DYNAMIC NETWORK LAB - Key Persons
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Associate, Ph.D. Candidate, Program in Social - Organizational Psychology, Lab 's R Programming Specialist. TC, Columbia Univ. Lab Website Credits
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- Lecturer
- Member of the Faculty Executive Committee
- Representative
Alice Milmed Haller, JD has been practicing mediation in a variety of contexts since 1993. Prior to training as a mediator, she practiced law in New Jersey for sixteen years, first in the Office of the Public Defender and later in private practice. She has mediated family, commercial, and community disputes and has taught conflict resolution skills to teachers, students and police personnel. From 2003-2007, she was employed by the Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Division as a mediator in child welfare cases. Since then, Alice has worked and volunteered in New York for the Dispute Resolution Centers of Ulster, Orange and Rockland Counties and has maintained a private family mediation practice in Ulster County. During the past year, she has worked with faculty at Columbia Law School and the College of Physicians and Surgeons to develop a conflict resolution workshop for third-year Columbia medical students. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College and her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Hastings Law Journal.
Allegra Chen-Carrel is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Organizational Psychology at Teachers College. She recently completed a masters in Global Thought at Columbia University, and a masters in Immigration Management at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Previously, she worked for a community organization connecting low-income New Yorkers to services and for a non-profit in a Haitian batey in the Dominican Republic. She is interested in intercultural communication, social justice, and identity.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Curriculum Development Specialist
- Trainer for the New York State Unified Court System
Bodi Regan teaches courses and develops curricula in Negotiation, Mediation, Power and Conflict, and Constructive Multicultural Conflict for the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Bodi is also a Lecturer in Discipline in the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Master of Science Program in the School of Professional Studies, Columbia University where he has taught a variety of negotiation and conflict resolution courses since 2009.
Bodi has applied his negotiation and conflict resolution expertise and skills in a variety of professional roles and settings, including at Brooklyn Law School where he was the Director of the Mediation Clinic and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, and at the University of California, Berkeley where he was the Associate Ombudsperson. In his role as Ombudsperson, Bodi assisted in the management and resolution of over 300 workplace conflicts. Bodi is the former Director of the Simon Wiesenthal - New York Tolerance Center, a professional development, multimedia training facility, providing educators, law enforcement officials, government practitioners and corporate groups interactive, experiential workshops exploring the issues of implicit bias, prejudice, diversity, tolerance and cooperation in schools, workplaces and communities. In the early 2000s, Bodi worked for the Center for Court Innovation, the research and development arm of the New York State Unified Court System, as the Associate Director for National Technical Assistance. In his role at the Center, Bodi was responsible for the planning, management and delivery of technical assistance and consulting services to jurisdictions around the nation planning and implementing problem-solving courts and community justice initiatives.
Bodi has over 25 years of experience as a mediator, facilitator and workshop leader. He has completed numerous advanced trainings in conflict resolution, facilitative leadership, diversity training and coaching. A main focus of his consulting practice is training individuals and teams how to use the power of collaborative negotiation to achieve their professional goals while improving relationships. His mediation practice spans a wide variety of cases, including workplace disputes and community conflicts.
Bodi is a certified mediation trainer for the New York State Unified Court System. He has a Certificate of Completion in the Foundations of Organizational Ombuds Practice from the International Ombudsman Association, and a Certificate in Brain-based Leadership Coaching from The NeuroLeadership Institute. He received his BA in Government from St. Lawrence University and his Juris Doctor from the New College of California School of Law. Bodi is a member of the California and American Bar Associations, as well as numerous ADR professional organizations.
Camilo Azcarate is an international dispute resolution expert with 25 years of experience as ombudsperson mediator, facilitator and trainer working for public, private, and international organizations. He managed the office of mediation services for the World Bank Group between 2008 and 2018, was lead ombudsperson at Princeton University, Ombudsperson at FGCU's Business School, and Government Programs Coordinator for the Massachusetts Office of Dispute Resolution.
Azcarate teaches graduate-level courses at Columbia University and was a fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs during 2018. He has published papers in the journal Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution as well as articles on magazines of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the International Ombudsman Association (IOA).
Azcarate holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from Universidad Javeriana, a Masters in Corporate Law (LLM) from Universidad San Buenaventura, a Master's in Dispute Resolution (M.A.) from the University of Massachusetts, and a Certificate in Equal Employment from Cornell University. He has received several awards for his work in dispute resolution, including the Don Paulson Award for Excellence in Dispute Resolution and the award for Outstanding Achievement in Dispute Resolution.
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- Education Program Coordinator
As an artist in theatre, drama, dance, music, and film, Cassandra brings more than 15 years of experience as an educator and administrator and remains unapologetic in cultivating environments where girls can dare to imagine what it is to live in full authenticity. She remains committed to creating spaces that illuminate experiences at the intersections of race, class, and gender. As a Black Woman, Cassandra encourages girls to exist outside of a monolith, while holding space for all of the ways that they show up and embrace all parts of their identities. She brings other "isms" to the forefront, specifically colorism, texturism, and featurism, which operate as racism's first, second, and third cousins.
