New York, NY
Andy has been working in arts, culture, and community engagement for over twenty years as a curator, scholar, writer, performer, and producer. His collaborators have included cultural workers, artists, scholars, faith leaders, activists, health care and end-of-life professionals. He has organized conversations and public programs for the nonprofit organization Reimagine including a 2024-2025 series on the loneliness epidemic, as well as series on aging and family caregiving. In 2024 he participated in a panel discussion on end-of-life issues at On Aging, the annual conference organized by the American Society on Aging.
With a background in theater, performance, and museum studies, Andy has organized exhibitions and public programs for The Brooklyn Museum, Electronic Arts Intermix, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, and other cultural institutions. He is an Associated Artist at Culture Push, an organization that creates programs to nurture artists and other creative people approaching common problems through hands-on civic participation and imaginative problem-solving. In 2022 he was a Fellow at LABA NY, a laboratory for Jewish culture based at Manhattan’s 14th Street Y and part of a global cluster of hubs that includes Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Northern California.
Ambassador story coming soon!