Mentors
Our community is supported by top professionals in the fields of art, design, technology, and entrepreneurship. Through monthly meetings and ongoing guidance, mentors help our members develop as creatives and future leaders. Meet our Year 11 Mentors below!
MENTORS-IN-RESIDENCE
Eileen Isagon Skyers
Art & Code
Eileen Isagon Skyers is a writer, curator, and artist based in New York. She has nearly a decade of experience contextualizing media art and producing online exhibitions across non-profit and contemporary arts institutions, among them, David Zwirner, Rhizome, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Elizabeth Hénaff
Creative Science
Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff is a computational biologist with an art practice and has produced a body of work that ranges from scientific articles to artworks shown nationally and internationally. She leads the Laboratory for Living Interfaces where she investigates microbial metrics in urban environments with a focus on anthropogenic change, alongside students in design, engineering, and biology.
Danielle McPhatter
Extended Realities
Danielle McPhatter is a Creative Technologist at EY focused on the building experiences by leveraging emerging technology such as the metaverse, XR and interactive systems. She is also an artist working across a variety of technologies and mediums such as, but not limited to: IoT, sensing/physical computing, hybrid experiences, movement and sound.
Isabel Flower
Social Architecture
Isabel Attyah Flower is an editor and writer living in NYC. She is executive editor of Deem Journal, public discourse manager at re:arc institute, and editorial director of Foundwork. Her writings on art, design, and cultures of consumption have been published by Artforum, Bookforum, Kaleidoscope, Cultured, and The Wall Street Journal, among other outlets and journals.
Maura Cuffie
Cooperative Studies
Maura Cuffie-Peterson is a facilitator and strategist working at the intersections of economic justice and arts & culture. Currently, she serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Guaranteed Income program at Creatives Rebuild New York, stewarding one of the largest guaranteed income demonstrations in the nation.
COMMUNITY MENTORS
DEDICATED MENTORS
OFFICE HOURS MENTORS
MENTOR ALUMNI
Abby Pucker, Madison Wells Media
Adam Huttler, Exponential Creativity Ventures
Adam Katz, Imprint Projects
Adam LaVente, MikMak.tv
Adaora Udoji, RLab
Adekemi Sijuwade, Eyebeam
Agatha Kulaga, Co-Founder, Ovenly
Agustin Schang, Architect & Cultural Producer
Akanksha Vyas, Technology Consultant
Akilah Scharff, VISSEN
Alec Bemis, Brassland
Alessandra DeBenedetti, Co-Founder, Wallplay
Alexander Rea, Technology ECD
Alexandra Serio, Nameless
Ali Goldstein Norup, CEO and Founder, kpiReady
Alice Lloyd George, Investor, RRE
Alma Lacour, Creative Director & Executive Producer
Amanda Schochet, MICRO
Amani Olu, IMG SRVR, Olu & Company, Detroit Art Week
Amélie Lamont, Product Designer, Writer
Amy Andrieux, MoCADA
Anand Agarawala, Spatial
Anders Sandell, TANK & BEAR
Andrew Deitchman, Mother
Androniki Lagos, Senior Consultant, Urbane Development
Andy Rooks, Strategy Director, Theory Marketing
Angeline Gragasin, Happy Family Market
Angie Gentile, Rent the Runway
Anna Konstantinova, Arnold Worldwide
Anna Oh
Annie-b Parson
Arden Sherman, Hunter East Harlem Gallery
