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Carol Prost
A behavioral health researcher since 1992, Carol Prost is currently a research associate at the Schneider Center for Behavioral Health at Brandeis, with a concentration in youth and family, substance abuse, prevention programs and HIV outreach, education and prevention programs targeting vulnerable and homeless populations. Since 1985, as an expressive and psychotherapist and as an educator, her focus was on women and their families who had experienced abuse and violence, and on Jewish and Armenian holocaust survivors.
Through this work, and as a practicing artist, she has witnessed the influence of art, dance and culture on familial and social cohesion, self-perception and behavior, and how it can be used to affect critical thinking and healthy choices. Her particular interest is in visual, and performance art's impact on memory, memorialization, reconciliation, and healing of both individual and community trauma. Her long-term goal is to work as a practicing artist and curator of individual and collaborative conceptual, visual, multimedia, performance and installation art that has societal and political impact.