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Carrie Fitzsimmons

How to catalyze a renaissance generation among Boston’s public high school students by helping them develop the intellectual tools for cross-disciplinary learning and creative thought.

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Biography

Carrie Fitzsimmons, International Director, Strategy at Laboratoire Management International

Carrie Fitzsimmons is the International Director for Strategy at Laboratoire Management International.  Before recently joining LMI, she was the Director of Administration, Planning and Stewardship at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.  She managed the Director’s Office, Trustee and Board relations, Visitor Services, Human Resources and Information Technology Departments.  She worked closely with the Director and other senior managers at the museum to focus on the strategic and operational issues facing the ICA. In December 2006, the new ICA opened on Boston’s harbor to local, national, and international acclaim.  Fitzsimmons played an integral role in the transformation of the ICA.   Before joining the ICA, Fitzsimmons worked at the Cambridge Arts Council, a municipal cultural council in Massachusetts; New Profit, Inc, a national venture philanthropy fund designed to provide the necessary resources for social entrepreneurs to achieve their visions; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia.  Fitzsimmons received her Bachelor of Arts from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College with a double major in art and economics.

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The Boston 100K ArtScience Innovation Prize is an urban teen empowerment program of the Culture Lab, an international network of creator organizations founded by the writer and creator David Edwards.

The ArtScience Prize provides exciting opportunities for urban teens to learn through passionate development of breakthrough ideas in the arts and design, at the frontier of scientific knowledge.