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Trainings and Workshops
Producer, Launch that amazing product : Working with Whole Foods Market, Oakland, CA February 2019
Session Moderator and Acting Topic Chair, Popup 101- Retail With A Mission!, Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), Los Angeles, CA August 2017 Co-facilitation, 2016 MITx: U.Lab: Leading From the Emerging Future, Impact Hub Oakland, Oakland, CA. Respondent, Workshop Bus Tour, Oakland Incubators, Makers, Revitalization and Entrepreneurial Strategies, Meeting of the Minds, Cityminded, Richmond, CA 2015 Respondent, Birth of the cool...Land use Planning! American Planning Association, Rooted in Authenticity, Oakland, CA 2015 Respondent, Alternatives to Commercial Revitalization, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), UC Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, CA 2013 Session Moderator and Acting Topic Chair, Pop-up retail and restaurants, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Northern California Alliance Program, San Ramon, CA 2013 Session Moderator and Acting Topic Chair, The Culture of the Interim, Next City: Crafting Corridors Salon, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Respondent, Broadway Corridor Retail Study, Urban Land Institute (ULI), Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership in Land Use, Oakland, CA 2012 Respondent, Oakland Economic Development Forum, San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR), Oakland, CA 2012 Respondent, Visual Mapping Challenge, Groupaya, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco, CA 2012 Creative Lead, Children’s carnivorous terrariums UC California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, CA 2010 Creative Lead, Succulent terrariums UC California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, CA 2010 |
Invited Participation on Juries
NEA Our Town Grant Judge 2014
Architizer + Juror 2014 Building our Civic Web, Code for Oakland, Judge, Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA 2012 Symposia Organized
Popuphood Popup to Permanent Program Launch City of Hayward Small Business Week. Event in partnership with the City of Hayward and Working Solutions. Panelist included SBA, ACSBDC, Working solutions, Kiva, and Nav with Square at a table. May 3rd, 2017
“Activating San Francisco’s Southeast Waterfront” San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR), San Francisco, CA, December 2015 Moderator, “Place keeping: values, policy and place on the plaza,” Civic Brown Bag Panel, Panelists: James Rojas, Jamie Parks, Kiran Jain, Popuphood HQ, Oakland, CA, 2013 Inclusion in Global Reports
Global Innovation Report, Innovative Retail and Derelict Revival, PSFK 2012
Global Innovation Report, Pop-Up Shops Revitalize Historic but Derelict Downtown Oakland, PSFK 2013 America’s Top Twelve Art Places, ArtPlace 2013 Stylus, London 2013 |
Invited Lectures and Symposia
Keynote, Popuphood: The Transformational Power of Creative Retail Ecosystems, Empty Storefronts Conference presented by NAIOP (WI) and NEWaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Keynote, Making Cities through Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Entrepreneurship: Made In Santa Maria, Allen Hancock College, 2018
Keynote, The Creative Transformation of Cities, European Creative Hubs Forum: SYN, Athens, Greece 2017
Respondent, Beach=Culture: Writ Large Press Panel: "Money" Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, Annenberg Community Beach House, 90x90 Writ Large Press, Santa Monica, CA 2017
Keynote, ULI’s Changing World Speaker Series: Shaping Cities and Communities, ULI’s 2016 Fall Meeting in Dallas, Texas
Keynote, Improv to Improve, City Forum: Mike Lydon and Sarah Filley, Imagine Austin Speaker Series, Texas Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, 2016
Respondent, Against the Grain: Creative disruption in unlikely places, San Francisco Design Week, John McNeil Studio and Envelope A+D, Berkeley, CA, 2016
Keynote, Provenance and the Power of a local Brand Strategy, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW), Business Seminar, The City of Melbourne, Australia September 2012
Keynote, Progression/people/place/perspective, (re)imagining our future, Design Week, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Academy for Emerging Professionals, San Francisco, CA, September 2012
