Mentors

Our community is supported by some of NYC's 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.

 

MENTORS-IN-RESIDENCE


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Rhizome

Zach Kaplan, Executive Director
Aria Dean, Editor and Curator
Dragan Espenschied, Preservation Director
Lyndsey Moulds, Software Curator
Michael Connor, Artistic Director

Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, digital preservation, and software development. Founded by artist Mark Tribe as a listserve including some of the first artists to work online, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history of contemporary art engaged with digital technologies and the internet. Rhizome is a NEW INC anchor tenant and a partner on the Art & Code Track.


Track: Art & Code

 

DEDICATED MENTORS


 

OFFICE HOURS MENTORS


 

MENTOR ALUMNI


Abby Pucker, Madison Wells Media

Adam Huttler, Exponential Creativity Ventures

Adam LaVente, MikMak.tv

Adaora Udoji, RLab

Agatha Kulaga, Co-Founder, Ovenly

Agustin Schang, Architect & Cultural Producer

Alessandra DeBenedetti, Co-Founder, Wallplay

Alexander Rea, Technology ECD

Alexandra Israel, Publicist

Alexandra Serio, Nameless

Ali Goldstein Norup, CEO and Founder, kpiReady

Alice Lloyd George, Investor, RRE

Alma Lacour, Creative Director & Executive Producer

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

Angie Gentile, Rent the Runway

Anna Konstantinova, Arnold Worldwide

Arden Sherman, Hunter East Harlem Gallery

Asher Remy-Toledo, Director & Founder, Hyphen Hub

Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseind, Parsons The New School of Design

Bahiyah Robinson, Robinson Plus

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

Casper Franken, Shotopop

Cathleen Lewis, Museum of Arts and Design

Chad Pry, RecruitiFi

Charles Marshall, Parc Office

Cherae Robinson, Tastemakers Africa

Chris Dannen, Managing Director, Iterative Capital

Christine Turner, Filmmaker

Christopher Paretti, Prime Produce

Chrysanthe Tenentes, Brooklyn Based

Clarissa Redwine, Crowdfunding Expert

Cornell DeWitt, Publisher & Co-Founder, Daily Plinth

Craig Ward, Designer

Dana Karwas, Director, Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM)-Yale University

Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO Artsy

Daniel Fountenberry, Abundant Media

Daniel Perlin, Founder, Make_Good

Daniel Romano, Co-Founder & CEO, Good Moose

Danielle Strle, Make_Good

Dario Laverde, Senior Developer Evangelist, HTC

Dave Rife, Dave & Gabe

David Borish, neo5G

David Goligorsky, IDEO

David Schwarz, HUSH

David Sheinkopf, Pioneerworks

Dennis Szakacs, Chief Operating Officer, New Museum

Devon Dolan, Cinetic Media

Eli Kuslansky, Chief Strategist & Partner, Unified Field

Elizabeth Furze, Managing Partner, AKA NYC

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

Gabe Liberti, Dave & Gabe

Gabo Arora, Filmmaker

Helena Anrather, Artist

Holly Hunter, Director of Projects & Artist Residencies, National Sawdust

Ian Carnevale, Andela

Ian Sullivan, Hessel Museum

Iliya Fridman, Managing Partner, Fridman Law Group

Inga Barchan, Mooreland Partners

Jacqui Moore, Brits in the Box

James Boo, Filmmaker

James George, Scatter

Jamie Singer, CEO & Co-Founder, Ussie

Jana Jarosz, Designer, Art Director

Jason Huff

Jason Madhosingh, Founder, madgood.co

Jason Shin, Co-Founder & President, Wonderspaces

Jeanne Pinder, Founder & CEO, ClearHealthCosts

Jennifer Edwards, Better

Jennifer Grosso, Senior Project Manager, Alloy Development

Jesse Finkelstein, Print all over me

Joanna Raczkiewicz, Grants and Corporate Sponsorship Manager, New Museum

Joe Chittenden-Veal, Investor & Data Scientist, Greycroft

Jordan Magid, Founder, Unconventional Group

Julianna Morais, Vice President of Design, Henrybuilt

Julie Solovyeva, Director of Cultural Programming, NeueHouse Madison Square

Kai Bond, Catalyst Fund

Kane Hsieh, Brilliant Bicycle Co

Karen Yau Østensjø, Lead Experience Designer, 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

