnership with us. Friendly and enthusiastic, Joshua has been helping non-profit organizations get more out of their technology since the 1990s. Over the last three decades, he's helped thousands of nonprofits meet their goals and help people. He loves helping organizations think more strategically about their tech and make smart decisions.

  • Erik Piil  Conservation Associate at Kramlich Collection & New Art Trust,  New York

     

    Areas of focus include system architectures for cost-effective media preservation and exhibition; conservation/preservation/restoration of early analog video and video art; open source digital preservation workflows for audiovisual materials; and, characteristics of media as aids to identification (a la Harold Brown). Some past consultancies in these areas include The New Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Electronic Arts Intermix.

  • Lucas G. Pinheiro  Curator / Media Art Historian,  Chicago, Illinois

     

    I’m a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a Graduate Fellow in the Social Sciences Research Center. I will defend my dissertation, “Factories of Modernity: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Historical Capitalism,” in September 2019. This Fall, I will begin an appointment as Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

    My research bridges the history of political thought and contemporary political theory by focusing on the global development of capitalism, racial slavery, and empire in the modern Atlantic world since the late seventeenth century. My dissertation draws on archival research from collections across the UK, Sweden, and the US and has been funded by fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Nicholson Center for British Studies, among others.

    At the University of Chicago, I teach undergraduate seminars on social and political thought, from Thomas Hobbes to Hannah Arendt, in the Social Sciences Core Curriculum. As part of the Arts and Sciences Summer Program, I also co-teach interdisciplinary classes, with faculty in English and Anthropology, that reconsider the idea of the city through seminal works in social and political theory, from Aristotle to Max Weber.

    In the 2017-2018 academic year, I co-founded and organized the Historical Capitalisms Workshop with faculty from the Departments of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. In the 2018-2019 academic year, I co-founded and co-organized the Historical Capitalisms & Social Theory Workshop.

  • Elizabeth Press  D3M Labs,  Berlin, Germany

     

    Elizabeth Press is founder of D3M Labs, a consultancy that empowers organizations to cultivate strategic advantages and monetize digital assets by creating and marketing digital products. Organizations D3M Labs has worked with include Mondelez, Betahaus, Accelerate Korea, IAV and global players in financial services and GovTech. As an intrapreneur at Dell, Elizabeth built up and managed advanced analytics functions globally. Before Dell, she worked in top-tier strategy consulting and quantitative finance. Elizabeth mentors at the ReDI school of Digital Integration. She has a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and an MSc in International Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics.

    D3M Labs empowers organizations to cultivate strategic advantages and monetize digital assets. Organizations D3M Labs has worked with include Mondelez, Betahaus, Accelerate Korea, IAV, the German Foreign Office and global players in aerospace, financial services and GovTech.

  • Corrine Reynolds  Design Strategist / Independent Consultant,  New York

     

    Design strategist operating in the confluence of ethnographic research, human-centered innovation, and social justice. She has five years of client-facing experience in strategic communications and digital marketing.

  • Elsa A. Ríos, Yvette Diaz, & Marquita James  Strategies for Social Change,  New York

     

    Social change organizations are called upon to do what sometimes feels nearly impossible; to change entrenched ideas, dismantle oppressive systems of power and find solutions to some of the most intractable problems of our day. Our mission is to help social change groups transform the world. We develop innovative strategies and solutions to help nonprofits increase their resources, maximize strategic impact and achieve their vision for a better world. We achieve our mission through the delivery of culturally competent, customized and comprehensive capacity building services.

  • Rockwood Leadership Institute  Oakland, California

     

    Since 2000, Rockwood Leadership Institute has provided thousands of social change leaders across the globe with tools and skills to help change themselves, their communities, and the world.

  • Mark Elijah Rosenberg  Rooftop Films,  New York

     

    Mark Elijah Rosenberg is a film director, writer, editor and producer, and is the Founder and former Artistic Director of Rooftop Films.

  • Kathleen Ruiz  Associate Professor of Electronic Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,  New York

     

  • Sallie D. Sanders  Sanders Development Group,  New York

     

    Fundraising consultant specializing in grantwriting and strategic development for performing arts organizations.

  • Doug Sauer, CEO  New York Council of Nonprofits, Inc. (NYCON),  New York

     

    Founded in 1927, NYCON is a 501 c(3) membership-based, mission-driven, statewide association of diverse charitable organizations. With close to 3,000 members, NYCON provides a collective policy voice and serves as a crucial support and information provider to organizations across the state. NYCON’s staff-based expertise is diverse and nonprofits can expect to find lawyers, fund development specialists, finance experts, governance experts, risk management experts and more – all one call away. NYCON strengthens the business and organizational capacity of nonprofits, acts as an advocate, helps to inform philanthropic giving, and conducts research to demonstrate the relevance and impact of nonprofits.

  • Martin Scheidl  IT Executive and Consultant,  New York

     

  • Ellen Schneider  Director of Active Voice Lab and Founder of Active Voice,  Oakland, California

     

    We create tools that help funders, advocates, creatives and other leaders to collaboratively strive for social justice.

