Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas begins work full time this August as executive director of the Foundry community building.
The Foundry community building is expected to open to the public in the summer of 2022, but it already has an executive director: Diana Navarrete-Rackauckas, who begins work full time this August, The Foundry Consortium announced Thursday.
Navarrete-Rackauckas is expected to collaborate with the community to keep the East Cambridge building lively, offering its spaces for the visual and performing arts, community events, entrepreneurship, technology and workforce education. She is also expected to “help facilitate access for residents, especially those long underrepresented in the arts and sciences, to the working and learning environment” of nearby Kendall Square, the consortium said in a press release.
“We sought an ideal candidate who would bring a wide set…
