Mentors

Our community is supported by 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


 

DEDICATED MENTORS


 

OFFICE HOURS MENTORS


 

MENTOR ALUMNI


Abby Pucker, Madison Wells Media

Adam Huttler, Exponential Creativity Ventures

Adam Katz, Imprint Projects

Adam LaVente, MikMak.tv

Adaora Udoji, RLab

Adekemi Sijuwade, Eyebeam

Agatha Kulaga, Co-Founder, Ovenly

Agustin Schang, Architect & Cultural Producer

Akanksha Vyas, Technology Consultant

Akilah Scharff, VISSEN

Alec Bemis, Brassland

Alessandra DeBenedetti, Co-Founder, Wallplay

Alexander Rea, Technology ECD

Alexandra Serio, Nameless

Ali Goldstein Norup, CEO and Founder, kpiReady

Alice Lloyd George, Investor, RRE

Alma Lacour, Creative Director & Executive Producer

Amanda Schochet, MICRO

Amani Olu, IMG SRVR, Olu & Company, Detroit Art Week

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

Angeline Gragasin, Happy Family Market

Angie Gentile, Rent the Runway

Anna Konstantinova, Arnold Worldwide

Anna Oh

Annie-b Parson

Arden Sherman, Hunter East Harlem Gallery

Ari Melenciano, Afrotectopia

Arianna Orland, Meta

Aryana Anderson, AAA Media Consultancy

Asher Remy-Toledo, Director & Founder, Hyphen Hub

Ashley Hefnawy

Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseind, Parsons The New School of Design

