Roddy serves as the New York Zen Center's Executive Director, leading the Zen Center's operations, fundraising, and long-term strategy so that its teachers remain free to teach, write, and care for the sanghas. A lay-ordained practitioner in the Soto Zen tradition and a seasoned nonprofit leader, he brings warmth, rigor, and a deeply relational, collaborative spirit to the work of building durable institutions. He serves on the board of the Shorinji Zen Association and the Cultural Committee of the Netherlands-America Foundation.

For ten years, Roddy served as Executive Director of Eyebeam, New York's center for art and technology, where, as its chief executive and principal fundraiser, he led the organization through a decade of growth and transformation. He strengthened its financial foundation, won the backing of major national foundations, and established its first board-designated reserve, all while significantly increasing its direct grants to artists. Under his leadership, Eyebeam became the first artist residency certified by W.A.G.E. for fair pay; he guided it through the search for and build-out of a new home, and helped launch the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism, whose commissions helped fund a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigation.

A composer and sound artist by training, Roddy holds an MFA from Mills College and has lived and worked in Japan and the Netherlands. He divides his time between an apartment in New York and a historic home near Providence, Rhode Island, which he shares with his partner, the writer Joon Oluchi Lee, and their two moderately well-behaved dogs.

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