DR. JOHN FINDURA

An E-Portfolio for John Findura's Doctoral Studies at New Jersey City University, 2018-2021

John holds a BA in English from William Paterson University, an MFA in Poetry from The New School, an MEd in Professional Counseling, also from WPUNJ, and an Ed.D in Educational Technology Leadership from New Jersey City University. He started his life in education first as a Middle School English Teacher, then as a High School English Teacher. Since 2009, he's been the Writing Center Supervisor at the two time national award-winning Cerullo Learning Assistance Center at Bergen Community College in Paramus, NJ. He also frequently teaches as an adjunct professor at various New Jersey colleges. Since 2015, he has also been a Board Certified, Licensed Associate Counselor in NJ and works as an adolescent psychotherapist at a Bergen County mental health clinic. As a poet, he has published in many national and international literary journals such as Verse; Fourteen Hills; Copper Nickel; Pleiades; Forklift, Ohio; Sixth Finch; Prelude; and Rain Taxi. His first poetry collection, Submerged, was published in 2017 by Five Oaks Press.