Bahiyah Robinson, VC Include

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

Carol Parkinson, Harvest Works

Casper Franken, Shotopop

Cathleen Lewis, Museum of Arts and Design

Ceci Moss

Celeste Layne

Chad Pry, RecruitiFi

Charles Marshall, Parc Office

Charles Philipp, MICRO

Che-wei Wang, CW&T

Cherae Robinson, Tastemakers Africa

Chetan Mahajan, Digital Health

Chris Dannen, Managing Director, Iterative Capital

Christina Wallace, Harvard Business School

Christine Turner, Filmmaker

Christopher Paretti, Prime Produce

Chrysanthe Tenentes, Brooklyn Based

Cori Olinghouse, The Portal

Cornell DeWitt, Publisher & Co-Founder, Daily Plinth

Craig Ward, Designer

Dahkil Hausif, Sunshowah Films

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

Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO Artsy

Daniel Fountenberry, Abundant Media

Daniel Perlin

Daniel Romano, Co-Founder & CEO, Good Moose

Danielle Bennison, Brown DBB & Partners

Danielle Strle, Make_Good

Dario Laverde, Senior Developer Evangelist, HTC

Dave Rife, Dave & Gabe

David Borish, neo5G

David Goligorsky, IDEO

David Liu, AFVR.co

David Schwarz, HUSH

David Sheinkopf, Pioneerworks

Dawn Sinkowski

Del Johnson, Indie.vc

Dennis Szakacs, Chief Operating Officer, New Museum

Devon Dolan, Cinetic Media

Dimitri Kim, X-Lab

Dorothy Walter

Dupe Ajayi, Airbnb

Eli K

Elizabeth Furze, Managing Partner, AKA NYC

Emma Osore, Black Space

Emma Buttin, Villa Albertine

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

Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby

Frances Cathryn, wip projects

Francesca Panetta

Gabe Liberti, Dave & Gabe

Gabo Arora, Filmmaker

Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, ALMA Communications

Helena Anrather, Artist

HJ Jo, Apple

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

Ian Carnevale, Andela

Ian Sullivan, Hessel Museum

Ida Benedetto

Iliya Fridman, Managing Partner, Fridman Law Group

Inga Barchan, Mooreland Partners

J. Soto, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art

Jacob Gordon, Artiphon

Jacqui Moore, Brits in the Box

James Boo, Filmmaker

James George, Scatter

Jaime Moore

Jamie Singer, CEO & Co-Founder, Ussie

Jason Huff

Jason Shin, Co-Founder & President, Wonderspaces

Jasmin Jodry

Jay Mollica, Pérez Art Museum Miami

Jeanne Pinder, Founder & CEO, ClearHealthCosts

Jeff Stark, Nonsense NYC

Jeffrey Bergman, Pace Prints

Jennie Lamensdorf, Pérez Art Museum Miami

Jennifer Edwards, Better

Jennifer Grosso, Senior Project Manager, Alloy Development

Jesse Finkelstein, Print all over me

Jessica Huang, John Brown Media

Jessica Johnson, Snapchat

Jim Olson

Joanna Raczkiewicz, Grants and Corporate Sponsorship Manager, New Museum

Joe Brennan, Gensler / Columbia University

Joe Chittenden-Veal, Investor & Data Scientist, Greycroft

John Cline, Google/ShelfLife

John Fitzgerald, Sensorium

Jonathan Askin, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic

Jordan Magid, Founder, Unconventional Group

Julianna Morais, Vice President of Design, Henrybuilt

Julio Terra, Launch Studio

Kai Bond, Catalyst Fund

Kane Hsieh, Brilliant Bicycle Co

Karen Yau, 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

Kathleen Forde, Superblue

Kati Nawrocki, Studio Art Director, Dots

Katrina Conanan, TED

Keith White, Keith White, PLLC

Kelsa Trom, Simons Foundation

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

Kiarash Adl

Kim Mackenzie, Brand Strategist

Klaudia Ofwona Draber, KODA

Kristin Gutekunst, Overview Collective

Krystal Persaud, SolarHug

Kunal Mehta, NYC Innovation Fund

Larry Ossei-Mensah, ArtNoir / MoCAD

Laura Fox, Lyft

Lauren Sinreich, Whole Innovation and Design

Lauren Wagner, Product Marketing Manager, Google

Layne Braunstein, ESI Design, an NBBJ Studio

Leandra Tejedor, Vidcode

Leonie Kruizenga

LILLIAN Tong

Linda Steele, Founder & CEO, ArtUp

Lisa Niedermeyer, Fractured Atlas

Lisa Wirth, Work in Progress Ventures

Livia Veneziano, Design Director, Method

Lloyd Cambridge, Progress Playbook

Lou Huang, Founder & CEO, Streetmix

Louisa St. Pierre, MA Worldgroup

Luis A. Navia, Skypod Aerosapce & Perceptual Production

Lukas Bentel

Lukas Fitze

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

Marc Kirschner, Marquee Arts Ltd

Marcie Chin, CodeScty | California College of the Arts - MBA in Design Strategy

Maria Stanisheva, ANIMADOCS

Mariana Schaffer, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Marina Vasquez

Mark Belinsky

Marlene Ramirez-Cancio, Fulana

Marlin Adams, Attorney

Martin Adolfsson, Photographer & Artist, InsaneLittleProjects

Mary Rinaldi, Soulcarousel, Inc.

Masashi Kawamura, PARTY

Matias Corea, Behance

Matthew Niederhauser, Sensorium

Matthew Rader, Reed + Rader

Maurice Cherry, Creative Strategist, Glitch

Max Kuo, ALLTHATISSOLID, Harvard GSD, MIT SA+P

May Shek

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

Michelle Morrison, Dropbox

Milica Zec, New Reality Co

Mindy Seu, Cyberfeminism Index

Molly Logan, Irregular Labs

Natalie Salazar, Tetro

Neeharika Sinha, Facebook

Nelson Saldaña, Consultant, ReD Associates

Nicholas Fox-Gieg, Nick Fox-Gieg Animation

Nicolas Moessner, Strategic Business Consultant, Impact Investments

Nicole Merritt Chari, National Sawdust

Nina Dinoff, Designer

Nitzan Hermon, Founder & Consultant, Future of Agency

Noah Robischon, Fastcompany

Nouf Aljowaysir, ThoughtWorks Arts

Opeyemi Olukemi, Tribeca Film Institute

Or Fleisher, Vimeo

Pamela Reed, Reed + Rader

Patrick O'Keefe, Self-Employed

Paul Amitai

Paul Soulellis, Soulellis Studios

Peter Martin, SFX Studios

Phil Chang, Bondstreet

Phil Cox, Project Coordinator, Pentagram

Phil Weiss, Legal Hackers

Pi-Isis Ankhra

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

Rasu Jilani, Lambent Foundation

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

Reena Jana

Rich Greco, Droga5

Richard Nash, Coach, Entrepreneur & Publisher

Ricky Chen, Catalogue.Lab

Rise Wilson, The Highline / Rauchenberg Foundation

Robert Morris, Sunbunker

Ryoichi Yamazaki, r-y-z

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 Diamond, CultureConnect

Samantha Garfield, Independent

Samarth Bhaskar

Sandy Kyin, Berkeley Partnership

Sebastien Park, IDEO

Seth Mcrokza, Collins

Sean Green, Arternal

Seth Cluett

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

Sheetal Prajapati, Lohar Projects

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

Simon Heather, IDEO

Sonia Shechet Epstein, Museum of the Moving Image

Sophie Kahn, Independent Artist

Sophie Lucas, Fair Director, The Other Art Fair

Spencer Wright, nTopology

Stacy Schoonmaker, Facebook

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

Sterling Proffer, ProfferCo

Sumeet Shah, Brand Foundry Ventures

Taeyoon Choi, School for Poetic Computation

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

Taüs Jafar, Independent Artist

Ted Hayes, UX Designer, Artist, Educator

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

Tikva Morowati, Hello Sunshine

Tim Nolan, HUGE

Tina Essmaker

Tom Critchlow, Independent Strategy Consultant

Tomas Uribe, Stereotheque

Toni Dove, Artist

Tony Patrick

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

Tricia Wang

Tyler Lafreniere, Senior Experience Designer, Adobe

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

Valentin Spiess, Chairman, CEO & Founder, iart

Vallejo Gantner, Onassis Foundation

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

Yago de Quay, Innovation Manager, Intel

Ying Quan Tan, School for Poetic Computation

Yulia YY Yakushova, WPP

Zachariah Mattheus

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

Zoe Salditch, HUSH Studios

Zohar Kfir