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ICSA Today, Ex-Member Editor

Ann Stamler was born into the Aesthetic Realism movement, where her parents were founding members, in 1944.  She attended Brooklyn College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, and Columbia Graduate School, earning a Master of Philosophy in Latin Language and Literature.  In the 1970’s, when Aesthetic Realism, a humanities based therapy movement, gained limited notoriety as a means for homosexual men to “change,” she was among the first people chosen by its founder to “teach” the “philosophy.”  In the early 1980’s, increasingly disillusioned with the hypocrisy of the movement’s leaders, she gradually distanced herself, and in 1985 broke away, leaving her parents still involved.  In 1987 she married Joseph Stamler, whom she had met in Aesthetic Realism, but who left at the same time she did.  From 1985 to 2006, she was Associate Executive Director of a New York based nonprofit supporting the labor movement in Israel.  She is now Manger of Operations and Finance at the Jewish High School of Connecticut, which is scheduled to open in August, 2010.  She was among the first people to attend the ICSA annual workshop for Second Generation Adults, people born and raised in high demand groups, and has spoken and written on her experience.  Ms. Stamler is the Ex-Member Editor of ICSA Today.