Sydney co-manages the external affairs team, with a focus on project management and strategic planning. She works across units on the institute’s annual grand challenge, the American Growth Project and other key thought leadership content development. This includes overseeing the efforts of creative development, design, printing, press, content, events, communication campaigns and more, and managing strategic timelines, metrics and collaborations for each project.

Sydney has worked with the institute since 2019, serving as the events manager and then program manager for the grand challenge initiative. She previously managed museum rental events and associated marketing for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences through their nonprofit support sector, the Friends of the Museum.

She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a bachelor’s degree in art history and museum studies and has studied at the Università Carlo Cattaneo in Castellanza, Italy.