Team

Staff

Judilee Reed For over 15 years, Judilee has worked in the not-for-profit field of arts, culture, and community service directing programs that build on the many intersections of people, art, and community development. Judilee Reed is the Executive Director of Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC). In her role, Judilee develops the overarching strategy for the organization and defines its priorities with a staff of five and national team of expert consultants and partners. Prior to joining LINC, Judilee was Program and Resource Manager at the New England Foundation for the Arts, where she helped design program and manage fundraising efforts for special initiatives including the programs of the National Dance Project and Art & Community Landscapes, a public art program in partnership with the National Park Service. In addition, Judilee managed the Cambodian Artists Project, a ten-year program to develop the capacity of Cambodian performing arts in the US and in Cambodia that now continues as a program of LINC. Judilee’s career began with local work as grants officer and gallery director of the Cambridge Arts Council, and Assistant Director of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Judilee has served as a board member of WGBH, Club Passim, and the United South End Settlements and as a volunteer at the Asian American Resource Workshop and the Asian Community Development Corporation. Judilee has a BFA in painting, a BA in Art History, and has completed the Program for Leadership Development, Harvard Business School.

Karen Garrett In her role as Program Director, Grantmaking, Karen Garrett oversees LINC’s grantmaking in its Creative Communities and Artography programs. Prior to joining LINC, Karen Garrett was the Senior Program Assistant and Exhibit Coordinator at the Nathan Cummings Foundation for seven years. Karen’s responsibilities included coordinating the efforts of the Program Assistants at the Foundation, maintaining the grantmaking procedures manual, processing and monitoring grant requests, coordinating and participating in Arts and Culture grantee meetings and interfacing with the Arts and Culture Education Team of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. As the Exhibit Coordinator, she was responsible for three in-house exhibits a year at the Foundation, all representing social justice issues. Before joining the Foundation in 2000, Karen served in several capacities on the staff of the dance company, Urban Bush Women. She began her tenure as the Office Manager and then served as the Company Manager and Interim Director. She was also fortunate enough to be Faculty/Participant Coordinator for the Company’s groundbreaking Summer Dance Institute at Florida State University, which is now an annual event in Brooklyn, NY. Garrett is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College where she received a BFA in Dance.

Robert Carabay LINC’s Program Assistant, Robert Carabay, supports us in grant making and knowledge network programs that tackle issues such as artist space, health insurance, donor development, training and professional development, and information for artists. Prior to joining LINC, Robert began his work with the Carpenters/Contractors Cooperation Committee, Inc. in 2002. As Special Projects Coordinator his duties included public relations and communications, community outreach, and research and strategy. He implemented the use of video documentation in evidence packets for wage claims of carpenters exploited on public works projects. He also wrote labor-related articles for various Spanish language newspapers throughout Nevada to inform a growing Latino population of issues affecting their lives. Robert earned his BA in Spanish Literature from Pomona College in Claremont, CA.

Crista Farrell Crista Farrell is LINC’s Program Coordinator, Research and Development. Crista’s past experience includes serving as the William Penn Foundation’s Program Associate for its Children, Youth & Families program area, where she supported the Foundation’s grantmaking within the Philadelphia region, focusing on the issues of school readiness, youth development, and public policy and advocacy. Her responsibilities included conducting research, developing grantmaking strategies, reviewing proposals, writing grant recommendations and other Foundation reports, and monitoring the progress of grants through outreach to grantees. Crista has also held the positions of Studio Manager for photojournalist, James Nachtwey, and Development Associate for the Center for Court Innovation—a nonprofit, criminal justice reform organization. There, Crista participated in program and strategy development, fundraising, research, and capacity building initiatives for over a dozen demonstration projects located throughout New York City, including youth programs and community-based initiatives. Crista holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, where she also minored in English and Religious Studies.

Linda J. Park Linda J. Park is Program Manager, Information and Knowledge, at LINC. Linda was formerly a Program Officer at the New York Foundation for the Arts overseeing the NYFA Source directory of over 8500 programs, consisting of local, national and international opportunities for artists in all disciplines. Prior to NYFA, Linda worked as a curatorial and arts management consultant at non-profit arts organizations and private firms in England, Canada, and New York City. From 2001 to 2004, Linda was the Curatorial and Development Associate at Downtown Arts Projects (NYC) and helped produce the annual Downtown Arts Festival which showcased emerging artists in and around the city through group exhibitions or site-specific projects. Her experience in the arts has often involved the development and application of new technologies, such as the art historical database ARTloop, the artist career tool known as EmergeProject, and most recently a revised interface and Web 2.0 structure for NYFA Source. Linda continues to write about contemporary art, and her texts have been in published in periodicals such as Read Baby (Art & Culture), Latitude 53, and See Magazine.