Jessica Healy is a real estate developer with 30 years of experience managing the design, engineering and construction of a wide range of building types for major financial institutions, governmental agencies, cultural institutions and not-for-profits around the US and abroad. In the course of her career, she has worked on projects for the US State Department, Guggenheim Museum, Goldman Sachs, the Rockefeller Group, Habitat for Humanity, and BPT Properties, a joint venture of Bechtel and Park Tower Realty. She has managed the entitlements, design, engineering and construction of a wide range of building types from corporate headquarters to single-family affordable housing, traveling museum structures to federal courthouses and has worked across the US and in the UK, France, Italy, India, Germany and Sweden.

Jessica’s current and past board service includes focus on high-level strategy, governance, and mission as well as more detailed study and execution of projects with challenging design and engineering requirements, budgets, and schedules. Jessica is the Mayoral Appointee to the United Nations Development Corporation and serves as chair of its Building Strategy Committee and also serves on the Audit Committee. She was until recently a Trustee and served on the Executive Committee and the Finance Committee of the Van Alen Institute and is Secretary of the Chelsea Music Festival board. Jessica earned a BA in French from Dartmouth

Kate’s experience spans economic development, not-for-profit leadership, and real estate investment management. Prior to co-founding Seven Willow Collaborative, she served as chief operating officer of a vertically integrated real estate firm focused on multifamily acquisitions and management of an approximately 15,000-unit, 60-property portfolio. Earlier in her career, Kate was senior director of the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Business School where she collaborated with faculty, students, alumni, and industry leaders to develop initiatives bridging academic theory and real-world practice.

In the course of her career, Kate has focused on downtown development. She led the DUMBO Business Improvement District in Brooklyn, a public-private partnership organized by local property owners dedicated to advancing economic growth. At the Alliance for Downtown New York, she developed initiatives supporting the recovery and revitalization of Lower Manhattan after 9/11. Kate began her career as an investment analyst at AIG Global Real Estate and Max Capital Management. She has served on several not-for-profit boards, holds a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Columbia University, and is a member of WX Executive Women in Real Estate. She earned her BA from Brown University and her JD from New York Law School and is admitted to practice law in New York.

Suzanne Geiss has more than 25 years of experience in the art world advising private and corporate collections and curating and producing ambitious gallery, museum, and public art exhibitions. In 2010, Geiss opened the Suzanne Geiss Company, a private advisory business paired with an ambitious public exhibition and performance program that has included projects featuring artists including assume vivid astro focus, Korakrit Arunanondchai, DIS, Ryan Johnson, Molly Lowe, Rammellzee, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, and others. From 1997-2010, she served as Managing Director at Deitch Projects in New York, where she oversaw exhibition curation, gallery management, artist development and promotion, production, and primary and secondary market sales in addition to producing the gallery's performance program.

Hunter Tura is the chief creative officer at Entro, a global strategic brand consultancy where he is responsible for the firm’s overall creative excellence and global business development. Previously, he was the the CEO of THE-CREATIVE, CEO of Syndicate Sub Rosa and from 2010 to 2019, he was the President & CEO of Bruce Mau Design with offices in London, New York and Toronto.

He has worked with leading organizations such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lucid Motors, Changi Airport Group, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Netflix, Audi, Asics, Lululemon, Allstate, Samsung, Unilever, and Sonos on a range of brand initiatives.

He was the curator of the Canada Pavilion at the 2018 London Design Biennale, a member of the Presidential Design Awards Jury in Singapore in 2017, and is a juror for the 2019 Florence Design Biennale. He has served on the design faculty of Designskolen Kolding, the University of California and Columbia University, and has lectured at Universities and conferences worldwide.

He is a graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he completed his thesis under the direction of Rem Koolhaas and has a BA from Haverford College in the Growth and Structure of Cities.

Jessica Lax is the program director, AI Readiness, Center for Civic Futures. Dedicated to social justice, Jessica is a civic sector strategist with experience cultivating partnerships, designing and implementing programs, and facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. She has partnered with cities and communities internationally on issues including criminal justice, climate change, and national memorials. Her work has had lasting impact on national and municipal policy and has transformed public realms nationally. Jessica’s initiatives have been featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian and has received several recognitions from Fast Company’s Design for Innovation competitions. Jessica is currently an Innovation Fellow at the New Jersey Center for Innovation, received a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the City University of New York—Hunter College.

Amy Cole is the founder and president of AOK Communications providing strategic communications consulting services. From 2011 to 2019, Amy was the Director of Communications and Development at The Picture House Regional Film Center, a non-profit cultural center dedicated to the art of film. Located in Pelham, New York, The Picture House is the oldest, continuously running movie theater in Westchester County.

As the former co-president of the Pelham Chamber of Commerce, Amy co-founded and co-chaired the organization’s inaugural Wolfs Walk street festival and launched the Chamber’s Inside 10803 podcast. She has been active with a number of non-profits including the Westchester Children’s Museum, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, County Harvest, end Family Services of Westchester.

Prior to joining TPH, Amy was the Executive Director of College Communications at St. Joseph’s College, New York. Amy began her career in publishing at The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. She earned her B.A. from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

Karen Compton is a freelance journalist and producer who has produced live interviews with political, business, and cultural newsmakers such as John Kerry, Christine Lagarde, and Anna Wintour at events including Davos, UN General Assembly Week, and Art Basel-Miami. She served as speechwriter for the editor Tina Brown and produced live journalism events in New York, LA, Washington, Dallas, and London for Tina Brown Live Media. She also produced a 32-episode season of the podcast TBD with Tina Brown. Prior to this work, she spent 15 years at ABC News producing in-studio interviews for Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, and George Stephanopolous. She is a recipient of Emmy, Dupont, and Peabody awards.

Amani Olu is the founder of Olu & Company, a marketing and business consultancy at the intersection of art and social justice; co-founder of Detroit Art Week, a five-day festival celebrating contemporary art in Detroit; and founder of IMG SRVR, a visual content sharing platform for creative professionals.

Before launching Olu & Company, Olu worked as an independent curator and arts writer. During this period, he organized over 40 exhibitions, co-authored Humble Art Foundation’s “The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Vol. 1 and 2” (2008, 2010), launched his ground-breaking “Young Curators, New Ideas” exhibition series, wrote about artists William Eggleston, Rashaad Newsome, David Benjamin Sherry, Elad Lassry, Zoe Crosher, and K8 Hardy. In 2018, as part of the inaugural edition of Detroit Art Week, Olu organized “Rhythm, Repetition, and Vocab,” an exhibition of abstract works by Allie McGhee and Carole Harris at the Detroit Institute of Arts.