Lesley Seminars FACULTY

Elizabeth DaCosta Ahern is a painter, printmaker, and art instructor. Her grants and awards include the Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant, and a Kinnicutt Travel Grant to paint in Portugal, among others. In 2006 she was invited to participate in the American Artists Abroad Program, traveling to Angola. She has taught at the DeCordova Museum School and the Worcester Art Museum, and has offered workshops in New Mexico and Greece. Elizabeth's work is in many collections, including the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Bank of America, San Francisco, and Fidelity Investments, Boston. She is a graduate of Boston University, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and studied in a Master Class with Helen Frankenthaler in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Priscilla Baumann, Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Boston University, is particularly interested in medieval French art, architecture, and cultural history. After completing a B.A. in French at Manhattanville College, and an M.A. in French at Middlebury College, Baumann was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has taught at Tufts University and the Radcliffe Seminars, where she was cited as Distinguished Instructor of Art History. She has been a Docent at the Harvard Art Museum since 1983. Her extensive archive of slides photographed on site enhances her classes, and offers unique details unavailable elsewhere.

Carrie Bennett's first book of poetry, Biography of Water, won the 2004 Washington Prize, and was published by Word Works in 2005. After receiving her M.F.A. in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she moved to Boston, where she currently teaches in the Writing Program at Boston University. Her poetry has been published in Boston Review, Indiana Review, The Bellingham Review, 88, Phoebe, and So to Speak, and is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly and Chelsea.

Suzanne E. Berger, M.F.A., Johns Hopkins University, M.Ed., Northeastern University, is a poet, essayist, teacher, and author of These Rooms, Legacies, and Horizontal Woman. She has taught at Metropolitan College, Boston University, Harvard University Summer School, and the Radcliffe Seminars. She has won awards from MacDowell Colony, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts, and the Somerville Arts Council, and earned a Pushcart Prize, a teaching citation from the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and a prize for Vogue from Easter Seals for writing about disability. Her work has been published in major literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Agni Review, The New Yorker, and Harvard Review.

Jim Bildner is the Managing Director of the Center for Applied Philanthropy and The Fund for Sustainability. He is a trustee of numerous organizations, including The Kresge Foundation, The Non Profit Finance Fund, The Women's Funding Network, Lesley University, The National Public Radio Foundation, and The Literary Ventures Fund. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Entrepreneur in Residence at Clark University, and an Adjunct Professor of Writing at Lesley University. He earned his A.B. from Dartmouth College, his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and his M.F.A. from Lesley University.

Meg Birnbaum is a photographer and graphic designer. Her solo exhibitions include The Griffin Museum of Photography, Montserrat College of Art, The Belmont Gallery of Art and the Brookline Arts Center. She has been published in The Boston Globe, Light Leaks Magazine, Camera Arts, and The Harvard Review. Birnbaum studied at Montserrat College of Art, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Visit www.megbirnbaumphotography.com.

Anna Browne is an artist photographer, and digital retoucher. She earned a B.S. from Northeastern University in Art, with a concentration in Photography. She studied photography in Florence, Italy, and taught digital photography in Venice, Italy. She works as a commercial digital retoucher, and artistically enjoys photographing the Brazilian martial art form Capoeira.

Mark Chester has been a professional photographer since 1972. His photographs and/or feature stories have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. Chester's book, No in America, is a collection of tongue-in-cheek photographs of no signs. He was the photographer for Charles Kuralt's book, Dateline America, and his photographs are in permanent collections in the Baltimore, Brooklyn, Corcoran, Denver, Portland, and San Francisco Museums, among others. A graduate of the University of Arizona, Chester is a Copley Artist member, and teaches at the Falmouth Artists Guild.

Carol Ann Clem is a partner at Clem Cronon Associates, a consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and small businesses improve their marketing in order to more effectively achieve their goals. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College and earned a Master of Management at Northwestern University. She has taught at Babson, Brandeis, Northeastern, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Steven Cramer, poet, is Director of the low-residency M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University. He is the author of four poetry collections including Goodbye to the Orchard, Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand, The World Book, and The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. His poems and criticism have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and TriQuarterly, as well as in The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Karen Davis is a photographer, book artist, and teacher. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, the Boston Drawing Project at Carroll and Sons Gallery, and in corporate and private collections. In September, she will exhibit her work at the Bromfield Gallery, Boston. Her solo exhibitions include The Griffin Museum of Photography (2008), the Dean's Gallery at MIT, and the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. In 2006 she was awarded the Director's Prize at the CAA National Prize Show. She earned a B.S., History, Simmons College, M.A., Education, University of Chicago, and a degree in Manufacturing Processes from Wentworth Institute, MA. Visit www.yesthatkarendavis.com.

