Ana Diaz-Zubieta, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Fordham University. She also has an M.S.W. in clinical social work from New York University. She completed her pre-doctoral, child psychology internship at Columbia University’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She later went on to complete a postdoctoral research fellowship in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute. During her postdoctoral training, she specialized in eating and weight disorders working within the Eating Disorder Research Unit of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian.
Dr. Diaz-Zubieta brings to the conservatory a solid background in the performing arts. She is a graduate of Conchita Espinosa Academy who practically participated in every dance class that was available to her within the school’s conservatory during her childhood and adolescence. She was born with a passion for the arts that was enriched by her grandmother’s philosophy and the high caliber of her teachers at the conservatory. She was mentored by Rosita Segovia and studied with many distinguished teachers while a student at the Conservatory such as Ronn Daniels, Patricia Strauss, Mariana Alvarez, Judith Newman, Marlene Monsour, and Martha Mahr. She is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts high school dance department, where she was awarded the Division of Dance Dean’s Award by Daniel Lewis her senior year. That year she was also a Level II winner in the NFAA youngARTS competition in Spanish Dance and a Presidential Scholar in the Arts semifinalist. She danced professionally as a principal dancer in the Ballet Español Rosita Segovia and during her junior year in high school performed with the Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company at the Joyce Theater in New York. She attended The Juilliard School’s dance department and earned her B.F.A. in drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
