Vivien Marcow Speiser, Ph.D. LMHC, REAT, BC-DMT, is a Professor Emerita and Co- Director of the Institute for Arts and Health in The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Lesley University. She is also a Distinguished Research Associate at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa. Prof. Speiser is a licensed mental health counselor, a dance/movement therapist and an expressive arts therapist and educator. She has developed and implemented numerous arts based programs throughout the USA and Israel. As former founder and director of the Arts Institute Project in Israel, she has been influential in the development of Expressive Arts Therapy in that country. She is currently on the Executive Committee of IACAET, The International Association of Creative Arts in Education and Therapy and is a co-editor of the CAET journal. Her contributions to the field have made her an international leader in dance and expressive therapy, and most recently earned her the 2014 Distinguished Fellows Award from the Global Alliance for Arts and Health and a 2015 Honorary Fellow Lifetime Achievement award from the Israeli Expressive and Creative Arts Therapy Association (ICET). In addition, she has received a 2019 JAAH Lifetime Achievement Award in Applied Arts and Health, and is the current 2020 and 2023 recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award.