Jennifer Edwards Curriculum vitae September 6, 2015

Education Post graduate study, The New School, Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy; Organizational Development and Change Management, 2010-11 MFA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, dance and choreography, 1999 BFA, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, dance, 1998 AA, County College of Morris, 1995

Professional Appointments / Employment Point Park University, Visiting Artist Edwards & Skybetter | Change Agency LLC, Co-founder, facilitator, strategist, 2011-present The Huffington Post, writer, 2009-present Mothers Work Inc., Learning Center Manager, 2006-07

Teaching Experience Point Park University, Visiting Artist Dance History, Fall 2015 Improvisation, Fall 2015 The Juilliard School Guest Professor, Production Class, 2013-present Skidmore College Adjunct Professor, The State of the (Dance) Arts, Spring 2013 Body and Mind Builders, yoga and meditation, 2010-11 Little Red Schoolhouse Institute, NYC Poetry, 2009 Writing Your Environment, 2009 Creative Writing and Story-telling, 2008 Spoken Work and Slam Poetry, 2008 Park Slope Yoga, yoga, 2005-2006 Life In Motion, yoga, 2004-2006 Saraswati River Yoga, yoga, 2003-04 County College of Morris, NJ, interim program coordinator, Fall 2004 County College of Morris, NJ, adjunct professor, dance and choreography Choreography II, team-taught with Prof. Colleen McArdle, Spring 2005 Choreography I, Fall 2004 Modern I, Fall 2004 Intermediate Modern, Fall 2004 Advanced Ballet, Spring 2002 Ballet II, Spring 2002 Advanced Modern, Spring 2000 Advanced Ballet, Spring 2000 Intermediate Ballet, Fall 1999 Intermediate Modern, Fall 1999 Ballet I, Fall 1999 Havergal College, Ontario, artist in residence, Fall 2000 Nazareth Academy, artist in residence, Summer, 2000 Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, guest teacher, Spring 2000 Gill St. Bernard School, artist in residence, Spring 2000 1 Creative Work, Scholarship, and Curriculum Development Bicycles and Briar Patches, writer, performer, The Brody Theater, June, 2015 Backstory / Salvation, writer, performer, Georgia Institute of Technology, June, 2015 Anon(ymous), movement director, The New School, Labyrinth Theater, November 2014 Cadence, choreographer West End Theater, Soaking WET festival, February 2015 Joe’s Pub, DanceNOW[NYC], 2014 Visiting Hours, a collective story of safety, director / choreographer, creator Governors Island, NYC August 2014 Blog: VisitingHoursProject.com, ongoing I Am The Wind, associate movement director, 59E59, January 2014 Artist Statements, writer, choreographer, performer Joe’sPub, DanceNOW[NYC], 2013 Gibney Dance Center, 2013 Shifting, Video Series, choreographer, 2012 Expatriate, movement director Living Arts/ Nightingale Theatre for the New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK, 2013 The Theater Offensive, Boston, MA, 2012 The Grounded Series (1-6), writer, creator, director Grounded App for iPhone, 2012 Festival of the Moving Body, SUNY Stony Brook, 2011 Dance Films Association, Solar One Festival (Grounded 1), 2011 Martha Stewart Whole Living Magazine Blog (Grounded 1), 2010-11 [Anonymous Feminist Collective] collaborator, actor, dancer Feminists Are Funny at Lincoln Center, 2011 “Voices of Women” Performance and Residency, Rollins College, 2010 Feminists Are Funny, multiple US tours, 2006-11 Feminists Are Funny, China, 2008 Feminists Are Funny: a report from the field, Spain, 2006 365 Days / 365 Plays, Week 3, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Public Theater, 2006 The History of Women in Theater, Earlham College, Connecticut College, 2006 exposed: a solo show and CD, creator, performer, selected venues, 2003-08 Outfest Boston, MA, 2007 Bowery Poets Club, New York NY, performer, 2007 The Neuyorican Poets Cafe, New York NY, 2004-07 Worchester Polytechnic Institute, MA, performer, 2006 The Black Cat, DC, performer, 2006 Club One, Canada, performer, 2006 Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY, 2006 Vassar College, New York, NY, performer, 2005 Barnard / Columbia University, New York, NY, 2005 Peace Out East NYC, 2005 In Other Words, Portland, OR, 2005 Femina Potens, San Francisco, CA, 2005 WBAI 99.5, New York, NY interview / performance, 2005-07 NTG, Syrius Radio, national radio, 2005 Anna’s Banana’s, Honolulu, HI, 2004 Sister Spit Northampton, MA, 2004 The Warrior Show, headliner Stage Left, 2006 Cornelia Street Cafe, 2005 The Bottom Line: Sex, Politics and Masturbation, writer, performer Brooklyn Lyceum NYC, 2006 Fresh Fruit Festival, Collective Unconscious NYC, 2006 WAX Works, University Settlement NYC, 2005 Plan B Festival, coordinator, performer

