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Educator, Explorer in Education, Researcher
Dr. Cowin is a Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor at Touro University. As an Education Policy Fellow at the EPFP™ Institute, Columbia University/Teachers College, she became part of a select group of strategic leaders analyzing effective educational policy and leadership trends. She believes educational transformation starts with teachers who value students and see students’ personal and collective experiences as assets with a focus on Lynda Miller’s “philosophy of abundance”. Dr. Cowin is actively engaged with her Dr. J’s Education Blog: Exploration in Education.
Professional highlights include:
Steering Committee member and the Leadership for CALL-IS for TESOL International. 2022 -2024
Conference co-chair for the Second Annual VirtuaTeLL Conference Spring 2022 (VTCon 2022), NYS TESOL
Chair & Vice President, NYS TESOL conference, 2021
Board member: Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Teachers, an innovative career development and mentoring program that recruits, mentors, and trains culturally diverse students from high school through college and places them as effective teachers and leaders within their community.
Board member Holo Sail Technologies, Inc., a disruptive “Tech” startup. Using patented advancements in technology, in house AI
TESOL expert and ‘Train the Trainer’ facilitator for Future Horizons Foundation for Translation, Training, and Development, Sanaa, Yemen.
Sustainability Advisor, Computer for Schools Burundi, Burundi
As a published author her research focuses on:
Simulations, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Avatars, and Teacher Training
The Metaverse: Educational Use Cases
Asset Mapping and Multilingual Learner Engagement
Educational Transformation and SDG 4 in High-Conflict Countries: Yemen and Burundi
Distributed Ledger Technologies for Education and Government Institutions
Pedagogy, language enrichment, and technology
Multimodal and multiliteracy perspectives
Her extensive background in education, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Green Swan market shifts, Black Swan events, not-for-profit leadership, and commitment to the idea of education as a basic human right, provide her with unique skills and vertical networks locally and globally.
Native Proficiency: English, German