As a leader in the New York City Information Technology community, I have created business development and outreach programs with the goal toward elevating and connecting technology leaders and practitioners across industry and government. My experience includes group facilitation and coaching for individual, nonprofit and business clients as well as negotiating partnership agreements, sponsorships and MOUs, and event planning. I have co-produced business and personal development events at the United Nations, Fund for the City of New York, New York Public Library, Bloomberg, PwC, Columbia University, NYU, etc.
Business Development
Training and Advising Startups: I am a small business advisor and experienced entrepreneur. I have facilitated trainings and mentoring for several founder incubator programs and individual startups. I served as an advisor for design at Mucktracker, a K-12 EdTech startup building a media literacy app for developing informed news consumers. I have delivered trainings on customer development and user experience design at Impact Hub NYC, Startup Leadership Program NYC and Project Two.Eight, a Columbia Venture Community program.
I am a long time advisor of Technology Transfer Days, and have facilitated introductions, mentoring and collaborative learning experiences for academic and small business innovators looking to work with federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. I have also provided training and workshops on information architecture and accessible design for the Science Gateways Community Institute.
Connecting GIS Leaders: As a board member of GISMO, a NYC-based geographic information systems association, I developed programs to connect startup communities to one another, to Federal Government agencies and to the public. Notable achievements include facilitating events introducing geospatial startup and other IT CEOs to U.S. Department of Defense officials including Robert Cardillo, former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and his senior staff, as well as innovation officers at the Department of Homeland Security, Naval Post Graduate School, National Defense University and US Army CENTCOMM and NORTHCOMM operations.
I have participated in planning and facilitating several public events connecting geospatial leaders and academics with partners including the New York Public Library, the Queens Museum, Brooklyn SBDC and the Fund for the City of New York. I am a mentor for the GISMO Job Fair held annually at Hunter College. I am also developing COGITO, an association of GIS leaders from GISMO, New York State GIS Association, URISA, GeoNYC Meetup, ESRI, BetaNYC and directors of academic geography programs at CUNY, Columbia, NYU, and Pratt Institute.
Individual Mentoring and Coaching: People I have mentored have gone on to successful design careers at Capital One Bank, MasterCard and other notable positions. I have provided speaker coaching at the Information Architecture Summit and IAC and offer coaching on presentation and speaking. I gave testimony at the 2019 NYC Charter Revisions hearings of New York City Council and a statement on Dark Patterns at the May 2022 CPPA Pre-Ruling Stakeholder Sessions, and can help craft a persuasive presentation for similar venues.
Community Development Programs
Mentoring the Creative Community: I am a member of several professional associations and meetups that connect and train designers and creative professionals. I served many years as the operations manager for the Information Architecture Institute, developing programs for designers working in digital space. I am a mentor in the User Experience Professionals Association’s New York City Chapter.
I am a documentarian and co-chair of the NYC American Theatre Archive Project, providing preservation tools and guidance to small theater groups in New York. I have co-lead workshops on theater preservation at the CUNY Graduate School and the Center for Jewish History.
Elevating Women: I am a founding member of Columbia College Women and developed a mentoring program through the Columbia College Alumni Association connecting undergraduates to alumnae in fields of interest. I continue to mentor students through the CCAA’s Odyssey Mentoring program.
I served as a delegate to the United Nations program on Women and Technology as a guest of World Pulse, a women’s citizen journalism platform and was an advisor to Women in Open Source, a participant in the Open Camps program at the United Nations, where I presented on Mentoring Women in Technology in 2016.
I continue to speak on and advise programs in developing mentoring and gender diversity initiatives and STEM training for women and girls. I am currently an advisor to Project Two.Eight, a Columbia Venture Community incubator for female founders and Esteem Equalithon, a hackathon for female college students and others who represent underserved communities.
Connecting the Underserved: The technology and information divide continues to put vulnerable and marginalized groups at a disadvantage. Providing tools and training to underserved markets has been a professional and charitable goal of mine for many years. I am working to expand these trainings to organizations who want to connect with these underserved markets through accessible and inclusive design.
I am an advisor to Technology Transfer Days, which connects small businesses and U.S. Veteran entrepreneurs to training, innovation experts and incubators, ranging from local to Federal resources and opportunities. I am also an officer in Kantara Initiative’s Resilient Identifiers for Underserved Populations work group (RIUP-WG), and previously was an advisor on the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group’s trusted identity framework project (IDEFRegistry.org) advocating for user experience and inclusion of vulnerable populations.
