Hancock Center For Creative Arts Therapies - Board

Board

Natasha Killian, President

Natasha Killian, BS, is a certified social worker. She serves as Director of Resident Services at Capitol Lakes Retirement Community in Madison, Wisconsin, an organization with which she has been affiliated since 2011. Natasha also serves as an Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group Facilitator for the Alzheimer's Association and as a Board Member for the Capitol Lakes Foundation.

Carol Murphy, Treasurer

Carol Murphy, BA, BSN, has worked as a psychiatric nurse in private practice, in-patient hospital work, and as an outpatient psychotherapist. She has held leadership positions on many boards and committees over the years.

Jeanine Kiss, Secretary

Jeanine Kiss, MA, BC-DMT, DTRL earned her Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy from the University of California, Los Angeles and was a Hancock Center staff dance/movement therapist for 33 years. Recently retired, she continues to be invested in the mission and future of the Hancock Center and is pleased to serve on its board of directors.

Sharon Chaiklin

Sharon Chaiklin, BC-DMT is the former president of the Marian Chace Foundation of the American Dance Therapy Association. She worked for close to 40 years as a dance therapist in psychiatric hospitals and private practice. Teaching included the Goucher College Graduate Program in Dance/Movement Therapy, the University of Haifa, Israel and many workshops nationally and internationally such as in Argentina, Japan, Korea and Spain. She has written several articles on dance/movement therapy and is in the ADTA film The Power of Movement.

Susan Kleinman, Marian Chace Foundation Representative

Susan Kleinman, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, CEDS is a Trustee of the Marian Chace Foundation, Past President of the American Dance Therapy Association, and past Chair of The National Coalition for Creative Arts Therapies. She has published extensively, presented widely, and is the recipient of the American Dance Therapy Association’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2014 Spirit of iaedp award from the International Association of Eating Disorders Professions. She is Creative Arts Therapy Supervisor for Dance/Movement Therapy for The Renfrew Centers as well as the Dance/Movement Therapist for The Renfrew Center of Florida where she provides individual and group DMT for patients with eating disorders and trauma.