About
Meet the basers
Most people feel pulled in two directions and pick one. Aubrey built a bridge. The creative and the analytical, the contemplative and the practical: she's held both since college, first as a social art historian reading art for what it reveals about people, now spanning art on one bank and operations on the other.
After an art history degree and a master's, she landed at the Met's design department. There, she learned what design was and how to build the scaffolding around it: the project management, the resourcing, the guardrails that let designers design. Seven years of doctoral research ran alongside it. An interdisciplinary studio and a museum exhibitions department later, she is now building that scaffolding as Chief of Staff at BaseNYC.
The questions carried over, only the subject changed. What drives a team, or what's holding it back? Working between the creative and the operational, she reads what a team needs and clears what stands in its way. Point her at a gap and she's already moving. Show her a decision with no logic, and she'll keep asking those questions until she finds it.
