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About Moira
MOIRA PIRSCH is the Education Director at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. She is a poet, scholar, and educational consultant from Madison, Wisconsin. She has over a decade of experience working with community initiatives on social justice, the arts, and education. She was trained as a teaching artist with the Brave New Voices Spoken Word Network and with Arts Literacy Programs in Minnesota that were developed in tandem with Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University's Teachers College with a focus on literacies, arts education, spirituality, and race. She earned her Masters Degree in Arts in Education from Harvard University where she was the Education Associate at the Hip Hop Archive and coordinator of the Arts First Festival. She was also the Youth Programs Associate at the MN Spoken Word Association for five years.
Dedicated to both practice and research, she currently grounds her practice as the Education Director of the Maui Arts and Cultural Center and continues her research in her postdoctoral roles as a Coyle Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Literacy and as a Research Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Her work focuses on the power of the arts to transform, uplift and empower communities. She believes in miracles.
Dedicated to both practice and research, she currently grounds her practice as the Education Director of the Maui Arts and Cultural Center and continues her research in her postdoctoral roles as a Coyle Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Literacy and as a Research Fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Her work focuses on the power of the arts to transform, uplift and empower communities. She believes in miracles.