Gail Furman

One of the leading child and adolescent psychologists in Manhattan, Dr. Gail Furman is well known to the psychiatric, humanitarian, and educational communities for her unique combination of clinical, educational and theoretical expertise. Dr. Furman has been in private practice treating children, adolescents and their families for over 45 years. Dr. Furman serves on the executive boards of The Brennan Center for Social Justice at NYU Law School, Auburn Seminary and Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA). Dr Furman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is an assistant clinical professor at New York University, where she is a consultant to the Child Study Center

For over 25 years, Dr. Furman served as the school psychologist at the Dalton School and the Fieldston School, as well as at the Harbor School for Girls and Boys, a full-service charter school, and summer program for inner-city youngsters. Dr. Furman was one of the founders of the Family Academy, a model experimental school in Harlem providing academic, social and mental health services for students and their families. The Family Academy was a comprehensive public/private partnership designed to create a "one-stop shopping" wraparound service model. Dr. Furman has been instrumental in developing collaborations and innovative partnerships between schools, mental health service providers, law clinics, and programs that together provide more competent, comprehensive service to inner-city children and families. Many of these are currently active in cities across the United States. One, The Furman Initiative, was cited in 1995 as an exemplar by Tipper Gore.

Dr. Furman's op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Times, and other periodicals. She has written on issues of parenting and children in schools as well as more global issues affecting children and adolescent's emotional status. She has also been on fact-finding missions under the auspices of the Women's Commission and the International Rescue Committee, during which she observed and reported on the status of children and children's programs in Angola, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Cambodia, and on the Thai/Burma border. (Reports on these missions are available.) Children of War, Children of Hope, a children’s drawing and photography exhibition assembled from Dr. Furman’s work with children in emergency refugee situations, has been mounted at the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. State Department, the United Nations General Assembly, and Art Share, Los Angeles. Dr. Furman has also co-authored a book, TURBULENT TIMES PROPHETIC DREAMS: Art from Israeli and Palestinian Children which consists of Palestinian and Israeli children’s drawings as well as stories written by the children, and commentary by professionals in the field of children’s mental health.

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