Harvard University, B.A.; Lesley College, Expressive Arts, M.Ed; University of California, Berkeley, PhD.

Tina is both a poet and an artist and works in both media separately and together. She has taught art and writing to children in a variety of settings, including an open classroom school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a school for autistic children in Boston, Massachusetts, an International Youth Cultural Center in Jerusalem, Israel, and the Judah Magnes Museum in Berkeley, California. She has also taught literature and art to college students and adults at UC Berkeley Extension, Mills College, New College of California, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. She is dedicated to making elementary public school education more exciting and meaningful through an integrative cross-cultural interdisciplinary approach, by bringing a wide range of artists and poets into the classroom.

You can read Tina in her own words describing the VALA process in her essay "The Verbal-Visual Nexus: Artists-in-Residence Teach Writing" in the anthology Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art, edited by Tonya Foster and Kristen Prevallet, published by Teachers & Writers Inc., NYC, 2002. Available at Small Press Distribution, Berkeley and other booksellers.