Tanya Gallo
Revson Fellow 2008-2009
Director of Action Project
DreamYard
Tanya Gallo is the Founder and Director of DreamYard’s A.C.T.I.O.N Project (Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhoods), an innovative arts and social activism program for teenagers living in the Bronx. Previously, Tanya was a Program Associate in the Arts-in-Education program at the New York State Council on the Arts from 2000-2003. She also has a background in dance and theatre and has co-authored a curriculum and conducted workshops in media literacy and education. In addition, she has worked as a counselor with youth in an alternative to incarceration program in New York City.
The Revson year was an opportunity to recharge mental and spiritual batteries, to deepen my own understanding of important issues at what turned out to be a crucial time in our history, and to do so in the company of committed co-conspirators in the quest for peace and justice. It brings the enormous resources of a great university to the Fellows and time to reflect on how we can best utilize that knowledge to make a better New York City and world.
