Rebecca Posner is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, education specialist, and life-long learner. She holds a Masters in Teaching from the Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education at Clark University, and an M.F.A. in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from CUNY Brooklyn. Rebecca served as Program Director for the Daytime Learning Program at Kite’s Nest Center for Liberatory Education in Hudson, NY, where she developed cross-disciplinary, community-based programming that specialized in project-based and socio-emotional learning. As a teaching artist, she worked for years to bring empowering arts education to students in NYC public schools with organizations such as Free Arts NYC and The Leadership Program before joining the Anne Frank Center USA. Her decades-long work in curriculum development spans a wide range of projects from small non-profits to education start-ups and state and city DOE’s. Rebecca’s backgrounds in somatics and creative writing bring a focus on embodied healing and literacy through diverse expressive modes. In 2019, she began teaching the Anne Frank Center’s “Art of Self-Discovery” residency in NYC schools, where she developed the curriculum into a mixed-media diary-making program inspired by Anne’s writing. She continues to grow the residency programs with an inspiring team of teaching artists and the core mission of connecting young people to the power of Anne’s story, and to their own voices. She is a strong believer in curiosity-driven learning, the wisdom of the natural world, and the incredible power of art to shift and grow our collective imagination.