Sarah Maxfield (Co-Founder/Operations Lead, ArtsPool) is a systems thinker and consummate operations generalist. She has significant experience developing and implementing workflow systems and finding efficiencies in the everyday. Ms. Maxfield has been actively engaged in the non-profit arts sector in New York City for nearly 20 years. Prior to co-founding ArtsPool, she worked in various operational capacities for Performance Space 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Lincoln Center, and the Open Society Institute. Ms. Maxfield, also a performing artist and curator, has contributed as an artist/consultant to The Chocolate Factory Theater, the Gibney Dance Center, Galapagos Art Space, Dixon Place, The New Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design, among many others. Her writing on performance and its context has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Movement Research Performance Journal, The Performance Club, and Contact Quarterly. She works in collaboration with an amazing team of dedicated arts-nerds at ArtsPool and lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY.