Antonia can teach!

The world’s leading expert on funky blazers

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Art and Activism

As an educator, Antonia specializes in making complex ideas accessible, practical, and ocassionally funny.

As a visiting professor and speaker, Antonia has taught at Yale, Rice University, Middlebury College, Hunter College, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, New York University, UNC Asheville, Limmud UK, Lehrhaus, and many other colleges, conferences, and community organizations. She's been the keynote speaker at many conferences, including the Minnesota Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. She was the keynote speaker at the 2018 March Against Rape Culture in DC. Her classes cover everything from comedy writing to using art as a tool for activism.

She has a background in education (CUNY Early Learning Program), and spent a few years teaching 1st Grade theatre, which she still has stress dreams about. Antonia also regularly teaches joke-writing and stage presence classes to people who aren't in comedy (like rabbis, bankers, consultants, and one very enthusiastic hair dresser). She also leads chocolate tastings in LA and it's super fun.

Featured Workshops

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Art as Activism

Focusing on how artists have shaped social movements, Antonia has taught this course as a guest lecturer at Middlebury College, Boston University, Rice University, Southern Illinois University Evansville, and UC Berkley.

Participants explore the history of art and activism, the practical realities of creating social change through storytelling, and the common pitfalls that make audiences shut down rather than lean in.

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Joke Writing For…

rabbis, educators, cogs in the wheel of capitalism, etc

Originally developed as a guest lecturer at NYU, this workshop teaches clergy, educators, and anyone who speaks publicly how to write jokes that feel authentic to their voice.

Participants learn basic joke structure, how to use humor to build trust, and what to do when you’re accidentally cringe. No prior comedy experience required.

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Singing as a Metaphor for Community

For more than a decade, Antonia has taught workshops on communal singing, helping communities understand that music isn't merely performance, but a model for how people learn to belong to one another. (Can be tailored for clergy, educators, and any group- even if they can't sing.)

Craft Chocolate Tasting!

A guided tasting that explores the process of making chocolate and how differences in fermentation, roasting, and sourcing dramatically affect flavor.

Participants learn how to use taste as a form of mindfulness, expanding their understanding of pleasure, curiosity, and even unpleasant experiences.

Other past classes include:

  • “Interfaith Dialogue When Your Neighbors Want to Convert You” (Yale, Rice University, Hunter College, and many more)

  • “Comedy as a Supplement to Bystander Intervention Training in Sexual Violence Prevention” (Middlebury College)

  • “Theatre Techniques in the Early Childhood Classroom” (CUNY, NYC public schools)

  • “Top Ten Jokes of the Talmud” (Limmud UK, and so many synagogue lunch and learns)

  • “Jewish Comedy: Past, Present, and Future” (UNC Asheville, Lehrhaus Boston)

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