MINERVA ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING HISTORY
Minerva came into being as a response to the forced closure of many lifelong learning communities at the outset of the global pandemic in the spring of 2020 when it was unsafe to hold in-person meetings and many centers were not in a position to offer online courses to replace their regular programming.
Having taught in such settings for nearly 20 years, and with some experience in online teaching for undergraduates, Prof. David Peritz (Ph.D. Oxford University, Professor of Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College) reached out to some of his regular students in these communities, and from there the word spread quickly.
To date, David has offered two courses through Minerva, “Inequality Rising: The Nature, Causes, and Consequence of the Rapid Increase in Social Inequality in 21st Century America,” and “Race and Justice in America in the 21st Century Historical, Critical and Ethical Perspectives,” attended by roughly 250 online students from all over the US and the world in the spring and summer of 2020.
Meet our Team
PROFESSOR DAVID PERITZ
David Peritz (PhD, Oxford University), is a Professor of Politics at Sarah Lawrence College and Director of the Minerva Academy of Lifelong Learning, is a thought leader in the field of lifelong learning. His lectures and webinars cover a wide range of topics in contemporary politics, philosophy, culture, society and technology, and are described by those who attend or watch them as “dynamic…engaging…brilliant…systematic…deep…profound…informative and educational.”
Prof. Peritz has over 20 years of experience lecturing at some of best lifelong learning institutes in the nation (including the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley and and the Fromm Institute at University of San Francisco) and also at many of the premier retirement communities in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prof. Peritz is the senior member of the Politics faculty at Sarah Lawrence College and has also taught at Harvard, Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley, and Deep Springs, has won numerous teaching awards, and recently was awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant to support his work in lifelong learning.
SOFIA DIN, M.D.
Dr. Sofia Din is the CEO of Juvanni Med Spa which functions as an anti-aging center in NY. She has over 25 years of experience working in the healthcare industry in both Eastern and Western medical systems. As an immigrant from Pakistan, her medical training has taken place across two continents, which gives her a uniquely holistic perspective rooted in natural remedies while following cutting edge medical advances!
She is board-certified in family medicine with a focus, passion and expertise in managing anti-aging solutions over decades for her clients. She helps clients in proactive management of their body which leads to short and long term anti-aging and lifespan expansion.
She has worked and trained in the rapidly evolving field of Aesthetic Anti-aging medicine over the past decade with hundreds of regular concierge clients coming in for routine anti-aging treatments from across the United States.
She also published a book “Do we really need Botox” which is one of the first in describing methods and details of holistically crafting our anti-aging experience while incorporating FDA cleared medications and machines to bring about lasting results non surgically. It includes insights into her own experience of anti-aging tools which is written for her non medical audience in an effort to help them understand the changing needs of a longer lifespan.
You can easily find her content on social Media platforms where she talks about the new technologies helping humans in the art of anti-aging. However in juvanni anti-aging courses she will be revealing some best kept secrets for setting up aesthetic anti-aging spaces which can herald the true rejuvenation processes that your mind body seeks.
