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Kiran Zaman

Kiran Zaman grew up in South Carolina and

Paxton’s unconventional background matches the unique spirit of the Eli Whitney Museum and Workshop. Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon, Eugene, where he studied ceramics and worked as Ceramics Technician for the art department. In 2011 he moved to New York City with a backpack full of hand tools and a cot. He exhibited his artwork at the Cue Foundation in New York as well as in Fireproof Gallery, Brooklyn, among other venues.

Darrell Wilson

Darrell Wilson is an accomplished logistics executive with executive experience in operations, strategies, and integrated business planning across major companies. Notably, Darrell has help positions such as Vice President of Logistics at RTX, Vice President of Operations, Strategies, & Integrated Business Planning at Pratt & Whitney, and Vice President of Operations at United Technologies.

Frank Mitchell

Frank Mitchell is a cultural organizer in visual arts and public humanities. His curatorial and interpretive projects include the exhibitions Who Governs; Afrocosmologies: American Reflections; Soulfood: African American Cooking and Creativity; and A Birds-Eye View: Citizen Science & Social Media, the documentary Unsung Heroes: The Music of Jazz in New Haven, and the culinary study African American Food Culture. He has taught at the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, Franklin & Marshall College, and the University of the Arts.

Alex Mahler-Haug

David Lewin

David A. Lewin, Ph.D., has over fifteen years of business development , licensing, and marketing experience in life sciences at Yale Ventures. He has spent well over twenty years successfully managing scientifically-based business alliances with biotech and pharmaceutical leaders in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He has scientific business expertise in pharmaceuticals, biomarkers, cell biology, genomics, and proteomics and in many disease areas.

Meghan Knight

Meghan has been the Business Manager at Knight Architecture since its founding and collaborates closely with the architecture staff. She graduated from Middleburg College with a degree in Italian and Political Science. An active member of the New Haven community for 30 years, she has served on the Board of Directors for the New Haven Lawn Blub in addition to previous terms for the Urban Resources Initiative, ArtSpace, and Bethesda Nursery School.

David Heiser

Liam Grace-Flood

Liam grew up at the Museum, first as a camper, then Apprentice, then as one of the first Senior Apprentices, then CNC Intern, Educator, and now Board member. His favorite program was aeromodeling, teaching and learning flight physics through building model airplanes.

Sequella Coleman

Coleman is the New Haven Administrators Union President and the Principal at the Davis Street School in New Haven, CT.

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