AmSAT | The Board

The Board

The AmSAT Mission

To establish the Alexander Technique as a basic and recognized resource for health, productivity, and well-being.

AmSAT Chair - June 2023 - present
AmSAT Chair Elect: July 2022 - June 2023
Board of Directors, Member-at-Large: July 2019 - July 2022
AmSAT Chair, Management Review Committee: 2015 - present
Organizer/Assistant to the Directors of the 9th International AT Congress, Limerick, Ireland, 2015
Organizer/Assistant, Presence in Performance Workshop, Pomona College, Pasadena, CA, 2015
Faculty Member, Alexander Technique with Elm City ChamberFest in New Haven, CT, 2015-2017
Organizer/Teacher, Alexander Technique Workshops International in Malibu, CA and Winston-Salem, NC 2013-2015
Organizational Coordinator for Rachel Zahn's "Experiencing the Embodied Mind" Project in Gargonza, Italy, 2013
AmSAT Chair, ACGM and ACGM Planning Committee, Chicago, 2013
AmSAT Certified Alexander Technique Training with Joan and Alex Murray at Alexander Technique Center Urbana (ATCU) 2009
Private teaching practice in Chicago since 2010
Co-founder, Chicago Alexander Teachers (CAT)
President, Lyric Opera of Chicago's Young Professionals Board, 2017-present
BME in Music Education (Voice) from University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

AmSAT Chair Elect, June 2023 - present
AmSAT Board Member-at-Large: 2021
AmSAT Committee for the Alexander Technique in the Performing Arts (CATPA): 2018-present
AmSAT Marketing Committee: Head of Strategic Brand Initiative Team 2020-present
AmSAT Slogan Committee: 2019-2020 (committee retired upon completion of charge)
Faculty at Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique (RIAT) AmSAT Teacher-Training Course, 2017-present
Alexander Technique Faculty at Manhattan School of Music, American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Respiro Opera
Completed Teacher Training at ATNYC with John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh, 2014
Post-graduate training in Jessica Wolf’s Art of Breathing and Betsy Polatin’s The Actor’s Secret methods
B.M. Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory (1993) and M.M. Vocal Performance from University of Minnesota (Graduate Fellowship Recipient, 2000)

AmSAT Secretary: June 2023 - present
AmSAT Treasurer: July 2015-2016
AmSAT Board Member-at-Large: July 2014 - 2015
AmSAT Nominating Committee Member: 2011 - 2014
AmSAT Teacher Certification: Alexander Technique Urbana 2009
Faculty, Loyola Marymount University: Voice, Alexander Technique, Opera 2015- present
DMA USC Thornton School of Music 2019
Other interests: Being a mom, Historic gestures in Baroque opera, Music Performance Anxiety, Vocal Pedagogy

AmSAT Board, Member-at-Large, July 2023–present
AmSAT Archivist, July 2018 - present
Alexander Technique Liberation Project, Volunteer Organizing Team, 2019 - 2022
Guest lecturer in Musician’s Health Class, Slippery Rock University, 2018 - present
AmSAT Teacher Certification, ATNYC with John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh, 2013
M.A. in Jazz History and Research, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
M.S. in Library and Information Science, The Pratt Institute, New York, NY
B.A. in Music, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA

AmSAT Board of Directors Member-at-Large, June 2023 - present
Grew up in California where she did theatre in high school. She then studied and worked in the theatre in England.
Trained to teach the Alexander Technique at the Constructive Teaching Centre in London with Walter and Dilys Carrington.and taught with them for 15 years before returning to California.
In London Alice served on both the Training Course Committee and the Professional Conduct Committee for 7 years.
Alice became Director of her own teacher training course in San Diego (2008) where she was assisted by Rome Earle and Eileen Troberman gave Anatomy talks
Alice also does a lot of postgraduate teaching both in person and online and has been an active member of The Teacher Training Directors committee.
In 2017 Alice was chair of the ACGM committee.
In 2019 she helped on the ACGM committee and mentored the chair, Renee Schneider.
Alice had also offered workshops and private lessons at many ACGMs and joined the Constructive Teaching Centre team at the Chicago Congress in 2018 and 2022 in Berlin.
She has given talks for Huddle and The Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund.