Resume

• 2018

  Binghamton

  NY

  Associate Professor of Human Development

  Binghamton University

  Chaired Admission Decisions Committees

  Advised students across all four years

  including HEOP students

  Administered the Mellon Mays Scholarship

  Served on Higher Administration hiring committees and on various boards such as that of the LSC

  Associate at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives. More

  Cornell University

  Binghamton University

  The job of my dreams...

  Assistant Professor

  Society for Community Research and Action

  International Institute of Reminiscence and Life

  Board Member

• 1998

  PhD

  Human Development and Family Studies

  General

  Cornell University

• 1993

  Policy Committee Member

  Gerontological Society of America

  Masters

  Theology & Human Development

  Emory University

• 56

  Myra Sabir wakes up every day at 4 a.m. and meditates. If a feeling or an issue arises

  she addresses it and makes sense of it during a session. Rather than buying something

  eating too much

  watching television or working some more - activities that pack issues away rather than addressing them - Sabir

  of Binghamton

  uses the contemplative practice as an emotional health tool.

  Woman shows how writing changes lives like hers

  Event Planning

  Public Speaking

  Qualitative Research

  Fundraising

  Program Development

  Leadership Development

  Curriculum Development

  Career Development

  Research

  Grants

  Student Affairs

  Narrative Psychologist

  Non-profits

  Program Evaluation

  Higher Education

  Nonprofits

  Community Outreach

  Grant Writing

  Volunteer Management

  Teaching

  A Community-Based Participatory Critique of Social Isolation Intervention Research for Community-Dwelling Older Adults

  A Community-Based Participatory Critique of Social Isolation Intervention Research for Community-Dwelling Older Adults

  Personalized and Global Generativity: A Prevalent

  Important

  but Unlabeled Distinction in the Literature.

  The Family Sanctum

  M Cope

  The Research-Practice Consensus Workshop Model Training Manual

  2nd Edition.

  An intensely sympathetic awareness: Experiential similarity and cultural norms as means for gaining older African Americans’ trust of scientific research.

  An intensely sympathetic awareness: Experiential similarity and cultural norms as means for gaining older African Americans’ trust of scientific research.

  Chuck Henderson

  Attachment-Focused Integrative Reminiscence with Older African-Americans: A Randomized Controlled Intervention Study

  M Patterson

  Jill Suitor

  Predictors of Successful Relationships in a Peer Support Program for Alzheimer’s Caregivers.

  Effectance Motivation: A practical outcome of attachment-focused integrative reminiscence.

  The Life Writing Workbook: How to Work through Your Life’s Unresolved Emotional Experiences

  Narrative care as essential care for older adults: Good hearing is more than good listening.

  Psychological Safety and Social Justice

  The CITRA Research-Practice Consensus Workshop Model: Exploring a New Method of Research Translation in Aging.

  Sabir (aka Aihi)

  Binghamton University

  Cornell University

  Binghamton University

  Associate Professor

  College of Community & Public Affairs

  Associate Dean

  Binghamton University

  Asstant Director of the then Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center; Taught courses at The Africana Center

  Cornell University

• The Life Writing Workbook

  I stumbled upon life writing at age twenty-nine. I was at that moment in a divorce when you know it’s over and it’s time to move on. I realized how little I understood my life and that I had no real sense of how to make a life. I wanted a life. I...

  The Life Writing Workbook

  Woman shows how writing changes lives like hers