Shelley Bernstein is the Vice Director of Digital Engagement & Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum’s community-oriented mission through digital projects. Through her work at the Museum, she explores the intersection of public participation and digital and has organized three projects— Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, Split Second: Indian Paintings, GO: a community-curated open studio project—which enabled the public to participate in the exhibition process. She’s currently working on a museum-wide digital initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of their Bloomberg Connects program.

In 2010, Shelley was named one of the 40 Under 40 in Crain’s New York Business and her work on the Museum’s digital strategy and approaches to social media have been featured in the New York Times. Her work is internationally recognised for its creativity, community value and openness and her talk at Webstock 2010 was a stand-out for many.