A cultural nonprofit, we explore the give-and-take of family and caregiving through learning programs, grants, publications, and projects.


Our Team

  • Aditi Shah

    Grants Manager

    Aditi has built a diverse career spanning nonprofit, science, and creative projects. She has come to appreciate how her desire to work on compelling projects—regardless of field—adds depth to her foundation work. A photographer herself, Aditi understands the freelance life, the barriers for securing funding, and the complexity of modern work, balancing various life demands with creative practice. With this in mind, she supports others in her role as Grants Manager.

  • Bree Nieves Robert

    Marketing and Communication Associate

    Bree is a creative and communications lead with deep experience in unscripted series, digital, and documentary content, bringing her commitment to community-driven storytelling to every project. With previous roles at CNN, Hulu, VICE, and PBS, she uses her understanding of art and narrative to explore themes of family, community dynamics, and urban and rural life. Bree’s work has earned recognition from the Sundance Uprise Fellowship.

  • Chad Coerver

    President

    Chad believes deeply in art’s capacity to transform our perceptions of the world and inspire new ways of thinking, and he has dedicated his career as an arts leader to exploring creative approaches to public programming, digital outreach, and community building. He has served as Executive Director of The Contemporary Jewish Museum and led content strategy, education, and community engagement in multiple roles at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

  • Jane Gottesman

    Founding Director

    Jane was one of the few journalists in the ’90s covering the systemic implications of girls and women having fair access to school-based athletics. She created the exhibition, book, and education project, Game Face: What Does a Female Athlete Look Like? Building on sports-informed insights about the interplay between women’s bodies and women’s public authority, Jane developed Showing: Pregnancy in the Workplace, Showing (work x family), and wrkxfmly.

  • Jennifer Edwards

    Senior Director of Brand and Digital Strategy

    Jennifer is a multifaceted creative guided by a deep love of listening and learning paired with an innate ability to hold space for complexity. She is passionate about projects that center equity and make the intangible, visible. She’s toured North America, Europe, and China as a spoken word artist, performer, facilitator, and choreographer. Jennifer has built programs and platforms with communities across the country and for Georgia Tech, Jacob's Pillow, NCCAkron, and The New Museum / NEW INC.

  • Karla Centeno

    Director of Education

    Throughout her career, Karla has sought experiences that allow people to see the world as it is while imagining what it could be. She has had the privilege of working in arts at all levels as a museum educator, writer, curator, director of education, and grantmaker. She also co-founded allofus, an artist-run collective and online gallery.

  • Maritza M Tapia

    Education Manager

    Maritza grew up in California’s Central Valley and has long been drawn to the many ways people learn, reflect, and grow. Prior to joining the team, she facilitated a program to distribute educational models through community venues across the country. Now, she applies that background in workforce development to making learning feel expansive and accessible to all. Maritza incorporates themes of community and care in her artwork and is currently working on a personal archival project that celebrates her friends, family, and everyday life.

  • Rubi Alcazar

    Administrative Manager

    A Bay Area native, Rubi studied economics and sociology at Santa Clara University. Passionate about education, cultural/social structural systems and community, her career began with working with marginalized students in both public schools and private institutions. After several years of operational and administrative support at an investment bank focused on sustainable technology and infrastructure, Rubi is happy to turn back to more community-oriented work.


Key Contributors

It truly takes a village to do this work, and Working Assumptions has had the good fortune to collaborate with amazing partners, colleagues, and advisors over the years. We would like to extend special gratitude to the following individuals, who have made vital contributions to this organization and shaped it for the better.

Alice Proujansky
Annika Tubito
Apollonia Morrill
Barbara Filion
Belinda Schwartz
Eve Biddle
Geoffrey Biddle
Jay Hughes
Kate Sigrist
Kelly deMarrais
Tracee Worley
Trudy Wilner Stack
Virginia Rutter


Header image: Working Assumptions employees, 2025. Photo: David Hill. Left to right: Karla Centeno, Rubi Alcazar, Maritza M Tapia, Jennifer Edwards, Bree Nieves Robert, Chad Coerver.