Alicia Cole

Lives and works in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

Artist statement

Alicia Cole is a writer and artist in Huntsville, AL. She's Irish-American, bisexual, genderfluid, twice-exceptional (2E): dyscalculic/highly gifted verbal, Asperger's, MAD, a survivor, and a practitioner of non-normative religions. She uses she/her and Mr. Born in Knoxville, TN, she moved to Huntsville at the age of four for her mother's career at NASA, and lived there until eighteen. She traveled extensively, both nationally and internationally, from eighteen to thirty-seven before returning to live in Huntsville. She spent much of her time, just prior to thirty-seven to midway through thirty-eight, homeless, hospitalized, in a shelter or halfway house, or on a food handout line. She and her husband, who live below 250% of the poverty level, still qualify for occasional aid. She studied International Studies at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, GA, and was inducted into the Phi Beta Delta International Honors Society. She went on to obtain a Master's in Education, with distinction, concentrating on Students with Exceptionalities, from Mercy College in New York City. She taught for ten years and was pursuing a Specialist's Diploma in Educational Psychology through the Three Summers Program at the University of Connecticut, with a concentration in Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development, mentoring and educating teachers while writing curriculum and publishing two practitioner-friendly articles, before health caused her to leave the field. She's a predominantly...

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