Kathleen Jackson Costantini, MA, has over twenty-five years experience as a teacher, administrator and college advisor in diverse, urban school settings.
As the Social Studies chairperson at Notre Dame School in Manhattan and at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, she was responsible for curriculum in grades 9 – 12 and implemented Advanced Placement and honors classes. Later, she was the chairperson of the Language Arts (K – 12) department at Marymount School in Manhattan where she coordinated the school-wide English and reading program. Kathleen was also the Assistant Director of College Advising at Regis High School in New York and the Director of College Advising at Marymount School. As a consultant at In-Tech Academy (MS/HS 368, NYC DOE) in the Bronx, New York, she assisted in the development of study skills and college advising programs as well as the formation of a school-wide advisory system. Kathleen is a guest lecturer at Manhattan College where she has taught graduate classes in Professional Writing and Counseling the College Applicant.
Kathleen also maintains a private practice assisting students and their families in the college search and application process. Most recently, she is the author of An Allegheny Triumph of Justice, Carrie Williams’ Courageous Fight for Equal Rights in the Early Jim Crow Era (35th Star Publishing).
Kathleen earned her B.A. in English Literature at the University of Detroit and her M. A. in English Literature at Fordham University. She lives in New York and is frequently in the Mountain State.
Photographer: Tom Sudbrink
