Lisanne Shaffer-Dickerson is the Executive Vice-President of Learning and Innovation at the Educational Theatre Association. She worked for more than a decade as a theater teacher in the New York City public school system, served as an Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences at East Carolina University and as an adjunct professor in the Educational Theater graduate program at the City College of New York. Lisanne also served as a fellow from 2021-2023 for the Apollo Theater’s brand-new Apollo Stories program where she helped to launch a national curriculum for high school teachers. She has also worked with the Office of Arts and Special Projects in the New York City public school system as a professional development facilitator. She has taught speech and communication at City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education, worked at Camp Wicosuta as a drama director, Town Hall as a teaching artist and as a touring children’s theater actress with Virginia Repertory Theater (formerly Theater IV).   In 2020, Lisanne was awarded the Excellence in Arts Education award given by the Arthur Miller Foundation. Lisanne received her MS in Educational Theater in 2014 from The City College of New York and her BFA in Musical Theater from East Carolina University in 2003.