Shira Cornfeld

Shira’s professional work involves education and art. She has worked with art-based social service nonprofits such as Creative Arts Workshops, Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center, the JCC in Manhattan Art Department, Free Arts and ran a partnership between The Dalton School and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shira also has extensive experience teaching photography and developing her own photographic practice.

For ten years, Shira was a special education teacher for the NYC Department of Education through the NYC Teaching Fellows Program, working in schools in Washington Heights and Inwood. She also developed many arts based partnerships within her classroom and for the school.

Currently Shira is involved with curriculum design and fundraising as a board member with Her Future Coalition, a nonprofit that supports women and girls who are survivors of trafficking or are at high risk. HFC runs several red light district care centers, a central Learning Center, and a school in rural Nepal where she has volunteered. Shira has been involved with volunteer work and board service for the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School where her daughters attend.

Shira is very proud and grateful to be a new member of Lang’s board. Her stepson August has attended Lang for eight years and is currently a sophomore.

Shira grew up in New York and attended Yale where she studied Art History and Photography and went on to complete an MFA from Columbia and an MA in education from Hunter College.