Patricia Deyton is the Director of the Center for Gender in Organizations (CGO) at the Simmons School of Management. Previously she was Executive Director of the Council of Women World Leaders, based at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ms. Deyton received a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and a Masters of Divinity from Yale. Presently she teaches at Harvard Extension School, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Simmons MBA program.

Joan Ditzion, LICSW, is a founding member of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, and co-author of all editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, including the 2005 edition, Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era, and Our Bodies Ourselves, Menopause. A geriatric social worker, committed to positive aging and raising awareness about women's issues through the life cycle, Joan is a frequent presenter and Lesley University adjunct faculty.

Ellen Ezorsky has been painting in several mediums for over 30 years. Having received her M.F.A. in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she taught oil painting, she has also been a visiting artist at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Ms. Ezorsky has exhibited her work in solo and group shows throughout the US, including in NYC and San Francisco. Her work hangs in many collections in the US and the UK.

Gillian Frazier received a B.S. from Tufts University, a M.A. from Syracuse University, and attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In addition to exhibiting her work at the Arts Forum and The New Art Center Galleries in NYC, she has shown her work extensively in the Boston area, including at the DeCordova Museum, The Danforth Museum, The Fuller Art Museum, The Attleboro Museum, The Anthony Curtis Gallery, and Harvard University. She has participated in numerous artist residency programs, including The Burren Artist's Residency in County Clare, Ireland, The Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, and Byrdcliffe Artist's Residency in NY.

Eliana Gil, Ph.D., RPT-S, ATR, is Director of Clinical Services for Childhelp, Inc., a national organization that provides a broad range of services across the country to prevent child abuse and neglect and provide treatment services to abused children and their families. Dr. Gil works at the Fairfax, Virginia site, Childhelp Children's Center of Virginia, one of Northern Virginia's Child Advocacy Centers.

Beth Raisner Glass is an author and teacher. She taught in the Wayland and Wellesley public school systems, and was Associate Professor of Education at Wellesley College. Her first picture book, Noises at Night, was published to wide acclaim, and is currently in its fourth printing. Her next book, Blue Ribbon Dad, will be published in 2010. She received her Bachelors in Education, and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University.

Marjorie Glick is known for her large scale, vividly colored, realism watercolors that are inspired by New England's places of antiquity and by the beauty found in nature. Her work resides in numerous corporate and private collections, including Fidelity Investments and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has exhibited at regional museums and galleries, including the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; the Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA; and the Forum Gallery, NYC. She is the recipient of grants from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Artist's Resource Trust Grant, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She holds a B.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has studied independently with Wolf Kahn and George Nick. Visit www.marjorieglick.com.

Cassandra Goldwater is a writer, photographer and teacher. She earned a M.F.A. from Lesley College with a concentration in creative nonfiction and a sub-concentration in photography. She has studied photography at the Digital Imaging Center, New England School of Photography and the DeCordova Museum. Her work has been shown in the Photography Atelier, the Lexington Art Walk and the DeCordova juried student show.

Amy R. Handler is a poet, fiction writer, photographer and filmmaker. Her short films, writing, and photographs appear in IMDb, Agenda, Splizz Magazine, Art New England Magazine, and The Oregon Literary Review, among others. She received a B.A. in English Literature and a M.S. in Liberal Studies from Boston University, and earned a photography degree at the New England School of Photography, and a M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

Philip Holland is an instructor in the interdisciplinary studies component of Lesley University's M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing. His short stories have appeared in Aethlon, Cottonwood, and The Worcester Review, among others. He earned a B.S. from Stanford University, a M.P.A. from Harvard University, and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He is currently completing a collection of novella and stories, and a craft book on literary technique.

Mary H. Jacobsen has more than fifteen years experience as a teacher, therapist, career coach, and workshop leader. She maintains a private career coaching and psychotherapy practice, and offers workshops nationally on the topic of her book, Hand-Me-Down Dreams: How Families Influence Our Career Paths. Her interest in Positive Psychology follows from her strengths-based approach to psychotherapy, her affinity for Buddhist teachings, and her conviction that evidence-based study of what truly makes us happy has the potential to transform individual, economic, and social priorities. She received a B.A. in English from the College of William and Mary, a M.S.W. from Boston University's Graduate School of Social Work, and a Ph.D. in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Daphne Kalotay's collection, Calamity and Other Stories, was short listed for the 2005 Story Prize, and includes work from Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Literary Review, and Good Housekeeping. The recipient of fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Fondation de La Napoule, Kalotay has a Master's in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Boston University, and has taught at Boston University and Middlebury College.

