Armistead Booker

Director of Marketing, Outreach, and Electronic Media

A Virginian and an explorer at heart, Armistead Booker is an educator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where he works alongside scientists and exhibition staff to produce online and print resources for teachers and students nationwide. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology from the College of William & Mary in Virginia. He also runs an independent design firm called Refresh, producing a wide range of innovative media since 1999.

In addition to his work with the Metropolis Ensemble, Mr. Booker is a champion for a number of other creative and nonprofit projects around the world. He serves on the boards of Love Light & Melody (reaching out to people living in extreme poverty in Nicaragua) and Global Playground (building schools and libraries in developing nations). He helps with outreach efforts for Elias Fund (Zimbabwe), Dispatch Foundation (Manchester), Charity: Water (Central Africa), and Relief Project (Boston). Mr. Booker also serves as Communications Director for the Haven, an artistic collective in New York, Los Angeles, and London that promotes mercy and social justice.

Armistead is passionate about the arts: playing piano, writing stories, producing music videos, and drawing on everything since he was five. He continues to invest his time on projects with musicians, composers, actors, filmmakers, and dreamers. Among his collaborations, Mr. Booker works with Avner Dorman, Braddigan (of Dispatch), Bayley Silleck, J.E.Borgen, Gotham City Improv, and Star76.

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