Consultants

Sharang Biswas is an artist, game designer, theatre-creator, and writer, with a focu on participatory and interactive performance. He often works with organizations to create innovative, educational, and engaging game-like experiences for training, team-building, and social events. Sharang is also an accomplished keynote speaker, having spoken for various organizations on the subject of innovation, diversity & inclusion, and interactive arts.

Additional Consulting Categories: Education and Programming.

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.

With over 38 combined years of in-depth art world experience, Chen & Lampert provide comprehensive services and personalized solutions to artists, galleries, non-profits, institutions and collectors. From curatorial consultation, artist relations and organizational framework, to media preservation and publicity strategies, their individualized approach delivers crucial information and actionable plans to clients in every area of the contemporary art sphere.

Spencer Christiano is Chief Projectionist at The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. Spencer joined the Moving Image Department in 2014, having previously served as the Technical Manager and Head Projectionist of the Cinema Theater in Rochester for 9 years. He also served as Technical Manager of the MuCCC Theater in Rochester, where he is an Artist in Residence. He has taught the techniques of film projection at the National Film Archive of India, the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, and the University of Rochester. He is a co-editor and co-author of the upcoming George Eastman Museum publication The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide (2019), a comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. His work as a playwright includes Endangered Features (2016), about the world of film archiving, film projection as a technical art, and the evolution of cinema exhibition from its analog roots to cutting-edge digital.

Cause Effective strengthens the nonprofit sector by helping organizations build engaged communities of supporters. We transform people, culture and systems by coaching nonprofits to learn, carry out and sustain new approaches to fundraising and board leadership.

Kevin Duggan has over 40 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.

Lukas Eigler-Harding runs an flexible studio practice based out New York. His work spans consultation, design, and development with a focus on launching interactive work within the web’s specter.

echoAR is redefining how people create augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) experiences. echoAR makes it simple for developers and content creators to build, manage and deploy 3D applications and content with a flexible cloud infrastructure, intuitive content management system, fast content delivery network, and other best-in-class tools.

Shelley Hubert, certified by the Federal Government’s Small Business Administration (SBA) as a Women Owned Business, brings a wealth of management experience to the nonprofit sector. Working with lay leaders and professionals, Shelley provides top level support, helping organizations achieve there operational and programmatic objectives.

Shelley often manages the government reporting function of non-profits, serves as a sounding board for decision makers, and facilitates meetings, synthesizing ideas and stakeholder commitment to action.

Pandamonium Productions provides curatorial and program content for film, visual art, and performance, as well as guidance on audience impact, philanthropy, and project management. Projects are diverse in terms of artistic discipline and stakeholders, but they share a common desire to connect art with social issues. Principal Andrew Ingall has been working as an arts and culture professional for over twenty years in the U.S., both in California and New York. As a consultancy, Pandamonium offers production, management, engagement, fundraising, and curatorial services to clientele who appreciate clear objectives, a collaborative approach, and respectful dialogue to produce meaningful work and maximize impact.

Software development for creative purposes, specifically focused on theater and dance, installations, and live video.

In 2014, I served as a moving image preservation consultant to Dance Films Association (DFA) on their project to digitally preserve and make accessible DFA’s archive of hundreds of analog moving image materials of dance on film. Many of these films were entries in the historic Dance on Camera Film Festival that DFA founded in 1971 and has co-presented annually with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. I provided guidance on best practices for preserving analog moving image materials and recommendations for long-term storage of digital preservation assets and their analog originals.

Surala Consulting specializes in strategic fundraising solutions. They work with small to mid-sized National arts organizations helping to build and execute fundraising strategies from grant writing to building major donor programs to making the ask training and more. Services are billed on a sliding scale based on budget-size.

Additional Consulting Areas: Individual Giving, Making the Ask training, building and executing annual fundraising strategies

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

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 is a seasoned development professional with experience raising funds for both large and small organizations, primarily in the fields of education, the arts, public policy/international affairs, and climate change communications. She is an expert grant writer and researcher, and also has substantial experience in board and committee development and organizational strategic planning.

