Phone: 305/532-6285
EDUCATION
Major: Inter-Departmental major entitled Feminist Studies of Ethnicity,
encompassing fields of Women Studies, Ethnic Studies and Cross-Cultural
Education
Major: Film Studies
WORK
Senior Associate, The Thurston Group
March 2003 – Present
EXPERIENCE Responsible for
overseeing process evaluations for nine youth crime prevention
programs. Also involved in project management, administration, special
projects, researching and writing reports, conducting field work, and writing
proposals.
Consultant and Lecturer
Consultant and trainer for the integration of service
learning at various community colleges for the American Association of Community
Colleges (AACC) and the
Volunteer Coordinator, City of
Campus
Director, Center for Community Involvement,
Directed the
Service-Learning Center for the North Campus of M-DCC; supervised 1300 student
volunteers and 100 America Reads tutors yearly; maintained relations with
approximately 120 community agencies, 35 faculty members and 43 schools and
after school sites; ran an office with a staff of six; promoted and developed
service programs on campus; coordinated all aspects of America Reads program.
Developed core program on campus, and more than tripled number
of student and faculty involvement in
service-learning.
Adjunct Faculty, Miami-Dade
Community College
Taught
Honors Leadership class with service-learning component for Honors Department at
M-DCC.
Vocational
Coordinator,
Intake
advisor and vocational coordinator for program targeting Cuban and Haitian
refugees. Offered assistance in
Spanish and French/Creole to refugees including intake, assessment, placement in
ESL classes, tracking, and assistance with educational plans and job
placement.
Independent Research
Assisted and provided French-English translation for a project
researching the
traditional astronomy of
Tutor, Educational
Resources
Part-time tutor at Educational Resources in English,
Spanish, French,
Mathematics, Social Sciences, and test taking
skills.
Florida Public Interest Research Group (FL PIRG)
Campus Organizer for this student-funded and directed organization
working
for the passage of legislation to protect the
environment, students' rights, and
good government issues.
(FSMP)
Tutorial
Program Coordinator, Student
Office
assistant. Duties included continuous updating of
databases, monthly large-scale mailings, immigration information, contact and
interviews with international students, translation for students speaking
Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, and general office and outreach
maintenance for an English as a Foreign Language Program.
Teacher of
Women's Cultural Awareness and Life Skills classes to incarcerated
women. Course material included information
about substance abuse, domestic violence, racism, and sexism.
AFI
Productions
Production
and sales associate for this commercial film production house. Performed clerical, writing and production duties including letter
writing, press release production, still photos, managing library,
etc.
Yale
University Department of Psychiatry
Clerical
assistance including typing, transcribing, answering phones,
etc.
Yale University Department of
Film Studies
General office assistance.
SKILLS
Computer: Microsoft Word,
Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Publisher, WordPerfect, PageMaker, and basic
HTML skills
Languages: French and
Spanish, some Swahili, Italian, Pular, Russian and
Portuguese.
Additional: Extremely organized and self-motivated.
Easily adaptable to new situations. Able to learn quickly. Work well with others, especially in
diverse environments. Creative and hard working. Capable public speaker. Excellent writing,
editing, and interpersonal skills. Possess the passionate desire to
improve our world by addressing environmental issues, and tackling the social
ills that leave children, elderly, and other at risk individuals in need.
Extremely committed to the issues I feel strongly about.
HONORS/
National
Merit Semi-Finalist 1984
LISTINGS/
PUBLICATIONS Admissions
interviewer for
Excellence Award,
Named "Goodwill Ambassador" of M-DCC's North
Campus by Dr. Castell Bryant, President of North Campus, August
1999
Outstanding Volunteer Award, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater
Excellence in Volunteerism Award,
International Who’s Who of Women 1997 -
present
The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the
Windward Jamaican Maroons,
A Practical Guide for Integrating Civic Responsibility into the
Curriculum, co-editor,
American Association of Community Colleges, September
2002
LECTURES/
On Jamaican
Maroons:
KEYNOTE
ADDRESSES
National Association of African Studies,
Women's History Month, "An Afternoon of Literature by Women,"
Books & Books Bookstore Lecture Series,
Martin Luther King Day Celebration,
Taste of Black History,
Community Book Store,
Sankofa Books,
Barnes & Noble,
Department of Ibero-American Studies,
WBAI, Radio
Barnes & Noble,
Miami-Dade Public Libraries (six branches),
Southwest Regional Library,
Davis-Kidd Bookstore,
Sankofa Books,
A Celebration of Jamaican Women,
Jamaican Independence Day,
Women's History Month,
Malaprops Bookstore,
On Service-Learning:
Conference on Establishment of Community College Consortium,
Forum on Volunteerism and Service Learning,
National COOL Conference on Student Volunteerism,
Association of Honors Programs in
Keynote Address, Conference on Service and Service-Learning,
University of the
League for Innovation at the Community College,
PROFESSIONAL African
Studies Association
ASSOCIATIONS Modern
Language Association
Association of Yale Alumni
Sierra Club
ADDITIONAL
Vice
President for Volunteers of the Youth Environmental Programs
(1998-1999)
Advisor of
the Ecology Club,
Organized an Environmental Awareness Fair at
Advisor and Co-Advisor of Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society,
Lecturer at conference at
Member of Editorial Review Board, Journal for Civic Commitment
(2003-present)
REFERENCES
Gail
Robinson
Coordinator
for Service Learning
American
Association for Community Colleges
202/728-0200
x 254
Dr. Robert
Exley
Vice
President of Academic Affairs
(712)
325-3200
Commissioner
Frances Russo
City of
(954)
921-3321
Diane
Sloan
Professor,
Speech Department
(305)
237-1869
Additional
references are available upon request.