Cassandra earned a Bachelor's degree in Theatre from Spelman College, before going on to earn two Master's degrees from New York University in the fields of Performance Studies in Film and Educational Theatre. During college, she served as a TA and as a department liaison to the Office of Disability Services. In addition to the many teaching positions she has held, Cassandra has spent her career exploring the performance of death, disease, and trauma in Lima, Peru and in New Orleans, LA, after Hurricane Katrina. While in Peru, Cassandra worked with the theater collective, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, as a student in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. Yuyachkani is Quechua for "I am thinking, I am remembering", and much of the work centered on the construction of social memory in relation to the Dirty War in Peru from 1980-2000.
In addition, Cassandra served as the Performing Arts Coordinator for over 100 New York schools, helping to conduct professional development, set leadership standards, and coordinate trips and workshops. She has also served as a Career Advisor to over one thousand homeless individuals in New York City, helping to facilitate job-skills workshops and training. She is excited and pumped to be a part of the MD-ICCR Team! When not in the office at MD-ICCCR, Cassandra also works with The Bushwick Starr theatre company and the National Disability Theatre. She is also ecstatic about the upcoming debut of her theatrical/ethnographic piece entitled, "WTF: What the Fibroids?!"
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Charlott is the Budget Administrator at the MD-ICCCR. She is originally from Finland and earned her Master's degree from Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Previously she worked over ten years at Teachers College bookstore and more recently in the Office of International Services.
Interests: group relations; leadership and organizational development
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- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
- Senior Lecturer
Claudia E. Cohen, Ph.D. is a Senior Lecturer in the Social-Organizational Program at Teachers College and the former the Associate Director of the MD-ICCCR. As a scholar-practitioner of conflict studies, her career has combined research, practice and teaching in a range of settings. Dr. Cohen's current research interests include: strategies for preventing destructive conflict using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) paradigm with formerly incarcerated men and women; participatory case studies of conflict resolution systems in collaborative environments; the use of narrative to create qualitative models of conflict engagement and the impact of reflective practices on mediator efficacy. Her most recent publications include a chapter in the upcoming 3rd edition of the Handbook of Conflict Resolution (Deutsch, Coleman & Marcus) on the PAR work on preventing destructive conflict with formerly incarcerated individuals (with Neshkes, Pryce-Screen, Hernandez, Linder and Doherty-Baker) and an article on mediator style and self and other perception perceptions of efficacy in the Conflict Resolution Quarterly(with Kressel, Butts and Reich), also summarized in Negotiation Journal.
Clymer Bardsley has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, mediator, trainer and coach. Currently, he is a Senior Consultant in the Leadership and Organizational Development at Temple University Health System, where he coaches, consults, and facilitates workshops for various groups and individuals across the health campuses. Formerly, he was a Professor of Adult and Organizational Development at Temple University, where he taught Mediation, Negotiation, Team Development, and Interpersonal Communication. He is also a regular mediator and facilitator for Pennsylvania's Office for Dispute Resolution, which focuses on Special Education matters. Additionally, Clymer has conducted trainings, courses, and presentations for the Philadelphia Police Department, and school leaders from around the country. He has worked with the University of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia School District, and Philadelphia Family Court. Throughout his career he has helped thousands of individuals to increase their productivity by reducing the conflict in their personal and professional lives. Clymer earned a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a BA in History from Middlebury College.
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- Professor, or Staff Member
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Danielle Coon joined the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution as the Associate Director in September 2015. With over 10 years' experience overseeing direct service programs in diverse settings and as an alumna of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program at Columbia University, Danielle is dedicated to applying principles of conflict resolution and systemic structural change to all management and project activities.
In her previous roles, she worked with a non-profit social service agency in New York City managing apartment buildings for low-income senior citizens and focused on housing issues in Ecuador with Habitat for Humanity through advocacy, education programs and by leading volunteer groups to multiple home-building worksites.
As the Resettlement Manager of the International Rescue Committee's New York Regional office, she provided oversight of federally funded programs providing direct services to newly arrived refugees and asylees to ensure they received housing, employment, health services and all benefits to which they were entitled. In this capacity, she oversaw budgeting, quality service delivery, supervision of staff and interns and proposal development with special emphasis on women survivors of violence and health and wellness sectors.
Immediately prior to joining the MD-ICCCR, she was the director of Project COMMON BOND, a program of Tuesday's Children, which connected teens who lost parents in the events of September 11, 2001 with international youth who have lost family members due to terrorism, violent extremism or war. By bringing these youth together for annual peace-building symposiums, the programing empowers them with new skills to move forward through conflict and enables them to redefine their personal narratives from victims to peace builders.
Danielle's primary interests are in developing program strategy, ensuring all team members are supported, actively pursuing common goals and tracking progress on critical objectives of mandatory services, program outcomes and the levels of self-sufficiency of clients. Yet, primary to all these roles is establishing strong connections with beneficiaries, operating from a strengths-based perspective and providing a welcoming environment.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Dilshad Dayani, Ed.D is an award-winning human rights advocate, broadcast journalist, cross-cultural communication coach, and social impact tech. strategist. She is a consultant and faculty at The School of New York Times, as well as an Amazon best-selling author on intrapersonal conflict, women 's cultural narratives & unconscious bias within the domain of success. She is also the founder of Lead 2 Empower, executive training, and consultancy in social impact technologies, leadership communication, and conflict resolution to build gender balance human capital. As a scholar-practitioner of conflict studies, her career has combined research, project development and teaching in diverse organizations such as NGOs, Academia, Media, the United Nations, and Fortune 500 companies. Dilshad served for eight years on the advisory board for PBS advocating for minority voices, and intercultural conflict resolution strategies. She now contributes to Huffington Post and Thrive Global on social impact and cultural stereotypes. Primary areas of practice over the last twenty years include: working with individuals and immigrant groups on issues of change, acculturation, cultural and interpersonal religious conflicts, leadership development, multicultural team building, and diversity. She received a master's degree in Instructional Design and Media from Columbia University and an Ed.D in Educational Leadership from Northcentral University.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Donna Hicks, PhD, is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University where she chairs the Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict. Her work is devoted to advancing the understanding of international and interethnic conflicts, and developing interactive processes that can be effective in managing or resolving such conflicts. In addition to her work in the Middle East, Dr. Hicks founded and co-directed a ten-year project in Sri Lanka, which brought the Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim communities together for dialogue. She has been actively involved with the conflict in Colombia. For several years, she was involved in a project designed to improve relations between the US and Cuba. She teaches a course for the MD-ICCCR on Healing and Reconciling Relationships.
