Arts & Culture Leader / Creative Producer / Social Designer
Bringing 15 years of experience in planning, co-designing, and leading artistically expressive and culturally sensitive systems and interventions that protect and expand creative space, disrupt systemic inequities, and uplift everyday lives.
My work…
builds bridges
connecting policy and practice (stewarding public investment, facilitating cultural planning, prototyping zoning recommendations)
bonding people with places and organizations for ecosystem development (pioneering workplace strategies, activating urban waterways, or building pathways to historical interpretation).
catalyzes positive effects
shifting cultural narratives (viewing housing challenges in context, redefining what counts as engineering through video and exhibit design, exploring black in light, sound, and movement),
building social infrastructure that transforms neighborhoods (activating underutilized space, fostering cooperation, or raising resources for new cultural facilities)
CURRENT ROLES
Principal/Founder, Solomon Office
Adjunct Professor, Olin College of Engineering
Community Preservation Manager, City of Malden
Project Manager, Jean Appolon Expressions
EDUCATION
Master in Design Studies (MDes), Harvard Graduate School of Design
Concentration: Art, Design, & the Public Domain
Bachelor of Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
Majors: Social Design, & History
Minor: Architecture
Let’s connect
Always happy to meet likeminded folks