Deborah Fisher is an administrator, artist and critic. She has been the Executive Director of A Blade of Grass since its inception in early 2011. Fisher has worked as an advisor and collections manager for the Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection, as studio manager for Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, and has taught art history, appreciation and studio classes at New York University, St. John's University and Nassau Community College. She is a co-founder of Urban Farm Syndicate, a social enterprise in its startup phase that partners with developers to modularly farm vacant lots in New York City using mobile containers and distributed design principles.

Fisher's artistic work questions the relationship between nature and the built environment, and is focused primarily on public projects. Her most recent action, Bed Stuy Meadow, 2009, asked more than 100 volunteers to sow wildflower seeds on every square inch of vacant land in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Fisher's large-scale sculpture has been commissioned by the city of Peekskill through the Peekskill Project and Middlebury College's Art In Public Places program. Fisher's work about global warming has been featured in the New York Times, Public Radio International's Weekend America and Strangeweather.info. She has exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, Dangerous Curve and Phantom Galleries LA. Her critical writing has been featured in Art Cal Zine and A Gathering of the Tribes.

Ellen Staller has over eighteen years of experience in non-profit visual arts administration, spanning development, communications, public programming, gallery management, and curating.  Ellen comes to A Blade of Grass from Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY, where she served as the Director of Development and Communications (2006-2013).  Prior to Socrates, she was the Program Director (2001-2006) at ArtTable, a national association of professional women in the visual arts.  As Manager of Fellowships and Placement at College Art Association (2000–2001), she supervised the Job Placement Center at CAA’s Annual Conference, and directed CAA’s Professional Development Fellowship Program.  Staller developed the exhibition program at HERE Art Center, and as Gallery Director (1995-2000), curated and collaborated on seventy-two exhibitions with emerging artists and curators, focused on interdisciplinary and experimental work. Staller served on HERE’s Board of Directors from 1998-2006 and as Vice President of the Long Island City Cultural Alliance in 2012.  She has served as a panelist for DCA’s Cultural Development Fund and has lectured for artists and arts administrators at Lower East Side Printshop, Mixed Greens, Pratt Institute, Rutgers University, School of Visual Arts, College Art Association’s Annual Conference and others.  Staller holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.

Elizabeth M. Grady, Ph.D., is a curator and critic, and was Program Manager of smARTpower, a U.S. State-Department program run by the Bronx Museum which sent fifteen artists to fifteen countries to do 6-week art projects which engaged local communities (2010-2012). She curated Proyecto Paladar, a large-scale participatory food-based installation project for the 11th Bienal de la Habana, which opened in May 2012, and is currently writing a book documenting the project (forthcoming 2013). She has been  Adjunct Professor of Art History and in the Graduate School at FIT-SUNY since 2002. Recent projects include a 20-artist exhibition, The Situation, for the Moscow Biennale (2009), the Biennial of the Canary Islands (2009), and project coordination of a major Matthew Ritchie archiving and conservation project. She has curated numerous exhibitions in the United States, and has held curatorial positions in various institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Publications include Matthew Ritchie: More than the eye (Rizzoli, 2009) and The Situation (Moscow Biennale, 2009), and essays for numerous exhibition catalogues.

Anna Harsanyi is an arts administrator with a background in arts education and curating. She was the education co-ordinator for the Y.Dot Program, part of No Longer Empty's "This Side of Paradise" exhibition in the Bronx.  She has recently completed an independent project examining the work of doual'art, a public art organization in Douala, Cameroon.  This became the subject of her Master's thesis for New York Univiersity, where she received an M.A. in Non-Profit Arts Administration.  She graduated from New School University with a BA in Art History in 2008.  Anna has worked at many non-profit art organizations in New York City such as the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Historical Society, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs and CEC ArtsLink.  She is also a core member of the performance art collective BabySkinGlove.