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- Director of Research
- Director of Research of the Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College
Dr. Bryan Cheng is the Director of Research of the Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University. He received his B.S. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. He completed his doctoral internship at Mount Sinai St. Luke's and West Hospitals where he focused on the care of individuals suffering from psychotic and personality disorders, and continues to stay on faculty where he supervises psychiatry residents and psychology interns.
Dr. Cheng provides oversight on various projects in the lab as a co-investigator and methodologist. His previous research includes an assessment of the needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan and validation of mental healthcare instruments for that population, as well as utilization of new statistical methodology to investigate trends and trajectories in mental health outcomes in large clinical epidemiological data. He is also an IPT supervisor and trainer, and specializes in other modalities and forms of therapies including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). He also teaches two classes in the Masters program - Introduction to Clinical Interviewing, and Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. His research interests continue to include the role of rumination in depression, the economics of mental health interventions in health systems, and the development and cultural validation of mental health measures in minority and underserved populations.
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- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
Dr. Evelin G. Lindner has a dual education as a Medical Doctor and a Psychologist, with a Ph.D. in Medicine (Dr. med.) and a Ph.D. in Psychology (Dr. psychol.). She is the founding president of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS, humiliationstudies.org), a global community of concerned academics and practitioners who wish to promote dignity around the world. Dr. Lindner is also co-founder of the World Dignity University initiative, including the publishing house Dignity Press. All initiatives are not-for-profit labours of love based on the practice of direct solidarity and gift economy. Lindner lives and teaches globally and is affiliated, among others, with the University of Oslo in Norway since 1997, with Columbia University in New York City since 2001 (the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution & the Advanced Consoritum on Cooperation, Conflict, & Complexity--AC4), and since 2003 with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. Together with the HumanDHS network, she convenes two conferences per year, the "Workshop on Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict" taking place each December at Columbia University in New York City, and the other conference in a different location each year, since 2003 in Europe (Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Dubrovnik), Costa Rica, China, Hawai'i, Turkey, Egypt, New Zealand, South Africa, Rwanda, Thailand, India, and the Brazilian Amazon. The nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016, and 2017 gave all network members great courage.
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- Associate Vice President
- Chief
- Vice President for Enrollment Management
Dr. Tani Castañeda was appointed Associate Vice President and Chief Enrollment Officer in December 2020. Prior to coming to Teachers College, she served as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management at Rutgers University where she strategically managed recruitment, marketing, communications, admissions and enrollment research/analytics. Tani earned her B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. in Psychology from Brandeis University and an M.A. in Counseling from Boston College. She earned her Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership from Northeastern University.
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- Trustee
- President of the College
Dr. Thomas R. Bailey is the 11th President of Teachers College, Columbia University and the George & Abby O'Neill Professor of Economics & Education. A 30-year faculty member, he is the founding director of the TC's Community College Research Center and Director of the Institute on Education and the Economy. Dr. Bailey also has directed three National Centers funded by the Institute of Education Sciences: The Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment and Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness. From 2006 to 2012, Dr. Bailey directed the IES-funded National Center for Postsecondary Research.
Dr. Bailey received his undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in labor economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
- Founder and Principal of the Marcus Group
Eric Marcus, PhD, is the founder and principal of The Marcus Group, a New York City based consulting firm specializing in building the capacity of individuals, groups and organizations, for a wide variety of public and private sector client systems. Primary areas of practice over the last twenty years include: working with individuals and groups on issues of change, leadership development, diversity, feedback, intra and inter group mediation and conflict resolution and related areas. Dr. Marcus is a certified mediator in New York State involved in community mediation in the Bronx. He is recent past president of the Organization Development Network of Greater New York and now serves on their Advisory Board. Eric is one of the co-editors of The Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2nd Edition), with Morton Deutsch and Peter Coleman, in which he has a chapter on Change and Conflict. Dr. Marcus received his MA and PhD from Columbia University in Social and Organizational psychology, and a Bachelor's degree from Binghamton University.
