Gene Diaz, Senior Research Partner at PERG-Learning and former Fulbright scholar, combines her creative process as a visual artist with her teaching and research across cultures. Professor of Distinguished Achievement at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts she supports schools and non-profit organizations that intersect between the arts, social change, health and learning. She has taught both inside and outside of classrooms in visual art, computer science, EFL, research methods, curriculum theory, and creative process as pedagogy. She is the co-editor, with Martha McKenna, of Preparing Educators for Arts Integration (2017). Gene lives in Arlington, MA, writes poetry and goes on exciting adventures with her grandchildren.