Leslie Lawrence is a former Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts, and contributor to many periodicals and anthologies, including The Boston Globe Magazine, Women's Review of Books, and Women On Women. She has creative nonfiction in Fourth Genre, poetry in The Seneca Review, and fiction in Prairie Schooner and The Marlboro Review. Lawrence teaches at Tufts University, and conducts private writing workshops. She received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a M.A.T. from Brown University, and a M.F.A. from Goddard College.

Andrea E McGrath is the Director of the Center for Applied Philanthropy. Before joining the center, she worked as a consultant and researcher in field of social enterprise and innovation – working with nonprofits and funders in the US and UK, as well as centers of social enterprise at Duke, Yale and Harvard universities. She began her career as a fundraiser, then earned a M.B.A., and worked in market and competitive intelligence with a global Fortune 500 financial services organization. She earned her A.B. from Boston College, her M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut, and her M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Martha Barry McKenna is Lesley University's Provost and Professor, teaching courses in the arts and humanities. Her particular area of expertise is site-based teaching and learning which draws upon the resources of people and places to explore traditions and cultures across the US, Europe and the Middle East. Her research and publications focus on the arts and aesthetic education. She holds a doctorate in music, the arts and humanities from Columbia University.

Roseanne Montillo is a freelance writer, Italian translator, and teacher. Her book, Halloween and Commemorations of the Dead, will be published in 2009. She earned a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. from Emerson College.

Sue Motulsky has taught career exploration and decision-making courses and workshops for over 15 years, facilitating participants in their career transitions, supporting their self-esteem and confidence, and assisting them in exploring themselves and their potential career options. She is a private practice career counselor, and assistant professor, Counseling Psychology Division, Lesley University. Sue earned a M.A. in English literature from Boston University, a Certificate of Advanced Study from Harvard in Culture, Gender, and Relational Development, and a Ed.D. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard.

Kat O'Connor earned a Bachelor of Arts in Drawing with highest honors from Montana State University and an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has exhibited her work nationwide, including three solo shows at regional museums, and has won numerous awards. Her work is included in many private and corporate collections. O'Connor has taught at Southwest Texas State University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Worcester State College, Worcester Art Museum, and the DeCordova Museum.

Mark Orton has been involved with web-centered information technologies for over ten years, and recently has been focusing on web technologies that enable non-technical people to build and maintain their own web presence. Mark earned degrees from Lawrence University and the Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Elisa Pearmain, M.A., M.Ed, is a licensed psychotherapist working with teens and adults. She is also a professional storyteller and award-winning author of two books on the getting of wisdom and character through story. She was an adjunct faculty member of the Creative Arts in Learning Program at Lesley University for fourteen years, and is currently writing a book on forgiveness through story.

Holly Smith Pedlosky, teacher and artist-photographer, has exhibited extensively in Boston, Chicago, Cape Cod, and Venice, Italy, and her work is represented in many collections. Holly currently creates panoramic images that explore Italian spaces. She also documents the culture of hanging laundry in Venice, photographs the older women whose art it is to hang it, and researches the symbolism of draped fabric in Venetian art. She leads digital photo summer workshops in Italy for the International Center of Photography, and she also teaches digital photography in Venice for Northeastern University. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University, a M.A. from the University of Colorado, and a M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Visit www.pedlosky.org and www.italyphotoworkshops.org.

KL Pereira is a writer, teacher, and activist whose poetry, nonfiction, and cross-genre writing has appeared in Clamor Magazine, The Hub: Boston's Literary Occasional, The Pitkin Review, Bitch Magazine, and other publications. She recently completed a cross-genre collection, The Songs in Your Blood, and she is writing a novel titled Gleefully Wasted Youth. She earned a B.A. from Bard College, a M.A. from Simmons College, and a M.F.A. from Goddard College.

Lani Peterson, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist, professional storyteller, public speaker and personal coach. She has extensive experience working with individuals, groups and organizations on the use of story as a healing art, a leadership tool, and a powerful medium for personal growth, connection and change.

Jane M. Rabb earned a B.A., with an honors English concentration, from Radcliffe College, after which she studied English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. She earned a M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University; and a M.Ed. and C.A.S. in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has taught at Harvard University, Harvard University Extension School, and The New School, and the Radcliffe Seminars, where she was cited by the Trustees as a Distinguished Instructor. She is the author of Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators, as well as many monographs on 19th and 20th Century authors and artists, and the editor of Literature and Photography: Interactions 1840–1990, and The Short Story and Photography: 1880s–1980s.

Suzette Standring is a syndicated columnist for GateHouse News, and writes for publications including The Patriot Ledger, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Writer Magazine, and The Milton Times, among others. She is the author of the award winning book, The Art of Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and Other Great Columnists. She served as President of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, 2004–06, and teaches writing workshops nationally.