Fiona Kanagasingam, has over 17 years of experience facilitating change at the individual, organizational and community levels. She has particular expertise working at the intersection of human development and social justice; facilitating dialogue and decision-making with diverse stakeholders from families within preventive services to activists, social workers and C-suite executives; and incubating and scaling programs in dynamic multicultural environments.She is currently Director of Consulting at Community Resource Exchange (CRE), a 39-year-old nonprofit consulting firm that serves nonprofits, public sector agencies and coalitions. Fiona is also co-founder of The BIPOC Project, which aims to build authentic and lasting solidarity among Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), in order to undo Native invisibility, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy, and advance racial justice. Previous roles that Fiona has held include Acting Dean of International and Professional Experience at Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college partnering Yale University and the National University of Singapore. She was also Managing Consultant with the Gallup Organization, where she advised global organizations on how to situate human development, emotions, strengths, and wellbeing at the heart of organizational change. Fiona received her BA from Columbia University in Comparative Politics with a concentration in Gender Studies, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; her Masters in Counseling from Monash University in Australia; and her Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University. She is a certified executive coach. She is also adjunct faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University.
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- Associate Editor of the Academic Journal Anthropology
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams, native of Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago, is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies, and a faculty affiliate in Education, Globalization Studies, and Public Policy at Gettysburgh College, PA. He currently serves as the College's Director of Peace and Justice Studies. He received his BA (Honors) in Psychology from St. Francis College, NY, and his M.A., M.Ed. and Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University in international educational development, with a focus on peace education. He recently served as a Visiting Scholar (2015-2016) at the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4) at the Earth Institute, and co-teaches the advanced practicum on mediation, negotiation, and intergroup conflict at the MD-ICCCR. He is a consultant, and his research interests include school violence, educational inequity, masculinities, and restorative justice.
He is the recipient of the Early Career Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University (2019), the inaugural Emerging Scholars Award from the African Diaspora SIG of the Comparative and International Education Society (2017), and the Dr. Ralph Cavaliere Award for Excellence in Teaching from Gettysburg College (2013).
Prof. Williams is an Associate Editor of the academic journal Anthropology and Education Quarterly, serves on the Editorial boards of InFactisPax, and the International Journal of Human Rights Education, and reviews for several other academic journals. He is the founder of the Global Working Group on Decolonial Human Rights and Peace Education. He travels the world conducting restorative circles, workshops on peer mediation /conflict resolution, and leadership development with parents, youth, teachers, political leaders, and varied NGOs. Prof. Williams is also a theater actor.
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- Vice President for Finance and Operations
Henry (Hank) Perkowski was appointed Vice President for Finance and Operations in September 2020. He has served as Associate Vice President and Controller since 2005 while also serving as Interim Vice President for Finance and Administration in 2018, after having joined TC as Associate Controller in 2004. Previously, Perkowski served as Director of Financial Reporting for New York University. After graduating from Fairfield University, he worked at Ernst and Young and at Habitat for Humanity, where he worked on the construction of homes for low-income families.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs
Janice S. Robinson serves as the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs, as the TC Title IX Coordinator, and also as an Associate Professor in Higher Education. She joined Teachers College in December 2000, served jointly as Executive Director for Diversity and Community, and assumed the additional responsibilities of the College's first General Counsel through February 2009. Previously, she held a joint appointment at Rutgers University - Newark as Special Counsel to the Law School Dean and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; and she also served as Director for the Academic Foundations Center at the Newark College of Arts and Sciences. Previously, she was Assistant Dean, Director of the Minority Student Program, and Director of Financial Aid at Rutgers Law School. She has practiced law at the Legal Aid Society - Civil Division and taught at the Dalton School. Ms. Robinson earned her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, her Ed. M. and M.A. from Teachers College, and her B.S. from the University of Bridgeport. She earned two post-graduate certificates from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was awarded a fellowship at the University of London's Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
- Organizational Psychologist and Founder of Alignment Strategies Group
Jennifer S. Goldman, PhD, is an organizational psychologist and Founder of Alignment Strategies Group. Building on nearly 15 years' experience serving clients in a variety of sectors, including Fortune 500 companies, global NGOs and top-tier academic institutions, Alignment Strategies Group is recognized for enabling individuals and organizations to successfully negotiate, and manage complex conflict and change. Dr. Goldman is also an executive coach with the Program on Social Intelligence at Columbia Business School. She has published articles in outlets including Peace and Conflict Studies and the Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice, Second Edition and has developed the CIVIC framework for successfully managing challenging conflicts and transitions. Earlier in her career, she served as Director of Negotiation Programs at Mediation Works Incorporated, and as a facilitator for the internationally-acclaimed Program of Instruction for Lawyers at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. She received a B.A. in Social Psychology from Tufts University and holds a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology from Columbia University.
Jenny Besch teaches for the MD-ICCCR at Teachers College and has been teaching with Columbia's School of Professional Studies Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program since 2007. In addition to her teaching, Besch mediates in the private practice and for many years mediated community cases through various Community Dispute Resolution Centers in New York. She served for 19 years as Director of the Westchester and Rockland Mediation Centers of CLUSTER, Inc.
She is a certified mediator and State Certified Trainer with advanced training in community mediation, parent-child mediation, custody-visitation mediation, divorce mediation, child permanency mediation, lemon law arbitration, employment discrimination mediation, victim-offender mediation and restorative justice group conferencing. She has served on the Board of Directors of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, was a member of the Mid-Hudson Regional Youth Justice Team and the Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Board, as well as EPIC, a noted parent effectiveness training and service organization.
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- Lecturer
- Member of the Faculty Executive Committee
- Representative
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- Academic Technology Specialist, TC, Columbia Univ
Julian A. McNeil has over 10 years of professional experience facilitating organizational and adult learning. He is an accomplished change-management consultant, school leader, and classroom teacher. Julian currently runs a boutique consultancy that guides schools through applying organizational science in order to deepen equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Julian previously served as an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an administrator in the Boston Public Schools. Early in his career, as a classroom teacher, Julian earned National Board Certification and won competitive fellowships through Math for America, Teach Plus, and WorldTeach. One of Julian's earliest and fondest teaching experiences occurred at the Jan Jonker Afrikaner Secondary School in Windhoek, Namibia.
