About 2 — VIA Consultancy

Community Building

Building and providing working models for broad coalitions of diverse stakeholders across industries and sectors.

Bringing together diverse stakeholders across sectors to create impactful, cohesive communities with experience ranging from managing multi-entity coalitions to developing innovative frameworks that foster collaboration and empower participation.

Experience Highlights

- Spearheaded the creation of a model and participatory framework for 100+ organizations to participate in over 300 events citywide during a 10-day design festival.
- Developed communications models to encourage BIDs, parks conservancies, and other place-based organizations to participate in celebrating design and activating city-wide creative energy.
- Led regular community meetings and synthesized findings for coalition review and grant applications, resulting in a multimillion-dollar award from New York State.
- This coalition laid the foundation for the Alfresco NYC initiative later led by the Design Trust for public space, which established a regulatory framework for restaurant annexes.

Community Building

Building and providing working models for broad coalitions of diverse stakeholders across industries and sectors.

Experience Highlights

Managed the Steering Committee for NYCxDESIGN, composed of over 30 entities, including NYC government agencies, museums, educational institutions, and design firms:

Orchestrated a coalition between new developments and existing institutions to promote Staten Island's St. George Waterfront as a connected New York City tourism destination:

Conceived and managed a city-wide initiative called Design Corps that connected designers to restaurants following the launch of outdoor dining in NYC during the COVID-19 pandemic: