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Learn a little about Eileen Doyle

Eileen Doyle joined the Young Audiences New York team as Executive Director in December 2013. She brings a strong background in experiential education for kids and a deep desire to make more great "learning by doing" opportunities happen for more of the NYC kids who need us most to the Young Audiences family.

Eileen comes to Young Audiences from a fifteen year career at the national headquarters of Girl Scouts of the USA. As the Vice President for Program, Eileen had a leadership role in partnering with girls, volunteers and colleagues across the country to update the mission, develop an outcomes driven approach and create a national program portfolio relevant to the needs and interests of 21st century girls. Her favorite work was in the arena of service learning-supporting girls of all ages to take action, change their world-and creatively tell their stories too.

Driven by girl interest, Eileen guided efforts to incorporate the arts throughout the national program portfolio, ranging from the creation of characters and stories to engage little girls in character education (characters for character) to engaging middle school girls around putting the "me" back into the media they consume, and inspiring high school girls to create their own visions of a perfect world. Eileen also led efforts to correlate Girl Scout programming to educational standards, including the Common Core State Standards.

Eileen has a BA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, an MSW with a focus in Community Organizing from Hunter College and has participated in Coro's Leadership New York program. She has previously held leadership roles with Friends of Island Academy and the Town of Huntington Youth Bureau. In her early career days, she was a case worker for young people in an alternative to incarceration program.

Eileen is conversant in Spanish and, with her husband, who is from Honduras, has enjoyed recent trips to Honduras, El Salvador and Columbia. As an arts enthusiast, she enjoys dabbling in an art class or two here and there, getting to performances and, of course, New York's incredible museums. Eileen loves the intrinsic joy of experiencing art  and  the many ways art brings people together, teaching us about ourselves-and helping us change the world.