Suzanne Joyal

Artist/ Advocate/ Educator dedicated to discovering new ways to utilize the arts to spark innovation, engagement and creativity, across the lifespan to improve our learning, health and wellbeing
SKILLS
Advocacy & Outreach
• Collaborate with multilingual, economically diverse business leaders, parents, teachers, education administrators, to bring arts education focused on emotional well-being to over 10,000 students during COVID
• Collaborate with Zambian officials, Swiss doctors, NGOs to build women’s microlending and sexual and reproductive health program
• Present at national, international conferences to advocate, educate based on new findings in the arts and education
• Utilize the arts to build cultural understanding at public events in San Francisco and Marin County (largest income disparity in CA)
Research & Innovation
• Write research-based, culturally responsive training manual, virtual course based on interviews with multilingual educators, artists, parents
• Work closely with psychologists and occupational therapists to design, implement arts-based literacy curricula for school teachers
• Design, deliver evidence-based professional development workshops for teachers, teaching artists, parents
• Develop specialized instruction for students with disabilities, coach teaching artists to improve student outcomes in IEP goals
• Transform traditional static art gallery space into multi-disciplinary, culturally responsive experiences for diverse community
• Collaborate with educators, counselors, activists to develop innovative models of community engagement for marginalized teens including newcomers, English Language Learners, students with disabilities
Interests
Visual Arts, Nature, using my hands for any kind of making.

