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Rae is the Director at Manhattan Star Academy (MSA), a YAI network agency and nonprofit private school that serves students with a wide range of disabilities. Rae and her team were fundamental to the founding of MSA, which began in 2011 with nothing more than two students, their families, and financial support from YAI. Prior to joining MSA, Rae was the Senior Principal of the New York League for Early Learning Gramercy School in Manhattan, which was cited by the New York State Department of Education and the New York City Board of Education as an Outstanding Early Childhood program. Rae also served as an adjunct associate professor of Early Childhood Education and Special Education at Touro College. A longtime public servant, Rae has served on the New York City Mayor’s Task Force on Autism and is a current member of the Council for Exceptional Children. Rae holds a master’s degree in Education from Queens College. She lives on the Upper West Side with her husband James.
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YAI was launched in February of 1957 out of a small school in Brooklyn, New York. Initially staffed by Co-Founders Bert MacLeech and Pearl Maze MacLeech alone, their pilot program served just seven people. According to Bert, from its very beginning YAI has been dedicated to providing innovative services for the I/DD (intellectual and/or developmental disabilities) community. MacLeech envisioned a “total life adjustment approach, emphasizing personal growth, social responsibility, employment goals, and the development of independence for the individual.” At a time when institutional living was the norm for people with I/DD, this vision was nothing short of revolutionary.