About Lisa

CONTACT INFO

Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein, Visiting Associate Professor

SUNY Empire State College

Please feel free to contact me at my Empire State University e-mail address: Lisa.D’Adamo-Weinstein@esc.edu

Find me on Social Media: LinkedIn, Instagram, Wordpress (lisadw.com)

ABOUT LISA

I am a photographer, author, digital storyteller, muralist, and arts and media faculty member at SUNY Empire State University.

My interest and engagement in the arts is multidisciplinary and heavily influenced by storytelling, nature, and bold colors. Much of my photographic focus is capturing images using macro and bokeh techniques to bring specific details into focus as well as blur out other parts of the image. I am passionate about engaging with light and shadow in my photos. I get up close, aiming to create depth and reveal often overlooked details through my photographic narratives.

I am a storyteller in both writing and images. I seek out the unexpected. I am a lifelong learner, aways looking to hone my artistic craft, continuing to grow, embracing change, and relishing the joy of serendipity that helps me capture the unpredictable.

I am digitally engaged in using wikis, twitter, and slideshare as part of exploring how people learn with and through technology. I have found social media and emerging technologies to be an asset in both my professional and personal lives.

I’ve presented quite extensively on best practices in learning assistance and technology and learning. My current professional interests revolve around the power or narrative, women's letter writing, digital learning, digital storytelling, self-care, and student success.

To learn a little more about me, here is a link to a 2018 video of me as part of a #FacultyFriday social media project at SUNY Empire State University. I talk about my connection to the college, my passion for assisting students, the resources we offer non-traditional students, and the impact the college had on my mother, an alumna of the college from the 1990s.

FORMAL BIO

For over 30 years, Lisa has been a higher education leader, administrator, and educator in the fields of learning assistance, learning center leadership, student affairs, student support services, student success and retention, learning with technology, and online learning. She is certified in organizational change management and has conducted numerous external reviews and certification evaluations of learning support centers.

She is currently an associate professor at SUNY Empire State University (formerly Empire State College). Before coming to the university in 2007, she wore many hats teaching, administrating, and directing learning assistance programs at Indiana University, American University, and the United States Military Academy – West Point.

While at SUNY Empire State University, Lisa served as a Director of Academic Support for 10 years and then served for 3.5 years as Dean of various college student affairs and instructional support services. During the university's institution-wide reorganization that centralized college academics and support services, Lisa, under various titles and configurations, leveraged data-driven decision making to increase student retention support services; improved operational and budgetary efficiencies; normalized supports and resources across an institution distributed over 30 locations and online; and enhanced delivery systems to meet the needs of working adult students both online and in person. The offices she led included Academic Support, Accessibility Resources and Services; Curriculum and Instructional Design; Online Instructor Development; Online Library; Student Success and Development; and Student Life.

Lisa earned a B.A. in English & General Literature at Binghamton University (SUNY). She completed her M.S. and Ph.D. at Indiana University. Her dissertation analyzed the personal narratives of several female African‐American first-generation college students, focusing on how their ways of knowing and identity development related to their college success. She is co‐author of the book Piecing It Together: A Guide to Academic Success, published by Allyn & Bacon. She is a Past President of the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) having served on the Executive Board from 2003‐2006. In 2005, she received the Department of Defense, Commander’s Award for Civilian Service, and she is a 2013 recipient of the State University of New York’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service. In 2021, she and three other colleagues earned the James William and Mary Elizabeth Hall Award for Innovation for their work on three virtual performances related to the COVID pandemic as part of the weekly Creative Expressions sessions she ran for 30 weeks from April to November 2020.

You can find out more about Lisa’s background, presentations, and research interests at https://sites.google.com/site/drlisadw/home or connect on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlisadw/.

Except where otherwise noted, all of the content on this site is the research work of Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please contact dr.lisadw@gmail.com for any questions or permissions to use the work(s) for your own research/projects.