UNCAGED With Rachel Schreiber

Dr. Rachel Schreiber currently serves as the Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design at The New School. As an experienced administrator, creating cross-institutional partnerships, faculty leadership, board development, and fundraising, Rachel is passionately committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. She is a visual artist, designer, and publishing historian with an extensive record of exhibitions, academic presses, peer-reviewed articles, and publications. Her most recent book, Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration was issued by Temple University Press in 2021.   Dr. Rachel Schreiber joined The New School as Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design in July 2019, following more than 26 years in senior leadership and faculty roles at the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, Maryland Institute College of Art, and other institutions. Most recently, Rachel served as Provost and Senior Vice President, and as Interim President, at SFAI. An American gender historian, artist, and designer, Rachel has taught design, studio arts, and interdisciplinary humanities at all levels – from first year through graduate studies.