Contacts
Joann Smith, Director
Joann Smith received her B.A and M.S in Urban Education from Iona College; her M.A. in English from Lehman College, CUNY; and her M.F.A in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She taught for many years in the New York City public school system, and also served as a mentor for new teachers. Since leaving teaching, she has served as interim-acting director of Continuing Education at Sarah Lawrence from 2000-2001, and as associate director of the Hudson Valley Writers' Center. Joann is an avid yoga student and a certified yoga teacher, as well as a short story writer. Her fiction has been published in several literary journals.
Joelle Sander, Associate Director
Joelle Sander obtained her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and her M.A. from New York University. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Continuing Education and teaches both modern poetry and the non-fiction essay in the Center’s B.A. program. Her own writing includes Before Their Time: Four Generations of Teenage Mothers, for which she won the Janusz Korczak award from the Anti-Defamation League for "the best adult book about children" for 1991-92, The Family, which she co-authored, and numerous professional articles and chapters in the field of adolescent fathers, mothers and adolescent pregnancy. As a journalist, she has written many articles for magazines and newspapers. She has been at Sarah Lawrence since 1989 and has taught at the Center since 1993.
Nadeen M. Thomas, Administrative Assistant
Nadeen Thomas received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.S.ED. from Hunter College A.B.D. (Anthropology), The City University of New York Graduate School. Nadeen comes to CCE with extensive research, library, teaching, computer, and administrative experience. Fluent in French, she is currently completing her dissertation on the experience of young North African Muslims who have immigrated to France.
Center for Continuing Education
45 Wrexham Road
Bronxville, New York 10708
Phone: (914) 395-2205
E-mail: cce@sarahlawrence.edu