2 Multiple San Francisco venues, 2006 The Vagina Monologues, actor, 2003- 2005 Mamapalooza, headliner The Cutting Room, 2006 Arlene’s Grocery, 2005 Tonic, 2004 Girl Fest Hawaii, headliner, Anna’s Bananas Honolulu, 2004 Re-Cover Me, created with Pandora Scooter, commissioned by NCADD-NJ, 2005 Outraged, coordinator, 2004 Surface Tension, by Laban Nabet, guest performer, WOW Cafe Theater, October 2001 WAX Anniversary Marathon, Williamsburg Arts Nexus, September 2001 21st Suffragettes: Art+Performance by Women, performer Galapagos Art Space, 2001 One-Breasted President, writer, choreographer, performer Benefit for the Museum of Motherhood, Barnes and Noble, NYC, 2015 The C-Word: Lesbians coming together around cancer, The Center, 2004 WAX Works, Williamsburg Arts Nexus, 2001 Hurry Up and Relax, writer, choreographer and director, co-created with Jeanne Schikler and Alicia Mathewson Cunningham Studios, 2001 American Dance Guild, NYU, 2001 Fishes in My Belly, choreographer, performer Dixon Place, 2001 Joyce SoHo, 2000 Weeping Woman, movement director, Pace University, 2000 Lovers and Other Strangers, choreographer, performer, 2000 Bo’s Place, Choreographers’ Ink, NYC The Perspectives Project, choreographer, performer, 1999 Bo’s Place, Choreographers’ Ink, NYC Fenestrations, by Stephan Koplowitz, performer, Grand Central Station NYC, dancer, 1999 Lot’s Daughters, choreographer University Settlement New York, NY, 1995 PS 122, New York, NY, 1995

Publications [Books, Reports, Magazines and Journals] Edwards, Jennifer, “A Call For R/evolution” From the Green Room: Dance/USA’s e-journal, March 10, 2015 Edwards, Jennifer, book chapter, “Creative Placemaking: 2011-2013.” ArtPlace America. Publication forthcoming. Edwards, Jennifer, “Cathy Opie,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Winter 2014 Edwards, Jennifer, with Sydney Skybetter, “Authenticity: The Best ‘Best Practice,’” From the Green Room: Dance/USA’s e-journal, July 23, 2013 Edwards, Jennifer, with Sydney Skybetter “Organizational Development and Peer Group Learning, through the lens of Trey McIntyre Project” a report sponsored by The Jerome Robbins Foundation, 2013 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance, Film and Creative Process,” Dance Magazine, November 2012 Issue Edwards, Jennifer, “Katherine Fisher: Improving Stamina in Body and Mind,” Dance Magazine, September 2012 Issue Edwards, Jennifer, “Bring Your Best Social Self to #DanceUSAconf,” In Dance, June 2012 Issue Edwards, Jennifer, “Mash Up: Capacity Building in a Time of Continual Flux,” In Dance, May 2012 Issue Edwards, Jennifer, “Sustaining the Field Through Change: Facilitate Community

