Cudell | Youth Education
James Watson is committed to empowerment through active, project-based education. He has taught science at Case Western Reserve University, Collinwood High School, St. Edward High School and the Denison Nature Adventures Summer Camp. James lives in the Denison/Lorain neighborhood on Cleveland’s west side. He has been active in grassroots programs for recovery from alcoholism and associated family problems and in the religious and community programs of Denison United Church of Christ. James is married with two adult children. He is an avid cyclist and bicycle mechanic and he recently opened a bicycle repair shop in his neighborhood that allows young people to earn their own bicycle and teaches them the fundamentals of repair and maintenance. James graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota and earned a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
