Hello and thank you for stopping by! My name is Yuval, and I work in community engagement and education program development. I'm passionate about reimagining learning as a creative, equitable, and care centered pursuit, and am committed to building education spaces that invite learners of all ages to play. Right now, I manage educational initiatives at an after school program that teaches girls of color figure skating and girls empowerment skills, and spend my evenings warming up after a frosty night out by the ice rink!
Recently, I oversaw a fellowship program hosted at Barnard College for public school teachers in Harlem that focuses on experiential STEAM learning (science, technology, engineering, arts / architecture, and mathematics). As a founding member of the project team, I was drawn to working in STEAM after early negative experiences deterred my confidence as a young woman in STEM learning spaces. I focused on creating opportunities for students to use a STEAM toolkit to address real questions they face in their everyday lives: how can we engineer a new dream playground for our local park, map where there are fewer trees providing shade to our community members during heatwaves, or program robots that test out the most efficient traffic light patterns on the street the bus takes to school every day? It was a gift to lead project operations, inclusive recruitment efforts, and collaborative curriculum building processes with a range of incredible local stakeholders, and to heal my younger self's relationship to STEAM education as an adult. I'd love to tell you more about it!
I specialize in program management, stakeholder relationship building, staff recruitment and training, curriculum design, after school education, communication consulting, workshop facilitation, oral history interviewing, and conference organization. I'm curious to connect with fellow wacky creative education professionals, and would be happy to chat about learning spaces and community engagement initiatives you're working on!
a dear mentor encouraged me to set a New Year’s resolution one year to get 12 rejections in one year. The resolution challenged me to put myself out there far more than I was used to and (to my surprise) I started receiving acceptances I wasn’t expecting! highly recommend giving it a try in 2025 :)
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always fun to teach a group how Velcro works by leading them in an educational line dance!