3 by Releasing Control,” In Dance, July 1, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer A., “Stress Relief at Work: A guide to adopting a daily, applied meditation practice,” Tathaastu, (so be it) Magazine, 2009 Edwards, Jennifer A., “Roots of Stress Reduction,” Tathaastu, (so be it) Magazine, Aug - Sept. 2008, Vol. 2 No. 2 Edwards, Jennifer, “Grace Moon, radical, innovator, artist,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 30, Spring 2009 Edwards, Jennifer, “Angela Jimenez, Photographer,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 29, Winter 2008 Edwards, Jennifer, “I Think of You When I: an evening of performance art at LLGAF,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 28, Autumn 2008 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “Dividing Lines,” Estrology, Poetry Slam Inc., The Wordsmith Press, 2008 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “One-Breasted President,” Estrology, Poetry Slam Inc., The Wordsmith Press, 2008 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “October 12, 1991: Excerpt from Truth Telling,” The Mom Egg, Volume VI, YBK Publishers, New York, NY, 2008 Edwards, Jennifer, “Flash Back / Fast Forward: Pink and Bent at The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 27, Spring 2008 Edwards, Jennifer, “Jenn DeWald” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 22, Winter 2007 Edwards, Jennifer, “Elizabeth Streb’s War on Gravity,” Velvet Park Magazine: Dyke Culture in Bloom, Issue 12, Fall / Winter 2007 Edwards, Jennifer, “Fracesca Galliani,” The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/ Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Number 25, Autumn 2007 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “Satyagraha,” The Mom Egg, Volume V, 2007 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “Recurrent Dream,” The Mom Egg, Volume IV, YBK Publishers, New York, NY, 2006 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “Safe,” The Mom Egg, Volume IV, 2006 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], Truth Telling, Jened Productions, 2006 Edwards, Jennifer, “Amy Goodman: Breaking the Barrier,” Velvet Park Magazine: Dyke Culture in Bloom, Issue 9, Summer 2005 Edwards, Jennifer [aka JEN/ed], “One-Breasted President,” The Mom Egg, Volume III, 2005 Edwards, Jennifer, “Ms Public Agitator (Alix Olson),” Velvet Park Magazine: Dyke Culture in Bloom, Issue 7, Summer 2004

[Blogs] Edwards, Jennifer, “Emily Johnson Shares SHORE in Lenapehoking/New York City,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, April 17, 2015 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance, Intimacy and the Human Heart: 4CHAMBERS,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, March 3, 2014 Edwards, Jennifer, “Through the Eyes of a Dancer: A New Book by Wendy Perron,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 5, 2013 Edwards, Jennifer, “Lessons For Entrepreneurs From The Arts and Culture Sector,” In Good Company Blog, August 8, 2013 Edwards, Jennifer, “SARA DU JOUR, Dancer -- at The 92nd St Y,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, May 29, 2013 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance, A Holiday Tradition: Nut/Cracked Turns 10 at New York Live Arts,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 19, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance+the Holidays: Three Things to Do This Weekend,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 13, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Ballet Next Brings Five World Premieres to the Joyce Theater,”

4 Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, October 22, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Fäulein Maria Bids Adieu at Jacob’s Pillow,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog August 28, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Performing Life, Living Art: Michael Alan,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, July 13, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Fierce, Fun, and Fulfilling: Keigwin+Company Opens at The Joyce,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, June 13, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance and Money: A Response to Lightsey Darst,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog June 5, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Embodied Women as Window on Feminism: The Co(te)lette Film Served Up on Your Lap[top], Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, April 23, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Australian Dance Company Chunky Move Featured in Mass MoCA + Jacob’s Pillow Collaboration,” Huffington Post, Arts & Culture Blog, March 21, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Marc Bamuthi Joseph: The Art of Collaboration and Community-Building,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, March 15, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “A Valentine In Dance,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, February 14, 2012 Edwards, Jennifer, “Ballet Next: A Conversation With Co-artistic Directors, Michele Wiles and Charles Askegard,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 20, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Growing Art and Artists: Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Walker Art Center,” Huffington Post, Arts & Culture Blog, October 27, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “On Faustin Linyekula, Dance, and Leadership in the Performing Arts,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog October 12, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance, Film, and Kinesthetic Response - A Call Toward Action,” Dance on Camera Journal, July/August 2011 (posted 9/12/11) Edwards, Jennifer, “Focus on Dance Writing, Content Creation, and Audience Engagement,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, July 31, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer A., “Leverage Your Expertise - Authentically” In Good Company Blog, July 26, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “In Dance News: It’s a Matter of Place,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog July 15, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Opening June 1: Gotham Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, May 31, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Gibney Dance Center Pioneers a New Financial Model While Providing Much Needed Dance-Work Space,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, May 19, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Shifting Landscapes: 3 Impact Points of Technology on the Future of Dance,” From The Green Room: Dance/USA’s e-Journal, May 5, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “To all who Wish to Cut Funding to PBS, NPR, and the NEA: Please Consider Your Children,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, April 8, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “What the World of Dance Can Learn From World of Warcraft,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, February 23, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, with Hannah Krafcik, “Life, Love, Technology, and Dance: Where Personal Narrative Meets Art,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, February 9, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “TenduTV: Arts Ambassador for the Future,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, January 25, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, “Gus Solomons Jr. dancer / choreographer / writer / actor / PARADIGM-shifter,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, January 6, 2011 Edwards, Jennifer, with Hannah Krafcik, “Dear Gen Y, Never Get A Real Job: Thank You Scott Gerber,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 17, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, “Haiti Is Wailing: Gina Athena Ulysse, Anthropologist and Performing Artist,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 9, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, “NY Times Critic Alastair Macaulay: Judging Bodies in Ballet and Beyond,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 9, 2010

