Strategic thinker who synthesizes complex cultural narratives into cohesive visitor journeys that balance scholarly rigor with public accessibility. My approach centers on building interpretive frameworks that honor diverse voices while maintaining narrative clarity—whether orchestrating information flows between international curatorial teams or translating specialized knowledge into engaging experiences for broad audiences.

Skilled at navigating the intersection of creative vision and institutional realities, I facilitate productive collaboration between stakeholders with competing priorities, ensuring design cohesion while meeting client expectations. My leadership style emphasizes consensus-building and iterative refinement, drawing on experience managing projects across cultural, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. 

Bring a distinctive perspective that merges material culture scholarship with technological fluency, enabling me to envision visitor experiences that leverage both physical and digital affordances. My work demonstrates commitment to ethical storytelling that interrogates power dynamics in cultural representation while creating emotionally resonant encounters.

Particular strength in establishing scalable content strategies and editorial systems that support long-term institutional sustainability. I understand museums as civic spaces where interpretation shapes public discourse, and approach every project as an opportunity to advance equity, accessibility, and meaningful cultural engagement.

Head of Digital Content and Strategy – Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (2022-present)

Responsible for crafting an intentional storytelling-driven visitor experience and developing content strategy, editorial mission, and voice for the museum. Lead Editorial and Digital Content team to develop written, multimedia, and interactive content. 

• Rubin Museum website: Oversaw recent redesign, including contracting of design and development firm, and implementation of new branding. Launched new  Spiral content stream containing editorial articles, fiction, audio and video series, and interactives. Revised online collection to include high-resolution zoomable imagery, 360° rotating views, embedded video and interactives. Used API to synchronize collection database and taxonomies with web front-end. Designed complex linking schema connecting collection with exhibitions, collaborations, and Spiral stream. Use data analytics and SEO to guide the production a minimum of two new pieces weekly. 
• Project Himalayan Art: Transmedia project that includes a publication, traveling exhibition, and digital platform to enhance the study of Himalayan art and culture in colleges and universities. Lead development of design and UX of the digital platform including over 120 essays, 500 supporting objects, and 70 pieces of video, audio, and interactive content. Includes robust mapping and map narrative system, and QR code connections between physical exhibition and digital platform.
• Content Produced and Managed: 
  •  AWAKEN podcast (5 seasons with over 20,000 downloads per episode) 
  •  Mindfulness Meditation podcast (over 1.4 million downloads over 10 years)    
  •  Smarthistory Video Collaboration (more than 70,000 views in 18 months)
  • Google Arts and Culture Collaborations:   3D Street View building walkthrough, high-resolution Art Captures, Moving Paintings art animations, and Arts and Culture pages
  •  Spiral print magazine
  •  Exhibition interactives
  •  Art interactives

Clinical Associate Professor, Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement (XE) – Graduate School of Arts & Science, New York University (2015-2022)

• Affiliated Faculty: Integrated Design and Media; International Relations

XE is an interdisciplinary program that integrates theory and practice with art and activism through analog and digital experimentation. Research focused on critical digital studies, digital humanities, geography, history of technology, political economy and sociology of culture.

Co-Director – Digital Humanities Research Center and Master’s Program in Data, Culture, and Visualization, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia (2018-2022)

The DH Research Center integrates technical and scientific work into humanities curricula, providing new opportunities within the university and across Russia. Guided curriculum, funding and publications efforts, and aligned center with changes in the field.

Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab – Bard Graduate Center (2009-2015)

This hybrid position combined a professorship in the cultural history of media and technology with an administrative position focused on implementing innovative digital media practices in curricular, exhibition, and research projects. Under my guidance, the BGC became a leader in integrating digital media into material culture research and pedagogy. 

The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads, Co-Curator, Freer|Sackler Asian Art Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute. (Launched 2019)

Digital global art history project that tells the story of the influential role of the Sogdians, traders from Central Asia during the Middle Ages, on the Silk Roads. Interconnected texts, photography, interactive 3D models, and in-depth maps tell the story of how the Sogdians developed trade routes and exercised influence through mobility, language, religious flexibility, and visual culture rather than political and military might.

The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing – Curator. Bard Graduate. New York. (April-July 2015)

This transmedia exhibition explored the role of design and materiality in our experiences of personal computing. Physical exhibition allowed users to physically touch devices and digitally interact with historically significant computing devices through custom applications: Commodore 64, Macintosh Plus, PalmPilot, iPad, and Microsoft Kinect. A responsive web application and award-winning book provided contextual and interpretive information on the exhibition and its objects.

Bard Graduate Center Focus Gallery – Digital Creative Director (2009-2015)

The Focus Gallery connects object studies and exhibition practice allowing scholars to convey their work in physical and digital spaces using innovative experiences created through bespoke design processes. 

• Visualizing 19^th-Century New York – Digital publication and two touchscreen gallery interactives. Web-accessible digital publication includes interactive map providing access to essays & exhibition objects, and interactive experiences describing publishing practices and important locations using archival prints.