Spector's "do it yourself" temperament and experience as a working artist informs her activities as a curator, and teacher. SPECTOR, the gallery she opened in 1999 in the front half of the former bakery that also served as her studio, showcased local and emerging artists, and has garnered local, national, and international acclaim. The gallery, which closed it's physical space in 2006 now operates as SPECTOR Projects and has been featured on National Public Radio, in the Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, and Philadelphia Weekly newspapers, and in New York, Juxtapoz, National Geographic, Art Review, Philadelphia, and Transworld magazines. To demystify and give behind-the-scenes views of life in the arts, Spector launched Artjaw.com, a collection of first-person stories from Philly’s beloved art-community.

Spector curated the exhibitions Fresh Blood (2000), Used (2004), This Beating Heart Acts As A Timer (2007) and Am The Rhythm (2008) at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia and coordinated Space 1026's collaborative installation for the exhibition Peer Pleasure 1 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2006). She teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has served as guest lecturer, critic, panelist, juror, teacher and moderator at numerous arts institiutions and universities. The Academy Award-nominated director Wendy L. Weinberg featured Spector in the 2001 WYBE documentary, Art and Activism.

Spector lives in Philadelphia’s Bella Vista neighborhood with her family.

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