Michele Kotler

Michele Kotler is the Executive Director of the Community-Word Project, an arts in education organization based in New York City whose mission is to inspire youth in underserved communities to read, interpret and respond to their world, and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MFA in creative writing, poetry, from the University of Michigan. She’s a board member of The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable and the Catalog for Giving and a member of the national Writers in the School Alliance. Her poetry has appeared in Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights Foundation), Washington Square, Painted Bride Quarterly and Spinning Jenny.