Carol Aubrey is an author, educator and theater artist. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Transformational Learning & Coaching, Inc., a non-profit educational organization that serves the educational and social-emotional needs of youth through dynamic, arts-based programs. As a program developer she specializes in Writing, Language Arts, Higher Order Thinking Skills, and Arts Integration. A resident of Florida for 15 years, she provided professional development for the Florida Dept. of Education and the FL Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and worked as a consultant for the school districts of Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade Counties.
Carol is a Kennedy Center Partners-in-Education educator/artist and a long-time arts integration advocate and practitioner. She has a B.F.A. Degree in Acting from North Carolina School of the Arts, and an M.F.A. Degree in Arts Administration from Brooklyn College, New York. She has taught in the Theatre Departments at Brooklyn College, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and Broward Community College in Ft. Lauderdale. While an Adjunct Professor for Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, she traveled around the country training teachers in Drama as part of their innovative M.Ed Creative Learning Program, a program that specializes in training teachers to use the arts as a strategy to teach the academic core curriculum.
She has held workshops on creativity and diversity in states across the nation, and received several state grants for creating out-of-the-box educational programs. Her innovative writing program for children, Incite to Write! is currently used in school districts in several states around the country.
Combining her many years as an actor and theatre producer in New York with her political activism, Carol produced and directed a tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York City from 1982 until his birthday was recognized as a national holiday in 1985. Assisted in her organizing efforts by Andrew Young and long-time friend of Dr. King, Cleveland Robinson of District 65, UAW, Carol’s annual program brought together an eclectic group of well-known speakers and performers to explore and celebrate the themes of peace, non-violence, and social justice.
A dynamic and inspiring speaker, Carol’s speaking engagements are diverse, from keynote addresses at educational conferences to speaking on “Building the Co-Creative Community” at the International Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her first book, Fearless Thinking: Moving Past the Obstacles to Personal & Social Evolution (released in February, 2007). provides a unique outlook on the challenging game-board of life and shows readers how to become powerful, purposeful and intentional players.
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Carol has two sons, Julian and Jason, who continue to chart their own, often unexpected journeys, always managing to land upright. Carol spends her time in Santa Fe, NM and Santa Barbara, CA.