Dr. Timothy “TJ” Leonard is an educator and entrepreneur who resides in Southbury, CT, where he runs ConnArtists Concerts, a live music firm he founded in 2015. Heavily involved in the booking and running of each concert, Timothy Leonard has maintained relationships with venues and musicians across Southbury and Woodbury, CT.

With one of these venues, the Woodbury Brewing Company, he serves as a consultant to the firm, a role in which he is responsible for live event planning, alongside any related marketing efforts.

For the past several years, TJ Leonard has also worked outside of Woodbury and Southbury, CT, with much of this work being as an educator in New York. At Manhattan Community College, he is an assistant professor of academic literacy and linguistics.

With the institution, Dr. Timothy Leonard focuses on developmental coursework and teaches a variety of classes, such as academic and critical reading. He is also the co-author of “Integrating service-learning pedagogy into community college coursework: A phenomenological study,” which was published in 2020.