Graduate Director of Dance Education - Mason Gross School of the Arts and The Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey
You are here Home › Faculty › Adjunct Faculty › Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas Lecturer Cindy M. Bautista-Thomas, LCSW, is an Associate Director of Field Education at CSSW where she coordinates internships in schools and aging programs as well as the annual field placement fair. She also teaches the Seminar for Field Instruction and the course, Social Work in the Bilingual Context: Multicultural Perspectives in Social Work Practice. She has over 15 years of social work experience in private child welfare and early intervention agencies, public schools, higher education and research. Committed to equity in education and social services, she is …
In addition to serving as Department Chair and Professor of Health Studies in the College of Health Professions at Pace University, Dr. Bear-Lehman serves as an adjunct associate professor in the NYU College of Dentistry Psychosocial Research Unit on Health, Aging, and the Community. Dr. Bear-Lehman's clinical and scholarship specialties are in orthopedics, upper limb rehabilitation, work reentry, and functional performance measurement. She held faculty positions in occupational therapy at New York University, Columbia University, the University of Toronto and at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She has over 80 publications in refereed journals and textbooks. Her research enterprise centers around …
Judith M. Burton?is Professor of Art and Art Education, Department of Arts and Humanities. Dr. Burton came to the United States from Great Britain in 1974; she taught in the Newton Public Schools and at the Massachusetts College of Art. She completed her doctoral work at Harvard University while chairing the Art Education Program at Boston University. In 1990 she was invited to direct the Program in Art and Art Education at Columbia University Teachers College and more recently served as Chairperson of the newly created Department of the Arts and Humanities. Dr. Burton?s research focuses on the contribution of …
Tracy Chippendale, PhD, OTR/L, is an occupational therapist whose clinical background and research interests are in geriatrics. Her research focuses on interventions that enable elders to remain in their own home or “Age in Place”. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at New York University.
Janet Falk-Kessler, Ed.D., OTR, FAOTA is the Director and Associate Professor, Programs in Occupational Therapy and an Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor of Movement Sciences and Education, Teachers College. She has a strong clinical experience with individuals who have chronic psychiatric disorders; clinical administration experience of day hospital and occupational therapy departments; consultation to community agencies serving those with chronic mental illness; and school system intervention. She is particularly interested in outcome measures related to cognitive impairment, and how it affects function in a variety of populations; and coping strategies in a variety of populations. Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy …
Nancy is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Silberman School of Social Work (SSW), and the Director of Policy and Communications for Silberman Aging, a Hartford Center for Excellence in Diverse Aging. Her interest in the field of aging began in 1990 when she began volunteering for a hospice at home program on Long Island. Her close relationship to her grandparents when she was young further nurtured her passion for spending time with older people and working to ensure older adults have access to services that help them live how they choose. She has worked in the areas …
JOAN JEFFRI: is the Director/Founder of the Research Center for the Arts and Culture begun at Columbia University and now part of the new LEGACY PROJECT at the NYC national headquarters of The Actors Fund. Former director of the RCAC at the National Center for Creative Aging, and former director of the graduate Program in Arts Administration at Columbia University for 22 years. Creator: ART CART: SAVING THE LEGACY, an intergenerational project to help older artists document their work that grew out of research on NYC visual artists age 62+ called Above Ground. Author: Still Kicking; Making Changes: Facilitating the …
It has been my pleasure to work with ART CART since its inception in 2009 and to continue to do so as Interdisciplinary Teamwork Coordinator and consultant in gerontology and health promotion. Currently, a special Research Scientist/Scholar at Columbia University's Programs in Occupational Therapy, and formerly an Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy in the Faculty of Medicine, I have created service-learning health promotion programs which brought occupational therapy, public health, and nursing students into more than 20 community agencies that serve older adults in the five boroughs of New York. I am a Co-Module Director of the New York-Columbia Geriatric …
I am the Internships adviser for the Art and Art Professions Department at New York University.