Moderator, Economic Development Forum, Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Oakland, CA, June 2012
Respondent, Popping Up in a Neighborhood Near You: Pop-Up and Temporary Retail, American Planning Association (APA), Rooted in Authenticity, Oakland, CA 2015
Respondent, Embracing Pop-Up Retail, SPUR San Francisco, CA 2014
Respondent, Embracing Pop-Up Retail, SPUR San Jose, CA 2014
Respondent, Collective Action for a Vibrant Local Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2014
Respondent, Twelve Dollar Sandwich: Smart Growth at a Crossroads, Urban Habitat, Oakland, CA 2014
Keynote, The Spirit of Enterprise: A Conversation series exploring Business Approaches to Regenerating the Commons, Meridian University, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Placemaking, Pecha Kucha, Impact Hub Oakland, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Creative Corridors: Growing Creative Clusters, Midwest Urban District Forum, International Downtown Association, Grand Rapids, MI 2014
Respondent, Innovative Oakland Women: Five Small Business Powerhouses, East Bay Women and Business Roundtable luncheon Speaker Series “Rising to the Top,” Oakland, CA 2014
Presentation, 15 local thinkers x 15 days of innovation, Impact Hub Oakland, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Living The New Economy: Peer to Peer 2.0: Re-thinking Technology, Investment, and Sharing, Uptima Boot Camp and Bay Bucks, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Reinventing the Urban Street, Next City: Crafting Corridors Salon, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Respondent, Innovative solutions for retail growth in Oakland, Oakland Local, Oakland, CA 2012
Respondent, Reclaiming Vacant Land Properties, Center for Community Progress, Moderator: Ariella Cohen, Editor, Next City, New Orleans, LA 2012
Respondent, Getting it Done, Spontaneous Interventions, Design Actions for the Common Ground, US Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture. Moderator: Ann Guiney, Director Institute for Urban Design Venice, Italy 2012
Respondent, The Sharing Economy, New Models for Thriving Communities, SF Green Festival, San Francisco, CA 2012
Respondent, State of Oakland, Passport Oakland, The Ellington, Oakland, CA 2012
Respondent, Oakland Rotary Club, Oakland, CA 2012
Presentation, Open Process: Highlights from Summer of Smart: Mapping, New Media and Civic Engagement, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2011
Respondent, Knowledge Hacking Panel, Wonderarium, Worth Ryder Galleries, University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 2010
Presentation, Subtle Technologies Festival, Cerebral Score, Toronto, CA 2004
Keynote, Making Cities through Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative Entrepreneurship: Made In Santa Maria, Allen Hancock College, 2018
Keynote, The Creative Transformation of Cities, European Creative Hubs Forum: SYN, Athens, Greece 2017
Respondent, Beach=Culture: Writ Large Press Panel: "Money" Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, Annenberg Community Beach House, 90x90 Writ Large Press, Santa Monica, CA 2017
Keynote, ULI’s Changing World Speaker Series: Shaping Cities and Communities, ULI’s 2016 Fall Meeting in Dallas, Texas
Keynote, Improv to Improve, City Forum: Mike Lydon and Sarah Filley, Imagine Austin Speaker Series, Texas Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, 2016
Respondent, Against the Grain: Creative disruption in unlikely places, San Francisco Design Week, John McNeil Studio and Envelope A+D, Berkeley, CA, 2016
Keynote, Provenance and the Power of a local Brand Strategy, Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (MSFW), Business Seminar, The City of Melbourne, Australia September 2012
Keynote, Progression/people/place/perspective, (re)imagining our future, Design Week, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Academy for Emerging Professionals, San Francisco, CA, September 2012
Moderator, Economic Development Forum, Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Oakland, CA, June 2012
Respondent, Popping Up in a Neighborhood Near You: Pop-Up and Temporary Retail, American Planning Association (APA), Rooted in Authenticity, Oakland, CA 2015
Respondent, Embracing Pop-Up Retail, SPUR San Francisco, CA 2014
Respondent, Embracing Pop-Up Retail, SPUR San Jose, CA 2014
Respondent, Collective Action for a Vibrant Local Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2014