At Teachers College, Columbia University, Julian is pursuing a Ph.D. in Social-Organizational Psychology and M.S. in Applied Statistics while studying at the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership. Julian researches how to (1) accelerate organizational learning about EDI and (2) improve the experiences and outcomes of underrepresented minorities in elite academic institutions. Julian holds a M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mathematics from Hampton University.
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- Doctoral Student, Cognitive Science in Education, TC, Columbia Univ
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- Director of Training, Global Mental Health Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Senior Interpersonal Psychotherapy ( IPT ) Trainer and Supervisor
Kathleen F. Clougherty is a senior Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) trainer and supervisor at the Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College, and a consultant for the Mental Wellness Equity Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She was formerly an Instructor in Clinical Psychiatric Social Work (In Psychiatry) at Columbia University and an instructor at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
Ms. Clougherty co-authored, with Gregory Hinrichsen, Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Older Adults. She is the co-developer, trainer, and supervisor for the national IPT training program for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the largest IPT training program in the United States. She also helped to develop, train, and supervise in multiple IPT trials at the Global Mental Health Lab with Syrians and Lebanese host communities in Lebanon, young mothers and pregnant women in Kenya, Congolese and Burundian refugees in Tanzania, and Venezuelan refugees and displaced adults in Peru. These trials have been funded by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Grand Challenges Canada, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, the UK among others
Ms. Clougherty has helped develop, train, and supervise a cadre of clinicians and non-specialists in IPT in several major international studies including an adaptation of group IPT for depressed men and women in southwest Uganda, an adaptation of group IPT for depressed adolescents in internally displaced persons' camps in northern Uganda, an adaptation of individual IPT for adults in rural India. Additionally, she developed and co-authored adaptations of IPT for the World Health Organization.
Ms. Clougherty has co-authored several IPT training manuals, including for the IPT- Group for the World Health Organization, and IPT for Veterans for the Department of Veterans Affairs. She is currently developing and co-authoring IPT and IPC manuals for delivery in group and individual formats. She has also developed multiple therapists and supervisor adherence scales. In addition to her research work, Ms. Clougherty is a private practitioner specializing in the treatment of depression in adolescents and adults.
Ms. Clougherty was trained in IPT by Dr. Gerald Klerman, the co-developer of IPT. Ms. Clougherty received her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work.
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- President
- Secretary
- Vice President for Planning and Strategy, Chief of Staff to the President, and Secretary of the College
Katie Embree became Vice President for Planning and Strategy, Chief of Staff to the President, and Secretary of the College in August 2021. Katie has amassed extensive administrative experience in academic affairs in progressively responsible roles and leadership positions at TC, starting in 1996 as an Administrative Assistant and then as Associate Director of the Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation. As Assistant Dean, Interim Associate Dean, Associate Vice Provost, and Associate Provost and finally as Vice Provost, Katie has overseen Student Affairs, the Office of Digital Learning, the Office of Continuing Professional Studies, the Academic Affairs Budget, Academic Affairs Administration and chaired the College's Psychological Emergency Response Team and the Student Conduct Committee. Katie earned a doctorate in Higher and Post-Secondary Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and completed an MBA in Finance from Seton Hall. She earned a BA with majors in Economics and Psychology from Drew University.
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- Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Teachers College
Kelly S. Moody became Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Teachers College in October 2020. Prior to coming to Teachers College, she served as Vice President for USA Philanthropy at the International Rescue Committee. Prior to her tenure at IRC, Kelly worked for many years in higher education, at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and at New York University. From 2002 to 2006, Kelly was Director of Strategic Partnerships at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Kelly first honed her fundraising skills at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She earned her undergraduate and master's degrees from New York University, and was a PhD candidate in Art and Archaeology in the Mediterranean World at the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Vice President for Administration
Lisa Seales was appointed Vice President for Administration in September 2020. She has served as Associate Vice President for Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer since 2019, after having joined TC after 18 years at Columbia University in Human Resources. Previously, Lisa was a senior member of the University's Information Technology operation and developed and oversaw the execution of plans for providing the entire 40,000-member CU community of faculty, students, and staff with superior IT services. Lisa earned her BA in Social Psychology from Wheaton College and her MA in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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- Education Policy & Social Analysis
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- Research Assistant
- Research Assistant at the MD - ICCCR
Madhur is the Research Assistant at the MD-ICCCR and the Dynamical Conversations Lab. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science and has a multidisciplinary research background in neuroscience, psychology, and education. His research interests lie at the intersection of decision-making, negotiation dynamics, and developing interventions to reduce political and violent conflict. In his free time, Madhur enjoys eating chocolate glazed Krispy Kreme donuts with sprinkles.
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- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
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- Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Michele S. Riley has over 30 years of international legal experience from working with international law firms in New York and Tokyo, Japan, specializing in commercial transactions and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes, both in private practice and as general counsel of a U.S.-based subsidiary of a Japanese multinational. Her areas of expertise cover ADR (arbitration, mediation and negotiation), commercial transactions, finance, cross-border transactions, including joint ventures and mergers & acquisitions, distribution/franchising, consulting arrangements, technology transfer and licensing, procurement, corporate governance and conflict management systems in the workplace.
