B.A. Philosophy and Government, Skidmore College
M.S. (political) Communication Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ph.D. Urban and Environmental Studies (Public Policy Communication) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Dr. JAM, as her students call her, believes in active citizenship. She serves as the iint4erim Vice President of the board of the Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center.  She is an emertis board member  and former Chair of the Board of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val Kill.  Previously she has served as President of the Board of The Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, and on the Board of the Grace Smith House.
She wrote a bi-monthly column in InsideOUT magazine, and has had a blog at www.blogging-for-america.blogspot.com.  She tweets as @feminista54.
She has authored 2 books on the Lesbian Liberation Movement and is currently writing a third which will include Gay Liberation.  She has various chapters in other books subjects as diverse as feminist philosophy;and property rights and NIMBY. Dr. JAM has written numerous articles, and given many talks and workshops. The latest workshop was on Domestic Violence,Jurisprudence & Political Theory: Challenging Orthodoxies. She also edited the Fall 2009 issue of the Hudson River Journal which focused on one of her heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dr. JAM is also completing a book about public policy and citizenship: the entrenching of second class citizens.
The Women and Society Conference just had its 20th annual meeting. It is an international feminist conference. See: http://www.marist.edu/liberalarts/womensstudies/conference.html
She calls herself an applied political philosopher, putting to practice political theories. Before she came to Marist she worked in both the Koch (NYC) and Cuomo administrations implementing diverse public policies (landfill gas recovery, the transfer of rent administration to the State and the expansion of Fort Drum).

She is also a published photographer and poet; and has shown her paintings.

Academic interests: Political thought (liberal democratic and Feminist); Applied Political Theory; Public Policy: environment, women & gender; Political Communication; and Citizen and State Relations.

 

The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement (scarecrow Press, 2009);"Feminist, History of" in Sex from Plato to Paglia:A Philosophical Encyclopedia [Two Volumes] Alan Soble, editor (Greenwood Press, 2005); The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage (Scarecrow Press, Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); "Public Discourse: Property Rights, Public Good and NIMBY" in Contested Terrain, Silver and Melkonian, eds. (Greenwood Press, 1995); "'Truth' and Advocacy: A Feminist Perspective ", PS:Political Science and Politics (Dec. 1998).