Moira Pirsch is the co-founder of AHAS, the Archive of Health, Arts & Spirit. She supports individuals and organizations in arts and culture to develop inspired, participatory, arts-based, and culturally sustaining processes for pedagogy, research, and evaluation, aligning practice with stakeholders' ideals and goals.
She is a poet, educator, and scholar, 5th Generation Irish American with roots in the Midwestern United States and Maui, HI. She is the Education Director at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center and has over a decade of experience in social justice, the arts, and education.
She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Master's Degree from Harvard University. She continues her research as a Coyle Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Literacy and as a Research Affiliate at Columbia University's Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). Her work focuses on the transformative power of the arts for communities. She believes in miracles.