Ms. Riley is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and serves as an ADR Neutral for the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and several federal and state court-annexed mediation programs in New York, including the Pro Bono Appellate Mediator Panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Complementing her ADR practice, Ms. Riley teaches mediation and negotiation at Columbia University's Morton Deutsch - International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution and in its Master's Degree Program in Negotiation and Conflict Resolution.
Ms. Riley is currently active in promoting the use of ADR in her roles as a member of the CIArb Examinations Board and as a tutor for the CIArb Accelerated Route to Fellowship program. As a volunteer for the International Legal Institute - African Center for Legal Excellence, Ms. Riley has provided training in international commercial arbitration to state counsel from the Attorney General's Chambers, Botswana annually in 2015-17 and 2019, and administrators of the Nairobi Centre for International Arbitration, Kenya in 2018. Under the auspices of the International Senior Lawyers Project, she also assisted an NGO, in partnership with the University of Lagos, in developing a Master's degree program in negotiation and conflict resolution at a newly-established College of Negotiation in 2014.
Ms. Riley holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Her academic credentials also include a professional certificate in Conflict and Dispute Resolution from the Center for Finance, Law and Taxation at New York University.
Where are you from? The traditional lands of the Kumeyaay Nation. What was your academic background before coming to the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? I attended Bowdoin College where I double majored in psychology and English and minored in teaching. I received my master's degree in nonprofit leadership and management from the University of San Diego. Why did you choose the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? I wanted to pursue my doctoral studies in a scientist-practitioner program among colleagues who shared my commitment to advancing social justice. What are your research interests? Have they changed since you started the program? If so, in what way? I seek to create a world with more joy and justice. As a researcher, I am interested in understanding the complex barriers to social justice and developing practical applications to tackle humanity's greatest challenges. I entered the program primarily interested in the dissonance experienced at the individual, group and organizational levels when an organization explicitly dedicated to social justice struggles to address the ways they replicate systems of oppression. In the liminality of my first semester with my work group, I have been grateful for the opportunity to expand my research interests. As is the blessing and curse of a researcher, I find myself with many more questions than answers. What is the greatest strength of the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? The people, of course! It's true, this is a unique and rigorous academic program that prepares professionals to lead whatever path they take. But when asked, "Why did you choose TC over other opportunities?" I always lead with the brilliant, kind, supportive people who drew me here and keep me going. What career do you intend to pursue when you graduate? I aim to become a professor so I may continue my research and teach, two endeavors I greatly enjoy. What is your favorite thing about NYC? My favorite thing about NYC is that every day is different. Anything can happen! What are some of your hobbies or favorite ways to spend your free time? Depending on the season, you might find me training for a triathlon, writing, drawing, or spending significant time observing silence. I'm a perennial volunteer/organizer with LGBTQ+ and mutual aid organizations in the various places I call home. Anything else you would like to share? Please feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to talk about research, social justice, healing justice, group relations, LGBTQ+ life, or the happenings at the Morton-Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR)!
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- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
Pamela Burke, PhD brings a somewhat different slant on cooperation and conflict to the MD-ICCCR from her consulting work with innovation units in the healthcare, education, publishing, services, communications, energy, and aerospace industries. She focuses on the leadership skills needed for transformative collaboration, including the benefits of conflict, improvisation, and play in driving discovery and innovation. She loves bringing corporate experience into her course designs and bringing the insights and experiences of her students and research colleagues to her client work. She teaches graduate courses in leadership, creative collaboration, conflict negotiation and mediation, organization consulting skills, entrepreneurship, and effective teams at Stevens Institute of Technology and at Teachers College, Columbia University. Pam received a PhD in psychology from Cornell, completed a two year NSF Research Fellowship in decision making at Stanford, and managed technical organizations at Bell Laboratories before establishing her consulting company, Unbound Edge, Inc., in 2001. She received the affiliate faculty teaching award from Stevens and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship (Fiction).
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- Director
- Scientific Advisor
- Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University
Peter T. Coleman is Professor of Psychology and Education at Columbia University where he holds appointments at Teachers College, the Climate School, and the School of Professional Studies. Dr. Coleman directs the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR), is founding director of the Institute for Psychological Science and Practice (IPSP), and is co-executive director of Columbia University's Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4).
Coleman is a renowned expert on constructive conflict resolution and sustainable peace. His current research focuses on promoting conflict intelligence and systemic wisdom as meta-competencies for navigating conflict constructively across all levels (from families to companies to communities to nations), which includes projects on adaptive negotiation and mediation; cross-cultural conflict adaptivity; optimality dynamics in conflict, justice and polarization; multicultural conflict; intractable conflict; and sustainable peace.
Coleman edits the award-winning Handbook of Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice (2000, 2006, 2014) and his other books include The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts (2011); Conflict, Justice, and Interdependence: The Legacy of Morton Deutsch (2011), Psychological Components of Sustainable Peace (2012), and Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations (2013), and Making Conflict Work: Navigating Disagreement Up and Down Your Organization (2014), which won the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from The International Association of Conflict Management. Most recently he published a book with Columbia University Press on breaking through the intractable polarization plaguing the U.S. and other societies, titled, The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization (2021).
