FACULTY & COURSEWORK

2007-2008 Nash University | 2007 Summer Institute
2006-2007 Nash University | 2006 Summer Institute
2005-2006 Nash University | 2005 Summer Institute
2004 Summer Institute
2003 Summer Institute
2002 Summer Institute

2007 Summer Institute

Global Women’s Health -- Patricia Krueger
Patricia is completing her doctoral thesis in Urban Education at CUNY Graduate Center and taught Educating for Peace and Human Rights for the SNLP 2006 Summer Institute. This course will introduce young women to the topics of social justice and human rights from the perspective of international women’s health.

Looks-ism -- Rashida Holmes
Rashida is a professional DJ and a consultant for youth development and girls’ empowerment programs in Philadelphia. Rashida taught DJ101 for the SNLP 2006 Summer Institute. Her course this year will address issues around the culture of discrimination based on looks which is encouraged and supported by a very narrow definition and ideal of what is feminine and beauty.

Politics of Healing – Ije Ude
Ije is a community organizer, sexual health educator, and currently a Social Justice Fellow at the Research Center for Leadership in Action where she created Voices United, working with young and adult immigrant women to support collective healing and power-building. Her course will explore and build off this Audre Lorde quote: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

The Zine Project – Renee Rallo
Renee has a Masters in English specializing in the practices and principles of urban, community-based literacy and publishing projects. This course will introduce Nashers to the writer-driven design and publication of a zine, an underground press project. The course will be both writing workshop and hands-on zine creation and publication.

The Power of Identity through Movement – Shaleigh Comerford
Shaleigh is a trained dancer with an MA in Visual and Performing Arts from Hollins University. This dance class will seek to “make the body visible where it can be a source of personal and social truth.”

Filmmaking to Make a Difference – Kemah F. Keita-Diouf
Kemeh is currently earning her MFA from CUNY in Cinematography and completed a BA from CUNY Hunter in Theatre Arts and Film Production. By exploring both theory and technique of filmmaking, this hands-on course will show how filmmaking can be used to combat social injustice.

Leadership Action Projects (LAP) – Nyoka Acevedo, Nurah Morgan, Leanne Sajor
Nyoka is co-Director of Programs at SNLP. Nurah is a participant who started SNLP summer 2005 and completed a LAP last summer. Leanne is a participant from summer 2004 and is a seasoned youth organizer. Both Nurah and Leanne just graduated from high school and are funded by the New York Foundation Youth Organizing internship grant. The LAP program for 2nd year students engages the young women in both collective and individual projects by teaching tools for organizing, building community and communication, and making change.

Leadership Seminar – LeeAnn Fletcher and Stephanie Morales
LeeAnn is Program Associate at SNLP and Stephanie is currently an assistant at the ACLU and will be starting film school in Argentina at the end of the summer. Both women are former SNLP Deans (2004). Leadership Seminar has been a core course since our first session in 2002 and remains a cornerstone of the summer curriculum. Using exercises, games, and intensive peer interaction, this course encourages an in-depth and critical analysis of leadership and the terms “accountable, ethical, cooperative and effective” from our mission.

Power, Identity and Privilege -- Shreya Janssens-Shannon
Shreya has taught this “core” course (all young women attend) at SNLP for four years. Shreya is a seasoned youth educator with an M.Ed. from Harvard University where her research focused on identity development, adolescent risk and prevention. Her course explores the nature of oppression and examines connections between identity, power and privilege. It also explores the journey towards personal and collective liberation. Students are given an opportunity to strategize about ways of both resisting oppression and examining their own power and privilege.


2005-2006 Nash University

Women’s Health – Ellen Schubert
Ellen is a former Nasher who has participated in our Summer Institute Program and Community Action  who is a peer educator and trained by TORCH, which is part of Naral Pro-Choice.  Ellen created… Ellen is also is a senior at Bard High School and will be attending Hampshire College this fall. 

Creative Writing – Tara Betts
Tara Betts, writer/educator/performer, appeared on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" and in the SouthWest VDay production of Eve Ensler's "Vagina Monologues" at Chicago's DuSable Museum.  She also appeared in the Black Family Channel series "SPOKEN" with jessica Care moore.  She is currently one of the writers/performers in girlstory-an intergenerational, multicultural women's performance collective.  

