Brooke Pickett

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Brooke Pickett is Director of Strategic Partnerships at KID smART, where she leads partnership development and resource-building that advance equitable access to arts education and deepen the organization's relationships across the cultural and social justice ecosystem.

She brings over a decade of youth-centered nonprofit leadership. As former Executive Director of a New Orleans youth writing organization, she expanded programs, strengthened evaluation practices, and worked alongside young people to amplify their voices. She later co-founded a consulting practice supporting arts, cultural, and social justice organizations with strategic planning, fundraising, and partnership development — building sustainable systems and mobilizing resources in service of social change.

Brooke is also a practicing contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and featured in The New York Times, Frieze, and Art Papers. That practice grounds her leadership in creativity, collaboration, and imagination as tools for transformation. She holds a BA in Literature and Painting and an MFA in Painting, and is committed to ensuring every young person in New Orleans has the creative resources they need to thrive.