OUR TEAM

Jinny Khanduja, Executive Director (she/her/they/them)
jinny@cueartfoundation.org
Jinny Khanduja is a cultural producer, facilitator, writer, editor, administrator, and curatorial caretaker of artists’ work and ideas. She has worked across nonprofit and arts sectors for over 15 years, holding a wide range of roles that bridge programs, development, communications, and leadership. Her practice is grounded in a commitment to new forms of organizational stewardship—ones that challenge conventional models and bring programmatic and operational work into closer alignment. She is especially passionate about creating intentional spaces that can support artists conceptually and materially, while also questioning the systems they operate within. She values depth over scale, and believes in the lasting impact of focused, relational work.

As Executive Director of CUE, she leads the organization’s strategic vision and its artist-centered programs. She is equally invested in building responsive structures that make this work possible—and in protecting the space for artists’ ideas to remain fluid, ambitious, and deeply engaged. Jinny holds an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University’s GSAPP (with a focus on food systems) and a B.A. in International Studies and Spanish Linguistics from Emory University. Prior to CUE, she served as Deputy Director at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Her interests include language and linguistics, food culture and practice, architecture and urbanism, social change, and the negotiation of personal, cultural, and political identities.

Jasmine Buckley, Gallery Manager (she/her)
jasmine@cueartfoundation.org
Jasmine Buckley is a graduate of NYU Gallatin, where she earned a B.A. in Museum and Curatorial Studies. Her studies focused on the ways museums and cultural institutions can better represent underrecognized histories through meaningful public engagement and create more equitable spaces for artists and audiences. She is passionate about supporting artists in realizing ambitious projects while helping build institutions that are more collaborative and responsive to the communities they serve.

Keegan Sagnelli, Communications Associate (he/him)
keegan@cueartfoundation.org
Keegan Sagnelli is a graduate of Purchase College, where he received a B.A. in Arts Management and Creative Writing. He has developed a diverse array of experiences in the arts, from video production, to performing arts, to arts education. Keegan brings a community-centered approach to his work. It is his belief that through advocacy and the arts, we can engage in meaningful conversations that embolden all people to live their truths. As a practiced poet as well, Keegan’s writing has been featured in Genre: Urban Arts and Italics Mine, and in 2019 he was awarded the Ginny Wray Prize in Poetry. 

Kayleigh Alvarez, Intern (she/her)
Kayleigh Alvarez is an incoming freshman at Howard University, where she plans to pursue a B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Marketing. She is passionate about understanding human behavior and how it shapes human decisions; she hopes to explore the intersection of mental health, brand strategy, and user experience throughout her college career. Kayleigh is eager to apply research-driven insights to real-world projects and explore her curiosity about what motivates people.

Trinity Lopez, Intern (she/her)
Trinity Lopez is an upcoming junior in high school at Bronx Collegiate Academy. She is interested in the arts because they offer an opportunity for free expression. Trinity enjoys interacting with others from different walks of life. Although still determining what she would like the future to look like, she’s interested in pursuing investment opportunities in the future around her home of New York City, and is currently taking an investment class to help her achieve this. Her ultimate goal is to make herself proud.

Safia Raffo-Wells, Intern (she/her)
Safia Wells is an upcoming Senior at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art. She plans to pursue painting, Middle Eastern studies, and political science in college. Wells has a passion for visual storytelling and its effect on building and highlighting underrepresented communities. Her paintings have been showcased in educational spaces at the MET for P.S. Art, the MoMa’s teen exhibition Imagine Futures, and the BRIC Museum's teen exhibitions in 2025 and 2026. Safia is invested in the way visual arts speak to silence, spirituality, culture, and relationships with one another. She hopes to expand her practice in the future to include mural art, performance, and mixed media, in forms that extend the themes of her studies.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Thomas K.Y. Hsu  
     Chairman
Theodore S. Berger
     President
Kate Buchanan
     Vice President
John S. Kiely
     Co-Treasurer
Kyle Sheahen
        Co-Treasurer
Lilly Wei
     Secretary
Amanda Adams-Louis
Marcy Cohen
Blake Horn
Steffani Jemison
Vivian Kuan
Aliza Nisenbaum
Gregory Amenoff
     Emeritus

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Polly Apfelbaum
Katie Cercone
Lynn Crawford
Ian Cooper
Michelle Grabner
Eleanor Heartney
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Pablo Helguera
Paddy Johnson
Deborah Kass
Sharon Lockhart
Juan Sánchez
Irving Sandler (in memoriam)
Andrea Zittel