Respondent, Twelve Dollar Sandwich: Smart Growth at a Crossroads, Urban Habitat, Oakland, CA 2014
Keynote, The Spirit of Enterprise: A Conversation series exploring Business Approaches to Regenerating the Commons, Meridian University, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Placemaking, Pecha Kucha, Impact Hub Oakland, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Creative Corridors: Growing Creative Clusters, Midwest Urban District Forum, International Downtown Association, Grand Rapids, MI 2014
Respondent, Innovative Oakland Women: Five Small Business Powerhouses, East Bay Women and Business Roundtable luncheon Speaker Series “Rising to the Top,” Oakland, CA 2014
Presentation, 15 local thinkers x 15 days of innovation, Impact Hub Oakland, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Living The New Economy: Peer to Peer 2.0: Re-thinking Technology, Investment, and Sharing, Uptima Boot Camp and Bay Bucks, Oakland, CA 2014
Respondent, Reinventing the Urban Street, Next City: Crafting Corridors Salon, Philadelphia, PA 2013
Respondent, Innovative solutions for retail growth in Oakland, Oakland Local, Oakland, CA 2012
Respondent, Reclaiming Vacant Land Properties, Center for Community Progress, Moderator: Ariella Cohen, Editor, Next City, New Orleans, LA 2012
Respondent, Getting it Done, Spontaneous Interventions, Design Actions for the Common Ground, US Pavilion, Venice Biennale of Architecture. Moderator: Ann Guiney, Director Institute for Urban Design Venice, Italy 2012
Respondent, The Sharing Economy, New Models for Thriving Communities, SF Green Festival, San Francisco, CA 2012
Respondent, State of Oakland, Passport Oakland, The Ellington, Oakland, CA 2012
Respondent, Oakland Rotary Club, Oakland, CA 2012
Presentation, Open Process: Highlights from Summer of Smart: Mapping, New Media and Civic Engagement, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2011
Respondent, Knowledge Hacking Panel, Wonderarium, Worth Ryder Galleries, University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 2010
Presentation, Subtle Technologies Festival, Cerebral Score, Toronto, CA 2004
Residencies / Think Tanks
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Arts Education 2016-2017
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), Urban Futures 2015 Future of Soul 2013-4 Melbourne Fashion Week (MSFW): Retail Think Tank, City of Melbourne, AU 2012 Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Summer of Smart 2011 University of California Botanical Gardens at Berkeley, Berkeley 2010 Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA 2008 |
Honors and Awards
Art Place Finalist, Pop-up Resource Village Bay-view Hunters Point, with Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, San Francisco, CA 2016
Spirit of the District Award, Downtown Community Benefits District 2011 Partners in Preservation Awards, Leadership and Advocacy, Oakland Heritage Alliance 2012 Best New Retail Idea of the Year, The Best of 2012, Oakland Magazine 2012 Best of the East Bay, East Bay Express, Most Groundbreaking Retail Initiative 2012 Winner: Drop2Drink, Random Hacks of Kindness (RHOK), Project Lead, San Francisco, CA 2012 |
Invited Industry Webinars
Collective Action for a Vibrant Local Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 2014
Pop-Up retail and Community Revitalization, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) (BALLE), The Center for the New American Dream 2013 From Vacant spaces to Vibrant Places, International Economic Development Council (IEDC) 2013 |
Invited Academic Lectures
Guest Artist, Tactical Urbanism, Texas Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Austin, TX 2016
Guest Artist, Apocalypse, California College of Arts, Sculpture, Oakland, CA 2011 Guest Artist, Extreme Sculpture, California College of Arts guest artist lecture |
Performances / Public Engagement
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Rope/Chair, Performance, lead artist in collaboration with Ashara Ekundayo, Body Politics: FIELD OF INQUIRY INSTALLATIONS, San Francisco, CA, 2015
