Kristina Newman-Scott

Kristina Newman-Scott is an award-winning, purpose-driven executive with over 20 years of experience in arts, culture, entertainment, and media. She is the inaugural Executive Director for The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at New York Public Radio/WNYC. Prior to this his role, she served as President of BRIC, a leading arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn and was the first immigrant and woman of color in this role and one of the very few women of color to lead a major New York cultural institution.

Newman-Scott has held numerous leadership positions, including the Director of Culture and State Historic Preservation Officer for the State of Connecticut; Director of Marketing, Events and Cultural Affairs for the City of Hartford; Director of Programs at the Boston Center for the Arts; and Director of Visual Arts at Hartford’s Real Art Ways. Kristina has been the first immigrant and woman of color to serve in these roles.

Newman-Scott’s awards and recognitions include being named one of the City and State New York’s 2021 Telecommunications Power 50, an Observer’s NYC 2020 Arts Power 50, a National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow, A Hive Global Leadership Selectee, and a Next City Urban Vanguard. She is the recipient of the Selina Roberts Ottum award from Americans for the Arts and was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of New Haven in 2018. She was appointed to the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission in 2020 and currently serves on the Boards of Americans for the Arts and the Brooklyn Arts Council, among others.