Jeanne holds a PhD in English and a law degree.┬аAs director of the Black Mountain College II (SUNY Buffalo, NY), she organized the publication of the Black Mountain II Review which was widely┬аdistributed (even carried by City Lights, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's book store in San Francisco).┬аIn 1995 she became Executive Director of the Western New York Regional office of the New York Civil Liberties Union (a branch of the ACLU).┬аJeanne-Noel now lives in Croton, and is on the board of the Croton Council on the Arts.