Annie is an innovator in arts administration, a connector of interdisciplinary dots, a mapper of ideas, and a builder of extraordinary teams. She has more than twenty years of experience in the development, management, and implementation of creative projects for a diverse range of public and private cultural institutions and arts organizations. Annie spearheaded the multi-year interpretive planning and design process for American Ancestors’ very first public facing engagement spaces. Most recently, she led interpretive planning and creative project management efforts for Newark Museum of Art’s Ballantine House Re-installation, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s multi-gallery expansion efforts.

From 2016 to 2020, Annie was the Principal of her eponymous consultancy where she supported artists in the realization of creative projects, consulted on cultural sector engagement with climate change, led interpretive planning processes, and authored exhibition development processes with such high-level clients as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston Public Art Triennial, and The Tenement Museum. For eight years prior, she led teams at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and The Walters Museum in Baltimore, MD where she worked with such institutions and artists as the British Museum, Nick Cave, Cleveland Art Museum, the Field Museum, and Strandbeest creator Theo Jansen to develop and travel large, international exhibition projects. Annie began her career in Washington DC where she worked in the exhibitions departments of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. She holds a Masters Degree in Museum Studies from George Washington University in Washington, DC and a BA in History from Colby College in Waterville, ME.

Annie brings curiosity, good humor, energy, respect, and a healthy dose of organization to everything she does. When she’s not rolling up her sleeves for The Experience Alchemists, she’s taking hikes with her dog, going to concerts, traveling to new places, listening to podcasts, and writing about the cultural sector. Annie’s latest thinking is highlighted in Blooloop’s Popping the Pop Culture Museum Bubble and Getting Real About Climate Change and the Cultural Sector and on the TEA blog post Modern Love: Museum Heartbreak.