• Curriculum Development
• Program Development
• Evaluation and Assessment

• Mentoring and Internship Programming
• Presentations/ Authoring/ Producing
• Materials for families, students, teachers and adults

• Designed lessons related to culture, science, social studies, history, language arts, civics, and journalism and authored three books on art and culture.
• Published author of three books on arts, culture and education and contributing author to many textbooks for teachers and students.
• Conducted evaluation and assessment of programs and organizations in a wide variety of areas in the education field.
• Developed the Career Internship Network at the behest of The Clark Foundation, The Pinkerton Foundation, and The Altman Foundation to serve the needs of their grant recipients in a more effective and substantial manner. Improved the quality of programming in more than 32 non-profit organizations offering internship programs for high school youth through the Youth Development Institute.
• Effectively utilized skills of American Museum of Natural History staff mentors to support 50 under-served New York City junior and senior high school students in which they experienced the Museum from "behind-the-scenes". Both students and staff reported that mentor-intern relationships produced successful placements.

Analysis

• Co-authored and delivered assessment surveys prior to program planning process; quantified and analyzed results to determine next steps.
• Evaluated organizational needs and designed training methodologies and supporting curriculum for educational organizations for identified target audiences.

Communication

• Developed processes and methodology to share program best practices between network member agencies.
• Developed methodology of soliciting deep reflection from learners about their experiences in wide variety of after-school programs, workshops, programs, and curriculum.

Presentations

• Researched, wrote and delivered on a variety of arts and education topics before national school, corporate, and non-profit audiences.
• Constructed and facilitated professional development workshops for teachers and teaching artists in over 10 organizations.

Program Development / Management

• Supported a variety of projects performing the research and analysis necessary to create the strategy implementation and project plan.
• Managed development of training programs to support organizational transformation effort. Relationship Building/ Management
• Provided team development through project planning and program development efforts designed to support organizational mentoring programs.
• Increased effectiveness of non-profit programming through more efficient communication between organizations and designing programs to share best practices

Results-focused Facilitation

• Designed and facilitated meetings for program development, curriculum and project planning, problem solving, and other decision-support processes in a variety of settings.

Writing/Editing/Production

• Authored extensive curriculum for teachers and students of all ages, developing lessons related to culture, science, social studies, history, language arts, civics, journalism, and mathematics.
• Authored three books on arts and culture for a school and general adult audience.
• Contributed to teacher and student editions of textbooks for youth kindergarten through 12.
• Wrote and edited materials for test preparation companies such as Kaplan and Peterson.

American Association of Museums Career Intern Network New York City Museum Educators Roundtable

Community Involvement Doing Art Together, Inc - Advisory Board Member The Children's Movement for Creative Expression - Advisory Board Member

Education Bank Street College Graduate School, New York, M.S. Education Oberlin College, Ohio, B.A. Art History and Dance