Audrey has built her life and work around community and creativity.
Audrey attended Hampshire College, an institution rooted in social justice and interdisciplinary learning, where she double majored in American history and digital media. Her thesis examined the representation of the American working class under the mentorship of the late artist and writer Robert Seydel. Seydel instilled in her an enduring appreciation for the historical past and the emotional present. Outside the classroom, Audrey worked on Hampshire’s regenerative farm, deepening a relationship with growing that has sustained her ever since.
Audrey began her career with No More Nice Girls, an intercultural film collective founded by the late filmmaker Joan Braderman. She later served as Director and Curator of an art gallery and community gathering space, where she met experimental filmmaker Rosalind Schneider. Rosalind became her mentor, collaborator and artist companion, and changed the course of Audrey’s life. Following Rosalind’s death, Audrey became the archivist and representative of her collection of experimental film and mixed-media artwork.
Audrey returned home to New Haven and has spent more than a decade advancing educational equity in the community that helped raise her. Today, she serves as Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Friends Center for Children. She believes poverty and economic insecurity are created and sustained by systems, and that we have a responsibility to change them. This conviction is unshakable, informed in part by her own experiences with housing insecurity during her formative years. At Friends Center, she works to challenge the systems that perpetuate economic insecurity and build more equitable alternatives, including through the organization’s Free Teacher Housing movement.
Audrey’s creative practice explores labor, place, memory and grief. She is a lifelong lover of the land and sea is deeply connected to the food and healing traditions of her Greek lineage. She believes in the power of community, our responsibility to care for one another and the importance of staying connected to the places we call home.