Shira Birnbaum

Shira Birnbaum is a psychiatric nurse, educator, writer, and artist. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, and has worked with chronically and acutely mentally ill adolescents, adults, and homeless in a variety of institutional and outreach settings in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. She is a project manager at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Shira Birnbaum is a psychiatric nurse, educator, writer, and artist. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, and has worked with chronically and acutely mentally ill adolescents, adults, and homeless in a variety of institutional and outreach settings in the New York and Philadelphia metropolitan areas. She is a project manager at the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College, City University of New York. See less