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17 Appleton Avenue l San Francisco, CA 94110 l 415-824-8054
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RELEVANT
WORK EXPERIENCE
l EDUCATION l SKILLS
l ACHIEVEMENTS
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:
Mission
Urban Arts Program
Consultant August 2003 to Present
Helping develop a project-base curriculum for a cross-cultural community
of youth, which focuses on documenting culture, developing marketable
skills and learning to interface with and respect the various forms of
art expression.
Providing Youth Development Training to staff of the program.
Richmond
Village Beacon/ Richmond District Neighborhood Center
Video Production Teacher (Presidio site) September 2003 to Present
Design and teach an after school curriculum to middle school students
that emphasizes collaboration, self-esteem, trust and creativity through
the use of digital video production.
Richmond
Village Beacon/ Richmond District Neighborhood Center
Art and Technology Education Coordinator (Washington site) September 2000
to June 2003
Design, coordinate and implement technology program activities for
youth and adults to help bridge the "digital divide". Teach
computer and multi-media classes while emphasizing thoughtful reflection
on the ways in which media shapes our lives. Develop partnerships with
other agencies to expand and sustain technology program.
Write reports and keep statistics
Manage budget and grants
Develop project-based curriculum for technology programs.
Hire and supervise part time instructors for the youth and adult programs
Work on team and agency projects
Collaborate with teachers on technology based projects
Developed and co-lead a wrap group for young women emphasizing critical
thinking skills and empowerment.
Collaborate with other agencies, KQED, SalesForce.com/foundation, JVS
and PowerUp
Collaborate and work with school technology staff to run and troubleshoot
two computer labs. One 30-computer PC lab and one 30-computer Mac lab.
Collaborated with 10 youth on an award winning film, accepted to film
festivals such as the San Francisco International film festival
Crucible
Steel Gallery, CELLspace
Director December 1999 to present
Work with a directorial group to curate shows, write grants, and publicize
the gallery.
Organize a biannual call for artwork from around the Bay Area.
Member of CELLspace's governing board, representing the gallery.
Bravo!
Marketing
Web Content Developer/ Web Designer January 2000 to August 2000
Working with a team of web developers to manage the daily updates
to www.heidrickonline.com, an executive search site, utilizing Microsoft
FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, and Adobe ImageReady.
Worked with www.leadersonline.com, a job search site implementing new
functionality, re-design, and creating new sites utilizing Microsoft FrontPage,
Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe ImageReady.
Working on interactive sales presentations for trade shows, and sales
presentations utilizing Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe
Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash,
Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe ImageReady.
Creating and updating Bravo! Marketing's wireless website utilizing Microsoft
FrontPage and Microsoft Visual InterDev.
Creating and updating www.bravomarketing.com, and Bravo's Client Portals
utilizing Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver,
Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe ImageReady.
UCSF
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Research Assistant II March 1999 to December 1999
Worked as an assistant to the REACH project, conducting in-depth interviews
with participants from shelters, meals programs, and hotels throughout
San Francisco, providing HIV pre-test counseling and referrals when needed.
Central
City Hospitality House
Residential Counselor August 1998 to September 1999
Worked with at-risk youth to provide a continuum of care that provided
stability, trust, and support to promote development of self-esteem and
skills essential for transition from the streets to a safer living environment.
Provided supportive counseling, supervision, crisis intervention, implementation
of individual service plans, teaching independent living skills, providing
daily documentation of youth activity, and participation in weekly staff
meetings and client reviews.
Central
City Hospitality House,
Development Associate/ Web Designer February 1998 to August 1998
Worked with the development team to organize, develop, and host the
agency's annual fund-raisers and major donor campaign. Successfully doubled
the amount of money raised by these fundraisers in previous years.
Provided administrative and technical support to the team by creating
and maintaining an MS Access database for fund-raisers, creating and maintaining
a new web site www.hospitalityhouse.org, supervising and coordinating
mailings, writing press releases, creating new promotional brochures for
major donor campaign, and volunteer coordination.
ArtStart at Central City Hospitality House
Administrative Director/ Mentor/ Web Designer October 1997 to March 1998
Managed an administrative team to run the art business of the agency,
by providing support and delegating tasks to the youth program administrative
intern, holding weekly meetings with intern's job counselor to keep current
on intern's progress and create goals for the upcoming weeks.
Solicited in-kind donations of computer equipment, taught staff to more
efficiently work with office computer systems (Macintosh and Windows 3.1,
95), maintained and troubleshot these systems, also maintained web site.
Worked closely with fiscal department, creating systems for sales reconciliation
reports, and artist commission reports.
UCSC
Health Center
Coordinator of Campus HIV Prevention Program September 1994 to September
1996
Presented a Safer Sex education workshop to numerous groups and organizations,
age level ranging from junior high to adult; trained, coordinated, and
managed a large group of volunteers to present these workshops, created
and adapted this workshop to fit age, ethnicity, religion and sexual identity
of group it was being presented to, creating appropriate educational materials
to go along with presentation.
Worked on collaborative projects with several community-based organizations.
Helped organize a taping of the Safer Sex Workshop, by a private medical
foundation, to be use as an internal educational tool.
Counseled students who came into the HIV Prevention office, referring
them to appropriate campus and community resources.
Other
Experience
Collaborated with 10 youth on an award winning film, accepted to film
festivals such as the San Francisco International film festival
Speaker at the National CTC conference, presenting integration of
technology and youth development.
Workshop instructor for UCSC's photography department.
Teaching assistant for color photography.
Teaching assistant for HIV peer education class.
Speaker at the Women and AIDS: A Call to Action conference.
Guest Lecturer, invited to speak about HIV transmission and safer sex,
in various Biology, Sociology, Psychology, and Community Study classes
at UCSC and City College of San Francisco.
Managed cooperative photography lab.