 She was the keynote speaker on Global Dance Today at the annual American Dance Guild conference in 2004, and was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Wisconsin School of Education in 2006.Newman was course leader in the master’s graduate program in choreography at the Laban Dance Centre in London and is co-chair and on the faculty of the Conservatory of Dance, Purchase College, State University of New York.Recent commissions include a work for Dancing Wheels in Cleveland, Ohio, a company of integrated performers including wheel chair performers, and works performed in Hong Kong.