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Biography

Maxine received her doctorate in education from New York University in 1955 and went on to teach at New York University, Montclair State College and Brooklyn College. In 1965, she joined the faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, establishing herself as a lone female voice among her male philosophy of education colleagues who found her "too literary." She was the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education (emerita) at Teachers College. In 2004, the Teachers College Trustees created the Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education.

As Philosopher-in-Residence of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education (LCI) from 1976 to 2012, Maxine conducted workshops, especially in Literature as Art, and lectured at LCI's Summer Sessions. She inspired the creation of a small high school, the High School of Arts, Imagination and Inquiry (HSAII) in association with LCI and New Visions for Public Schools. She is currently Philosopher Emeritus at Lincoln Center Education (LCE).

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About Maxine

Congresswoman Maxine Waters is considered by many to be one of the most powerful women in American politics today. She has gained a reputation as a fearless and outspoken advocate for women, children, people of color, the poor, veterans, and seniors.

Congresswoman Waters has been dubbed “Aunty Maxine” by millennials who appreciate her advocacy and understanding of issues important to them. Re-elected in November 2022 to her seventeeth term in the U.S. House of Representatives with more than 70 percent of the vote in the 43rd Congressional District of California, Congresswoman Waters represents parts of Los Angeles including the communities of Westchester and Playa Del Rey, the unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County comprised of Lennox, West Athens, West Carson, Harbor Gateway, El Camino Village, and Watts. The 43rd District also includes the diverse cities of Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lomita and Torrance.

Congresswoman Waters made history as the first woman and first African American Chair of the House Financial Services Commi

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Maxine Kumin was born on June 6, 1925, in Germantown, Pennsylvania to Peter and Belle (Doll) Winokur. She was the youngest and only girl of 4 children born between 1919 and 1925. They lived in a Georgian Colonial built in the last decade of the nineteenth century at 152 Carpenter Lane, down the hill from the Covenant of the Sisters of Saint Joseph. At the age of five, Maxine was sent to school with the nuns next door, which was immensely convenient. She wrote about that experience in her poem “The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views,” Looking for Luck, W.W. Norton, 1992 (click here to read the poem.)

THE NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS 1. O where are they now, your harridan nuns who thumped on young heads with a metal thimble and punished with rulers your upturned palms: three smacks for failing in long division, one more to instill the meaning of humble. As the twig is bent, said your harridan nuns. Once, a visiting bishop, serene at the close of a Mass through which he had shambled, smiled upon you with upturned palms. “Because this is my feast day,” he ended, &