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I am truly honored to be nominated to serve as a CAA Board Member. CAA has been my home in academia for more than twenty years and has been pivotal in my professional development. This is the best time to be member of CAA. Now witnessing unprecedented change in the arts, education, museums and scholarship, we are adapting with the times to best serve our members. 

I have served as a CAA conference presenter, professional development mentor and served CAA’s International Committee and currently serve CAA’s Museum Committee. I am committed to our mission to advance the highest standards of instruction, knowledge, and practice in the visual arts, to foster intellectual engagement, and to advance skills that enrich individuals and society. 

Serving our diverse membership, I bring to CAA three- decades of experience as an artist, university educator and scholar. I seek to support the Board’s Strategic plan to embrace our membership in the arts, art history, education, museums and scholarship. I also seek to support diversity, our members’ professional journeys and address and support equitable compensation and fair labor practices, as well as navigating changes brought through new technologies. 

As a Board member I bring experience as an artist, arts and education advocate, and experience serving global organizations – and will support our Board in identifying solutions for CAAs future. 

Exhibiting artist and arts scholar. I will use my creative skills to advocate for the needs of creative practitioners especially in enhancing their careers through professional development. I trained in art and theory in London and Tokyo and specialized in cross-cultural collaboration in the arts during my PhD in the UK. I served on the curatorial team that created the inaugural Taipei Biennial in 1998 and am now initiating the Inclusive Biennial, an art biennial focused on diversity and inclusivity. I also serve on the 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Student Program National Screening Committee selecting our future generations of artists. 

Serving college educators. Trained in advanced curriculum design in art colleges, I began teaching in universities in 1999 and have served as Professor of Record from Modern and Contemporary Art History at Renmin University, Visiting Professor of Art History and Cultural Industries, Peking University, Beijing and have lectured on art and entrepreneurship at universities in Asia and Europe. As Fulbright Visiting Associate Professor of Art at Visva Bharati University in India I was the first American Scholar to combine studio practice with contemporary art history with project-based learning. advised on the Future of Art Education at the Thought Leadership Institute. 

Fostering connection. Connection is essential for educators in all stages of their careers and as a CAA Board member I seek to enhance our CAA offerings both in and outside of our conferences with workshops and networking opportunities. Sponsored by the US Department of State, I created models for cross-cultural educational exchange in Mongolia and have led Fulbright research projects in Mongolia (2014), China (2017), India (2022) and Sri Lanka (2022). I served as Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in India and my research has made me aware of the potential for organizations to enhance their international focus and reach. I have also led events in France, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. As a Columbia University research scholar, I am examining the future of education in a rapidly evolving arts and technology landscape, particularly the impacts of AI on the roles, rules and structures of our professions. 

An advocate: CAA is our home in academia. At our CAA conferences, I listen and better understand our members’ goals and career challenges. Some have shared how career advancement at times feels like musical chairs. It is important is that we foster inclusive professional communities that can support members to advocate for themselves in their careers at all stages. This has been a key inspiration for my own training as a coach and mentor serving artists and educators. I have initiated coaching pilots at Yale Center for British Art, California State University, University of Melbourne, and recently initiated India’s first mentoring program to serve tribal communities. 

Supporting CAA’s Committees, Juries and Editorial Boards: Active in CAA’s International and Museum Committees, I am experienced working with diverse interest groups and can assist in CAA Fundraising and public events to expand CAA’s reach. I lead an Artistic Research Working Group. where we are exploring the futures of research in art education. For the past seven years, I also serve on the Editorial Board for ProjectAnywhere, a journal at University of Melbourne, Australia. 

I support solutions for our strategic and financial direction and expanding CAA’s global reach. In addition to my training in the arts, I also trained in organizational strategy at Boston University (M.Sc. Management) and California State University. (MBA) and have advised global organizations including 3M, Du Pont, General Electric, Dow, and Bayer on their marketing, financial and strategic goals. These experiences uniquely enable me to support our Board and our membership to expand CAA’s reach, build sponsorship and support collaboration with other organizations. In New York, I serve on the board for a children’s charity and the Editorial Board for ProjectAnywhere at University of Melbourne and served as a New York Chair of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals. 

Thank you for the opportunity to serve CAA and our membership.

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