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Meet the Team

Discover the people behind the puppet that’s changing the world.

Jacob Kemp

Founder + Creator

The most powerful narratives don’t just inspire action; they become the action itself.

Natalie West

Executive Creative Producer

Instead of preserving art in museums or theaters, we’re designing art that becomes infrastructure.

Liana Pavane

Executive Creative Producer

Rowen envisions a new business model that works with communities, brands, and the government to enact positive change.

Marciel Greene

Head of Production

Rowen represents the evolution of immersive design beyond ephemeral art into permanent community transformation.

Dutch Reutter

Chief of Staff + Government Relations

Dissolving boundaries between performance, education, and place-making, Rowen pioneers a new kind of civic engagement.

Kevin J. Rutkowski

Culture Strategy

Rowen demonstrates that when you design around transformation, you tap into structures that move communities forward.

Camille Labarre

Puppet Design

We’re creating a character whose greatest act isn’t on stage—it’s becoming soil.

Austin Young

Landscape Architecture

Rowen represents landscape architecture in reverse: instead of designing the garden first, I am designing the decomposing vessel that will create the garden.

Anna O’Donoghue

Senior Producer, Dramaturg

Rowen is a joyful expression of the possibilities that bloom on the other side of isolation.

Silvia Diffenderfer

Senior Designer

Luke Meyer

Senior Designer

Shakeel Mohamed

Senior Designer

Bringing ideas into physical space is an opportunity to create community change from a local to global stage.

Lena Rose

Senior Designer

Rowen offers a new kind of mythmaking for the climate age.

Stephanie Rudig

Senior Designer

Our History

Rowen emerged from TALISMAN’s shortlisted submission for the 2024 DataxDesign competition with interdisciplinary contributions and support from: Jacob Kemp, Betsy Hogg, Camille Labarre, Jennifer 8. Lee, Luke Meyer, Anna O’Donoghue, Stephanie Rudig, Austin Young, and Natalie West.

Our Fiscal Sponsors

Rowen is a sponsored program of Social Impact Fund (SIF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting innovative, mission-driven ventures. Through fiscal sponsorship, SIF provides essential administrative, governance, and financial infrastructure that allows Rowen to focus on our core mission while ensuring donor contributions are tax-deductible.

When you donate to Rowen, your contribution is processed directly through Social Impact Fund’s secure GiveButter portal. This partnership enables us to maintain transparency, accountability, and compliance with all nonprofit regulations while maximizing the impact of every dollar donated.
All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law, and you will receive your donation acknowledgement by email and/or directly from the Social Impact Fund.

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