Leadership & Staff

Steven Borzykowski
Chair 

Steven Borzykowski is an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique in Westchester, NY. He completed his three-year, 1600 hour certification at the Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique (RIAT) in 2022 under the Direction of Nanette Walsh.

Having personally battled unexplained increased brain and spinal pressure for 25 years—undergoing multiple brain surgeries, conventional medical treatments, and alternative therapies—he found his training in and application of the Alexander Technique to be profound, restorative and life changing. He has studied privately with Judy Stern and Joan Frost, and has a keen interest in increasing awareness of the technique among medical professionals and people of all ages with movement or musculoskeletal challenges that interfere with daily living. He has a BA in Music from Skidmore College (2008).

Richard Dorman
Treasurer 

Richard Dorman is the founder of Bookeeps, a boutique bookkeeping and accounting firm serving nonprofit and for-profit organizations. With more than 30 years of financial experience, he began his career in corporate accounting within the global oil industry. His Caribbean background and love for New York City shaped his appreciation for diversity, inclusion, and community, leading him to work with small businesses, artists, and nonprofits. Richard believes numbers tell only part of the story—behind every number are people, purpose, and community. He brings his experience to Sapientia, supporting its mission of expanding access and understanding of the Alexander Technique.

Scout James
Secretary

Scout James is a bi designer, web design consultant, performer & writer. Scout has performed in readings and workshops of brand new plays at Juilliard, the Elysian, Antaeus Theatre Company, Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival (for Primary Stages), New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Georges, PS 122, Dixon Place and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Scout’s first professional acting was at Juneau’s Perseverance Theatre. Scout majored in history at Wesleyan, has an MFA from Juilliard, and is an alum of the Groundlings Sunday Company.

Karla Booth-Diamond
Past Chair

Karla Booth-Diamond has been teaching Alexander Technique for 30 years since graduating from ACAT in 1990. She has taught the Alexander Technique both internationally and nationally, presenting at conferences and teaching workshops to musicians, physical therapists, and movement teachers. Her dance training and performing as well as her interest in art and music all compliment and instruct her Alexander work. In conjunction with her Alexander work, Karla has spent 30+ years working with Dr. John Diamond a well known Holistic doctor working with creativity. She teaches the Diamond-Dart Meridian Sequence based on the work of Raymond Dart. The Diamond-Dart procedures form a poetic movement meditation that recapitulates the evolutionary and developmental process as well as activating the Acupuncture Meridians, all which greatly raise the Life Energy or Chi. Karla maintains a practice and is the director for the Life Energy Arts Gallery in Westchester, NY. KarlaBooth.com

Nan Walsh
Member at Large

Nan Walsh is the secretary of Sapientia Initiative, and she is Sapientia’s Executive Director and founder. Nan is also the founding co-director of RIAT’s Teacher Certification Program and Community Outreach Program (AT For All). Nan is the author of Unsmudged: An Encounter with Peggy Williams, a First Generation Teacher of the Alexander Technique, published in 2018. She received her Masters from Union Theological Seminary (2021), and she also holds an MFA in Transmedia Studies from Syracuse University (1982). Nan served as chair of the American Society of the Alexander Technique’s (AmSAT’s) Board of Directors from 2009 until 2011; in 2008 she served on AmSAT’s Professional Conduct Committee, and served from 2012-2014 on AmSAT’s Leadership Advisory Council.