Tami Herzog-Rodriguez
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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE
ATR-BC: Board Certified Art Therapist
LCAT: Licensed Creative Art Therapist
CCLS: Certified Child Life Specialist
EDUCATION
Doctoral Candidate, Art Education Doctoral Program, New York University, present
M.A. Art Therapy, New York University, May 2004
B.S., B.A. Magna Cum Laude Biology and Art, Syracuse University, May 2000
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Art as Therapy: How Art Therapists Approach Working with Children Who Have Severe and Multiple Disabilities
Dissertation Advisors: Ikuko Acosta, Director of the Art Therapy Program, New York University
Barbara Schwartz, Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, New York University
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Art Therapy Program, New York University 2005-2010
• Adjunct Professor: Introduction to Art Therapy and Internship in Art Therapy, 4 semesters
• Guest Lecturer: Introduction to Art Therapy, Art Therapy with Children, 3 semesters
• Invited lecture: Medical Art Therapy, Art Therapy with Children who have Visually Impairments and Multiple
Disabilities 3 semesters
Art Education for the Blind, New York, NY, Fall 2005, Summer 2006
• Instructor: European Modernism
Healing Arts Symposium, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, July 2003
• Guest Lecturer: Art Therapy with Children Who Are Visually Impaired and Multiply Disabled
7th Annual NY Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Conference in the Creative Arts Therapies, February 2004
• Guest Lecturer: Art Therapy with Children Who Are Visually Impaired and Multiply Disabled
Reading and Language Arts Program, Syracuse University, Spring 1998
• Teaching Assistant for College Learning Strategies
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Director of Art Therapy Program, New York Eye and Ear Hospital, New York, NY, May 2005 to present
Graduate Assistant, NYU Art Therapy Program, New York, NY, May 2003 to present
Art Therapist, YAI- St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Preschool, New York, NY, September 2006 to June 2007
Art Therapist/ Art Instructor, Art Education for the Blind, New York, NY, May 2005 to August 2006
Art Therapist, Village Child Development Center, Bronx, NY, June 2004 to June 2007
Art Therapy Intern/ Child Life Intern, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2003-2004
Art Therapy Intern, Bereavement Camp of East End Hospice, East Hampton, NY, Summer 2003
Art Therapy Intern, Jewish Guild for the Blind School, New York, NY, 2002-2003
PUBLICATIONS
Herzog-Rodriguez, T. (2006). [Review of the film Art Therapy and Speech/ Language Therapy: An Interdisciplinary
Approach]. Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 23 (4), 202.