Ari Melenciano, Afrotectopia
Arianna Orland, Meta
Aryana Anderson, AAA Media Consultancy
Asher Remy-Toledo, Director & Founder, Hyphen Hub
Ashley Hefnawy
Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseind, Parsons The New School of Design
Bahiyah Robinson, VC Include
Ben Curwin, Sero Partners
Beyza Boyacioglu, Filmmaker
Bill Browning, Co-Founding Partner, Terrapin Bright Green
Brad Augustine, Mirror
Bre Pettis, MakerBot Industries
Brian Dell, Program Director, Tachyon Accelerator
Brynna Tucker, Brooklyn Public Library
Cameron Cundiff, Software Engineer/Voice, Adobe
Carly Ayres, Writer & Creative Director
Carol Parkinson, Harvest Works
Casper Franken, Shotopop
Cathleen Lewis, Museum of Arts and Design
Ceci Moss
Celeste Layne
Chad Pry, RecruitiFi
Charles Marshall, Parc Office
Charles Philipp, MICRO
Che-wei Wang, CW&T
Cherae Robinson, Tastemakers Africa
Chetan Mahajan, Digital Health
Chris Dannen, Managing Director, Iterative Capital
Christina Wallace, Harvard Business School
Christine Turner, Filmmaker
Christopher Paretti, Prime Produce
Chrysanthe Tenentes, Brooklyn Based
Cori Olinghouse, The Portal
Cornell DeWitt, Publisher & Co-Founder, Daily Plinth
Craig Ward, Designer
Dahkil Hausif, Sunshowah Films
Dana Karwas, Director, Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM)-Yale University
Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO Artsy
Daniel Fountenberry, Abundant Media
Daniel Perlin
Daniel Romano, Co-Founder & CEO, Good Moose
Danielle Bennison, Brown DBB & Partners
Danielle Strle, Make_Good
Dario Laverde, Senior Developer Evangelist, HTC
Dave Rife, Dave & Gabe
David Borish, neo5G
David Goligorsky, IDEO
David Liu, AFVR.co
David Schwarz, HUSH
David Sheinkopf, Pioneerworks
Dawn Sinkowski
Del Johnson, Indie.vc
Dennis Szakacs, Chief Operating Officer, New Museum
Devon Dolan, Cinetic Media
Dimitri Kim, X-Lab
Dorothy Walter
Dupe Ajayi, Airbnb
Eli K
Elizabeth Furze, Managing Partner, AKA NYC
Emma Osore, Black Space
Emma Buttin, Villa Albertine
Emilie Baltz, Designer
Emily Goligoski, Senior Director of Audience Research, The Atlantic
Erik Fabian, Founder, Upright Brand
Eshena D. Roman, Marketing Executive
Eugene Ahn, R/GA
Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby
Frances Cathryn, wip projects
Francesca Panetta
Gabe Liberti, Dave & Gabe
Gabo Arora, Filmmaker
Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, ALMA Communications
Helena Anrather, Artist
HJ Jo, Apple
Holly Hunter, Director of Projects & Artist Residencies, National Sawdust
Ian Carnevale, Andela
Ian Sullivan, Hessel Museum
Ida Benedetto
Iliya Fridman, Managing Partner, Fridman Law Group
Inga Barchan, Mooreland Partners
J. Soto, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art
Jacob Gordon, Artiphon
Jacqui Moore, Brits in the Box
James Boo, Filmmaker
James George, Scatter
Jaime Moore
Jamie Singer, CEO & Co-Founder, Ussie
Jason Huff
Jason Shin, Co-Founder & President, Wonderspaces
Jasmin Jodry
Jay Mollica, Pérez Art Museum Miami
Jeanne Pinder, Founder & CEO, ClearHealthCosts
Jeff Stark, Nonsense NYC
Jeffrey Bergman, Pace Prints
Jennie Lamensdorf, Pérez Art Museum Miami
Jennifer Edwards, Better
Jennifer Grosso, Senior Project Manager, Alloy Development
Jesse Finkelstein, Print all over me
Jessica Huang, John Brown Media
Jessica Johnson, Snapchat
Jim Olson
Joanna Raczkiewicz, Grants and Corporate Sponsorship Manager, New Museum
