Mirrors, Passion, Power, and Spirit: Fact and Fiction in the Stories of Aging Women

Renée Cherow-O’Leary, Ph.D., is President of Education for the 21st Century, a consulting company in New York and Los Angeles that develops curriculum and educational programming for media, human rights, interfaith, and international organizations. She is currently a professor of interdisciplinary courses in the Arts, Culture and Media program at Rutgers University and was a faculty member at Teachers College, Columbia University and a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work on aging includes serving as a group facilitator in the national Wise Aging program and as a leader of a new course she developed called Life Cycle Wisdom: Interdisciplinary Views on Aging that she is teaching in Manhattan and developing for outreach to other communities. She is married to a psychoanalyst and speaks frequently at psychoanalytic conferences in the U.S. and abroad using literary and artistic frameworks to illuminate psychoanalytic issues.
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