Picture Motion is the leading social impact agency developing award-winning advocacy and marketing campaigns for films, television, and entertainment. Filmmakers, studios, and brands turn to our expert team of impact producers to ensure that their content gets seen, mobilizes communities, and drives impact beyond the credits. We handle all aspects of a social action campaign from defining the {distribution} strategy and securing strategic partnerships to amplifying awareness and activating audiences through educational touch-points, screenings and experiences. Our collaborative approach unites storytellers with our unmatched network of thousands of activists, nonprofits, and foundations, to build social movements around must-see content. Picture Motion has partnered on over 150 groundbreaking projects and has long been at the forefront of reimagining how audiences experience film. It’s our mission to leverage storytelling to inspire empathy, convene people, and ignite brave conversations and action.

Morgan Morel is Preservation Manager at BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition). BAVC is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, serving over 7,500 freelancers, filmmakers, job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. BAVC provides access to media making technology, storytelling workshops, a diverse and engaged community of makers and producers, services and resources.

Nick O’Leary is a New York based artist, game designer, interactivity consultant, and director of theater and live events. Born and raised in New England, he has developed work with organizations including The Ford Foundation, The Museum of the Moving Image, Sinking Ship Creations, Dartmouth College, and Grinnell College. He serves on the board of the Playable Theatre Project.

Additional Consulting Areas: Interactivity, Game Design, Live Events

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.

Ostrowski develops software for interactive audio, video, and robotic installations, extended musical instruments, tools for media artists, and multichannel show control systems.

Digital Media Systems provides equipment sales, installation and contractual maintenance services for all presentation facilities. Commercial Theatre chains, Independent Theatre Owners, Universities, Museums, and Industry / Executive Screening Rooms are examples of our wide range of clients.

They offer the following services:
Consulting Services to Architects / Contractors /Ownership
Equipment Sales
Installation, Integration, Training
In Field Emergency Service and Scheduled Routine Maintenance
Network Operations Center (NOC) / Remote Site Monitoring

Zahida Pirani is an independent consultant who provides customized capacity building services including program development, strategic planning, resource development, coaching, campaign planning and training design and implementation. She is an experienced facilitator, coach, trainer, community organizer and a consensus builder.

D3M Labs builds up Business Intelligence & Marketing Analytics capabilities and works with clients to develop a data-driven management culture in their organizations, specifically in the areas of strategic planning, digital communications and customer insight.

P.S. 314 operates at the intersection of philanthropy, social causes, and storytelling. P.S. 314 works hand-in-hand with like-minded clients who are also seeking to drive social change. We leverage our knowledge and relationships to help organizations and individual game-changers realize their goals by creating a sustainable system. When this system is implemented, awareness and revenues increase.

Rockwood supports leaders to transform themselves, their communities, and the world towards equity, liberation, and sustainability for all. We do this by providing powerful and effective training to individual leaders and cohorts, thereby strengthening the organizations and movements that they represent.

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

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.

Consulting in older analogue technologies.

Lavender Suarez is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner and educator who provides services in regards to technical, ethical and philosophical perspectives in regards to sound/listening and community wellness (meditation).

Additional Consulting Categories: Sound (installation/utilization), Community Wellness (meditation)

Carolyn Tennant is an independent curator and amateur archivist whose work with organizations has included determining best practices for archival projects. In addition she has helped to facilitate large scale fundraising campaigns and has experience with grant writing at the state and national levels.

Drake Creative is a design collaborative that designs visual identities and strategic communications, story- and brand-driven events, and permanent space installations with an emphasis on strong storytelling and clear wayfinding.

NYCON's staff team provides a full range of training, planning, and capacity building services to nonprofits in board development, governance, management, and operations.

Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor with many years of experience developing editorial platforms, both print and digital. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for transmediale and a contributing editor at Rhizome. Currently, she is a contributing editor at e-flux journal and a 2020 fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Artforum, Mousse, Metropolis, Granta, and the White Review, and published a novel called Oval in 2019.

Authentic Coaching and Consulting helps non-profit organizations, colleges, universities, and individuals live more closely aligned to their social justice values and goals.

Yurgosky provides strategic planning, database and application development as well as on-going support services. Yurgosky also provides co-creation services for organizations first entering the Salesforce ecosystem.

Zivtech is a full-service web design and development agency that specializes in open-source software.