Please join the AMS team in welcoming our newest Lynette A. Turner Pathways to Consulting Fellow Zoe Briscoe. Zoe will be joining our team from January 27th to April 18th, 2025.
Zoe Briscoe is a writer and advocate from Bethesda, Maryland. In the field of creative writing, she has worked as a professor, creative, and editor. She received her MFA in fiction from New York University in 2024 and has published her writing in literary magazines such as North American Review, under the gum tree, and Glass Mountain. While at NYU she was a Goldwater Fellow, in which she taught poetry to residents of Coler Hospital, as well as a writing tutor for primarily international students. She was also an Adjunct Faculty member during the spring of 2024, designing and teaching her own introductory creative writing course to undergraduates. In her professional career she has also worked at a variety of publishing houses, and most recently worked at the Online Digital Safety team at PEN America—a literary nonprofit that aims to protect writers and journalists from violence.
Zoe’s passion in arts administration lies in conducting market research to understand what kind of events, exhibitions, and experiences resonate with existing audiences and what types of programming can attract new audience members.
AMS’s first-in-the-field program was initiated in 2019 to help support and escalate involvement of individuals from groups that have been underrepresented in the arts and culture consulting field. Fellowships are intended to provide practical training and play a role in nurturing leadership by expanding and fostering inclusiveness within the discipline of arts and culture consulting.
Program participants will be mentored by recognized sector leaders and engage in valuable training and dialogue with a professional staff that collectively has decades of expertise in the arts and culture arena. Experience at AMS may play a role in providing a competitive advantage when fellows who have been engaged in the program are looking for employment in the arts and culture sector.
