A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z

Byongjin Ahn, PhD candidate, New School Graduate Faculty; has taught at Hunter and John Jay College; teaches American politics at Queens College; political consultant and editorial board of Radical Review; author of The Microsoft Politics: The New Challenge of American Politics in the 21st Century.

John Aiello, MFA, The New School; published in Tin House, Quarterly West, The Penn Review, and Tea For One; editorial staff of LIT magazine and PEN; currently a writer for The Journal News; founder of The Writing from Life and Writers Craft Workshop.

Hani Alam, coordinator of Arabic. New School Department of Foreign Languages; extensive experience teaching Arabic in New York and the Middle East; born and raised in Ramallah, Palestine, educated at U. of Jordan in Amman; teaches at Hunter College-CUNY, private language tutor; freelance translator.

Glenn Alexander, BMus, Wichita State U.; guitarist; has performed or recorded with Paul Simon, Chico Hamilton, L. Shankar & the Epidemics, Jerry Hahn, Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, sound track for Spike Lee's Four Little Girls; his own recordings include the albums Stretch and Glenn Alexander; currently with L.A.X.

Frank Algarin, writer, director, actor, educator; recipient, Delgado Playwriting Award and NYFA Fellowship; screenwriting consultant; has taught dramatic writing, educational theater and nonfiction writing in high schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Theatre for a New Audience, and the Bronx Writers Center.

Connie Allen, partner, United Estates Wine Imports, Ltd.; former purchaser of French wines for Michael Skurnik, importer; former office manager for retailer and importer Neal Rosenthal; geologist with strong knowledge of soils and topography of wine regions.

Patrick Allen, president, United Estates Wine Imports, Ltd.; former New York on-premise sales manager, W.J. Deutsch, wine importer; worked in Burgundy for wine exporter Becky Wasserman; fine wine importer; former wine buyer for large retail store in Columbus, Ohio; raised in Lyon, gastronomic capital of France.

Roberta Allen, author of The Travelling Woman and Certain People (short short stories), The Daughter, Amazon Dream (memoir), Fast Fiction and The Playful Way to Serious Writing (writing guides), and The Dreaming Girl (novel).

Rebecca M. Alvin, MA, The New School; independent filmmaker, teacher, and writer; currently producing a documentary on women in the Catholic Church; films have been shown internationally, including the Women in the Director's Chair Intl. Film & Video Festival and Anthology Film Archives.

Victoria Amador, PhD, U. of Denver; 26 years in higher education; two Fulbright Senior Lectureships; areas of expertise: gothic/vampire film and literature, women in media, 20th-century American literature, Hollywood cinema; resident of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sherry A. Amatenstein, former editor-in-chief, Woman's Own; articles published in Ladies' Home Journal, Mademoiselle, TV Guide, USA Weekend, Family Circle, and Cosmopolitan; recipient of essay-writing award from Writer's Digest.

Anthony Anemone, PhD, UC-Berkeley; visiting associate professor of Russian, The New School; publications include "The Monsters of Peter the Great" and "Gender, Genre, and the Discourse of Imperialism in Tolstoy's Cossacks."

Robert Ante, PhD, Columbia U.; honorary president, Form Development Comm., T'ai Chi Ch'uan Assn. (China); U.S. branch chairman, Intl. T'ai Chi Ch'uan Fed.; senior student of Grand Masters Cheng Man-ch'ing, Yu Hsien-wen and Hsiao Chu-ming.

David Arcos, MA, Parsons The New School for Design; professional photographer with clients such as the New York State Tourism Industry; fashion and tabletop photography; designer for multimedia with images and graphics.

Moshe Ariel, former soloist with the Israeli Inbal Dance Theatre; has worked in stage, screen, and TV.

Yeghia Aslanian, EdM, EdD, Columbia U. Teachers College; assoc. professor, CUNY.

Ron Attivissimo, wine collector with extensive travel to wine areas of the world; teaching assistant at Intl. Wine Center; instructor in French and Spanish.

Christine Augello, MA, ATR, NYU; currently works as an art therapist at North Shore U. Hospital in Manhasset; recently served as an Executive Board member for NY Coalition for Creative Arts Therapies; in private practice.

Laura Auricchio, PhD, Columbia U.; assistant professor of Art History, Parsons The New School for Design; publications on 18th-century French and contemporary art in Art Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Genders, and elsewhere; active art critic for Time Out New York.

Rachel M. Aydt, author of Why Me? A Teen's Guide to Divorce and Your Feelings; has written for Redbook, YM, New York Press, Manhattan File, Woman's Day, and Scribner's Dictionary of American Lives; currently, research director, CosmoGIRL! magazine.