Erin
Embry,
MPA, MS, CCC-SLP
Chief Operating Officer; Clinical Associate Professor
New York University
Erin Embry, MPA, MS CCC-SLP, is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist with a dual degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Health Policy and Management. She also serves as the Chief Operating Officer at New York University - Steinhardt, and leads a number of cross-functional teams in the Office of Academic Operations, Innovation and Strategy. Her approach to teaching and leadership promotes interdisciplinary collaboration at all levels of academic, clinical and professional training. Embry is actively involved in cultivating collaborative efforts of various disciplines in the educational and healthcare settings. She has devoted her clinical and academic career to adults with acquired brain injuries and progressive neurological diseases and worked in major hospitals and rehabilitation units, in addition to private, corporate and legal settings.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In his pivotal work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paola Freire (1968) argues that one cannot expect positive results from an educational methodology that fails to respect the particular experience of people from whom language and learning are born. Freire goes on to articulate that is from the voice of the marginalized that a "midwifery of liberating pedagogy" is created not for but with individuals in order to reverse a "culture of silence (p.33). To enable this kind of transformative teaching, learning, research, and service, the lived experiences through the voices of the marginalized must be…