BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Anne Frederick
Executive Director, HSC
Morgan Hare
Co-Founder, HSC
Partner
Leroy Street Studio Architecture
Nina Marinkovich
Principal
MAK Design/Build
Andy Meyers, PhD
History Department Chair
Ethical Culture Fieldston School Jane Och
Philanthropist
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Caren Rabbino
Principal
Fast Forward Consulting
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, AIA
Architect
Marc Turkel, AIA
Co-Founder, HSC
Partner
Leroy Street Studio Architecture
Joe Weisbord
Senior Policy Analyst
Fannie Mae Foundation Thomas Sze Leong Yu
Director of Housing Development
Downtown Manhattan CDC
Affiliate of Asian Americans For Equality
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STAFF
Anne Frederick, Executive Director
Anne Frederick worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio and taught as abuilt environment educator in the Parsons pre-college program and the New York Foundation for Architecture’s Learning by Design program. While working for Leroy Street Studio, Ms. Frederick initiated a design-build education program entitled “Ground Up” at Chinatown’s M.S. 131. This program catalyzed the founding of Hester Street Collaborative. Anne Frederick graduated from Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in 1998.
Dylan House, Program Manager
Jess Pastore, Marketing and Development Associate
Jess Osserman,
Program Associate
HISTORY
The seeds of Hester Street Collaborative’s mission were sown in 1998, when Leroy Street Studio was approached by East New York Urban Youth Corp, a non-profit youth outreach and housing rehabilitation agency, to collaborate on an affordable housing project and Community Center in Brooklyn. LSS worked with future tenants and community members to redesign the public spaces; then, collaborated with local artists to work with the future tenants in fabricating these elements. The project’s success inspired the later formation of Hester Street Collaborative to work with communities in need on design-build projects to add a layer of joy to their public spaces.
In 2001, LSS relocated to Hester Street in New York City’s Chinatown, across the street from the public Sun Yat Sen middle school, or M.S. 131. Architects approached the school to initiate a program with their Art department to work with students to design and build a new garden in the school’s neglected front yards. Over two years, they developed an architectural education program linked to M.S. 131’s core curriculum. The program, later named Ground Up, introduced students to architectural concepts through design exercises and workshops culminating in a campus or community improvement project.
Hester Street Collaborative was officially incorporated in 2003 as a 501C(3) non-profit organization to expand on its work with communities in need. |
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