Professor Kathy Engel at the 2022 Faculty Teaching Awards
This year's cohort nominated Professor Kathy Engel for the 2022 David Payne-Carter Teaching Award. The David Payne-Carter award is presented to Tisch School of the Arts faculty members whom students have selected as best at instilling a deepening comprehension and enthusiasm for the arts as well as a desire to seek further knowledge.
Kathy Engel is a poet, essayist, educator, organizer and cultural worker. For over 40 years Kathy has worked in many of the major social justice, peace, and human rights movements in the U.S. and in partnership with international groups. She has co-founded numerous organizations, including MADRE (1983), an international women’s human rights group, which she directed for five years. She also co-founded the Hayground School; East End Women in Black; Kickass Artists, Poets for Ayiti; and, with the poet Alexis De Veaux, Lyrical Democracies and The Center for Poetic Healing.