In 2003, Dr. Coleman became the first recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 48: Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence, and in 2015 was awarded the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution Award by APA and a Marie Curie Fellowship from The European Union. In 2018, Dr. Coleman was awarded the Peace Award from Meaningful World, in celebration of their 30th anniversary and the UN's International Day of Peace, and in 2020 a Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies association.
Coleman has also authored well over 100 articles and chapters, is a member of the United Nations Mediation Support Unit's Academic Advisory Council, is a founding board member of the Gbowee Peace Foundation USA, and is a New York State certified mediator and experienced consultant. In 2017, he received the International Association of Conflict Management 2017 Best Conference Theoretical Paper Award for his article Conflict Intelligence and Systemic Wisdom: Meta-competencies for Engaging Difference in a Complex, Dynamic World, and in 2018 The Emerald Literati Award for the paper Adaptive mediation: An evidence-based contingency approach to mediating conflict.
Coleman also founded and edits the MD-ICCCR Science-Practice Blog, the WKCR (89.9 FM) monthly radio program Peace and Conflict at Columbia: Conversations at the Leading Edge, and is a frequent blogger on Psychology Today and The Hill. Dr. Coleman's work has also been featured in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Chicago Tribute, Nature, Science, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Wired, This American Life, Time Magazine, Fox Business, CBS, Fast Company, Chicago Public Radio, the PBS Newshour and various international outlets.
Today, Dr. Coleman serves as a scientific advisor to dozens of nonprofit peacebuilding groups, including Starts with Us, Fix US, Constructive Dialogue Institute, Search for Common Ground USA, ListenFirst, Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, Unite, Generations for Peace, One Small Step (Story Corps), Cascade Institute, Essential Partners, Civic Health project, Horizons project, Partners Global, Braver Angels, UJA-Federation, and American Exchange Project.
Where are you from? Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey What was your academic background before coming to the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? I received a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of the Sciences, and a M.S. in Experimental Psychology and Data Analytics from Seton Hall University. Why did you choose the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? TC's program stood out to me for several reasons. With their emphasis on a scientist-practitioner model, as well as their commitment to advancing psychological research rooted in Social Psychology, I knew this was the right place for me. Similarly, the faculty research interests greatly aligned with my own, altogether, hosting the perfect environment for academic rigor and excellence. What are your research interests? Have they changed since you started the program? If so, in what way? I am primarily interested in decision-science, motivation, and goal-pursuit in relation to organizational performance. I am also interested in the cross-cultural nature of this work, along with diversity, equity, and inclusivity initiatives that are intertwined within decision-making and social identity. What is the greatest strength of the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? The wonderful community. This is truly an environment where your peers, faculty members, and staff support one another, and the potential for growth is innumerable. What career do you intend to pursue when you graduate? Currently, I am interested in roles emphasizing organizational development, people analytics/ data analytics, and management consulting. I also aspire to be a professor. What is your favorite thing about NYC? Can't pinpoint one favorite thing about the city, there are so many! The people, the culture, the food (of course), and city life as it is. What are some of your hobbies or favorite ways to spend your free time? Spending time with friends and family, traveling, discovering new places in the city (especially restaurants), cooking, reading, and spiritual activities. Also, when I get the chance, brush up on my singing skills!
Job Titles:
- Member of the Faculty Executive Committee
- a & H Department Representative
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Richard March Hoe Professor of Health and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University
Robert Anderson, EdD, is a training professional with 20 years of experience in the field of communication and human resource development. In 1989, he established McDonald Anderson, a management training and consulting firm based in New York City. He has conducted leadership and communication workshops for many Fortune 500 companies, universities, and international non-profit organizations. His work regularly takes him to Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and to cities throughout North America. In addition to his native English, he has conducted workshops in French, Portuguese and Spanish. Before starting his own company, Dr. Anderson was employed as a training manager at Salomon Brothers Inc, the National Puerto Rican Forum, and The Executive Technique, a communications consulting firm. His academic credentials include an Ed.D. in adult education from Teachers College, Columbia University, an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Spanish from Oberlin College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
Robert Ferguson, Ph.D. has practiced psychology and executive coaching for over twenty years. He has provided coaching and leadership development to organizations as large as Credit-Suisse and Progress Energy, as well as many other companies, startups and schools. He helps leaders and entrepreneurs influence and motivate others more effectively, and also assists high-achieving individuals handle stress, deal with difficult people, and enhance emotional intelligence. As an expert on conflict, he teaches business partners, teams, managers and executives how to resolve their differences so they can achieve shared goals. At the MD-ICCCR, Dr. Ferguson co-teaches a course on power and conflict. He received his Master's Degree from University of South Florida, and his PhD from University of Kentucky. Author of several books on leadership, including Enhancing Emotional Intelligence and The Leader's Guide to Coaching: Discover & Develop the Strengths of Your People, he is currently writing a book with Dr. Peter Coleman on power and conflict, due for publication in 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Dr. Willis is a psychologist by profession with 20 years of experience in academic, government and non-government organizations engaging in teaching, mentoring, research, social policy and social development activities leading to leadership roles that emphasize turnaround social development strategies. Dr. Willis received her doctorate in Psychology with a specialization in intellectual & developmental disabilities and has worked in academia as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Psychology Program. For the past 12 years Dr Willis was responsible for providing strategic advice on integrated social, health, and economic development in Dubai via policy, legislative and programmatic recommendations, including a Dubai-wide master plan for service delivery, human resources, partnership development and capital investment. The approach included applied research tools, rigorous analysis, monitoring and evaluation, to ensure that all strategies and policies are contextually appropriate, fiscally responsible, are evidence-based. She developed macro-level social development strategies to drive policy development and impact assessment that include the Dubai Disability, Mental Health, Early Childhood Development and Parenting Strategies.
