To lead the next era at The LAB Miami, Tamara Wendt has been named managing director. In her blog post yesterday, Wendt, who had been director of operations at The LAB Miami since last year, touched on her plans for the future, including continuing to back programs such as Wynwood Maker Camp, the Maker Educational Initiative, Code for Miami, Code Fever, Colony 1 Sustainability Hub and others, as well as marquee events such as the Miami Mini Maker Faire, SIME MIA and Art Basel week at The LAB. “There will also be a more sophisticated approach to improving on some of the more successful events from the past year such as the Brainfood Mentor Talk Series, The LAB’s Brown Bag Lunches (for more intimate small group discussions), hackathons of all kinds and Lean Startup Experiments,” she said in her post.
Wendt, who has a bachelor's in philosophy and religion from Colgate University, has experience running operations, leading projects, planning events and running training programs for non-profit organizations and companies.
The LAB in Wynwood, founded in 2011 by Wifredo Fernandez, Danny Lafuente and Elisa Rodriguez-Vila, has grown to 160 members from 80 companies and organizations. Fernandez and Lafuente stepped down in May. Noting her excitement to be at the helm of what they built, where 25,000 have visited in the last year, Wendt said: “The LAB is a platform for community engagement, a place for ideas and connections, a vortex of creative energy.” Read her post here.
Tamara Wendt photo is by Catalina Ayubi
Posted: Aug. 1. 2014