Joe Brennan, Gensler / Columbia University
Joe Chittenden-Veal, Investor & Data Scientist, Greycroft
John Cline, Google/ShelfLife
John Fitzgerald, Sensorium
Jonathan Askin, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic
Jordan Magid, Founder, Unconventional Group
Julianna Morais, Vice President of Design, Henrybuilt
Julio Terra, Launch Studio
Kai Bond, Catalyst Fund
Kane Hsieh, Brilliant Bicycle Co
Karen Yau, BCG Digital Ventures
Karla Rodriguez, Production Manager, Firelight Media, LLC
Karolina Ziulkoski, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Kate Singleton, Founder & Owner, Buy Some Damn Art
Kathleen Forde, Superblue
Kati Nawrocki, Studio Art Director, Dots
Katrina Conanan, TED
Keith White, Keith White, PLLC
Kelsa Trom, Simons Foundation
Keri Elmsly, SVP Immersive Development and Production, MSG Sphere Studios
Kiarash Adl
Kim Mackenzie, Brand Strategist
Klaudia Ofwona Draber, KODA
Kristin Gutekunst, Overview Collective
Krystal Persaud, SolarHug
Kunal Mehta, NYC Innovation Fund
Larry Ossei-Mensah, ArtNoir / MoCAD
Laura Fox, Lyft
Lauren Sinreich, Whole Innovation and Design
Lauren Wagner, Product Marketing Manager, Google
Layne Braunstein, ESI Design, an NBBJ Studio
Leandra Tejedor, Vidcode
Leonie Kruizenga
LILLIAN Tong
Linda Steele, Founder & CEO, ArtUp
Lisa Niedermeyer, Fractured Atlas
Lisa Wirth, Work in Progress Ventures
Livia Veneziano, Design Director, Method
Lloyd Cambridge, Progress Playbook
Lou Huang, Founder & CEO, Streetmix
Louisa St. Pierre, MA Worldgroup
Luis A. Navia, Skypod Aerosapce & Perceptual Production
Lukas Bentel
Lukas Fitze
Lylan Masterman, General Partner, White Star Capital
Lynn Goldstein, Founder, GDPRsimple
Magda Tomaszewski, Brand Director, B-Reel NY
Magnus Resch, Art Market Economist, Entrepreneur, & Author
Mansi Gupta, Founder, Unconform Studio
Manuel Dilone, Form&
Manuel Miranda, Designer and Educator, Manuel Miranda Practice (MMP)
Manushka Magloire, AFROPUNK
Marc DaCosta, Co-Founder & Chairman, Enigma
Marc Kirschner, Marquee Arts Ltd
Marcie Chin, CodeScty | California College of the Arts - MBA in Design Strategy
Maria Stanisheva, ANIMADOCS
Mariana Schaffer, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
Marina Vasquez
Mark Belinsky
Marlene Ramirez-Cancio, Fulana
Marlin Adams, Attorney
Martin Adolfsson, Photographer & Artist, InsaneLittleProjects
Mary Rinaldi, Soulcarousel, Inc.
Masashi Kawamura, PARTY
Matias Corea, Behance
Matthew Niederhauser, Sensorium
Matthew Rader, Reed + Rader
Maurice Cherry, Creative Strategist, Glitch
Max Kuo, ALLTHATISSOLID, Harvard GSD, MIT SA+P
May Shek
Melanie Kahl, Community Programs & Scaled Partnership Manager, Facebook
Meredith Finklestein, Print all over me
Mia Tramz, Editorial Director-Enterprise & Immersive Experiences, TIME
Michael Hochberg, Elenion
Michelle Morrison, Dropbox
Milica Zec, New Reality Co
Mindy Seu, Cyberfeminism Index
Molly Logan, Irregular Labs
Natalie Salazar, Tetro
Neeharika Sinha, Facebook
Nelson Saldaña, Consultant, ReD Associates
Nicholas Fox-Gieg, Nick Fox-Gieg Animation
Nicolas Moessner, Strategic Business Consultant, Impact Investments
Nicole Merritt Chari, National Sawdust
Nina Dinoff, Designer
Nitzan Hermon, Founder & Consultant, Future of Agency
Noah Robischon, Fastcompany
Nouf Aljowaysir, ThoughtWorks Arts
Opeyemi Olukemi, Tribeca Film Institute
Or Fleisher, Vimeo
