GLOCAP Board

Suzanne Grégoire, Artistic Director And Vice President

Suzanne Grégoire, is a choreographer, dance teacher and Yoga instructor who has been involved with the Global Children’s Art Programme since 2018 and collaborated closely with its late founder Timothy Lomas. She is eager to continue his legacy and GLOCAP’s mission.

Currently Suzanne teaches and directs at the Kaufman Music Center in New York City. During twelve years at IDEAL, an inclusion school serving a neurodiverse student body, she taught and created their adaptive dance curriculum and developed interdisciplinary units integrating mindfulness and dance skills to support learning in the classroom.

She has presented her choreography in a variety of venues internationally, often in collaboration with visual artists. Suzanne has received choreography fellowships from the Joyce Mertz Gilmore foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. She is honored to work with children who are forever an inspiration of resilience, curiosity, creativity, openness, and love.

Clamra Celestin, CEO

Clamra Celestin, was born and raised in Kindiri, a small village in Chad. At the age of eight, he was taken to a Jesuit school far from Kindiri and experienced the trauma of separation from family and community. While a teenager, Clamra drove famine relief trucks through dangerous terrain in Chad to bring food to starving communities. He was part of a team that raised funds to provide leprosy medications in India, where he met Mother Theresa.

Returning to Chad, he created two small village schools so that children would not have to leave their communities. They provide theoretical and practical instruction, are infused with local arts traditions and focus on environmental stewardship. He now lives in Manhattan where he writes and collects African art. Clamra frequently visits Chad where he is engaged in two environmental programs that will become a model for sub-Saharan sustainable communities.

Ayesha Rabadi-Raol, Advisory Board Member

Dr. Ayesha Rabadi-Raol (Ed.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Early Childhood Studies at Sonoma State University. She has a doctorate in education from Columbia University, New York. She is a strong advocate for the rights of underserved and historically marginalized children, families and communities. As an artist herself, she believes in the transformative power of artistic education for equity and justice.