UWC Day 2017 - The Power of Diversity

September 16, 2017

NYU, 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003

Schedule:

Panel Discussion on Diversity

Improv Session

Small Group Discussions

Happy Hour

Panelists:

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Maya Alkateb-Chami is the Director of Jusoor, an international nonprofit organization working to help Syria through education. Winner of the Academic Freedom Award, Jusoor focuses on higher education, remedial education for children, and entrepreneurship training. Previously, Maya ran Al Makan Art Association, a cultural nonprofit in Syria, co-founded and led the United World Colleges' (UWC) scholarship program for Syrian adolescents, and directed admissions at UWC-USA international boarding school.

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Analisa Leonor Balares is the CEO & Chief Innovation Officer of Womensphere which she founded in 2007, and Chair & CEO of the Womensphere Foundation. She leads the Womensphere Innovation Lab and New Champions Womensphere Incubator Network. Since 2008, she has been the curator and convenor of the Womensphere Summits, Womensphere Festival, and Womensphere Emerging Leaders Summits.

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Cheryl Pahaham works in the New York State Comptroller's Office, where she has performed as a fiscal monitor and an audit planner. Cheryl is also active in local electoral politics in Northern Manhattan, where she served on the local community board, ran for a New York City Council seat, and assisted candidates in other election campaigns. Cheryl earned a doctorate in sociology from the New School, which is where she met her husband (and UWC alum) Robin Le Baron.

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Tamara Morgan works as the Community Partnership Coordinator at the Adaptive Design Association. She previously worked as creative art therapist with at risk teens. She is a graduate of NYU’s Steinhardt School for Art Therapy. Diagnosed at birth with osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition that makes her bones abnormally fragile, Tamara is an avid advocate of diversity, adaptations and the psychosocial well-being of all people.

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Carolyn Feenaghty works as a Special Education teacher for the NYC DOE for children with severe to multiple disabilities and provides education services for children with visual impairments and blindness. Carolyn is a volunteer at the Adaptive Design Association, Inc. a local non-for-profit that provides custom adaptations, educational, pre-vocation services for individuals with disabilities. She facilitates portions of custom adaptation building with her students in her classroom throughout the school year.