Current PhD Candidates
Current PhD Candidates
Current PhD Candidates
Click on each student's photo for more information on their background and dissertation. A list of student and alumni accomplishments can be found on our Alumni page.
Benjamen Prager
Prager is a Soviet refugee, registered architect, service designer, forensic data analyst, and storyteller.
Victoria Murray Baatin
Victoria is a cultural strategist and thought leader with a deep commitment to imagination, curiosity, and creativity. With a career spanning philanthropy, policy development, arts advocacy, strategic program design, artistic direction, and scholarship in myriad disciplines within the field.
Jessica Masino Drass
Jessica is a trauma-informed psychotherapist, professor, and former high school art teacher. Her work explores the interdisciplinary domains of creative expression through an artistic inquiry process of making maps and performing data to capture, develop and expose various types of knowledge.
Chris Devery
PhD Candidate Chris Devery is an animator and theme park designer with a background in environmental education; he is currently a professor of VR and Immersive Media Design at Drexel University.
Isha Strasser
Isha Strasser has worked as an educational nonprofit director and writer for international and local organizations for over a decade, and draws from twenty-five years of yogic and contemplative practice.
Isha's work is rooted in ancient wisdom, contemplative pedagogy, disability studies, and ecological economics. This transdisciplinary approach is intended to disrupt socially constructed divisions to activate the liberatory power of connection through a relational ethic of interdependence, activating the imagination for cultural renewal.
Erin Hallagan Clare
Erin is a writer and creative facilitator based in Asheville, North Carolina, where she serves as Founder/Executive Director of Story Parlor, the I&A School of Creativity, and co-owner of the Battery Park Book Exchange.
Alexis Karas
PhD Candidate