Dr. Sue Kenney has been teaching at IHA since 2008. She taught English for the first eleven years of her tenure and joined the Social Studies Department in 2019. Prior to her time at IHA, she owned and operated a restaurant in Hackensack. Dr. Kenney also taught at William Paterson University for seven years, in both the English and Women’s Studies Departments.
She has a B.A. degree in English from Arizona State; an M.A. in English, with a writing concentration, from William Paterson University; and a Doctor of Letters degree from Drew University in interdisciplinary humanities. Dr. Kenney earned a Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University in 2021, and a Certification in Holocaust Education and Prejudice Reduction from a Dual Enrollment Program at Kean University in 2022.
Dr. Kenney has also been awarded several fellowships, including a Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes ARTEFFECT Ambassador Fellowship in 2023, an Alfred B. Lerner Fellowship from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous in 2020, and a National Writing Project Fellowship in 2008.