  • Bill Seery  Video Preservation Consultant,  New York

     

  • Davey Sherwinter  Creative Director/Filmmaker/Producer/Editor,  New York

     

    Davey Sherwinter is an award-winning creative, filmmaker, producer, director and editor. Since graduating with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he has applied his unique vision to a range of mediums: from film, design, commercials and narrative content to live broadcasts, concerts and events. Davey has had the pleasure of working with companies including HBO, Home Shopping Network, NBC, Nickelodeon, McDonald's, Wendy's, Dr. Pepper, State Farm, Volkswagen, Dodge, Acura, Bloomingdale's, Amazon, Pandora, Hulu, Google, Nielson, Van Wagner, Cumulus, Bantam Live and many more to create unique content that pushes technological boundaries while optimizing the highest level of production value from any size budget.

  • Dara Silverman  Consultant and Coach for Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ),  New York

     

    Dara Silverman is a consultant, coach, organizer and trainer who has been building movements for economic, racial, gender and social justice for over 20 years. Dara is the National Coordinator for SURJ: Showing Up for Racial Justice, a network of 100+ groups across the US moving white people into action for racial justice. Dara was the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) in New York City from 2003-2009. Dara grew up in Ithaca and currently lives in Beacon, NY in the Hudson Valley. She supports leaders to be in the movement for the long haul.

  • Sharan Sklar  Sklar Media,  New York

     

    Sklar Media is a management consulting company launched in 2000 to provide business strategy and capacity development services to media related businesses and nonprofit organizations, particularly those making innovative use of technology. Clients include: TED Conferences, Tribeca Film Institute, Games for Change, NYSCA, New Video Group, POV American Documentary, and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Our team of consultants works with visionary leaders to identify and prioritize goals and to develop the strategies to realize them.

  • Dylan Skolnick  Cinema Arts Centre,  New York

     

    Based on his nearly thirty years at the Cinema Arts Centre, Long Island’s premiere community-based art house cinema, Dylan Skolnick offers consulting on building membership, arts management, film programming, and board development.

  • Libby Smiegel  Historian Consultant / Dance Curator and Archivist at the Library of Congress,  Washington, D.C.

     

  • Paul Soulellis  Artist and Educator,  Providence, Rhode Island

     

    Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is faculty at RISD and a contributing editor at Rhizome.

  • Maria Venuto  Standby Program,  New York

     

    Standby provide media post-production, preservation services, and technical advisement in support of these services including project consultation and collection assessment to artists, museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

  • John Michael Swartz  Digital Consultant,  New York

     

  • Carolyn Tennant  Web Mechanics Consultant,  New York

     

    Carolyn Tennant is a media artist, curator and amateur archivist based in Troy, New York. She is a PhD student in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

  • Emily Theys  Development Professional / Surala Consulting,  New York

     

    Surala Consulting helps artists and organizations achieve their fundraising goals. With over ten years of development experience, Founder/Director Sara Juli has raised millions of dollars from foundation, government, corporate and individual sources, all in support of the arts and non-profit sector. An accomplished solo performance artist, Sara provides her clients with strategic fundraising solutions tailored to their respective needs at an affordable rate. We are a boutique company specializing in strategic fundraising solutions catering to the New York City performing arts community. We believe that every arts organization and working artist contributes to the fabric that makes New York City so vibrant and culturally diverse, and that their work merits funding. We work together with clients to form and deepen relationships to institutions and individuals whom most connect with and believe in their mission, vision and aesthetic. Founder/Director Sara Juli uses her years of proven and tested track record in fundraising to assist arts organizations and individual artists on the multiple avenues and nuances of fundraising. All services are tailored directly to fit the needs of the client. Surala Consulting creates positive change for arts organizations and artists. Whether it’s helping to build a healthy Board of Directors, training a pre-existing Board, coaching on asking individuals for money, grant writing assistance or designing an annual fundraising strategy, we work closely with clients to empower and enable them to succeed. Working “behind the scenes” in a practical, consistent and affordable way, Surala Consulting is there every step of the way. Those organizations and artists that embrace the challenge and intrigue that this work unwraps, have proven to raise the necessary funds for project support and overall fiscal health. Effective fundraising takes time, but using time-tested methods coupled with a sound strategy, Surala Consulting will help your mission continue, thrive, and grow.

  • Ann Thurman Christie  Christie Digital,  Cyprus, California

     

    Providing the World's Leading Digital Projection and Display Technologies: 3D/Visualization, Business, Control room solutions, Digital cinema solutions, Digital signage, and Video walls.

