Rhonda Schaller

Rhonda Schaller

Rhonda Schaller is a proud Pratt Alum (MPS ‘15), a Visiting Associate Professor and Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at Pratt Institute where she oversees Career Development and Health Promotion, and is the founder of the Meditation Incubator project, and a Made in NYC fellow. She chairs the Pratt Resilience, Wellness and Well-being Council, founding chair of the Mindfulness Initiatives in Student Affairs Committee, and Mindful Pratt community.  She recently received a 2 year grant from Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation for her Mindful Collaboratory project, a national training and study for artists and arts leaders, a Fulbright Specialist grant to CIT, Ireland to bring contemplative and wellbeing pedagogy into faculty teaching and learning.

She is the author of Create Your Art Career (2013, Allworth Press), Called or Not, Spirits are Present (2009, Blue Pearl Press), and contributed chapters for The Mindful Eye: Contemplative Pedagogies in Visual Arts Education (2018, Common Wealth Pub) and Starting Your Career in the Fine Arts (2011, Allworth Press).