Pamela Reed, Reed + Rader
Patrick O'Keefe, Self-Employed
Paul Amitai
Paul Soulellis, Soulellis Studios
Peter Martin, SFX Studios
Phil Chang, Bondstreet
Phil Cox, Project Coordinator, Pentagram
Phil Weiss, Legal Hackers
Pi-Isis Ankhra
Preeti Sodhi, Founder/Urban Planner, Downtown Planning Lab
R. Luke DuBois, New York University
Rachel Wilkins, Co-Founder & CEO, Conception Arts
Rama Allen, Executive Creative Director, The Mill
Ramphis Castro, Co-Founder, ScienceVest
Rasu Jilani, Lambent Foundation
Reena Agarwal, Co-Founder and COO, Center for Active Design
Reena Jana
Rich Greco, Droga5
Richard Nash, Coach, Entrepreneur & Publisher
Ricky Chen, Catalogue.Lab
Rise Wilson, The Highline / Rauchenberg Foundation
Robert Morris, Sunbunker
Ryoichi Yamazaki, r-y-z
Sabine Seymour, SUPA
Sabrina Dridje, Founder, Between
Sabriya Stukes, Assistant Director, Master's in Translational Medicine (MTM) program, The City College
Sam Cash, Betaworks
Samantha Diamond, CultureConnect
Samantha Garfield, Independent
Samarth Bhaskar
Sandy Kyin, Berkeley Partnership
Sebastien Park, IDEO
Seth Mcrokza, Collins
Sean Green, Arternal
Seth Cluett
Shaka McGlotten, Professor of Media Studies and Anthropology, Purchase College-SUNY
Shana Dressler, Consultant
Shani Syphrett, Founder, Jamila Studio
Shannon Washington, inVNT
Shaun Tollerton, ustwo
Sheetal Prajapati, Lohar Projects
Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Director of Research, BMCC, City University of New York
Simon Heather, IDEO
Sonia Shechet Epstein, Museum of the Moving Image
Sophie Kahn, Independent Artist
Sophie Lucas, Fair Director, The Other Art Fair
Spencer Wright, nTopology
Stacy Schoonmaker, Facebook
Stanley Lumax, Teranga
Stella Kim, MIXLAB
Stephanie Dinkins, Artist
Stephanie Sherman, Strategist, UC San Diego Center for Design and Geopolitics
Stephen Rutterford, ShadowRunner
Stephen Spyropoulos, Co-Founder, Minimaforms / VP of Product Design, Compass
Sterling Proffer, ProfferCo
Sumeet Shah, Brand Foundry Ventures
Taeyoon Choi, School for Poetic Computation
Tara DePorte, Executive Director and Founder, The Human Impacts Institute
Taüs Jafar, Independent Artist
Ted Hayes, UX Designer, Artist, Educator
Tega Brain, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, New York University
Tikva Morowati, Hello Sunshine
Tim Nolan, HUGE
Tina Essmaker
Tom Critchlow, Independent Strategy Consultant
Tomas Uribe, Stereotheque
Toni Dove, Artist
Tony Patrick
Tracey Knuckles, Practice Lead-Cultural Assets Management Team, Bloomberg Associates
Tricia Wang
Tyler Lafreniere, Senior Experience Designer, Adobe
Ulli Barta, Creative Strategist, Entrepreneurial Midwife & Founder, Studio 55
Valentin Spiess, Chairman, CEO & Founder, iart
Vallejo Gantner, Onassis Foundation
Vance Garrett, VGP
Venetia Taylor, Google
Victoria Foster, Better Future
Victoria Stockman, Co-Founder, CROSBY
Vince Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights
Vincent Ponzo, Columbia Business School
Vincent Steurs, Lead Experience Designer, BCG Digital Ventures
Wayne Suiter Matamoros, Global Lead/ Fjord Evolution, Fjord
William Foulkes, Faculty, Rhode Island School of Design
Yago de Quay, Innovation Manager, Intel
Ying Quan Tan, School for Poetic Computation
Yulia YY Yakushova, WPP
Zachariah Mattheus
Zeina Abi Assy, Director of Interactive Programs, Tribeca Film Institute
Zoe Salditch, HUSH Studios
Zohar Kfir