  • María Elena Torre  Assessment Consultant / Public Science Project (PSP),  New York

     

    For the last 15 years, María Elena Torre has been engaged in critical participatory action research projects nationally and internationally with schools, prisons, and community-based organizations seeking to further social justice. Her work introduced the concept of ‘participatory contact zones’ to collaborative research, and she continues to be interested in how democratic methodologies, radical inclusion, and notions of solidarity impact scientific inquiry. Before becoming director of The Public Science Project, Dr. Torre was Chair of Education Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. She is a co-author of Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and Changing Minds: The Impact of College on a Maximum Security Prison. Her writing can also be found in volumes such as the Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology (American Psychological Association), Participatory Action Research Approaches and Methods: Connecting People, Participation, and Place (Routledge), the Handbook of Action Research (Sage), and in journals such as Feminism and Psychology, the Journal of Social Issues, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Journal of Critical Psychology. Dr. Torre was a recipient of the American Psychological Association Division 35 Adolescent Girls Task Force Emerging Scientist and the Spencer Fellowship in Social Justice & Social Development in Educational Studies, and is on the national board of the National Latino/a Education Research and Policy Project and What Kids Can Do.

  • Pete Tridish (Dylan Wrynn)  Engineer / Radio Start-Up Consultant,  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

     

  • Alex Tuller & Dean Temple  Drake Creative,  New York

     

    Drake Creative's mission is to tell our clients’ stories through design, to foster creative minds, to leave our environment better than we found it, and to use business to connect communities. We’re building a company that creates head turning work for brilliant clients, the kind of place bright, creative young people clamor to be a part of, a collaborative structure that can tackle large jobs without destroying our talent’s quality of life, and a place known for leaving environments better than we found them.

  • Dolly Turner  The Turner Group,  New York

     

    The Turner Group provides marketing strategy and campaigns to improve public participation, marketing, communications, digital and social media, branding, and strategic partnerships. Our services encompass assessment, competitive analysis, goal setting, development of annual marketing and communications plans, campaign execution, digital and social media, and special events. Our clients include visual arts, theater, music, festivals, and artists.

  • Adnaan Wasey  Science Bistro,  New York

     

    Adnaan Wasey is an executive producer with a history of championing the work of a diverse group of creators for new platforms. He's created media for some of the most admired film, news and information organizations, including PBS, The New York Times, Snapchat and WNYC, and his work has been honored by the Emmy Awards, Webby Awards and many others. He's a frequent speaker about the future of media at venues such as SXSW, YouTube, The TV of Tomorrow Show, The Tribeca Film Festival and The New York Film Festival and as an adjunct professor in film and entrepreneurship. Adnaan is a member of the Producers Guild of America and in 2018 became the recipient of the first Rita Allen Fellowship for Science Communication.

  • Susan Weinrich  NYCON (New York Council on Nonprofits),  New York

     

    Susan has over 25 years of experience working with nonprofits as an advisor, teacher and consultant and has been at NYCON since 2003. NYCON members rely on Susan's expertise to provide them with a wide range of training and technical assistance in areas such as organizational assessment and development, strategic planning, board development, and performance measurement, as well as community needs assessments and program development. Susan is skilled at working with a diverse array of nonprofits and is mindful of how their size, scope and the type of service they deliver in the community impacts their organizational culture and their approach to capacity building efforts. Whether a nonprofit organization is run solely by a volunteer Board of Directors, or has a professional staff in addition, Susan tailors her specific approach to the unique needs of her client nonprofits. Susan’s knowledge of the nonprofit sector comes from her hands-on experience with organizations that provide housing, emergency shelter, and domestic violence services as well as those that offer a range of community economic development programs, including arts organizations and museums. Susan has served on several local and national Boards and currently serves on the Board of the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. Susan has a Master's degree in Community Economic Development from the Southern New Hampshire University.

    Founded in 1927, NYCON is a 501 c(3) membership-based, mission-driven, statewide association of diverse charitable organizations. With close to 3,000 members, NYCON provides a collective policy voice and serves as a crucial support and information provider to organizations across the state. NYCON’s staff-based expertise is diverse and nonprofits can expect to find lawyers, fund development specialists, finance experts, governance experts, risk management experts and more – all one call away. NYCON strengthens the business and organizational capacity of nonprofits, acts as an advocate, helps to inform philanthropic giving, and conducts research to demonstrate the relevance and impact of nonprofits.

  • Karen Wertheim  Independent Consultant

     

  • Elvia Wilk  Writer / Editor,  New York and Berlin, Germany

     

    Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Mousse, Metropolis, Artforum, and Zeit Online. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale. She is currently a contributing editor at e-flux journal and is finishing a masters at the New School for Social Research. She has taught at the University of the Arts Berlin, Eugene Lang College, and City College of New York. Her first novel, Oval, was published in June 2019 by Soft Skull press.

  • Yurgotsky  New York

     

    Yurgosky is the premier technology, strategy, and analytics company serving nonprofits.

  • Lori Zippay  Electronic Arts Intermix / Design Consultant,  New York

     

  • Zivtech  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

     

    Founded in 2008, Zivtech is a full service web design and web development agency. Our work combines best of breed open source software with powerful cloud services. We're a tight-knit team of experts who are committed to helping our clients succeed. We love open source because it gives our clients the freedom to innovate and adapt. Our team works with clients from a wide range of industries to provide sites and applications that are built to grow with their organizations. The Hebrew term “ziv” translates to the light that comes from a candle: radiance, beauty, and seeing something new.

 
 
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