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Parrish Art MuseumDevelopment Director, Individual Giving
Sep. 2024Water Mill, New York, United States• Developed and executed strategies to increase revenue through individual, foundation, and corporate donors for major initiatives and Museum programs.
• Engaged donors in the Museum's mission and oversaw the development team to achieve annual fundraising goals.
• Secured major gifts, identified corporate partnerships, and energized donor base to support the Museum's creative direction.
BUILD ACADEMYDirector or Corporate Partnerships
Feb. 2019 - Sep. 2022New York, New York, United States
Harvard UniversitySenior Associate Director, Campaign Priorities & Arts Initiatives
Jan. 2016 - Jan. 2019Cambridge, MA. USAStrategic fundraising lead and partner with Faculty of Arts and Sciences across the University to drive cultivation, engagement, and solicitation for major and principal gift prospects for the $2.5 billion "Campaign for the Arts." (Humanities, Theater, Dance, Creative Writing and Media Arts)
- Creating and managing campaign efforts and staffing, advising and educating academic principals associated with designated campaign priority and Arts initiative. -Serve as strategic advisor on content development, gift opportunities with fundraising partners and stakeholders and alumni events activity. -Staff and brief faculty and senior academic administrators for prospect/donor visits, solicitations snd events. -Develop, refine and manage pipeline. Coordinate, track and report on fundraising progress against campaign goals.
-Manage a portfolio of prospects located in New York and Los Angeles.
Wellesley CollegeCo-Vice President of Alumnae engagement, development and Cultural Insights
Sep. 2013 - Dec. 2015Wellesley CollegeThe Wellesley Asian Alumnae Alliance (W3A) is a shared interest group founded to address the need for greater support of and networking among alumnae of Asian affinity. The primary purpose of W3A is to facilitate networking, mentoring,leadership, and career development opportunities for the Asian Alumnae community while preserving communication channels between Asian Alumnae and current and prospective students.
Peabody Essex MuseumSenior Associate Curator, Development, Exhibition Research and Publications
May. 2013 - Aug. 2014Salem, MASenior management team to drive efforts to deepen, broaden, and increase support from major donors if the Museum during capital campaign. Developed a 5-year strategic vision for major gifts and expanded the pipeline and portfolio of principal and major donors who support the Museum’s visiting exhibitions and public programs, and expansion priorities. Objective to increase philanthropic support 35% during campaign. Worked with development team and head curators to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of prospective and current major donors. Coordinated all exhibition and fundraising efforts with marketing and events team. Provided administrative support for the work of PEM curators and the mission of the museum. Hands-on member of the curatorial team supporting all chief PEM curators in developing exhibitions, researching, managing and implementing curatorial aspects of exhibitions and their related publications, and interpretive materials. -Provided logistical, technical and programming support to development team, chief curators in other areas such as donor engagement, collection development, acquisition research, and institutional advancement.
-Senior lead within curatorial team in problem solving and quality control and supervised and mentored assistant curators.
Youth DesignProgram Coordinator/Grantwriter/Curriculum Design
Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2014Boston, MAYouth Design is a unique summer mentorship program that introduces inner-city high school students to careers in the design profession by providing high quality, paying design jobs in Boston area design firms, agencies, and in-house design departments. The program was founded by Denise Korn and is run in partnership with the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Boston chapter, and Boston’s Private Industry Council (PIC) that organizes the private sector component of Mayor Menino’s Summer Jobs Campaign. -Compose letters of intent, concept notes, proposals, reports, and other correspondence for submission to foundation, corporate, and government funders. Tracking all grant activity on Excel and for report to Board of Trustees.
-Draft and edit online and offline donor focused correspondence. Research private, corporate, and government funding opportunities
-Work with accountant and Executive Director to collect budget information to cultivate an assessment narrative for annual Board Meeting.
-Maintain a portfolio of program and promotional materials that are used as attachments to proposals and grants. Maintain internal deadline calendar for grant proposals and reporting. -Acknowledge and track grants and help manage grant contracts.
-Hiring, training, coordination, and supervision of volunteer staff, solicitation and scheduling of design workshop projects, development and implementation of staff.
Harvard UniversityAga Khan Fellow
Jan. 2010 - Jan. 2011Used the archival resources to conduct research for article publication.
Wellesley CollegeAdmission Alumnae Representative-Volunteer
Sep. 2009 - Jan. 2016Wellesley, MA-Participate as a Reader on Admissions Committee to vet applications for admission and for making admission recommendations. Conduct entrance and exit interviews of graduating seniors as markers for improving programs and campus culture. Conduct on-campus and off-site interviews with applicants including Davis Scholars.
-conduct application and exit interviews and compile reports for Admissions report.
-Assist Faculty and Admissions Office in continually evaluating and modifying all methodology in framework used for admissions criteria and recruiting students.
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Suffolk UniversityAssistant Professor
Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2013Boston, MATeach Art History, Asian Studies, and Women's Studies courses specializing in South Asian and Islamic regions. Student Advising, and Student Affairs and serve on various Faculty Affairs committees and collaborate with academic administration.
Dartmouth CollegeVisting Lecturer
Sep. 2005 - Jun. 2007Teaching Western Art History survey courses with Adrian Randolph, courses in South Asian art history, Honor Thesis Advisor, adjunct curator at the Hood Museum.
Wellesley CollegeVisiting Lecturer
Sep. 2001 - Jun. 2003Wellesley, MAVisiting Lecturer in Art History Dept. teaching Western Art II survey and Islamic art and architecture as well as Women in Art: Eastern and Western Perspectives
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