Current Staff
Dr. D. Michael Shafer , Director of the Rutgers Center for Global Security and Democracy
(CGSD) (BA Yale, PhD Harvard, Council on Foreign Relations, 21st
Century Trust Fellow), is an award-winning teacher who lectures
globally, has published widely, and consults across the US and abroad.
With funds from foundations, the European Union, USAID, and the US
State Department, Dr. Shafer has established civic education programs
to transform universities throughout the newly democratic world. For a
decade (1994-2004), Dr. Shafer directed the Rutgers Citizenship and
Service Education (CASE) Program, among the most international
service-learning programs in the US. At CASE, he created www.njserves.org,
Internet portal to the New Jersey civic sector and test bed for the
development of Internet tools for citizens. As Director of CGSD, Dr.
Shafer has developed online resource tools for students of international relations and comparative politics worldwide and is developing an online library of civic education materials
in many languages for administrators and professors at universities in
countries in transition. In addition to FACE Human Rights.org, he and
his staff have created www.art-without-borders.org, an online, interactive, global art gallery, and www.worldvoicesonline.org,
home to World Voices, CGSD’s weekly podcasts of global youth interviews
(also posted on iTunes). He is deeply involved in international efforts
to engage young people as active citizens through his training
organization, Global Partnerships for Activism and Cross-Cultural
Training (Global PACT). With funding from the Open Society Institute,
Prudential Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and others,
Global PACT offers a variety of summer training institutes at Rutgers
and overseas (for example, the all-Balkans trainings in Zagreb, Croatia
and the poverty reduction trainings in Grahamstown, South Africa. Dr.
Shafer is fluent in French and conversant in North African Arabic.
Isabel Nazario, Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers
Isabel Nazario is the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public
Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities at Rutgers. In this capacity,
she is responsible for working with faculty, staff and students to
develop and support academic co-curricular programs and collaborative
research projects that lead to innovative public partnerships in the
arts and humanities. Prior to this appointment, she served as founding
director of the Rutgers Center for Latino Arts and Culture since 1992
and as executive director of the Office for Intercultural Initiatives
since 2002. Also at Rutgers, Isabel has worked on the Bildner Faculty
Fellows Diversity Initiative as well as Transcultural New Jersey,
a statewide arts and education initiative that promotes intercultural
understanding through works produced by artists traditionally
underrepresented in the museum/gallery system. From 1985 to 1991, Ms.
Nazario was program associate in the Museum Program at the New York
State Council on the Arts. In the 1980s she was Manager of Public
Programs and Curator of the Community Gallery in the Queens Museum of
Art in Flushing, New York. She earned a B.A. and an M.F.A from Queens
College, the City University of New York, where she was later appointed
faculty of Caribbean and Latin American Art History in the Puerto Rican
Studies Department.
Deborah Gerewitz, Project Manager
Deborah Gerewitz is a Rutgers College junior, pursuing a double major
in Finance and Art History. Deborah spent a year before college
studying abroad, which fueled her passion for international business.
In addition to her work with Art Without Borders, Deborah serves as the
Arts Director for the Rutgers Hillel Center for Jewish Life on Campus.
She also works as an intern at the Museum of Arts & Design in New
York City. Her areas of interest include arts management, corporate
law, and public health.
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