Robert Belenky

Robert Belenky’s work life has been with children in schools, communities and institutions. For fifteen years, his office was in a Vermont forest where children and parents would come for a day or so to think through personal or family issues.

On retirement in 1995, Belenky began a series of visits to Haiti and Russia in order to learn how young people may be helped to grow up when natural families are unavailable. He has written several books, and taught at Harvard, Boston University, and Concordia University. He was the founding dean of Goddard College’s individualized master’s degree program. Recently, he embarked on a study of his family’s history.

Bob and his wife, Mary, have two children, five grandchildren, and one dog.