Cara Lisa Berg Powers Email & Phone Number

Worcester, MA, US

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

• Coursework foci: social justice through community-based qualitative research, arts-based methodologies, critical theory, community-engaged practice and youth activism Research foci: cultivating equity-centered.
• Doubled course offerings in Community, Youth and Education Studies (CYES) program
• Redesigned introduction course to CYES, Education minor, and Masters in Teaching program, Complexities of Urban Schooling to be project-based and receive Problems of Practice and Diversity and Inclusion classifications
• Launched biannual School Solutions Symposium, during which students propose pedagogical, programmatic, and policy interventions to local stakeholders to support more equitable school and community experiences for youth.
• Supported equity-minded educators through reading and action groups
• Supported student leadership through faculty advising of student-led groups, directed studies, and internships

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

• Work with team of educators to grow teacher leadership and activism for more equitable and just school and community practices. Advocate for policies to support fully funded, equitable, and sustainable school communities
• Led team of 12 educators in field campaign to support passage of the Fair Share Amendment
• Manage community events and member capacity building workshops for all members in 1st Worcester District
• Government relations to ensure elected officials support core educational policy initiatives
• Led District field effort to collect signatures for Statewide ballot initiative

Boston, MA, Worcester MA

• Community-engaged Public Sociology scholar practitioner focused on the intersections of sociology, media and pop-culture, and educational environments and practices.Coursework foci: expanding sociological imagination.
• Supported community-based Capstone sociology projects
• Served in numerous campus roles supporting equitable practices in classrooms as well as residential life
• Supported high-school students in successful completion of college level Sociology courses through a growing Early College program
• Served in a campus wide team to redesign the early alerts support system for student successCourses Taught (* indicates courses developed) –SO 100 – Introduction to SociologySO199 – Sociology and the Media*SO201 –.

Massachusetts, United States

• MEJA is a statewide coalition of education stakeholders dedicated to Massachusetts schools in which all students, regardless of income, race, gender, identity, religion, birthplace, or abilities, have access to.
• Represented organization for media and press relations
• Supported Lead Organizer and statewide members in local organizing activities
• Developed communications and maintained relationships with reporters
• Facilitated board and committee meetings
• Managed financial activities

Boston/Worcester

• As a Non-Profit Director, grew budget from $60,000 to over $600,000 annually in grants from a variety of family, corporate, local, state, and national foundations from 2008-2020 for youth programming, community and.
• Grew annual budget from $60,000 to over $600,000
• Recruited and retained board members
• Developed and maintained local, state, and national partnerships and collaborations
• Represented organization in numerous community and field-building roles
• Designed and implemented programs and partnerships in Boston, Worcester, and Holyoke, Massachusetts

Worcester, MA

Work with national network of Democratic Education advocates and organizers to identify successful models and generate community action for more democratic education for youth in my community.

Boston, MA

Communications DepartmentMedia as a Tool for Social Change

• a nonprofit organization that engages people in positive change through the use of media arts. We use pop culture to inspire people to think differently about their power to create change in their lives and the lives.
• Developed and facilitated comprehensive youth media and civic literacy training program
• Co-designed and co-presented workshops with teenage Media Watch Team members
• Presented and participated in national conferences with youth in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Vermont
• Produced series of release parties for community art and media projects
• Produced series of community screenings and discussions

• Worked with youth to use media for change in the Lowell community, including writing and producing PSAs, Youth TV shows, and videos for City Council forums.UTEC's mission is to ignite and nurture the ambition of our.
• Developed partnership with Lowell Telecommunications to run youth media after school production program
• Hosted multi-site screening of Media That Matters festival with community discussions
• Worked with youth to produce video segments for youth-led candidate forum
• Supported production of multi-generational (ages 12-72!) Vagina Monologues community performance
• Developed and facilitated daily after school media lab for drop-in youth center

Worked with team of youth to produce and print 3,000 issues of a youth-run adult supported magazine and helped distribute it to Worcester Public School students.

Edd, Educational Leadership And Change, Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Northeast Region Cluster Leader

Ma, Transformative Media Arts & Ethnomusicology

Ba, Screen Studies, Urban Development Social Change

Activities and Societies: WheatBread, CUFS, Choices, Scarlet Key, PA