Bridget brings more than 15 years of experience managing research and outreach activities for nonprofit and educational organizations. She most recently served as Managing Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, providing project management and editorial support for books, symposia, and exhibitions.
Bridget Gayle Ground
Learning & Engagement Manager
As Development Manager for AIA Austin and the Austin Foundation for Architecture (now Design Austin), she managed fundraising initiatives while also helping to elevate the organizations' public-facing activities by pitching and producing programs from exhibitions and family events to public scholarship lectures and the online Guide to Austin Architecture. In addition she spent more than ten years at the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, where she coordinated a research residency program, co-coordinated the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium series, and assisted with the exhibition The Rise of Everyday Design: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America and its companion catalog.
Bridget holds a BA in Urban Studies with minors in Architecture in Art History and an MS in Architectural Studies with a portfolio in Museum Studies. She is thrilled to continue to combine her interests in the built environment and public history as Preservation Austin's Learning and Engagement Manager.