The Camargo Foundation

Julie Chénot joined the Camargo Foundation in January 2014 initially as Program Director. Following the separation of the Jerome and Camargo Foundations, in September 2017 she was appointed Executive Director of the Camargo Foundation. From 2007 to 2013, Julie Chénot worked on the organization of Marseille Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture. Ms. Chénot was a Rockefeller Research Fellow at the Center for Folk Life and Cultural Heritage at the Smithsonian Institution. She holds a Masters’ in Business Administration with a specialization in public administration and city economy from the ESSEC Business School in Paris.

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Chautauqua Prize, among many other recognitions, and is in development with HBO. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference, among others, Marzano-Lesnevich is now a 2023 United States Artists fellow. They have written for publications including The New York Times, Harper’s, and The Best American Essays. In July 2023, they will become an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Their next book, BOTH AND NEITHER, is forthcoming from Doubleday (US), Phoenix (UK), and Sonatine (France).

Cassandra Medley is a playwright and teacher. Her recently produced plays include American Slavery Project (NYC) and Cell (Molelo Theater, CA, and Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon 2011, NYC), among others. Ms. Medley has the received the 2004 “Going to the River Writers” Life Achievement Award, the 2002 Ensemble Studio Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence, and many other awards. She teaches playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at New York University, and has also served as guest artist at Columbia University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and Seattle University. She is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, New River Dramatists, and the Dramatists Guild.

Jenny Polak makes site and community responsive art that amplifies demands for social justice. Originally from England, Polak makes art that draws on her background in architecture and includes public and socially engaged projects such as architectural installations, drawings and useful commemorative objects. Polak’s family history of migration drives her to examine detention centers, the violence of borders and strategies for surviving hostile authorities. Polak’s fictional firm Design For The Alien Within creates hypothetical hiding and dwelling places, symbolic lookout and counter-surveillance structures. Polak’s work has been exhibited widely across the world, and she has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards.

Amanda Millet-Sorsa is an artist, arts writer and arts worker based in New York. She has exhibited at Below Grand gallery, The Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Bookstore, SHIM Art Network, The Socrates Sculpture Park, and elsewhere. She has received support and grants through the Materials for the Arts and NYC Cultural Affairs, among others. She holds an M.F.A from the New York Studio School and B.A. from Brandeis University and has been a resident artist at Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina and at ArtLeadHER in partnership with The Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City. As a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail a member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics), and a curator at Below Grand, she participates actively in the NY arts community.