Contributors
GIVE was created by a large, cross-organizational team of Teaching Artists and Arts Administrators, credited on this page as Developers.
This team was supported by Contributors, who tested, reviewed, and added invaluable insight to the resources at various stages of development; Consultants, who provided their expert knowledge in ICT classroom specifics, disability, and arts education; and Researchers and Fundraisers, who supported the creation and continuation of the project or the associated research to measure the impact of GIVE. Current Trainers work with educators locally and nationally to support to build their schools in utilizing GIVE resources.
Developers
Adriana Guzmán
Read MoreAdriana Guzmán is a first-generation American and Queens, New York native. Her foundation in multiculturalism instilled a spirit of global citizenship at a ver…
Amanda Newman
Read MoreAmanda Newman (she/her) is a dancer, social worker, and cross-field collaborator. She is the Program Manager of Social Impact with Community-Word Project (CWP)…
Ana Cantorán
Read MoreAna Cantorán is a Theatre Artist and Educator based in Brooklyn, NY and born in Puebla, Mexico. She holds a BFA in Dramatic Arts and a MFA in Contemporary Per…
Arielle Lever
Read MoreArielle Lever is an Arts Administrator / Theater Artist / Teaching Artist, who focuses a great deal of her energy and work around accessibility in theater. She…
Caila Gale
Read MoreCaila Gale works for New 42 doing digital things and helped guide the GIVE team in the development of this site from the first RFP to final QA (along with Soci…
Claudia Acosta
Read MoreClaudia Acosta is an actor, director, producer and teaching artist. As an arts educator of over twenty years she serves many organizations in addition to GIVE …
Courtney J. Boddie
Read MoreCourtney J. Boddie, Vice President, Education & School Engagement, oversees all programs related to school communities including the New Victory School Par…
David DelGrosso
Read MoreDavid is a longtime Teaching Artist with The New Victory Theater, where he enjoyed working with students, teachers, and public audiences across a variety of ar…
Elizabeth Argelia Leonard
Read MoreElizabeth Argelia Leonard is a writer, educator and editor with a Masters in novel writing from City University London. She has been a teaching artist for the …
Erica Reinsch Tusciuk
Read MoreErica Reinsch Tusciuk is the Associate Director of Education/School Engagement at The New Victory Theater. Serving 40,000 students and 160 schools each year, E…
Katie Fanning
Read MoreKatie (she/her) is an actor, arts accessibility advocate, and educator. She joined the GIVE Team in March 2019, working as the Project Coordinator and Manager.…
Kerry Warren
Read MoreKerry Warren is a New York based actor, teaching artist, and graduate of the Juilliard School’s Drama Division. She has taught with Harlem Children’s Zone, Lin…
Kim Grier-Martinez
Read MoreKim Grier-Martinez, a cisgender Black woman, dance artist, and activist, has been a Teaching Artist for several decades. Additionally, she serves as the Artist…
Kimberly Boyce-Lazare
Read MoreKimberly Boyce-Lazare hails from the home of the Harlem Renaissance. She is an Artivist and Educator with Community-Word Project and Urban Word NYC, championin…
Kimberly Olsen
Read MoreKimberly Olsen is the Executive Director of the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable. As leader of the organization, Kim works with a large network of NYC-based cu…
Kyla F. McKoll
Read MoreKyla F McKoll (she/her) is a theatre practitioner and arts educator. She’s worked in arts education as a Teaching Artist, Administrator, Professional Developm…
Laura Borgwardt
Read MoreLaura is an actor and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked with ArtsConnection since 2011, teaching theater, musical theater, careers in theat…
Leigh Wells
Read MoreLeigh (she/her) grew up in central Kentucky, on the ancestral lands of Eastern Cherokee peoples, Tsalaguwetiyi. She is passionate about the potential, importan…
Marisol Rosa-Shapiro
Read MoreMarisol Rosa-Shapiro is a theater artist, educator, and facilitator. She has recently appeared in THE UP CLOSE FESTIVAL (New Ohio Theatre, NYC) and in Spellbo…
Mary Kinney
Read MoreMary Kinney is a writer, teaching artist, and professional tired person. She regularly cries in planetariums, arranges dried flowers, and makes her own soap. H…
Michele Kotler
Read MoreMichele Kotler founded Community-Word Project in 1997. She is a graduate of the NYC public school system. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and h…
Rachel Watts
Read MoreRachel Watts, Executive Director at ArtsConnection, oversees all aspects of an almost 45-year-old organization dedicated to providing and advocating for meanin…
Renata Townsend
Read MoreRenata Townsend is a Theater Maker and the Head of Enrichment for Trusty Sidekick Theater Company who was commissioned by Lincoln Center to create multi-sensor…
Sam Jay Gold
Read MoreSam Jay Gold is a Jim Henson Foundation-supported puppeteer, theater artist, and arts educator. As a former Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Sam trained in traditional…
Steven Tennen
Read MoreSteven Tennen spent 52 years working in the field of arts education in New York City-- as a teacher at PS 287k (1968-1972); as the Director of the Arts in Educ…
Tricia Patrick
Read MoreTricia Patrick is a performer, teaching artist and arts administrator who strives to keep PLAY at the center of her WORK. Particularly thrilling to her is the …
Yael Ben-Zion
Read MoreYael Ben-Zion is a New York-based visual artist and educator working primarily in photography. Her practice examines charged social and political issues from a…
Trainers
Alex Velozo
Read MoreAlex Velozo is a trans and disabled artist and educator currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Their installations and performances combine cultural imagin…
Arielle Lever
Read MoreArielle Lever is an Arts Administrator / Theater Artist / Teaching Artist, who focuses a great deal of her energy and work around accessibility in theater. She…
Kerry Warren
Read MoreKerry Warren is a New York based actor, teaching artist, and graduate of the Juilliard School’s Drama Division. She has taught with Harlem Children’s Zone, Lin…
Kim Grier-Martinez
Read MoreKim Grier-Martinez, a cisgender Black woman, dance artist, and activist, has been a Teaching Artist for several decades. Additionally, she serves as the Artist…
Kimberly Boyce-Lazare
Read MoreKimberly Boyce-Lazare hails from the home of the Harlem Renaissance. She is an Artivist and Educator with Community-Word Project and Urban Word NYC, championin…
Lauren Sharpe
Read MoreLauren Sharpe is a theater-maker, movement artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She is an alumna of The New York Neo-Futurists and a frequent collaborator wi…
Nami Kagami
Read MoreNami Kagami is a native of Japan and was trained in both Modern and Ballet with a focus on creative expressions. Upon her arrival in New York, she completed he…
P. Tyler Britt
Read MoreP. Tyler Britt (he/him) is a Brooklyn native, Theater Practitioner, Stage Manager, Teaching Artist and Hunter College alumni with a BA in Theater. Deeply inves…
Renata Townsend
Read MoreRenata Townsend is a Theater Maker and the Head of Enrichment for Trusty Sidekick Theater Company who was commissioned by Lincoln Center to create multi-sensor…
Seanan Forbes
Read MoreA disabled, trans interdisciplinary artist, Seanan Forbes (they/them) is a writer, poet, performer, photographer, and visual artist. Seanan’s storytelling work…
Sofiya Cheyenne
Read MoreSofiya Cheyenne is a Teaching Artist, multi-disciplinary performer and Disability Advocate/Consultant. She is the Inclusion Director of Little People of Americ…
Susanna Brock
Read MoreSusanna Brock (she/her) is a mad, queer, neurodivergent, Swedish theater maker, performer, director and educator who creates multi-sensory and interactive thea…
Yael Ben-Zion
Read MoreYael Ben-Zion is a New York-based visual artist and educator working primarily in photography. Her practice examines charged social and political issues from a…
Contributors
Alex Velozo
Read MoreAlex Velozo is a trans and disabled artist and educator currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. Their installations and performances combine cultural imagin…
Allison Mui Mitchell
Read MoreAllison Mui Mitchell, New Victory Director of Public Relations, oversees the public identity and perception of New 42, New Victory and New 42 Studios across pr…
Andy Gaukel
Read MoreAndy is a Hudson Valley based puppetry artist and educator. His puppetry credits include the world premier of Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home and Ba…
Angel Thompson
Read MoreAngel Thompson is an artist, educator and author. She has over 13 years of teaching experience, working with families and children of all ages throughout NYC. …
Carrie Ellman-Larsen
Read MoreCarrie has been a teaching artist for 16 years, specializing in using theatre as a tool for language acquisition with ELLs and students with disabilities. She …
Christina D. Eskridge
Read MoreChristina D. Eskridge is a performing artist, teaching artist and public health professional, holding a Master’s Degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley and a…
Christopher Totten
Read MoreChristopher is the Assistant Director of Education/School Engagement at New 42/New Victory in New York City, where he oversees all teacher professional develop…
Craig Hayes
Read MoreCraig Hayes has spent the last 35 years in creative fields in NYC. He believes passionately that early exposure to art through family and school made his caree…
Dale Novella Anderson-Lee
Read MoreHailing from the Lowcountry in South Carolina with a home base in Brooklyn, Dale Novella brings Soul, Hip-Hop, R&b and Rock vibes to everything she creates. An…
Erin K. Orr
Read MoreErin Orr is a puppeteer, storyteller, and teaching artist. She focuses on how the interdisciplinary nature of puppet theater offers multiple entry points to l…
Heidi Stallings
Read MoreHeidi Stallings is a NYC-based actor, director, and educator. Graduate of IWU’s acting and music conservatory program, Heidi has appeared: from Broadway (EVITA…
Jamie Dibos Roach
Read MoreJamie Roach is an actor, playwright and facilitator. A graduate of NYU (MA in Applied Theater), and Circle in the Square Conservatory, Jamie has appeared onsta…
Janet Onyenucheya
Read MoreAs a teaching artist, Janet Onyenucheya values authenticity, vulnerability, reciprocity and representation. Janet works as an arts educator with K-12 public an…
Janice T Acevedo
Read MoreJanice Acevedo is an Educator, and Performing Artist from Queens NYC, where she still resides. She holds a BA in Theater Arts from Mount Holyoke College and is…
Javan Howard
Read MoreJavan Howard is a poet and writer from Bronx, NY. He truly believes that the lived experience is the ultimate teaching tool and uses poetry as a social forum t…
Karla Robinson
Read MoreKarla Robinson,TAP Artistic Director, believes deeply in the arts' ability to transform culture and community. As an arts educator with a Special Education Tea…
Katie Rainey
Read MoreKatie Rainey is a Teaching Artist and Director of the Teaching Artist Project at Community-Word Project, where she trains artists to become educators. She has …
Krishna Washburn
Read MoreKrishna is the director and teacher of Dark Room Ballet, a pre-professional dance curriculum designed for the educational needs of blind and visually impaired …
Lauren Sharpe
Read MoreLauren Sharpe is a theater-maker, movement artist and educator based in Brooklyn. She is an alumna of The New York Neo-Futurists and a frequent collaborator wi…
Libby Mislan
Read MoreLibby Mislan (she/her) is a teaching artist in New York City public schools with Community-Word Project, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, and City Lore. She i…
Liz Bolick
Read MoreLiz has a BFA from the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts. She is a Teaching Artist with The New Victory Theater and is an accomplished produc…
Maria Schirmer
Read MoreMaria Schirmer is a theatre artist, writer and arts educator. She has received a Gallatin Global Human Rights Fellowship with the Jana Sanskriti Center for The…
Molly Goldman
Read MoreMolly Goldman is a Teaching Artist in New York City. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She is a contributor to the forthcomi…
Nami Kagami
Read MoreNami Kagami is a native of Japan and was trained in both Modern and Ballet with a focus on creative expressions. Upon her arrival in New York, she completed he…
Rachael Schefrin
Read MoreRachael Schefrin is an actress and senior teaching artist at Community Word Project. Rachael loves using her artistic expertise to find the symbiotic relations…
Seanan Forbes
Read MoreA disabled, trans interdisciplinary artist, Seanan Forbes (they/them) is a writer, poet, performer, photographer, and visual artist. Seanan’s storytelling work…
