Director of Youth Studies
CUNY School of Professional Studies, United States
Sarah Zeller-Berkman, PhD is the Academic Director of the Youth Studies Program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS), a Distinguished Lecturer and Director of The Intergenerational Change Initiative (ICI). At CUNY SPS, she oversees the Bachelors of Arts, Master of Arts and Advanced Certificate in Youth Studies. She also supervises non-credentialling projects in Youth Studies at CUNY SPS such as The Intergenerational Change Intiative, Working the Gap, and youth councils run in partnership with NYC munical agencies such as DOHMH and Office of Neighborhood Safety.
Dr. Zeller-Berkman has spent more than two decades as a practitioner, researcher, evaluator, professor and capacity-builder in the field of critical youth development. Since 2003, she has worked with young people on intergenerational participatory action research projects about issues that impact their lives such as sexual harassment in schools, incarceration, parental incarceration, child welfare, economic mobility and high-stakes testing. She is committed to working in deep partnership with young people and youth workers using a critical, intergenerational, participatory action research approach as a part of a larger movement to alter the status quo for/with young people.
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM PST