5 Edwards, Jennifer, “Nutcracker: Alastair Macaulay, Senior Dance Critic for the New York Times,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, December 2, 2010

Edwards, Jennifer, “Dance and Visual Art on Film: Finite and Infinite Games,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, November 24, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, “Ballet Hispanico’s New Executive Director; Continuing a Tradition of Inclusive Integration,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, November 19, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, “For Artists & Arts Organizations: 6 Steps to Building Your Base Through Authentic Engagement,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, November 18, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, “Ballet Memphis and Brazil: Nurturing Community through Art,” Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, July 30, 2010 Edwards, Jennifer, with Sydney Skybetter, “Dancing in a Vacuum: The NEA Says Get Online”, Huffington Post Arts & Culture Blog, July 5, 2010

Curriculum Development Boston Conservatory, Embedded Entrepreneurial Practice, (Edwards & Skybetter), 2014 Gibney Dance Center, Professional Development, (Edwards & Skybetter), 2014 Skidmore College, Entrepreneurship and the Arts, (Edwards & Skybetter), 2014 University of Southern California, Media and Dance, (Edwards & Skybetter), 2013 Skidmore College, The State of the [Dance] Art, (Edwards & Skybetter), 2013

Conference and Festival Activity / Participation Arts Reach, speaker, Embodying a Creative Practice for Integrated, Internal and External Marketing, March 20 and 21, 2015 National Arts Marketers and Presenters (NAMP), panelist, The Next New Thing, Now, November 9, 2014 Arts Entrepreneurship Educators Conference, panelist, Introducing Arts Entrepreneurship Into Traditional Conservatory Training, 2014 Lasky Symposium, facilitator, Managing Change / Fostering Sustainability, 2014 Dance NYC Symposium, panelist, Candor, Technology and the Near Future of the NYC Dance Ecology, 2014 TrepCon2013: Fordham’s Entrepreneurship Conference, speaker, Entrepreneurship in the Creative Markets, 2013 Dance/USA Conference, speaker, Managing Stress for Organizational Development, 2013 Dance/USA Conference, workshop leader, Managing Stress for Personal Development, 2013 Lasky Symposium, facilitator, Embodying Your Brand, 2013 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Scholar in Residence, 2012 Dance/USA Conference, speaker, What Your Website Says About You, 2012 Dance Critics Association Conference, panelist, Sharing Content, 2012 Lasky Symposium, facilitator, 2012 Dance/USA Conference, speaker, Building Stages Across Platforms, 2011 International University Global Theater Experience (IUGTE, Austria), speaker, Building Stages Across Platforms, 2011 Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), workshop leader, Fueling an Activist Practice: finding balance between rage and retreat, 2006 National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), workshop leader, Storytelling for Change, 2005 National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR), workshop leader, Fueling an Activist Practice: finding balance between rage and retreat, 2004

Service Facilitation and strategy Jerome Robbins Foundation, Lasky Symposium think tank facilitation, symposium development, 2012-present

6 Georgia Institute of Technology, Office of the Arts, strategic mapping, 2014-15 The Boston Conservatory, strategic mapping, 2014 The Bang Group, strategic mapping, 2014 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, RFP development, digital strategy mapping, 2013- 2014 Gibney Dance Inc., staff development, operational strategy mapping, 2011-2014 Oklahoma City Ballet, board training, Winter 2011, Fall 2012

