Aziza Braithwaite Bey

I earned my Ph.D from Union Institute & University in Multicultural Education - Visual Culture, an MA from the Fashion Institute of Technology in Museum Studies, and a BFA from Pratt Institute in Merchandise Management. While studying Haute Couture in Paris, France, I also worked as a performing/recording artist. For most of my professional life, I have been a teacher, fashion and costume designer combining my love for teaching with my professional work on films, theatre and designing under my own label for specialty stores and private clientele. As a Multicultural Education Consultant, I have worked with teachers and grade school students. I am passionate about empowering teachers and young people Pre-K-12 about culture and history through the arts, whereby diversity and peace can be celebrated and shared. I was head of the Fashion Design Department at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka, Zambia, and the College of St. Elizabeth, and have taught at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Parsons School of Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology. As a global citizen, I am committed to social justice and world peace. In the Creative Arts in Learning Division, I teach Art and Culture in Community, Cultural History Through Storytelling, and in the Spring, look forward to teaching An Arts Approach to Multicultural Education.