Collective Recovery Team

Molly Rose Kaufman

MOLLY ROSE KAUFMAN (Co-Exec Director), is a Co-Founder of the University of Orange. She began her work in restoration urbanism at the Cities Research Group in the 1990s. Prior to the launch of UofO, she worked as a journalist and youth media producer. She loves exploring Orange with locals and visitors alike and frequently can …

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Aubrey Murdock

AUBREY MURDOCK (Co-exec Director) is an artist, urbanist and educator based in Orange, New Jersey. Her interdisciplinary practice utilizes drawing, painting, video, sound, installation, curricula, and social practice. Murdock scrutinizes the phrase “there is nothing there” and the role this myth plays in structures of inequity. Her current work centers her home state of Wyoming …

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Mindy Thompson Fullilove

MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, MD, University of Orange Board President, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Prior to joining the New School in 2016, she worked for 26 years as a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and was a professor of clinical psychiatry …

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Douglas Farrand

DOUGLAS FARRAND (Co-Director of Music City program) is a composer, musician, and educator concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. He works in contexts including experimental music, youth education, and the application of sound and listening practices to …

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Robert Sember

Robert teaches Interdisciplinary Arts at Eugene Lang College and is on the faculty of the Lang College Prison Education Initiative.  He is also an associate at C4 Innovations where he supports recovery-oriented and community and peer-based programs focused on mental health and substance use.  Robert is a member of the international sound-art collective, Ultra-red, which …

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Ayako Maruyama

Ayako Maruyama is a Filipina-Japanese designer, educator and illustrator. She spends energy thinking about people, art, public-engagement, biking, urbanism, and community connectivity across thresholds. As part of the Design Studio for Social Intervention with Lori Lobenstine and Kenneth Bailey, Ayako Maruyama co-authored and co-illustrated the recently published book, Ideas Arrangements Effects: Systems Design and Social Justice. …

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Lesley Rennis

Lesley Green-Rennis earned her B.S. in Microbiology from Michigan State University, MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Ed.D. in health education from Teachers College, Columbia University and completed postdoctoral research at Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research on substance use and family reunification had a profound impact on her …

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Nupur Chaudhury

Nupur is a public health urbanist who looks at cities, communities and connections through a grassroots lens. A bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led …

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Angel Acosta

Angel Acosta works to bridge the fields of leadership, social justice & mindfulness. He completed his Ed.D. in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research explored healing-centered education as a promising framework for educational leadership development and community care. As a member of the 400 Years of Inequality Project, he designed the Contemplating 400 …

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David Chapin

David Chapin, Architect, M.Arch., University of California Berkeley,Professor of Architecture in Psychology, Ph.D. Program in Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Emeritus. Collective Recovery, University of Orange.     e-mail My interests in environmental psychology stem from my own dissatisfaction with conventional architectural practice, especially after having the experience of knowing my niece (who was …

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