MOIRA PIRSCH supports individuals and organizations who work in arts and culture to develop inspired, participatory, arts-based, and culturally sustaining pedagogical, research and evaluation processes - so that practice can be aligned with the ideals, goals and dreams of project stakeholders.She is a poet, educator and scholar. She is 5th Generation Irish American with roots in the Midwestern United States, currently based in Maui, HI. She has over a decade of experience working with community initiatives on social justice, the arts, and education. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University, and her Masters Degree from Harvard University. She continues her research as a Coyle Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Literacy and as a Research Affiliate at Columbia University's Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Her work focuses on the power of the arts to transform, uplift and empower communities. She believes in miracles.