Nzingha West

Nzingha West is a special education specialist, instructor and advocate living in New York City. She is the owner of Urbane Academics where she provides personalized instruction, advocacy, cognitive behavior therapy and testing services to children of all ages.

Nzingha is also the author of "Is My Kid Stupid? Avoiding an Educational Disaster" which provides a no nonsense outlook to the field of special education particularly for parents.

Nzingha has had the esteemed pleasure of working with several tremendous companies in New York; including The Harlem Children's Zone, The American Museum of Natural History, Literacy Partners Inc, University Settlement, Henry Street Settlement, The Learning Annex, The City College of New York and more. Nzingha's work has been featured on News12 Connecticut, 106.7 Lite Fm, Radio Disney, Yahoo! and more.

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