Our Team

Jaimie Warren, Co-Founder/Co-Director

Jaimie is a founder and co-director of Whoop Dee Doo and she teaches regularly in NYC public elementary, middle and high schools. She is a NYFA Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts and has completed artist residencies with the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Pioneer Works, BRIC, Abrons Arts Center, and Yaddo. Jaimie has created educational programming for arts organizations in New York City including The Museum of Modern Art, Pioneer Works, BRIC, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Abrons Art Center, and she received a United States Presidential Teaching Award presented by Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. in 2013. 

Sofia Dixon, Co-Director

Sofia Dixon is the co-director of Whoop Dee Doo, and she received a full-tuition scholarship from The Cooper Union. Sofia has worked as a community-engaged artist educator teaching installation design, intergenerational workshop programming, and video directing. 

Emily Flores, Community Outreach Director

Emily is the Community Outreach Director for Whoop Dee Doo and has a collaborative practice which includes video projects, installation work, and sound design. Her current focus is seeking out and engaging with youth and performance groups to collaborate with on Whoop Dee Doo projects. 

Sarah Dahlinger, Director of Development

Sarah Dahlinger is the Director of Development, focusing on researching and applying to grant opportunities. Sarah is a printmaking technician at Cooper Union School of Art and serves on the Board of Directors for Flux Factory, a Queens-based arts non-profit.

Our Board

Sofia Dixon, Co-President (see “Our Team” above)

Jaimie Warren, Co-President (see “Our Team” above)

Erin Zona, Vice President

Erin Zona is a practicing artist with a special interest in research-based projects that utilize archives and special collections. As Artistic Director at Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, Erin is responsible for the artistic integrity of all programs and projects; including WSW’s artist’s book publishing program, coordination of all exhibitions on and off-site, and panel selection for all competitive programs. Zona co-represents over 200 artists from WSW publishing catalog in the sales and distribution of artists’ books and is the lead artistic organizer of WSW’s upcoming 50th-anniversary program of events. A friend and fan of Whoop Dee Doo since the project began in 2006, Erin has worked with the organization in various capacities from 2006 to current and is excited to join the board at this pivotal time in the organization's growth.

Justin Oswald, Treasurer

Justin is the Executive Director for Latin America and The Pacific Northwest for Honey’s Foundation, and is a life-long supporter of youth enrichment programs with an emphasis on arts and performance. His work has been instrumental to the development of p:ear, an organization for homeless youth in Portland, Oregon, as well as Whoop Dee Doo. Justin has been a supporter of Whoop Dee Doo since he spearheaded a fundraising campaign in 2011 to host a Whoop Dee Doo production through the Time-Based Arts Festival, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and an at-risk youth camp called Caldera in Sisters, Oregon, creating a workshop and live show series that is still one of Whoop Dee Doo’s largest and most impactful projects to date.

Emily Flores, Secretary (see “Our Team” above)

Calder Zwicky, Officer

Calder Zwicky is Executive Director of Artistic Noise, a nonprofit arts organization for system-involved young people (juvenile court system, probationary system, shelter system, foster care system, and others). Prior to this, he was the Creative Director at F.Y. Eye, a nonprofit media agency providing free and low-cost resources for NYC-based service providers interested in promoting their programs and initiatives across their various communities. For the past decade, he worked as an Assistant Director at the Museum of Modern Art where he oversaw the institution’s long running Teen and Community Partnership initiatives. In this capacity, he created programming for a wide-range of non-profit organizations and their audiences including HIV/AIDS organizations, system-involved youth, refugee groups, housing providers, and more. Throughout his career he has worked for a variety of museums and arts institutions including the Walker Art Center, the Queens Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. 

Josh Pavlick, Officer

After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007, Josh Pavlick founded, funded and programmed Helmuth Projects, a DIY artist led practice based in Southern California. Josh has over 25 years experience as a C-16 licensed contractor, designing and installing fire protection systems for NAVFAC, OSHPD and the Department of State Architects. Though he maintains partial ownership and a corporate board position at Arrow Automatic Fire Sprinkler, he shifted focus in 2018 to concentrate on professional art handling. Josh is currently on staff as a preparator for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and has been traveling for Whoop Dee Doo shows since 2014.

Whoop Dee Doo was founded by Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren in 2006