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Portrait Photo: Angel Acosta

Angel Acosta

Ed.D., Curriculum & Teaching

Angel Acosta has honed a practice of healing-centered education aimed at structural change for a nation torn by racism and hate. At its center are the use of meditation, mindfulness and a 400-year timeline of injustices against America's marginalized populations

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Education
2020
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Victoria Henry Cervantes

M.A., Curriculum & Teaching

After years of confronting lack of access to literacy education in impoverished areas of Latin America, Victoria Henry Cervantes discovered the same gaps in the South Bronx.

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Education
2020
Portrait Photo: Joey Eisman

Joey Eisman

M.A., Cognitive Science in Education

Joey Eisman has followed a path of many turns in a quest to help young people develop a sense of identity and positive values. The next step in his journey: a Ph.D. program in Educational Psychology.

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Health
2020
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Zad El-Makkaoui

M.A., Social-Organizational Psychology

Zad El-Makkaoui had long dreamed of studying at Teachers College. The experience gave her all that she'd hoped for — including the ability to push through others' resistance to raise difficult issues of difference.

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Psychology
2020
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Max Frieder

Ed.D., Art & Art Education

Max Frieder is leading a project in Bangladesh to build a team of Rohingya visual artists and musicians who are creating culturally relevant messaging around issues of human rights, gender-based violence, host-refugee relations and public health.

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Education
2020
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Charmagne Jones

M.A., Applied Physiology

Charmagne came to TC to fulfill her dream of becoming a physical therapist. She calls working in the College’s EXerT Lab “the greatest opportunity ever” — but after serving as Student Senate Vice President and working with homeless youth she’s decided to pursue a greater need to “give back.”

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First Generation Health
2020
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Dylan Kapit

M.A., Developmental Disabilities

As someone who has come out as queer, transgender and as being on the autism spectrum, Dylan Kapit possesses an especially broad capacity for empathy and understanding — qualities essential to a teacher's ability to connect with students.

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Health
2020
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Woo-Jung Amber Kim

M.Ed., International Educational Development

Woo-Jung Amber Kim has demonstrated the “incredible adaptability” in following a career path that has oscillated between classroom teaching and explorations of diverse cultures.

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Education
2020
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Cindy Ling

M.Ed., School Counseling

People always told Cindy Ling that she’s be a great businesswoman. But her heart lay in education — and her skills in building productive relationships have proved useful in her new career path: school counseling.

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Psychology
2020
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D.L. Moffitt

M.A., Education Policy

One of seven children raised by a struggling single parent, D.L. Moffitt has navigated his own education with huge success. But as he's pondered how fate and circumstances point people along very different paths, his interests have turned from teaching to policy.

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First Generation Education
2020
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Eddie Ortiz

M.A., English Education

When Christa McAuliffe perished in the Challenger space shuttle explosion, Eddie Ortiz decided to become a teacher. McAuliffe's dictum to take risks inspired him to earn a master's degree -- and now, to pursue a Ph.D.

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Education
2020
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Ayesha Rabadi-Raol

Ed.D., Early Childhood Education

"I’m looking at what we can learn when the experiences of immigration and race come together in early childhood teacher education through poetic counter-stories and poetic testimonial."

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Education
2020
Portrait Photo: Azsaneé Truss

Azsaneé Truss

M.A., Instructional Technology & Media

Azsaneé Truss came to TC to be an educational technology specialist. But through the College’s MASCLab, she discovered critical media literacy, youth participatory action research, and the power of multi-modal scholarship.

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Education
2020
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