Kati Nawrocki, Studio Art Director, Dots

Katrina Conanan, TED

Keith White, Keith White, PLLC

Keri Elmsly, SVP Immersive Development and Production, MSG Sphere Studios

Kiarash Adl, Technical Consultant, Ossum.tv

Kim Mackenzie, Brand Strategist

Kunal Mehta, NYC Innovation Fund

Larry Ossei-Mensah, ArtNoir / MoCAD

Laura Fox, General Manager, Lyft Bikes and Scooters

Laura Kleger, Director-Interactive, Guggenheim Museum

Lauren Wagner, Product Marketing Manager, Google

Layne Braunstein, Principal/SVP Creative, ESI Design

Leandra Tejedor, Vidcode

Linda Steele, Founder & CEO, ArtUp

Lisa Niedermeyer, Fractured Atlas

Livia Veneziano, Design Director, Method

Lou Huang, Founder & CEO, Streetmix

Louis Bickford, CEO, MEMRIA

Luis A. Navia, Skypod Aerosapce & Perceptual Production

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

Marlene Ramirez-Cancio, Fulana

Marlin Adams, Attorney

Martin Adolfsson, Photographer & Artist, InsaneLittleProjects

Masashi Kawamura, PARTY

Matias Corea, Behance

Matthew Niederhauser, Co-Founder, Sensorium

Matthew Rader, Reed + Rader

Maurice Cherry, Creative Strategist, Glitch

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

Milica Zec, New Reality Co

Molly Logan, Irregular Labs

Natalie Salazar, Tetro

Nelson Saldaña, Consultant, ReD Associates

Nicolas Moessner, Strategic Business Consultant, Impact Investments

Nina Dinoff, Designer

Nitzan Hermon, Founder & Consultant, Future of Agency

Noah Robischon, Fastcompany

Opeyemi Olukemi, Tribeca Film Institute

Or Fleisher, Vimeo

Pamela Reed, Reed + Rader

Paul Amitai

Paul Soulellis, Soulellis Studios

Peter M. Krask, Founder & Creative Director, The Creativity Guide

Peter Martin, SFX Studios

Phil Chang, Bondstreet

Phil Cox, Project Coordinator, Pentagram

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

Reena Agarwal, Co-Founder and COO, Center for Active Design

Ricky Chen, Catalogue.Lab

Rise Wilson, The Highline / Rauchenberg Foundation

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 Garfield, Independent

Sebastien Park, IDEO

Seth Mcrokza, Collins

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

Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Director of Research, BMCC, City University of New York

Simon Heather, IDEO

Sonia Shechet Epstein, Museum of the Moving Image

Sophie Kahn, Sculptor & Digital Artist

Sophie Lucas, Fair Director, The Other Art Fair

Spencer Wright, nTopology

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

Sumeet Shah, Brand Foundry Ventures

Taeyoon Choi, School for Poetic Computation

Tara DePorte, Executive Director and Founder, The Human Impacts Institute

Ted Hayes, UX Designer, Artist, Educator

Tega Brain, Assistant Professor of Digital Media, New York University

Tim Nolan, HUGE

Tom Critchlow, Independent Strategy Consultant

Toni Dove, Artist

Tracey Knuckles, Practice Lead-Cultural Assets Management Team, Bloomberg Associates

Tyler Lafreniere, Senior Experience Designer, Adobe

Ulli Barta, Creative Strategist, Entrepreneurial Midwife & Founder, Studio 55

Valentin Spiess, Chairman, CEO & Founder, iart

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

Winslow Porter, Co-Founder & Director, New Reality Co.

Yago de Quay, Innovation Manager, Intel

Ying Quan Tan, School for Poetic Computation

Yulia YY Yakushova, WPP

Zeina Abi Assy, Director of Interactive Programs, Tribeca Film Institute

Zohar Kfir