Janet Gerson is Co-Director with Tony Jenkins (with Tony Jenkins, after Betty Reardon) of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has also taught through the International Center for Cooperation & Conflict Resolution. She was the founding director of Dance Stream, Inc., a dance company and vehicle for community building through the arts in Washington Heights and Inwood. She has served as advisor and facilitator at TOPLAB, Theatre of the Oppressed Laboratory in New York. Her work concerns the interrelatedness of conflict studies, nonviolent strategies, and peace education.