Jenelle Porter served as a Center dance panelist in 2012. Prior to joining the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston as senior curator, Porter was curator from 1998–2001 at Artists Space in New York where she organized over 20 exhibitions, and then worked as curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia from 2005–10, where she organized exhibitions Charline von Heyl, Dance with Camera, Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay (with Ingrid Schaffner), Trisha Donnelly, Locally Localized Gravity, and Gone Formalism, among others. She has written essays for numerous catalogs.