Ms Simon has over 27 years of clinical practice as an occupational therapist specializing in the care of adults and older adults. She has worked in a wide variety of settings including acute care, outpatient, sub-acute care/ skilled nursing facilities and home care. Areas of interest include health promotion and wellness, cognitive health for older adults and occupational therapy program development within community based practice arenas. She is currently responsible for teaching the older adult curriculum at Columbia University’s Programs in Occupational Therapy and coordinating part of their clinical education program. She has over 17 years of academic experience and …
I’m an oral historian, particularly interested in using oral history interviews to create audio and video documentaries for personal and public use. I got my undergraduate degree in Sociology from Harvard University where I focused my studies on first and second-generation (U.S.) Americans. I’ve also completed my master’s degree in Oral History at Columbia University, where I worked on my own audio and video documentaries, a sampling of which is available on this site. I conducted oral history interviews for the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations project.
Bob Burke is delighted to serve as a faculty member for ART CART. After a distinguished twenty-five year career in health services research, focusing on health care quality, finance, and health service program administration and evaluation for aging services, Robert E. Burke, PhD joined the Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Health Service Management and Leadership in 2002 as the Director of the Wertlieb Educational Institute of Long Term Care Management. In 2003, Dr. Burke was appointed the interim chair of the Department of Health Service Management and Leadership. In 2005 he was appointed the permanent chair and …
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D., is dean and professor of the Howard University School of Social Work. She is also currently on the board of the National Center of Creative Aging (NCCA) and Home Care Partners. Her expertise is ethnogerontology, cultural competency with older persons and caregiving.
Janice M. Davis, PhD, MSW, LCSW-C is the Director of Field Education at Howard University School of Social Work in Washington, DC. She has worked at Howard University School of Social Work for over 15 years. She currently teaches course in Human Behavior and the Social Environment and Substance Use and Abuse. Her research interests include: nontraditional students, first generation college students, social class, art as a curricular innovation in social work, social determinants of health and adolescent males in the education system. As a clinical social worker for over thirty years, she has had the opportunity to work with …
Hello! I served as an ART CART fellow in the 2012-13 program (DC) and am looking forward to continuing to work with this program. I currently work at the National Gallery of Art as the Head of Interpretive Resources, Division of Education.
HI, I am looking forward to being part of this year's ART CART. My background includes early childhood teaching, museum education and storytelling. I have been teaching in the art education program at the Corcoran College of Art since 2005. What most appeals to me about this program is hearing the artists' stories.
Director, Arts Management Program, George Mason University Ms. Huschle has been associated with Mason’s Arts Management program since 2007, when she began teaching Gallery Management as an Adjunct Professor. She joined the faculty full-time in 2012, shortly after completing a Fellowship at the DeVos Institute for Arts Management at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. There, she studied with Michael Kaiser and the Center’s senior leadership and co-produced a study on regional trends in millennial audience engagement. From 2005-2011, she served as Executive Director of the Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA).
I am a PhD candidate in the History Department at American University. I have an MA from Columbia University in Oral History and an MA from Columbia University in Anthropology. My dissertation is on the memory of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. My work combines academia and museum audiences.
Dan Kerr, the director of American University's public history program, specializes in the fields of community history, oral history, and public history. The projects he has initiated, including the Cleveland Homeless Oral History Project, the Shenandoah Valley Oral History Project, and the Homeless Voices Amplification Cooperative in Washington, DC, have gained inspiration from the traditions of popular education, participatory action research, and people’s history. With each project, Kerr seeks to honor the “shared authority” inherent in the oral histories and documents generated throughout the research process.
Pamela Harris Lawton, a practicing artist, is an Associate Professor of Art Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Sociology, an MFA in Printmaking and an EdDCT in Art Education. Her research interests include community-based service learning and transformative learning through art and intergenerational art education. In addition to teaching art at the high school level, she has served as Director of Art Education at the Corcoran School of the Arts + Design/George Washington University and on the art education faculty at the Bank Street College of Education; Tyler School of Art, Temple University; …
