Allan Benjamin Goldstein

Goldstein, the older sibling and guardian of a survivor of the notorious Willowbrook State School, explores with his personal experience writing the social barriers impeding an inclusive society. Their memoir, Fred and Me, a Willowbrook Survivor's Story, shows their individual development as they rediscover one another. Allan teaches experiential Disability Studies at the NYU-Tandon School of Engineering, featured in Bing Wang's award winning documentary The Ability Exchange. He has received the NYU-Tandon 2012 Jacobs Excellence in Education Teaching Award, the 2016-17 NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Award and the 2018-19 NYU Distinguished Teaching award. Tamsen Fadal of WPIX featured him as a Changemaker and the Chronicle of Higher Education included him on its inaugural list of teaching innovators. Allan and his wife are avid open water swimmers.