Drawn In our Image - Amallia Orman
Amallia is an artist and educator who has worked with SNLP as a Dean and Faculty member for the past two years.  Inspired by the work and ideas of the young women in her class this summer, she created Drawn in Our Image, a class that examines images of women in the media while also teaching figure drawing to reclaim those images.

Speak to be Heard, Public Speaking - Ana Trinidad
Ana is an Associate Director at Chica Luna Productions, Inc., an all women of color multi-media production company.  Ana started in the entertainment industry as an actor.  She is teaching a public speaking class that incorporates acting methods into public speaking. Young women are learning articulation, basic skills in speaking, oral reading, small group communication and interview techniques.  Ana is being assisted by LeeAnn Fletcher a former SNLP Dean.
 
Who am I? Who do I Want to Be? Rap Group – Allison Conescu
Allison is our part-time mental health counselor.  The Rap Group is a member driven group of young women.  The goal of this group is to create safe community to explore consciousness and power in relationships and women’s own understandings of themselves.  Allison is assisted by a current participant, Tunisia Morrison, who attended the Summer Institute 2005.

College Counseling - Malika Harris
Malika is a college counselor at OPTIONS, a college assistance program that operates out of Goddard Riverside on the upper west side of Manhattan. Malika is working with over 15 young women through one-on-one college counseling sessions, and through college workshops.

SAT Prep Instructor – Kushya Rachel Sugarman
Rachel is a Kaplan trained SAT prep instructor.  Rachel is currently an undergraduate student in City College, CUNY, where she is majoring in Biology.  She will run a total of five (5) courses in preparation for the new SAT being given on December 3rd, 2005. 

Supplemental Workshops/Activities

• Introduction to Yoga: November 19th , 2005
• College Trip to Baltimore/Washington DC (3 colleges toured): November 10-11,2005
• The College Application Process: October 29th, 2005
• Taking the Next Steps for 9th thru11th graders: December 3rd, 2005
• Navigating Financial Aid – January 7th, 2006
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) – December 10th, 2005
• Reproductive Rights Conference, Hampshire College: April 7 – 9th, 2006
• Organizing 101: Turning Your Vision into Action April 18th
• College Trip to Albany (3 colleges toured): April 19-20th  
• College Informational and Gathering April 1st
• Financial Aid: January 7, 2006

2005 Summer Institute

The Anthropology of Gender – Rosalina Diaz
Rosalina is currently finishing her Ph.D. in Urban Education at the CUNY Grad Center. She has a Masters Degree in Women’s Studies and Anthropology. She was a teacher in New York City public high schools from 1987-1998 and currently teaches at City College and Boricua College. Her course will explore, among other things, the historical and anthropological development of gender roles.

Activism through Acting – V. Anjelica Sanchez DeGuzman
V. was a member of the Founding Class of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project. V. currently works for The Momentum Project, which provides support to low income persons living with HIV/AIDS. V.’s course will use performance as a way to address and explore the lines between personal and social tribulations. Students will examine and analyze the personal challenges faced in every day life and relate it to challenges young women face collectively.

Education for Social and Political Change – Coco Killingsworth
Coco has taught with Sadie Nash for four years and is the youth development specialist at the High School for Global Citizenship in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. She graduated with a M.Ed. in Educational Policy from Harvard University and has since worked with Global Kids, the Lower Eastside Girls Project and other youth development organizations. Her course will explore the historical and contemporary purposes of public schools in the United States, the promise of public education, the politics of public schools and the potential of education beyond school walls.

Drawn In our Image - Amallia Orman
Amallia is an artist and educator who has worked with SNLP as a Dean and Faculty member for the past two years.  Inspired by the work and ideas of the young women in her class this summer, she created Drawn in Our Image, a class that examines images of women in the media while also teaching figure drawing to reclaim those images.

Examining Globalization: Is Another World Possible? – Amita Swadhin
Amita has worked with Global Kids as a Senior Trainer since 2001 when she graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She is an Organizing Collective Member of Youth Solidarity Summer and in the past worked for NOW Legal Defense. Her course is intended to focus on an examination of globalization and its effects politically, socially, culturally, and economically.

