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Laura

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Hiya :-) I'm a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA, Drama/Dramatic Writing), a Sundance Screenwriter's Lab finalist, and a well-published academic writer/theorist who currently works with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and the historic US peace and climate justice organization Promoting Enduring Peace. I'm also as an experienced educator with extensive international teaching experience in the fields of English, history, psychology and drama. I love using my diverse background to help students envision and create the lives and world they want to live in!

My international teaching experience includes five years in China teaching college-prep English essay writing, literature, world history, psychology, TOEFL prep and SAT reading comprehension/grammar/vocabulary, as well as assisting students with college application essays, through the China Social Welfare Education Foundation. I also taught ESL for seven months in rural Nicaragua, and spent 6 weeks touring the Middle East, performing in a circus troupe for refugee children. Other teaching experience includes teaching courses at Wesleyan University's Green Street Arts Center on Middle Eastern history and the history of Utopian movements/ideas, teaching at a Korean prep school in Queens, NY, serving as an artist mentor to homeless children in the NYC shelter system, and teaching drama to 4th and 5th graders in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn.

As an educator, I bring all of my interests, ideas, experiences and inspiration into conversation with the subject matter at hand, for a truly interdisciplinary approach. My teaching style is dynamic, empathetic, collaborative and holistic, and my process is always focused on asking thought-provoking questions to help students find core themes, principles and connections in both the material we are studying, and the development of their own ideas. I believe that education is all about liberation, and that my job as an educator is to empower students with the tools they need to understand and shape their own realities.

If you are seeking a one-of-a-kind educational experience that will expand your perspective and electrify your imagination, please get in touch! I am already excited to work with you, and help you make your dreams come true.

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Laura’s Qualifications
Education & Certification

Undergraduate Degree: New York University - Bachelor in Arts, Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Hobbies

Interests include radical pedagogy, philosophy, cultural anthropology, sociology, contemporary global geopolitics, psychoanalysis/depth psychology/psychodynamic theory, liberation psychology, social psychology, psychosocial studies, expressive art therapies/art brut, attachment style theory, personality analysis, critical theory, art-house/independent/classic/foreign/film, literature, theater/drama, music, poetry, visual art, speculative/sci-fi/dystopian/utopian/magical realist fiction, psychological horror, learning about and traveling to experience different cultures, multi-directional understandings of history, mythology, neurobiology, neuroplasticity, neurodiversity/twice exceptionality, human, animal and earth liberation (aka Total Liberation), Critical Animal Studies, anarchism (aka ending all forms of hierarchy, domination and oppression) and veganarchism, social ecology, utopianism, communalism, ethical veganism, abolitionism, eco-feminism, decolonization and anti-imperialism, Left-wing radical movements' history, and anything else that helps me to understand the nature of humans, other animals and the rest of the natural world more deeply and more empathically.

Tutoring Subjects
Adult ESL/ELL
Adult Literacy
Anthropology
AP English Language and Composition
AP US History
AP World History
Art
Art History
British Literature
College English
College Level American Literature
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
English
English Grammar and Syntax
ESL/ELL
High School English
High School Level American History
High School Level American Literature
High School Reading
High School World History
History
Improvisation
Introduction to Fiction
Journalism
Literature
Middle School English
Middle School Reading
Middle School Reading Comprehension
Performing Arts
Poetry
Poetry
Public Speaking
Reading
SAT Subject Test in World History
SAT Subject Tests Prep
SAT Writing and Language
Social Sciences
Social Studies
Spelling Bee
Test Prep
Theatre
TOEFL Prep
Women's Studies
World Civilization
World Literature
Writing