Miriam Scott

Miriam was born in Germany and moved to the United States during her teenage years. She received her BA in English from Northern Arizona University.

While completing her MFA in creative writing, Miriam stumbled upon teaching. What began as a means to pay the bills became a lifelong passion. In the last twenty years she has taught a variety of English classes, including AP literature and creative writing, in middle school and high school classrooms. While teaching, she realized the importance of incorporating both visual and preforming arts into the academic classroom as well as teaching students how to find their voices and their places in their communities and in the world at large. 

Miriam has been an adjunct composition and literature instructor at numerous colleges and universities, including Northern Virginia Community Colleges and City University of New York.

She has also, in the last decade, created curriculum for several organizations, such as Pearson and Arizona State University Digital Prep, exploring and developing innovative and effective methods of digital teaching that meet the needs of a wide and diverse body of teachers and students. 

As the Director of Impact Education, Miriam is thrilled to combine her experience in curriculum development with her love of teaching and art to help young creative activists achieve their goals.