About

e² education & environment is a collective of dedicated educators, communicators and technical minds. Read about who we are as individuals below.

ELIZABETH EAGLE

Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director

Elizabeth Eagle is co-founder of e² and the Mizizi pilot program. She has 13 years of experience teaching visual art and photography at The Packer Collegiate Institute. Elizabeth provides one-on-one mentorship to high schools students dedicated to the arts through an Independent Study program as well as a Senior Thesis program. As co-director of the school's Carol Shen Gallery, Elizabeth curates a variety of shows ranging from Picasso to local contemporary artists, where she collaborates with other educators to create exciting and inspiring curriculum to help the students make connections to the art work.

Elizabeth developed a shared curriculum between Packer and Ndonyo Wasin Primary School in the Samburu District of North Eastern Kenya. She created a portrait exchange to develop an emerging relationship between two schools that extends beyond the standard pen pal program. In 2010 Elizabeth joined forces with Artworks for Youth, an international non profit arts education organization, to teach photography and life drawing and portraiture to children in Joe Slovo Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Elizabeth's paintings, photographs and mixed medium works are part of numerous permanent collections and have been featured in museums and galleries across the United States. Elizabeth continues to make art and exhibit her work.

Elizabeth received her B.F.A. in painting from Syracuse University in 1990. She attended Bennington College, VT on a M.F.A. Photography Fellowship and in 1998, completed her Masters of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute, NY. Since 1992, Elizabeth has worked as a freelance photographer, specializing in live event coverage for clients including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The New York Times, Carnegie Hall and Festival Production.

LIZ TITONE

Co-Founder, Co-Executive Director

Liz Titone is co-founder of e² and the Mizizi pilot program. An arts educator, professional photographer, and specialized curriculum developer, Liz currently serves on the faculty of the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York and is completing her master's degree in museum education at Bank Street College. Prior to joining Packer, Liz taught book arts, collage, sculpture and drawing at the Brooklyn New School, P.S. 154, and the Maple Street School in Brooklyn, NY. She has also designed site-specific curricula for the New York City Parks Department, among other institutions, focused on environmental science, art and activism. At the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Liz worked with high school students in the Garden Apprentice Program to further develop and enhance their design, content management and scientific criteria-building skills.

For three years while at PS.154, Liz served as the coordinator for PS154 and its sister school in Zimbabwe, Longfield Primary School, an initiative of the US Africa Children's Fellowship. Along with supervising fundraising efforts, she worked to develop cross-cultural curricula in social studies, science, art and music. While at Packer, Liz has supported the school's partnership with the Ndonyo Wasin Primary School in Kenya, by teaching art to students of all ages. Liz is currently collaborating with ArtWorks for Youth (AWFY), an international non-profit arts organization, on a traveling photojournalism exhibition and corresponding curriculum for K - 12 students. She will return to AWFY's home base of Port Elizabeth, South Africa to teach book arts and photojournalism in the spring of 2011.

RICH LOBOVSKY

Director of Business Development and Technology

Rich Lobovsky has more than 20 years of business experience in partnership development and management, consultative sales, business strategy and portfolio analysis, business process reengineering, and organizational change implementation in the financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications fields.

Rich currently serves as Vice President, Business Development with Lifecomm LLC, a start-up venture funded by Hughes Telematics, Qualcomm, and American Medical Alert Corporation. He is responsible for developing and managing distribution and technology partnerships and representing the company at industry conferences and events. Prior to joining Lifecomm, Lobovsky was Director of Business Development for Qualcomm and one of four founders of its Wireless Health and Life Sciences Group. While there, Rich secured relationships with major corporations in the telecommunications and healthcare industries. Prior to that, Rich served as Regional Practice Director of Professional Services for Wireless Knowledge, a Qualcomm wholly-owned subsidiary whose clients included global companies in the financial services and healthcare industries. Rich holds a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University.

JONATHAN POWELL

Director of Strategy and Business Development

Jonathan Powell currently serves as a business development specialist for ITOCHU, a Fortune 500 Global firm based in Tokyo, Japan. Since joining the firm in 1993, Jonathan has structured more than $250 million in multinational transactions involving technology transfer, foreign investment and export promotion.

Jonathan also has extensive experience in distance learning, business simulation design, and courseware development. He is the co-founder and Director of LearningBridge, an e-learning and employee appraisal firm, and has served as an on-line faculty member and courseware designer at Athabasca University's Centre for Innovative Management (CIM), Canada's largest executive MBA program. While working with ITOCHU and CIM, Jonathan has consulted and coached internationally, providing both classroom and e-training in the areas of leadership, strategy, finance and risk assessment for government, corporate, and academic audiences.

Board Members

NURIT NEWMAN

A professional artist, arts educator, and curriculum developer, in 2008, Nurit Newman founded and became the director of Manor Arts, LLC, an art program that teaches children to think and work as artists. For over 20 years prior to founding Manor Arts, Nurit was a cover art director of Newsweek Magazine. Nurit has shown her work nationally in venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. She has also shown her work internationally in the Kunstbunker Tumulka in Germany, The Hertzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel and The Barbican Centre in London. In New York City she has been represented by the Sara Meltzer Gallery and the Daniel Silverstein Gallery. She received her BFA from NYU and her MFA (Magna Cum Laude) from Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Nurit was also a Museum educator at The Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center Institute where she developed curriculae and taught for 7 years. Nurit has also taught art to undergraduates and graduate students at Rutgers University: Mason Gross School of the Arts, The School of Visual Arts, The New School for Social Research and served on the thesis committee at Yale University School of the Arts.

Nurit is currently working on a large scale drawing project inspired by her students.

DR. AMBEREEN SLEEMI

Ambereen Sleemi, M.D., M.P.H, grew up in Maryland and graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine with an MD and also completed a Master's in Public Health, Maternal and Child Health track, concurrently. She did her residency at Louisiana State University-Charity Hospital in New Orleans in Obstetrics and Gynecology and moved to New York City as a US Public Health Scholar Physician. She finished a fellowship in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY where she is currently an attending physician and Associate Residency Program Director in Obstetrics and Gynecology. As an associate clinical professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Dr. Sleemi is faculty co-sponsor of the Global Health Interest student group started in Summer 2010. Dr. Sleemi has traveled and worked as a consultant surgeon with the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) over the last 7 years with projects in Northern Nigeria and Eritrea, helping to develop the gynecologic teaching curriculum for the newly-formed Eritrean Ob/Gyn residency program. As a board member and volunteer for the global health not-for-profit Medicine in Action, she's been active in developing sustainable women's health programs in Mwanza, Tanzania and Kingston, Jamaica since 2008.

MACKAY WOLFF

MacKay Wolff has been conceiving and managing international humanitarian emergency and development projects since 1980. Working together with the United Nations and an array of international NGOs, he has supervised the delivery of a broad variety of human services, including shelter, water and sanitation, education, recreation, food and nutrition, health and human rights, to refugee and destitute populations around the world. In addition to the West Bank and Gaza, his programs, which are designed to integrate progressive programming with humanitarian work, have been implemented in regions throughout the Middle East and Western Asia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, West Africa and East Africa.

In addition to his international crisis work, MacKay currently serves as a speechwriter and project manager for foundations, NGOs and the United Nations, both in North America and abroad. His most recent projects have focused on the streamlining of the United Nation's programming and administrative work.