As part of the programs and education team at Eyebeam, Peyton leads the coordination of Digital Day Camp, Eyebeam’s longest-running program. They work to provide students with the space to engage in collaborative experiments with technology, working alongside the community’s teaching artists.

Prior to Eyebeam, Peyton was working in public programs at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. They hold a Bachelor of Science in Media, Culture, and Communications with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies from New York University.

Tyrone Martin serves as Eyebeam’s Manager of Operations, working closely with the Executive Director as an integral part of the management team. Tyrone oversees all Human Resources and facilities, and assists in the fulfillment of development goals through budgetary management. Maintaining a deep understanding of the organization’s needs, he devises systems for all infrastructural processes. Tyrone is committed to developing solutions that can make his colleagues’ jobs easier on a daily basis, which in turn can bring enrichment to their lives.

Prior to Eyebeam, Tyrone also worked as Manager of Operations for a design/build firm in Bushwick. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History with a minor in English from CUNY Hunter College.

Kemi is interested in creating tools and content for marginalized communities. Her work centers around creative technology management, digital accessibility, as well as propagating African makers and their work. She is currently working on two websites: an African news website, as well as further developing Africa Maker. Kemi comes to Eyebeam from working at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where she was the Digital Accessibility Fellow (2020). She holds a Master of Professional Studies (MPS) from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU, as well as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Journalism and Psychology from NYU.

Nat Lemus serves as Eyebeam’s Administrative Assistant, overseeing all administrative functions in the office and calendar management for the Executive Director. The zeal they bring to research, project management, creative problem solving, as well as their collaborative spirit makes them the backbone of Eyebeam, adding to the team’s overall ingenuity.

Prior to Eyebeam, Nat led the charge in supporting day to day administration, facility management, and internal company culture experience for companies like Casper, Nike, and Highsnobiety.

Nat holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Illustration and Art History from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Munira serves as Eyebeam’s Director of External Affairs, overseeing the organization’s Development, Marketing, and Communications, and rallying support through innovative storytelling. She brought early-career experience at a renowned economic justice organization to help grow leading community-focused cultural groups including National Sawdust, Creative Time, Queens Museum, and A Blade of Grass.

She is committed to dismantling racism, a passion recognized by activist-artists who tap her expertise in the production of new works, such as Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding.

While earning a Masters of Arts at New York University, her research examined and critiqued the effects of neoliberalism in the cultural sector. Prior, Munira received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College.

Mad Pinney works in Marketing & Community Engagement with Eyebeam to expand its mission’s visibility and impact. She believes technology can be transformative – in potential and peril.

In tandem with Eyebeam, Mad is the Marketing & Programs Manager at POWRPLNT, an organization operating on the notion that access to technology is a right, not a privilege. There she facilitates community organizing, artist workshops, and leveraging the power of collective networks to build spaces of care and creativity.

Mad has also worked with NYC/LA art spaces SIGNAL, Amos Eno, and TRANSFER Gallery.

Mad holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Integrated Media with a minor in Journalism and Art History from Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communication.

J. Soto is an arts worker and writer invested in amplifying the shared histories and experiences of queer people of color and disabled people. He believes in equitable institution-building and providing access to resources and support for visual artists and performers. His writing can be found in Original Plumbing, Apogee Journal: Queer History, Queer Now Folio, American Realness 2018 Reading series, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive, Grant Makers in the Arts GIA Reader, and Dance/USA (forthcoming). His work is deeply influenced by his experiences as a queer transgender Latino who grew up in the Bay Area, with roots in Southern Arizona and the borderlands.

Roderick Schrock is an arts organizer and curator. As a non-profit executive, he leads the functional capacities of Eyebeam’s direct artist support and guides its focus to realign societal relationships with emergent technologies. He builds institutional capacity in order for artists to gain roles as cultural leaders and conceives and implements programs that elevate their work in society.

He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), California College of the Arts, and New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, and is a founding board member of Art+Feminism.
Schrock makes Brooklyn home where he lives with his partner, the writer Joon Oluchi Lee.

As Eyebeam’s Director of Artist Initiatives, Sally guides the organization’s core artist support programs, youth education, and public engagement. Sally believes that artists are vital enactors of societal change, and are essential for inventing a radically equitable future. Sally is an accomplished arts leader in NYC. She previously directed the Creative Time Summit, an international convening on the intersection of art and politics. Sally grew the Summit in both scale and ambition, building an expansive global community while traveling iterations of the program to the 56th Venice Biennale and around the world. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.