Stephanie Pereira

Stephanie Pereira is a community engagement expert with over fifteen years of experience working at the intersection of arts and business. Prior to joining NEW INC, she was a senior leader at Kickstarter where she worked for over six years, first as the inaugural Director of Arts, and most recently as Director of Creator Engagement where she oversaw strategic growth and management of a global community of over 100K people.

During her time at Kickstarter, Pereira led partnerships with Art Basel, the Knight Foundation, MoMA, Shopify, and others. Before Kickstarter, she was an Associate Director at Eyebeam where she led learning and engagement with support from partners such as Moleskine, Google, and the MacArthur Foundation. Stephanie has a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

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