Areas of Expertise
- Arts integration/arts platforms with trauma-informed behavior
- Arts education/arts integration
- Arts and health/wellness
- Designing and implementing strategic arts platforms to extend education and health
- Certified: Trauma informed competency/IATP
- Certified: Child and adolescent trauma informed professional/IATP
Education
- B.A. in sociology
- M.A. in holistic counseling
What's My Why?
I love using the theater/performing arts as a foundation for multidisciplinary self-awareness, integrated education and as a platform to help students build empathy, tolerance, compassion and multicultural awareness. I love working with students not only from the world of theater and performing arts, but also those students who seek to understand a holistic concept -using the arts - to better understand themselves and their chosen field of study. In working with students from all layers of higher education, we begin to better understand not only the relationship with ourselves, but also our relationship with others by implementing whole-brained, heart-centered learning.
Professional Experience
- 30 years of acting in professional theater/film and television, including the Peabody Award-winning Showtime series "Brotherhood."
- RI Best Actor Award for portraying Maria Callas in "Master Class"
- World premiere: "Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends" by Charlotte Meehan, directed by Tara Brooks Watkins
- "TraumaDramaMama" original one-woman show
- Griefology:Living.Loving.Loss
- Founder/president of the CORE Organization, an arts enrichment nonprofit that provides arts programming to children K-8 throughout Newport County.