Sofiya Cheyenne
Read MoreSofiya Cheyenne is a Teaching Artist, multi-disciplinary performer and Disability Advocate/Consultant. She is the Inclusion Director of Little People of Americ…
Susanna Brock
Read MoreSusanna Brock (she/her) is a mad, queer, neurodivergent, Swedish theater maker, performer, director and educator who creates multi-sensory and interactive thea…
T. Scott Lilly
Read MoreScott is an actor, director, songwriter and musician who has been teaching these (life) skills to children for 20 years. Scott was part of the original E.A.S.…
Consultants
Alexa Fairchild
Read MoreAlexa advocates for equity, access, and excellence in arts education for students with disabilities and multilingual learners in her role as the Manager of Art…
Aliza Greenberg
Read MoreAliza Greenberg is the Arts Enrichment Coordinator at LearningSpring School, the Project Leader for Supporting Transitions with the Museum, Arts and Culture Ac…
Ariela Rotengold
Read MoreAriela is a social worker in New York City, and a teaching artist with CO/LAB Theater Group. Ariela has partnered extensively with young people and adults with…
Charlotte J Martin
Read MoreCharlotte Martin is Senior Manager of Access Initiatives at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, where she oversees the team the develops programs and resourc…
Gayathri Iyer
Read MoreGayathri is a School Counselor at The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria in Queens, where she dreamed to work with daughters of immigrants familiar to …
Jano Cortijo
Read MoreJano Cortijo is a gay, immigrant, bilingual arts educator whose independent/on-call/seasonal/per diem work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilit…
Jerron Herman
Read MoreJerron Herman is a dancer, writer, moderator, and advocate for the arts who is compelled to disrupt ideas of restriction with images of freedom. Originally fin…
Louisa Mann
Read MoreLouisa Mann was born and raised in Brattleboro, VT. She began her dance training at the age of 3 at the Brattleboro School of Dance. She has a BFA in dance fro…
Marc Fernandes
Read MoreFor over twenty years, Marc Fernandes has been deeply involved in the organizational, programmatic, policy, and advocacy sides of youth development and communi…
Pamela Pritzker-Ridley
Read MorePamela Pritzker-Ridley is a school administrator with teaching certifications in special education and visual art. She is also a nationally certified American …
Pauli Evanson
Read MorePauli Evanson is an elementary special education teacher and has taught students from Kindergarten to eight grade. She earned an MA in childhood education and …
Sarah Brooks
Read MoreSarah is a devoted special education teacher who has worked in various types of classrooms over the last ten years. For the last four years, she has enjoyed wo…
Stephen Yaffe
Read MoreStephen Yaffe is an Arts and Education consultant. He has mentored teaching artists, arts administrators and classroom teachers working with students with disa…
Tobie Franklin
Read MoreTobie Franklin has extensive experience in the field of special education. She has worked in educational and clinical settings in Canada, Israel, and the U.K. …
Williy Pang
Read MoreWilliy Pang has been a teacher in the NYCDOE for the past two decades. At P.S. 295 - The Studio School of Arts & Culture, he is currently working in an ICT…
Researchers & Fundraisers
Fran Van Horn
Read MoreFran's arts education career spans more than four decades, and includes teaching, program development and administration. She is delighted to have worked in pa…
Greg Mytelka
Read MoreGreg Mytelka (he/him) serves as Education Programs Manager at New 42 / New Victory Theater, where he oversees the programmatic and administrative aspects of th…
Lindsey Buller Maliekel
Read MoreLindsey Buller Maliekel, Director of Education & Public Engagement at the leading arts nonprofit New 42 in New York City, is recognized as a global expert …
Melissa Shaw
Read MoreMelissa Shaw is a facilitator who offers a unique consultancy based in the arts, social justice, diversity and inclusion, and social emotional learning. She h…
Sindy Isabel Castro
Read MoreSindy Isabel Castro is an actress, educator, and theatre artist. She is co-founder of Jugando N Play, a multilingual theatre for young audiences. She graduated…
