Sally Szwed is an arts organizer and advocate who has held leadership roles in cultural institutions in NYC for over a decade. She believes that artists are vital enactors of societal change and are essential for creating an equitable future. 

Before joining the team at The Clemente, she served as Director, Arts & Culture at the creative consulting firm DVDL, where she guided the strategy, development, and implementation of artist engagement, spatial planning, and audience activation projects for DVDL’s cultural sector clients including Forman Arts Initiative and Brooklyn Museum. Previously, as Director of Artist Initiatives and Programs at Eyebeam, she guided the organization's core artist residencies and fellowships, public engagement, and youth education. During her tenure, she supported and amplified the work of hundreds of artists who critically engaged with technology and its impact on society and organized dozens of public programs and exhibitions that connected a broad, global audience with their ideas. 

From 2011 to 2017, she worked at Creative Time as curator of engagement and Director of the Creative Time Summit, an international conference on the intersection of art and politics. Sally grew the Summit in scale and ambition, building an expansive global community while traveling iterations of the program to the 56th Venice Biennale and worldwide. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.