Vivien Marcow Speiser, PhD, LMHC, NCC, BC-DMT, REAT, is a professor and co- director of the Institute of Arts and Health at Lesley University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has directed and taught in programs across the United States and internationally and has used the arts as a way of learning, communicating across borders and across cultures. She believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change. She consults with educational and other organizations on program development and implementation regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work across the globe has garnered recognition and made her an international leader in dance and expressive therapies. She received the 2014 Distinguished Fellows Award from the Global Alliance for Arts and Health, a 2015 Honorary Fellow Lifetime Achievement award from the Israeli Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy Association and, more recently, the 2019 Lifetime Achievement award in Applied Arts and Health as well as a Fulbright Senior Scholar award in 2020.