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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