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Professional Highlights

In my current role at Young Audiences, responsibilities include:

  • Guiding/supporting/convening leadership and staff of a national network of 30 arts education organizations, the largest such network in the country

  • Overseeing strategy and implementation of the 5-year, $9.3-million national initiative, Responsive Arts in School Education (RAISE), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, creating multi-year professional learning in healing-centered, culturally sustaining arts education practices and guiding local arts residency work in 18+ regions nationally.

  • Leading network-wide initiatives and projects such as professional learning, convenings and conferences, and a national teaching artist credentialing program.

In my career at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, highlights included:

  • Providing leadership and strategic direction for all PreK-12 school programming

  • Designing, managing, and assessing Arts in the Middle, a customized, in-depth arts in education program with 18 underfunded NYC middle schools and their local communities, in partnership with the NYC Department of Education

  • Designing customized professional development for educators, artists, and arts administrators

  • Overseeing pilot programs for court-involved youth in non-secure placement and in public schools for students with autism

Prior to that, at Premiere Stages in New Jersey, I served as Literary and Education Coordinator. Highlights from that time included:

  • Overseeing the education programming, including in-school playwriting residencies, curated performances for young audiences, and a summer theater camp for high school students

  • Overseeing the literary department, including an annual reading and performance series for new work for the theatre and an annual film festival

  • Fielding audience talkback sessions with playwrights for developmental productions

At New York University, I teach/have taught two courses:

  • Drama for Special Populations for graduate students (2015-present)

  • Masters of Modern Drama for undergraduates

At Brooklyn College, I taught text analysis for graduate and undergraduate students in the theater department.

I have also taught playwriting at Ohio University to undergrads and led playwriting and character development workshops for young people at numerous regional conferences.

Conferences

I’ve presented findings from my work or led professional development sessions at the following conferences (among others):

  • National Guild for Community Arts Education National Conference

  • International Society for Arts in Education Biannual World Congress

  • U.S Department of Education Assistance for Arts Education (AAE) Conference

  • State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education Annual Conference

  • Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE) Conference

  • NYU Forum on the Teaching Artist: Navigation, Innovation, and Sustainability

  • NYC Arts in Education Roundtable Face to Face Conference

  • Move This World’s Global Summit in Social Change through Movement

  • American Alliance for Theatre & Education (AATE) Regional Theatre in Our Schools (TIOS) Conference

Honors

  • National Guild for Community Arts Education’s Community Arts Education Leadership Institute

  • Emerging Leader in Arts Administration, New York Foundation for the Arts

  • Ella May Mullavey Ader Fellowship in Educational Theatre, New York University

Education

  • PhD in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities, New York University

  • MFA in Playwriting, Ohio University

  • BA in Theatre—Interpretation, Central Michigan University

  • BS in English—Creative Writing, Central Michigan University