Barbara Ames didn’t write “Hamilton.” She hasn’t won the EGOT. And she didn’t create the upcoming podcast “Arts Educators Save the World.”
Without Ames, though, the world may not have the Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Lopez and Erica Halverson that did.
Ames taught each of the three renowned artists when they attended New York’s Hunter College Elementary School. Halverson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education professor who is an expert in how people learn through the arts, is hosting the new podcast.