I participate in Wikipedia editathons focusing on under-represented groups including indigenous populations, women, African, Latino and Caribbean Americans and the LGBTQ community. I represented Wikimedia at the Information Architecture Institute’s program, Architecting the Information of Georgia House Bill 757 held in May 2016 at the Center for Human and Civil Rights in Atlanta, GA. I have also volunteered as a technical director for the NY Hemophilia Chapter’s annual Walk-a-Thon.
Business Development and Outreach Events
Upcoming
Workshop Facilitator. Safe Tech Audit: Applying IA Heuristics for Digital Product Safety Testing. (March 28, 2023). IAC23: The Information Architecture Conference. New Orleans, LA, USA.
Sponsorship Co-Lead. IAC23: The Information Architecture Conference. (March 28-April 1, 2023). New Orleans, LA.
Workshop Facilitator. Sensemaking, Search and SEO. (May 24, 2023). UX-LX. Lisbon, Portugal.
Past
Planning Committee, 2022 Geospatial Watch Party. (September 29, 2022). New York State GIS Association. Online.
Host. (September 13, 2021). Information Architecture Community Group, W3C TPAC 2022. World Wide Web Consortium.
Workshop Facilitator, User Experience Research: Deriving Insights for Customer Development. (June 1, 2022). Project 2.8. Columbia University. Online.
First Timer Event Host, The Information Architecture Conference. (April 20, 2022). Online.
Advisory Committee, Mentoring Roundtable Chair, Technology Transfer Days. (November 16, 2021). Online.
Host. (October 27, 2021). Information Architecture Community Group, W3C TPAC 2021. World Wide Web Consortium.
Workshop Facilitator, Customer Development. Workshop. (February 23, 2021). Impact Hub of New York. Online.
Advisory Committee, Mentoring Roundtable Chair, Technology Transfer Days. (October 27-29, 2020). Online.
First Timer Event Host, The Information Architecture Conference. (April 27, 2021). Online.
Advisory Committee, Mentoring Roundtable Chair, Technology Transfer Days. (April 27-May 1, 2020). Online.
Co-Chair, The Information Architecture Conference. (April 12-6, 2020). Online.
Advisory Committee, Mentoring Roundtable Chair, Technology Transfer Days. (April 15-19, 2019). Brooklyn SBDC and Microsoft, New York, NY.
Guest Presenter, “Trust and Inclusion in Vulnerable Populations,” Diversity and Inclusion in Information Architecture: 7th Academics and Practitioners Round Table, The Information Architecture Conference. (March 13-14, 2019). Renaissance SeaWorld Resort, Orlando, FL.
Experience Director, The Information Architecture Conference. (March 13-17, 2019). Renaissance SeaWorld Resort, Orlando, FL.
Planning Committee, 2018 Geospatial Summit. (October 25-26, 2018). New York State GIS Association. Welch-Allyn Lodge, Skaneateles, NY.
Advisory Committee, Technology Transfer Days. (April 30-May 7, 2018). NYU Tanden School, Brooklyn, NY and Microsoft, New York, NY.
Workshop Producer, Financial Wellness Workshop. (March 28, 2018). Impact Hub NYC, New York, NY.
Planning Committee and Panel Moderator. (March 8, 2018). Plotting the Stars: A Celebration of Women in GIS. New York City Economic Development Corporation, New York, NY.
Workshop Producer, Financial Wellness Workshop. (February 22, 2018). CUNY School of Social Work, New York, NY.
Workshop Producer, Financial Wellness Workshop. (February 15, 2018). Impact Hub NYC, New York, NY.
Advisory Committee and Panel Moderator, Collaborative Learning Panel, Technology Transfer Days. (April 24-27, 2017). Brooklyn Navy Yard and Hotel Red Lion, Brooklyn, NY and Microsoft, New York, NY.
Wikimedia Foundation Representative, IA Wikipedia Editathon. (March 26, 2017). Information Architecture Summit 2017, Vancouver Hyatt, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Wikimedia Foundation Representative, Diversity and Inclusion in Wikipedia. (March 25, 2017). Information Architecture Summit, 2017, Vancouver Hyatt, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Curation Committee, “Map Mosaic: From Queens to the World.” (October 29-30, 2016). GISMO. Queens Museum, Queens, NY.
