Janet R. Storti has been teaching at LaGuardia Community College since 1981. In addition to the requisite academic achievements, a BA in English (FDU), MA in Theatre & Film (NYU), & an MA in Criminal Justice (RU), she has sold a treatment for a movie (Ensign Dolphin) to Open Passage Productions and while in graduate school at Rutgers University, contributed chapters to Probation on Trial and Is Probation Working? She was part of the year-long seminar, Difficult Dialogues, at LaGuardia Community College, and in October 2009, she attended a four-day workshop on screenwriting: Robert McKee’s NY Story. She lives in Union County N.J. with her two daughters, Amanda Dolores (Paraguay) and Huong Thai Lan (North Vietnam) and their beloved dog, Belle. She is a proud union member of two teacher unions (NY & NJ), Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity.