I was born and bred in New York City, attended New York City public schools and the City College of New York.

My life with the New York City Board of Education has been incredibly varied. Before coming to my present school ten years ago, I taught music theory and conducted a string ensemble at the High School of Music and Art, taught almost every subject from Latin to physics to cooking and computer literacy in an alternative middle school, and was the school librarian in an elementary school.

What has guided me throughout my career was a philosophy of education developed under the tutelage of Lillian Weber, Professor of Education at City College of New York. Lillian had an unshakable faith in the ability of all children to learn. She taught us that it was our job as educators to provide the environment to make that possible. Professor Weber established The Workshop Center for Open Education at City College, which served as a model for inquiry-based and child-centered education. Besides countless "make-and-take" workshops, there were discussion groups on educational theory and practice. The amount of work required to create our classrooms was vast, but the boundless energy and conviction of Lillian and her staff of advisors set the standard

I began my involvement with computers in education after attending a conference at Teachers College in 1981 where I met the MIT team that created Logo. I begged for, and received a beta version of Logo and have been hooked on it ever since.

I am now the Director of Technology and a computer lab teacher at Public School 9, an elementary school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In recent years, I have spent part of each summer teaching Logo and Robotics at the Logo Summer Institutes in Colorado, and at the Summer Math program in Massachusetts.

When I'm not in front of a computer monitor, I can be found playing the cello or working in my garden.