Planning Committee, 2016 Geospatial Summit. (October 20-21, 2016). New York State GIS Association. New York University, New York, NY.
Host Committee, Women in Design Tech Leadership. (September 7, 2016). Cooper. New York, NY.
Presenter, Mentoring Women in Technology. (July 16, 2016). Women in Open Source Camp, Open Camps, United Nations, New York, NY.
Advisor, Women in Open Source. (July 16, 2016). Open Camps. United Nations, New York, NY.
Producer, Unite for Humanity Hackathon. (July 9-17, 2016). Open Camps. United Nations, New York, NY.
Event Planner, Geodata Startup/NGA Luncheon. (July 6, 2016). GISMO/U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Fund for the City of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Wikimedia Foundation Representative, Game Night. (May 7, 2016). Information Architecture Summit 2016, Omni Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA.
Wikimedia Foundation Representative, Architecting the Information of Georgia House Bill 757. (May 7, 2016). Information Architecture Institute. Center for Human and Civil Rights, Atlanta, GA.
Advisor, Technology Transfer Days. (September 29-October 2, 2016). Brooklyn Small Business Development Council, Brooklyn, NY.
Lecturer, Program Manager, Chapter Leader Workshop. (September 22-26, 2015). AppSecUSA, OWASP. Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA.
Event Planner, Geodata Startup/NGA Breakfast. (November 19, 2014). GISMO/U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Booz Allen Hamilton, New York, NY, USA.
Event Planner, Geodata Startup Showcase. (November 18, 2014). New York Public Library, New York, NY.
Co-Producer, World IA Day Conference. (February 15, 2014). Information Architecture Institute, New York Open Center, New York University, New York, NY.
Planning Committee, Harnessing the Spatial Data Revolution. (October 25, 2013). GISMO. New York Public Library, New York, NY.
Co-Producer, World IA Day Conference. (February 9, 2013). Information Architecture Institute. Bloomberg, New York, NY.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit 2013. (April 5-7, 2013). ASIS&T. Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit 2012. (March 22-25, 2012). ASIS&T. Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA.
Planning Committee, World IA Day Conference. (February 11, 2012). University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, WebVisions New York. (January 18-20, 2012). Hudson Hotel, New York, NY.
Planning Committee, NYC GeoSymposium 2001-2011-2021. (November 16, 2011). Government Technology Forum. Marriott Hotel, Brooklyn, NY.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit, 2011. (March 30th-April 3, 2011). ASIS&T. Hyatt Regency, Denver, CO.
Planning Committee, IDEA Conference. (September 30-October 2, 2010.) Information Architecture Institute. Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit. (April 9-11, 2010). ASIS&T. Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, AZ.
Hosting Committee, Richard Saul Wurman’s 75th Birthday Celebration. (April 10, 2016). Information Architecture Institute. Phoenix, AZ.
Planning Committee, CCW Intelligent Style Alumnae Fashion Show. (September 13, 2009). Columbia College Women. New York, NY.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit 2009.(March 18-22, 2009). ASIS&T. Peabody Hotel, Memphis, TN.
Planning Committee, IDEA Conference. (October 7-8, 2008).Information Architecture Institute. Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative. Information Architecture Summit 2008.(April 10-14, 2008). ASIS&T. Hyatt Regency, Miami, FL.
Planning Committee, IDEA Conference. (October 4-5, 2007). Information Architecture Institute. The New School, New York, NY.
Information Architecture Institute Sponsor Representative, Information Architecture Summit. (March 22-26, 2007). ASIS&T. Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV.
Co-Chair, Columbia College Women Mentoring Program. (Fall 2002-2009). Columbia College Women. Columbia University, New York, NY.
Facilitator, MYCITI.ORG Youth Program Launch. (2004). Municipal Art Society. Bushwick Academy of Urban Planning, Brooklyn, NY.
Speaker Coordinator/Assistant to Chair, Streaming Media East. (2002). Javits Center, New York, NY.
International Webmaster Association Sponsor Representative, Internet World. (2002). Javits Center, New York, NY.
Webgrrls International Sponsor Representative, TechX. (2002). New York, NY.
Webgrrls International Sponsor Representative, Internet World. (2000). Javits Center.