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About

Currently:

Consultant to New York City Public Schools on Effective and Innovative Educational Strategies.

Consultant to CEI and their Arts Specialist on their USDOE Education through Art AAEDD Grant serving District 75 schools.

Previously:

Executive Director, founder of LeAp - Learning through an Expanded Arts Program, Inc

Educator, artist and successful entrepreneur. Parlayed my interests in the arts, history, science and eduaction into a multi-million dollar non-profit that has helped over 2,000,000 NYC students.

While managing an office of 15+ administrators and over 200 consultants who were working in about 200 schools each year, I wrote over 14 books, create several curriculums to teach literacy, history, art history, basic mathematics and the sciences and develop a very successful fundraising plan.