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Wet Wings, Installation, Digital projection in collaboration by All of it Now, Climate: FIELD OF INQUIRY INSTALLATIONS, San Francisco, CA 2014 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gestures of Empathy, Installation, Future of Soul: FIELD OF INQUIRY INSTALLATIONS, San Francisco, CA 2013 Exploratorium, Wonderarium, Surreal AfterDark, San Francisco, CA 2011 Uptown/Lake Merritt Community Benefits District, Mobile Plant Ambassador, Oakland First Friday, Oakland, CA 2011 Exploratorium, Wonderarium, Nomadic Communities AfterDark, San Francisco, CA 2010 SJ01 Zero1 Festival, Wonderarium, Green Prix, San Jose, CA 2010 Worth Ryder Gallery, Art Practice Dept.,University of California at Berkeley, Wonderarium, Knowledge Hacking, Berkeley, CA 2010 East Bay mini-Maker Faire, Wonderarium, Oakland, CA 2010 San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Wonderarium, SLURP! San Francisco, CA 2010 California Academy of Sciences, Wonderarium, ParkLife NightLife, San Francisco, CA 2010 |
Exhibitions
Wonderarium, Outlandish, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2011
Knot series, photography, SFArtPad, Krowswork, San Fransisco, CA 2011 Survive This!, ShadowShop, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 2010 Prayer Rope, installation, It’s own Nothingness, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA 2010 Wonderarium, Knowledge Hacking, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA 2010 Prayer Rope, EpiscoDisco, Grace Cathedral Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Prayer Rope, installation, Spirit Rappings, Hamburger Eyes Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Prayer Rope, Installation, Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Oakland, CA 2008 Prayer Rope, installation, Innovation & Imagination, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008 Survive This! The Sky is Falling, Spur Projects-Curator: Michelle Townsend, Woodside, CA 2008 Camo Series (photos), The Camo Show, Dominican University of California: San Marco Gallery Curator: Stephanie Peak 2007 |
EducationCertification: Institute for the Future (IFTF), Foresight Strategy 20201
Certification: California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA. Sculpture, 1991-95 Kuvataideakatemia, 3 mo. Sculpture Study, Helsinki, Finland 1990-91 Guest Artist, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia 1990-91 Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 1989-90 |
Professional AffiliationsRenegade Neighborhood Economist, International Cohort, 2022
Popuphood, CEO & Cofounder 2011-2020 The Justice Collective, EDI Senior Consultant 2019-2021 NewWaukee, Advisory Board Member, Milwaukee, WI 2016-2018 OppSites, Marketing and Business Strategy 2014-2015, 2016 Business Advisory Committee, CA Assemblyman Rob Bonta, 2014-present Urban Air Market, Advisory Board Member, 2014 Johansson Projects Gallery, Acting Director 2007-2008 |
Academic AffiliationsCalifornia College of Arts, Build Lab, Architecture Department, Urban HIVE. Client: Project Lead, Lennar Urban. Curriculum Development. Faculty: Sandra Vivanco, Fall 2015
California College of Arts, ENGAGE, Creative Disruptions. Client: Koreatown Northgate CBD Project Lead / Community Partner, Curriculum Development w/ Faculty: Liz Ogbu, Spring 2013 |
Events / Civic Engagement (Popuphood)Small Business Week Event, Client: Hayward, CA 2017
[uncontained] SF Shipyard Launch & Bike Festival; Art, Design, History & Ecology 2015 Festival of light, Client: Lennar Urban, Shipyard Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA 2016 Fashion Friday on Plaza, A mobile retail truck happy hour with a fashion show with brick & mortar collaborators at Popuphood’s HQ in front of city hall. Client: City of Oakland, CA 2013 Popuphood's 2 Year Anniversary, Block Party, Old Oakland, CA 2011 Popuphood's Grand Opening, Block Party, City of Oakland and Peter Sullivan Associates, Old Oakland, CA 2011 |
Museum & Exhibit Design/BuildBay Area, CA 1995 - 2009
Asian Art Museum, Pheobe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at University of California, Oakland Museum of California, Mills College Art Museum, ElkTech, Owner, Exhibition, Installation. Design & Build / Fabrication Metal Studio, Oakland, CA 1995 - 2001 Chabot Space & Science Center, Exploratorium, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Zeum, Exhibit Design, Fabrication, Installation, Gizmo Art Production, San Francisco, CA |
Exhibitions Organized
Creative Disruptions, Hatch Gallery 2013
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Articles
A love Supreme Celebrates 50 Years, Live Work, Oakland 2015
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