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Community Education Presentations
Summary of Qualifications: An innovative communications professional with expertise in web and print publications, fundraising, and special events.
Publications:
Areas of Expertise:
· Develop a financial education program for mid-life and older Latinos. Write curriculum, four workbooks, and a facilitators manual, and oversee development of all other materials for pilot program, including educational radio- and telenovelas (radio and video dramas) and a comic book (historieta) on basic banking.
· Coordinate publication and translation of over twenty different community legal education brochures and booklets in several languages; supervise printing and distribution
· Produce bilingual newsletters, flyers, brochures, management procedures, and resident handbooks for multi-family housing properties
· Articles: ATA Chronicle, newsletter of American Translators Association; "El Mundo", a Spanish language weekly paper; "Common Chords" diversity newsletter of AARP
· Creative Writing : Several creative writing awards, publication in over a dozen small presses, including Seattle Review, GW Review, Word Wrights, and Minimus; Wheat, a poetry chapbook published by Mica Press; Editor, Hispanic Culture Review, George Mason University, 1994-95
· Interviews for print and radio
· Press releases
Special events:
· Coordinate annual community education forum on immigrants and their legal needs
· Coordinate and publicize community events such as home ownership fairs
· Organize events and fundraisers, including a Multicultural Festival
Proposal writing and fundraising:
· Research potential foundation funding sources for legal services program. Write proposals and reports to funders; manage annual direct mail fundraising campaign.
· Research and apply for arts grants
Web site design and content:
· Design and maintain a web site of art, literature, and photography (using HTML)
· Post over 20 publications to a community legal web site using FrontPage and HTML
· Write articles on financial topics in English and Spanish for web site
Community outreach and education:
· Coordinate housing management and self-sufficiency programs for diverse ethnic groups
· Organize and supervise educational and recreational activities on public housing properties, promote resident leadership
Volunteer Management
Recruit, train, and manage the following volunteers:
· Sixty court and community interpreters and translators in more than six languages
· Employment trainers in construction, computers, and office skills
· Volunteers aged 16 and up, devoting numerous hours to crafts, sewing, youth activities, and English as a second language for refugees
· Specialists in arts and literary activities: art exhibitions, theatre performances and writing workshops
· Ten senior volunteer leaders developing money management and financial planning workshops
Contact me for Recent Employment History
Education
Bachelor of Arts, French and German, Magna Cum Laude,University of Colorado at Boulder
Spanish Translation, Georgetown University
Creative Writing, George Washington University
Poetry,George Mason University MFA Program
Cross-Cultural Psychology,George Mason University
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