by You won’t want to miss the opportunity to join the conversation with Samantha Koslow, Kathy Kottaridis, and Byron Rushing, along with our other leading voices.
Speaker Profile: Samantha Koslow, Christie’s Director, Business Development and Head of Museum and Corporate Collection Services
Samantha Koslow is a member of Christie’s Business Development leadership team, focused on efforts for Museums, Institutions and Corporations. She works with Christie’s specialist, executive and regional teams across categories to develop strategies and provide support for clients in these key areas of focus. Her work ranges from facilitating both auction and private sales, appraisals, client engagement, sponsorships, programing, fundraising and much more.
Across her nearly 15-year career with Christie’s, Samantha has held leadership roles in both the Marketing and Business Development fields, overseeing teams in the Americas and globally. She has worked on strategy for many of Christie’s most notable private and institutional collections to come to sale as well as supported Christie’s efforts to explore and employ new technology.
Speaker Profile: Kathy Kottaridis, Executive Director, Historic Boston Inc.
Kathy Kottaridis joined Historic Boston Inc. (HBI) as its Executive Director in 2007. A patient investor in the redevelopment and re-use of endangered historic buildings, HBI is recognized by its partners and collaborators for high quality projects that re-activate historic buildings projects for new uses. Under Kathy’s leadership, HBI has undertaken $25 million in project investments, transforming eight abandoned historic structures into new mixed use developments and leveraging considerable private investment. Among these are the rehabilitation of city’s oldest remaining fire house for HBI’s headquarters in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, and the redevelopment of architect H.H. Richardson’s only remaining commercial building in Boston for mixed use housing and retail development. Kathy has served as Director of Economic Development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, Director of the City of Boston’s Office of Business Development, and was the founding director of Boston Main Streets, the first city-wide Main Streets program in the country.
Speaker Profile: Byron Rushing, President, Roxbury Historical Society
Byron Rushing served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1983 to 2018. In the legislature, Byron’s priorities were human and civil rights; and economic and housing development and health care for all. Byron was an original sponsor of the gay rights bill and the chief sponsor of the law to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in public schools. He was one of the leaders in the constitutional convention to maintain same sex marriage in Massachusetts. From 1972 to 1985, he was President of the Museum of Afro-American History. During the 1960s he was active in the civil rights movement–working for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in Syracuse, NY, and as a community organizer for the Northern Student Movement in Boston. He directed a group of organizers, Roxbury Associates, who helped found the Lower Roxbury Community Corporation, one of the first CDCs in the nation.
More Leading Voices at the Summit
- Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres, Director of Sustainability, City of Ithaca, NY
- Catherine Allgor, President, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Ed Carr, Ph.D., Director of International Development, Community, Environment (IDCE) and Professor at Clark University, and Panel Member for Climate Change Adaptation Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility
- Mary Margaret Earl, Executive Director and Senior Minister of the UU Urban Ministry
- Michelle Finamore Ph.D., Fashion and Design Curator
- Kathleen Gagne, Executive Director, Mechanics Hall
- Dr. Françoise N. Hamlin, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
- Eric Kramer, Principal, Reed Hilderbrand, and Critic, Landscape Architecture Department, RISD
- Kate Lear, Board Chair, Ballet Hispánico
- Leo Lovemore Ph.D, Research Scholar, Recovering New England’s Voices, Historic New England, and Adjunct Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Kennan F. McKenzie, Ph.D., Director, Generous Listening and Dialogue Center (GLADC) at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life
- Candelaria Silva-Collins, Chair, Designators, George B. Henderson Foundation
- Dr. Carl Skelton, President, Gotham Innovation Greenhouse
- Anne-Marie Soulliere, Retired President, Fidelity Foundations, and Trustee, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT, home of Yale Chamber Music Festival
- Nader Tehrani, Founding Principal of NADAAA, and former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union
- Doneeca Thurston, Executive Director, Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts
- Sarah Turner, President, North Bennet Street School
