Carrie obtained her MA from NYU in Florence, where she researched and wrote on the ties between the arts and political power in 15th and 16th century Italy.
Since then she has made a career working with mission-driven nonprofit organizations including Effie Worldwide (the leading marketing education & awards program in the U.S.), and the Smithsonian-affiliated USS Hornet Sea, Air, and Space Museum (where she created educational youth & community programming).
Carrie has spent the last six years as a member of the small but mighty team at Oakland-rooted Zoo Labs - a first of its kind nonprofit artist accelerator that empowers artists as entrepreneurs, supporting them on their path to financial sustainability and uplifting them as they own and amplify their creative projects & businesses.
Throughout the Pandemic, Carrie helped lead Zoo Labs' transition to fully remote programming and took on a key leadership role in the production & launch of Zoo Labs' new online school for creative entrepreneurs, Zoo Labs: LEARN.
She is passionate about programming that creates equitable opportunities to rethink and reshape traditional models - in creative landscapes and beyond.More...