I Am a Writer – Andre Lancaster
Andre is a playwright and producer. He is the author of four plays: “Descendants of Freedom,” about AIDS in the future, “NeverMeant2Dream,” “On these Streets,” and “hopecourage.” His course will be a playwriting course focusing on creatively communicating beliefs and concepts as they relate to young women, leadership, community activism, and other salient social and political issues.

Power, Identity and Privilege -- Shreya Janssens-Sannon 
Shreya has taught this “core” course (all young women attend) at Sadie Nash for three years and currently works at Shikshantar in Udaipur, India, an applied research institute dedicated to catalyzing a radical systemic transformation of the education system in India. Previously, Shreya worked for SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action) where she ran leadership and activism programs for teens. Shreya has a M.Ed. from Harvard University where her research focused on identity development, adolescent risk and prevention. Her course explores the nature of oppression and examines connections between identity, power and privilege. It also explores the journey towards personal and collective liberation. Students will be given an opportunity to strategize about ways of both resisting oppression and examining their own power and privilege. 


2004 Summer Institute

Feminist Politics -- Lemuel Martinez-Carroll
Lemuel Martinez-Carroll has taught history, English, and feminism for 17 years at the Manhattan Lab School, a school he also co-founded. He has Masters Degrees in History from NYU and in Jazz Piano from Columbia. His course will look at gender, sexuality, and society and examine relevant and challenging issues facing us today, such as reproductive rights, violence, race and class, and education. Starting with defining and examining feminism in theory, the course will also be rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. 

Writing is Fighting: Transformation of Self and Society -- Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz is the author of two novels Soledad and the forthcoming Let It Rain Coffee (Simon & Schuster 2001, 2005). She grew up and resides in Washington Heights where she has worked as a writer, educator and activist. This creative writing course will engage a process of accessing truths, reclaiming stories and turning them into poems, fiction, non-fiction and performance pieces. 

The Critical Eye of the Artist -- Stephanie Diamond
Stephanie Diamond is an artist, activist and art educator who has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MA from NYU. She has always involved youth in art making and has developed curriculum and art education programs at PBS, Bronx International HS, Socrates Sculpture Park, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Her course will engage students in using photography and other media of choice in an effort to examine critically themselves, their lives and their communities.

Media Literacy – Dr. Lisa Duggan
Lisa Duggan is a Professor at NYU with appointments in the departments of American Studies, History, and Center for Gender Studies. She is the author of several books including most recently The Twilight of Equality? In this class she will focus on the biases, agendas and role of the media in our culture. Special attention will be paid to topics and issues relevant today such as: the elections of 2000 and 2004, the “war on terrorism,” and local city issues.

Power, Identity and Privilege -- Shreya Janssens-Sannon
Shreya Janssens-Sannon works for SAYA! (South Asian Youth Action) where she runs leadership and activism programs for teens. Shreya has a MEd from Harvard University where her research focused on identity development, adolescent risk and prevention. Her course will begin by exploring the nature of oppression and by examining the connections between identity, power and privilege. It will also explore the journey towards personal and collective liberation. Students will be given an opportunity to strategize about ways of both resisting oppression and questioning and challenging their own privilege. 

2003 Summer Institute

Writing Is Fighting: Transformation of Self & Society
Angie Cruz, novelist and activist, founder of W.I.L.L. (Women in Letters and Literature) and author of Soledad (Simon & Schuster, 2000)

Women's Movements
Dr. Lisa Duggan, professor in the American Studies and History Departments at New York University

Identity, Power & Privilege
Shreya Janssens-Sannon, activist and youth worker at South Asian Youth Action, M.Ed. from Harvard University in immigrant education

Role of Public Education in America
Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Executive Director, a progressive public policy think-tank, The Drum Major Institute

2002 Summer Institute

The Image and Role of Women in World Religions
Dr. Bahar Davary, Professor of Religion, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Health and Society through the Lens of Psychology
Michael Hoyt, Doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University and a former Clinical Provider in the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard University

Urban America: Portrayals of Identity in Film and Literature
Dr. Diana Paulin, Professor of American Studies, Theatre, and African-American Studies, Yale University

Social Movements
Tryon Woods, Adjunct Faculty Lecturer of Sociology, California State University at Long Beach and a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine