Leonie Bradbury (she/her)

Leonie is the Henry and Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art Theory and Practice + distinguished curator-in-residence at Emerson College.

As a leading curator of contemporary art, Dr. Leonie Bradbury has excelled in roles at academic and cultural institutions and built a strong reputation as an astute reader of contemporary culture. She has curated innovative exhibitions that seek to provide critical and social commentary through the lens of art. Prior to Emerson, she served as the director of art and creative initiatives at HUBweek. Leonoie Bradbury teaches in the Department of Visual & Media Arts in addition to curating and directing the Media Art Gallery, administering the Huret & Spector Gallery, and serving on the School of the Arts Public Art Think Tank.

Jason Weeks (he/him)

Jason is the executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, a city department and public nonprofit agency that engages residents and visitors through programming designed to stimulate awareness, participation, and support for the arts. Jason works with an advisory board, trustees of the nonprofit Cambridge Public Art Commission, elected officials, city administration, and agency staff to oversee an award-winning Public Art/Percent-for-Art program, the Cambridge Arts Grant Program, Cambridge Street Performer Program, and a variety of annual produced events including Cambridge River Festival, Summer in the City, and Cambridge Open Studios.

Nitasha Manchanda PhD (she/her)

Nitasha is a geneticist and philanthropist. She is the Founder of The Indian Edit podcast.

Ethan Vogt (he/him)

Ethan is a filmmaker, curator, and placemaker whose work explores the intersection of culture, community, and the built environment.

He studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard College, and has produced three theatrically released independent films, including Funny Ha Ha (dir. Andrew Bujalski), as well as large-scale public art events such as Bring to Light (Brooklyn, NY) and Camden Night Gardens (Camden, NJ).

His curatorial projects include The Laboratory of Longing, an exhibition on art and science with artist Ani Liu.

Currently the Executive Director of East Boston Main Streets, Ethan leads creative programming that supports small businesses and celebrates cultural diversity in East Boston.

Eva Zasloff MD (she/her)

Eva is a family physician and a painter.  She is the founder of Tova Health, a home-based model of care for newborn and postpartum medicine. She is also one of the sisters of Sisters Body, a clean hair and body line that donates 40% of their profits to reproductive rights organizations. She is an artist who focuses her work on birth and the biology that surrounds it. Her work is gestural and experimental — often working on large surfaces and incorporating natural materials including wood resin, egg, and clay. She has a studio / work space at The Barn of Schwamb Mill in Arlington, MA where she hosts and curates art exhibits and community gatherings.

Graham M. Jones (he/him)

Graham M. Jones is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT.

He is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist who explores how people use language and other media to enact expertise in practice, performance, and interaction. After studying literature at Reed College (BA, 1998) and anthropology at New York University (PhD, 2007), he was a postdoctoral member of the Princeton Society of Fellows (2007-2010). His two monographs constitute a diptych: Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician’s Craft (California, 2011) describes day-to-day life and everyday talk within the insular subculture of contemporary French illusionists; Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy (Chicago, 2017) examines the meaning of magic in Western modernity, shuttling between the intellectual history of anthropology and the cultural history of popular entertainment. Alongside these books, he has a third set of projects investigating how language and culture shape, and are in turn shaped by, the way people use technologies of digital communication. At MIT, he teaches classes on a range of subjects, including: the anthropology of education; the language of mediated communication; and ethnographic research methods.

Melissa Gallin (she/her)

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Wendy Swart Grossman (she/her)

Wendy Swart Grossman lives, plays and works at the intersection of creativity, community and social impact. A faculty member at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business she is the Co-founder of Creative Re/Frame helping artists to astrophysicists, students and entrepreneurs tell their authentic stories to amplify their work and build the world we all want to be living in.

Originally from Minnesota, Wendy comes from an activist background cutting her teeth in national and international politics. She has also lived for months on her bike, out of a backpack, and a Winnebago Itasca Explorer.