Anthony Rosado

Anthony Andy Rosado is a biracial Afro-Boricua cultural curator and grassroots activist native to Bushwick, Brooklyn. He/they/she curates interactive exhibitions and literary anthologies that influence audiences to invest in preserving stories of autonomous cultural conservation. His multimedia productions provide exposure and platforms for marginalized artists, artisans and community organizers. Rosado holds a bachelor's degree in Theater & Dance '13 and a master's in American Studies '23 from Trinity College, CT.

Founder and Artistic Director • The Testourmonials Project • 06/2013 to Present

Presents free series of seminars, open discussions, visual art exhibitions, and performances that provide artists and organizers in gentrified communities with resources, platforms, and information to cross-pollinate ideas, resources, support, strategies, and project promotion. Duties include vendor and artist curation, partner liaison, outreach and fundraising strategy, mailing list updates, website management, event production, and hosting. Facilitates programming, anthropological research, and artistic residencies to exhibit and promote new narratives of Afro-Descendant historiography.

Operations Director • Mi Casa No Es Su Casa: Illumination Against Gentrification • 02/2016 to Present

Meeting Facilitation and Notes Dispersion, consistently updating co-volunteers. Task organization and assignment to maintain project timeline. Co-leads fundraising coordination, donations budgeting, volunteer and outreach strategy development, inventory reports, media and partnering organization correspondence; to fairly divvy our responsibilities. Raised $1000 for city-wide hands-on tutorials and displays. Cross-borough communications liaison and partnership development administrator to expand our network of grassroots groups and institutions endorsing art as a tool against gentrification’s mass displacement.

Saturday Program Coordinator • Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy • Brooklyn, NY • 08/2016 to 08/2017

• Structured social-justice-centered curriculum and creative workshops, preparing Ifetayo Youth Ensemble (IYE) and Cultural Arts Program (CAP) Scholars for participation in year-round performances.
• Culminated tracking assignments and class schedules to zone IYE and CAP scholar technical and professional development, ensuring student comprehension of African diasporic cultural history.
• Ballet Dance instructor and Ifetayo Youth Ensemble facilitator, choreographing and rehearsing end of year showcases.
• Led IYE recruitment outreach strategic meetings, boosting enrollment by 30%.
• Logistics management providing constant updates of promotional materials for all Ifetayo programming and events.
• Liaison and correspondence with partnering museums and cultural art organizations, strengthening partner relations.
• Performance and field trip logistics leadership and transportation coordination, relieving senior staff of excess duties.
• CAP Progress Note data collection, entry, editing, production, and distribution to all CAP faculty and families.
• Aided Executive Staff in overseeing and improving systems that documented learner achievement, family involvement, faculty support, efficient tuition payment, and enrollment assessment; for bi-weekly, bi-monthly, and annual reports.
• Managed application filing and correspondence of admissions information, matriculation, and scholarship tuition benefits for the IYE and CAP Programs, dramatically decreasing time spent archiving and filtering information.
• Hired incoming CAP Faculty, vetting twenty educators and employing three.
• Editor in Chief of Ifetayo Newsletter, which produced quarterly issues of articles written by and for Ifetayo’s community.
  
  

Administrative Assistant / Dance Academy Program Coordinator • Girls Inc • Brooklyn, NY • 01/2016 to 08/2016

• Culminated curriculum and facilitated the Dance Academy Program, utilizing dance as an effective form of expression to release tension and encourage classroom focus; with programmatic success reflected in students’ artistic presentations.
• Coordinated theoretical, historical, and technical courses in Ballet, Movement Fundamentals, Choreography, and Hip Hop that developed the creative process of each student, showcased in their final assessment projects.
• Application admission information data entry, student enrollment correspondence, field trip research and reservations, student growth reports, studio maintenance, office stock, managed office filing system, online archive, mail dispersion, and welcomed guests at the front desk; ensuring decrease in secretarial duties by senior staff, enhancing our services.
  
  

Front Desk Associate • Equinox • Lincoln Sq Chicago; Grand Central NY • 09/2015 to 01/2016

• Membership account administration, updates, upgrades, and freezing, minimizing client termination by 15%.
• Executed call forwarding, mail dispersion, gym and office maintenance, monthly class count analysis report, stocking supplies, and inventory review to reduce the Assistant General Manager’s administrative workload.
• Scheduled meetings, finalized revenue and appointment statements for Advisors, Management, the Equinox Store and Spa.
  
  

Arts Education Program Facilitator • Urban Arts Partnership • Brooklyn, NY • 02/2015 to 01/2016

• Conducted Fresh Education Residency at MS 306, training educators in youth-led arts-immersion activities to strengthen their Global History, Writing, and Science syllabi and pedagogical practices.
• Generated and administered workshops which supplied result-driven tasks and objectives that propelled students to memorize classroom lessons via lyrical writing, set construction, interpretive dance, and music video production.
• Directed rehearsals for and edited music video content, tracking student progress in monthly reports.
  
  

Administrative Assistant / Program Coordinator • Creative Academy • Brooklyn, NY • 01/2014 to 02/2015

• Managed day-to-day calendar updates, meeting schedules, parent tours, and expenses correspondence to Directors.
• Responsibilities included document organization, data archive and entry, office maintenance, catalog orders, classroom cleaning, library development, monthly newsletter production, bi-weekly admissions and budgeting report review.
• Reported to the Director of Education for curriculum revision, tour updates, and registrant enlistment appraisal.
• Established and facilitated daily movement and music advancement program, to be used in the preschool indefinitely.
• Trained teachers in activity familiarization and assessment of physical/conceptual growth, and safe movement practice.

English, Spanish, Brasilian Portuguese and French reading, writing, and speaking. Typing speed: 120 wpm. Proficient in Google and Microsoft Suites, Microsoft Office Outlook, Transcription, PDF formatting, DocuSign, UtiliPro, Box, RingCentral, Raisers Edge, InDesign, Salesforce, Wordpress, Squarespace, Evernote, and Adobe Acrobat. Organization of digital and physical archival material. Data Entry, Assessment, and Presentation. Event Planning, Dramaturgy, Stage Management, Performance Direction, Lighting and Set Design, Art Handling and Transportation, Marketing and Outreach coordination.

Creativity, ingenuity, collaboration, and professionalism are the substances I will bring to your team.