About AmSAT
The Board
The AmSAT Mission
To establish the Alexander Technique as a basic and recognized resource for health, productivity, and well-being.
AmSAT Board of Directors 2023-2024
Eleanor Taylor
Chair Elect
- 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)
Jared Negley, Member-at-Large
- 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
Alice Olsher, Member-at-Large
- 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.