Currently, Sandra is freelancing while holding 2 active positions as a Visiting Scholar in the Global Mental Health Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University, and as Director of Learning & Development in World Enabled, at the University of California - Berkley.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Affiliated Instructors & Partners Team
Sequoia Stalder is a mediator/attorney practicing in New York City. He is a principal of Stalder Raich, a mediation firm in New York City. His areas of specialization are family and divorce mediation, business mediation and workplace and organizational conflict consulting. Complimenting his work at Stalder Raich, Sequoia is the Director of Conflict Resolution Services at New York Center for Interpersonal Development, the court designated mediation center for Richmond County. In this role, he oversees all of New York Center's mediation programs with a yearly caseload of over 800 cases. He is also the senior mediator for the Richmond County Supreme Court Matrimonial Part Mediation Program.
Sequoia regularly provides beginner and advanced mediation trainings to a diverse array of professionals including lawyers, judges, therapists, teachers and others. In addition to his work as a private trainer, he is the Director of the Mediation Training Institute at New York Center for Interpersonal Development and is a faculty member and trainer with the Center for Mediation in Law (Center for Understanding in Conflict). Sequoia also sits on the Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee of the State of New York Office of ADR and Court Improvement Programs.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Susan Fountain was a classroom teacher for 12 years before she began working in the field of teacher professional development with a focus on social and emotional learning. She worked for 10 years as the focal point for human rights and peace education for UNICEF. She has also been a staff developer and curriculum writer for the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, Creative Response to Conflict, and the National School Climate Center. In that capacity, she has facilitated workshops for teachers and students, in pre-K through Grade 12, on conflict resolution, peer mediation, bias awareness and bullying. She currently teaches in an interdisciplinary program on human relations at the City University of New York. At Teachers College, she teaches a summer course on "Conflict Resolution in Schools", and the Dignity for All Students Act workshops for the Office of Teacher Education. She holds a doctorate in Adult Learning from Teachers College; her dissertation research focused on the role of mindfulness in helping adults learn emotional self-regulation in interpersonal conflicts.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- General Counsel and Vice President of Teachers College
Tamara J. Britt was appointed General Counsel and Vice President of Teachers College on July 1, 2022. She previously served as Vice President of External and Legal Affairs at Manhattan College and has held positions as Associate General Counsel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and as an attorney in the New York City office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she specialized in white-collar defense, enforcement matters and bankruptcy litigation.
Britt received her B.A. from Hampton University, an M.P.A. from George Washington University, and a J.D. degree from Rutgers University School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Honorary & Emeriti Trustees Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Faculty Executive Committee
- C & T Department Representative
Job Titles:
- Interim Provost, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs
- Provost, Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs
William Baldwin was appointed Interim Dean on July 1, 2022. He is a Professor of Practice in Higher Education in the Department of Organization & Leadership at Teachers College, where he recently served as the Chair of the department and Director of Programs in Education Leadership. Other roles he has held at TC include Vice Provost, Director of the Office of Institutional Studies and Planning; Assistant Provost and Director of Institutional Studies; Special Assistant to the President; and Associate Dean for Student Services. He twice previously, in 1995 and 2006, served as Interim Dean of the College.
Baldwin holds a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University, a master's degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Toledo, and both master's and doctoral degrees from TC.
Job Titles:
- the First Peace Psychologist
Where are you from? Burnt Ranch, California What was your academic background before coming to the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? I have an undergraduate degree in psychology with an emphasis in developmental psychology from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. I then went on to a masters in applied social psychology at the University of London Royal Holloway in the UK. Outside of the classroom, I have worked both in the nonprofit world and as a consultant on topics of diversity and disability in research and applied practice. Why did you choose the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? The program had been of great interest to me for quite some time before applying. I was really drawn to the specific course content outlined, as well as the unique emphasis on scientist-practitioner duality. What are your research interests? Have they changed since you started the program? If so, in what way? Across research and practice I am interested in centering the experiences of historically under-researched demographics within organizational space. I am currently focused on the strengths and shortcomings in diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility practices within workplace and education-based organizations, with a particular eye towards disability. What is the greatest strength of the Soc-Org Psych Program at TC? Compared with other programs working in the same area of interest, TC really focuses on the social psychology aspects of organizational work. This particularly unique approach aligned well with my interests. Additionally, the social psychology focus lends itself to a great deal of social justice and diversity, inclusion and equity work, which can be seen in research within the program. What career do you intend to pursue when you graduate? As I am a first-year, I am sure time in the program will refine and shape these goals. I hope to use my doctorate in both applied and academic capacities. Generally, I hope to work in the DEIA space with a focus on disability as a consultant, primarily within educational institutions. Additionally, I would like to teach and advise students at some level. What internships or jobs have you undertaken since starting the program? As I am a first year in my first semester, I have not taken the opportunity up quite yet. What is your favorite thing about NYC? The constant opportunities to eat, learn and explore! What are some of your hobbies or favorite ways to spend your free time? I am an avid Argentinian tango dancer, so in non-Covid times you'll often find me teaching and dancing tango across the city. In more recent times I truly enjoy exploring and eating my way through the Burroughs!