Workshops and seminars Point Park University Bootcamp: Arts and Entrepreneurship, Spring 2015 The New School Contact Improvisation for Actors, workshop, fall 2014 The Juilliard School, Senior Seminar, all majors, graduate and undergraduate Fall 2013 NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Bootcamp: Entrepreneurship for Artists, Summer 2013, 2014 Guest Lecturer, Spring 2014 Guest Lecturer, Spring 2009 Guest Lecturer, Spring 2008 Alumni Lecturer, 2007 Guest Lecturer, 2007 Bloom Women Financial Advisors Group, embodied stress management, 2013 Muhlenberg College, embodied stress management for dancers, Fall 2011 The Senior Day Lounge, embodied stress management, biweekly class, 2010-11 GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis), embodied stress management, 2011 The Wonder Girls, embodied stress management for teen girls and their moms, 2010 American Heart Association, member of the speakers bureau, 2009-10 Go Red for Women, 2010 Young Leaders Circle, 2009 NYC Department of Transportation, 2009 NYC Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2009 Gina Gibney Dance Embodied stress management for dancers, 2009, 2012 Joyful Heart Foundation, workshop facilitator, Heal the Healers, a conference for healthcare workers, 2009 In-shelter seminars for survivors of domestic violence, 2008 The Girl Scouts of America, embodied stress management for at-risk teens, Summer 2007 Neat Retreats Embodied stress management for retirees, 2008-2009 Columbia University Medical Center Sustainable Stress Reduction, 2008 Columbia University Student Groups Meditation, 2007 The LGBT Center of NY Yoga for LGBTQ Teens, 2007 Blue Stockings Bookstore, NYC Meditation for Activists, 2006-07 NCOR, American University, DC Yoga and Meditation for Activists, 2004-06 Gilda’s Club Yoga and Meditation for cancer patients, 2003-2004 Cancer Care Embodied Practice for recently diagnosed cancer patients, 1999-2001

7 Invited Talks Artist / Feminist / Activist New York University, 2014 Woman / Artist, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2014 How Can Cultivating Habits of Curiosity, Exploration and Collaboration Support Relationships with Our Bodies and Our Health?, SUNY Downstate Medical Center / Brooklyn Free Clinic What’s Next Conference: Reimagining Health, 2014 Living a Creative Life, Hotel New Work, April 6, 2014 Meeting Change / Identifying Opportunities, New England Presenters, 2013 Challenges and Opportunities For Women Choreographers, Breaking Glass Project, 2013 Tools of your trade: personal reputation, integrity, and ethics The Juilliard School, 2013 Empowered Change Management, National Arts Marketers and Presenters (NAMP), 2012 Arts+Entrepreneurism, with Clint White of Arts+Culture Network, Art’s Reach, 2012 Building Stages Across Platforms, Pentical LA HelpDesk, 2012 What Your Website Says About You, Dance/USA conference 2012 Dance Writing Online, Jacob’s Pillow American Dance Festival, 2011 Embodying Your Brand, Bronx Art Exchange, 2011 Building Stages Across Platforms, International University, Austria - 2011 Dancer Wellness, Dance NYC and Dance/USA Taskforce for Dancer Health, 2010 Feminism and Art, Elizabeth Erwin High School, 2008.2009 The Roll of Art in Activism, Barnard College, 2005

Affiliations The Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education, member National Storytelling Network, member National Dance Educators Organization, member Gibney Dance, Advisory Board member Breaking Glass, Advisor Pentacle, Mentor Dance /USA, former member Technology Committee, former member

Residencies, Awards and Accolades Omi International Dance Collective Residency, August 2015 Indygrrl Music, award recipient, best spoken word piece 2007 Outmusic Awards, nominee, best spoken word album 2006 Just Plain Folks, award nominee, 2006 Fresh Fruit Awards, recipient, best performance of an original short play, 2006 Northampton SisterSpit Slam Champion, 2004

Additional Certifications and Training Woodhull Center for Ethical Leadership, alumna, 2010 The OpEd Project, alumna, 2008 RYT500 (Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour level), Saraswati River Yoga School, 2003 Somatic Trauma Therapy training, The Scherer Institute of Natural Healing, NM, 2002 Trained Group Facilitator, Identity House, 1999

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