It All Started with The Laundromat Project

Before my husband and I opened Sugar Hill Creamery, Harlem’s first family-owned ice cream shop since 1983, and before I was the Vice President of Programs and Education at Brooklyn Children’s Museum, I was the first employee at a community-based non-profit organization called The Laundromat Project. From 2009 to 2015, I worked with artists to help them step into their potential to be connectors and change makers in their neighborhoods. My six years with this organization honed and grounded my practice of working in community; planted seeds for how I could intentionally work in community as a business owner; and further connected me to my own neighborhood, Harlem.

About The Laundromat Project

The Laundromat Project advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.

They envision a world in which artists and neighbors in communities of color work together to unleash the power of creativity to transform lives.

They make sustained investments in growing a community of multiracial, multigenerational, and multidisciplinary artists and neighbors committed to societal change by supporting their artmaking, community building, and leadership development.

Learn more here.