SUMMER INSTITUTE @ MASS MoCA: Communications Manager, 2010 - 2015
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is a utopian educational residency program dedicated entirely to the creation, study, and performance of the most adventurous art of our time. An annual three-week intensive of public performances, recitals, and lectures, the Festival is attended by over 50 young cutting-edge composers and performers from around the globe, including 37 fellows selected from a pool of over 250 applicants from 17 countries. The festival includes daily performances in the museum galleries, dozens of main-stage concerts performed by the festival ensembles and special guests, African and Latin music workshops, electronics and music business seminars, free events in the community, and more.
I first learned of the Summer Institute in 2004 when I attended as a flutist, and over the following 10 years my involvement spanned into the marketing, PR, and editorial realms. From 2010-2015, I wrote promotional copy securing press coverage in Rolling Stone, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, and more; filmed and edited a fundraising video raising over $10,000 in tuition support, composed and distributed over three dozen e-newsletters reaching an audience of over 20,000 readers, and served as communications liaison between MASS MoCA and BOAC's marketing teams.
I first learned of the Summer Institute in 2004 when I attended as a flutist, and over the following 10 years my involvement spanned into the marketing, PR, and editorial realms. From 2010-2015, I wrote promotional copy securing press coverage in Rolling Stone, PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, and more; filmed and edited a fundraising video raising over $10,000 in tuition support, composed and distributed over three dozen e-newsletters reaching an audience of over 20,000 readers, and served as communications liaison between MASS MoCA and BOAC's marketing teams.
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ONEBEAT: Communications Consultant, 2012 - 2014
OneBeat is an international cultural exchange that celebrates the transformative power of the arts through the creation of original, inventive music and people-to-people diplomacy. Produced by Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, OneBeat brings together 25 musicians (ages 19-35) from 16 countries around the world for four weeks to collaboratively write, produce, and perform original music, and develop ways that music can make a positive impact on local and global communities.
As a communications consultant, I have played a central role in OneBeat's social media presence, creating and launching the program's Facebook and Twitter accounts during the inaugural installment in fall of 2012. I managed institutional branding via multimedia posts and e-blasts on behalf of parent organization Bang on a Can, and working with OneBeat's founders and publicist, I helped secure press coverage in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
As a communications consultant, I have played a central role in OneBeat's social media presence, creating and launching the program's Facebook and Twitter accounts during the inaugural installment in fall of 2012. I managed institutional branding via multimedia posts and e-blasts on behalf of parent organization Bang on a Can, and working with OneBeat's founders and publicist, I helped secure press coverage in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.