Ceremony IV: Jody Gottfried Arnhold

THE RECIPIENT’S RESPONSE
Jody Gottfried Arnhold, M.A. ’73, Dance Educator, Advocate, and Champion of the Arts
Jody Gottfried Arnhold, M.A., C.M.A., is a dance educator, advocate, and founder of Dance Education Laboratory (DEL) 92NY. Arnhold’s 25-year tenure teaching dance in NYC public schools has been the catalyst for her visionary support of dance education. Her contributions to dance in higher education have created unparalleled opportunities for dance to be taught, researched, measured, and analyzed-providing substantial evidence that dance is essential to every child’s education. She supports the NYC DOE dance program and created the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at Hunter College.
Arnhold’s founding and visionary support for the Doctorate in Dance Education and the Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University is generating valuable thought leadership for dance education in public policy. She is the Executive Producer of the documentaries PS DANCE! Dance Education in Public Schools and PS DANCE! The Next Generation, raising awareness for her mission-Dance for Every Child. Arnhold has received Honorary Doctoral Degrees from The Juilliard School and Hunter College for her visionary support of dance and dance education