Biography

Anne Deane Berman, PhD is a composer, former university faculty/senior administrator, and entrepreneur with special interests in creating interdisciplinary educational non-profits, university granting programs and new degree programs which foster innovation through the intersection of the humanities and sciences.  Programs are attractive to external funding sources and engender collaboration with faculty and K-22/graduate students.  She is the Co-Founder, Vice President and Academic Dean of an international educational 501(c)(3)  federal non-profit based in Washington, Upstate New York and a BC Canadian corporation located in Vancouver, BC.  She works with her husband Dr. Steven Berman to create the curriculum, publications, events, electronic platforms; international student/staff recruitment, retention and development;  and budgeting for both Canadian and US operations including the Institute’s former 16 acre Mountain View Lodge, past home to the summer overnight programs launching in Upstate NY in 2022.  READ MORE

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"Excellent literature, art, music, and theater especially from the sci-fi and fantasy realms leads to discovery, the self and externally, enhances critical and design thinking, innovation, fosters empathy and serves as a foundation in unlocking the mysteries of the world in which we live in order to solve global thematic issues, including water, energy, climate, oceans, urbanization, transport, science and technology, among others."

                                  -Dr. Steven Lee Berman, Co-Founder, DIGIVATIONS