Wendy’s creative work takes place at the intersection of storytelling, innovation and social justice. As the Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, she is focused on catalyzing collaboration, innovation, and cultural impact for the media arts field. Previously, Wendy was a Senior Consultant at Sundance, helping develop the Sundance/Skoll Stories of Change Program and the New Frontier Story Lab. Wendy also directed the MacArthur Foundation-funded Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, the first public media Innovation Lab in the US. Wendy is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award for distinguished contribution to the media arts field and under her leadership, the Alliance was awarded the MIT Solve Prize for Reimagining Pathways to Employment in the US – for Arts2Work, the first federally-registered national Apprenticeship Program in Media Arts + Creative Technologies.