Miles Reading (BFA 2002) is a social worker and art therapist at Crossroads Jerusalem. He will be running the 5K Jerusalem Marathon on March 21st to benefit Crossroads.

Crossroads provides programs and social services for at-risk English-speaking youth in Israel who are homeless, struggling with drug addiction, violence and domestic abuse, as well as social, emotional and educational difficulties. The art therapists literally bring art to the street, setting up art activities for homeless and at-risk teens at midnight on the streets of Jerusalem.

See Miles Reading’s bio from the Crossroads website:

Miles Reading grew up in Australia and later settled in Boston, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Massachusetts College of Art with a concentration in Art and Community Education. Miles worked as a high school art teacher at Cambridge Ridge and Latin and Arlington high school, and is an active member of Abstraction Made Elementary (AME), an organization which brings together children, professional artists and community. In Israel, Miles, attended Aish Ha Tora Yeshiva, and has worked at Nesiya, Emmunah V’amoonut, Young Judea, and Musrara Schools, and also currently works at Retorno Rehabilitation Facility as an art therapist. Miles is completing his Masters in Art Therapy with placements in Creedmore Psychiatric Hospital in Queens, The Jewish Living Center in Manhattan, and The Children’s Cancer Ward in Indians State Hospital. Miles began working at Crossroads in 2010 as a street outreach art program leader, and recently joined the staff of social workers. Miles lived for a year in a mud hut, tracked lowland mountain Gorillas and now resides in the old city of Jerusalem with his wife and children.