Deanna Rivera Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles County, California, United States

FULL--TIME LECTURER: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Aug 2014Coordinator and Co-Creator: WRT 150 Law and Social Justice Thematic, Fall 2014* Developing a themed writing course which uses the intersections of law and social justice as a 'shared text' for freshman writing students learning critical writing and reasoning. PART-TIME LECTURER: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 2013-presentWRT 150 Identity & Diversity Pilot Course, Spring 2014 WRT 140, Fall 2013

Online Tutoring, Coaching, And Editing Services

Tutoring the Whole Writer (TWW) is a space for writers of all levels to receive constructive feedback on their ideas and drafts from a writing professor with twenty years of experience. My teaching, tutoring, and editing style has encouraged thousands of writers to develop their skills and embrace successful writing as a part of their many achievements.Tutoring the Whole Writer is based on the idea that writers create new possibilities for themselves – and their communities – when they work through their writing as a process toward stronger skills overall. Re-seeing your relationship to writing can help ease even professional writers’ common concerns about putting their ideas to paper. That is why Tutoring the Whole Writer is an editing service and much more. Through Tutoring the Whole Writer, you can discover and cultivate your greatest strengths as a thinker and writer. Understanding your strengths builds confidence, and confidence allows for an easier time with your writing. Then, share your tools with other writers – fellow students, colleagues, and your family – and the community will become stronger too.

Course Competencies:Composition I, Composition II, Introduction to Literature, American Literature after 1865, International Voices, Persuasion and Argumentation, Communication and Conflict, Criminal Law and Procedure

Board Member since 2006, Board President 2011-2013(Uncompensated Board Seat)TNI is a Native American, non-profit organization that works with Native communities to develop and enhance their governance, justice and educational institutions.TNI is managed and advised by a diverse group of Native American community leaders, educators, advocates, attorneys, judges and academics.At TNI, we understand that effective institutions and initiatives must incorporate the priorities and values of the communities they serve. TNI services include community-driven research, technical assistance, training, academic courses, publications, and direct services.

UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW, Director, Tribal Learning Community & Educational ExchangeManaging and building on program endowment; developing on-campus, on-line, and community courses relevant to Native nation-building; creating an exchange of knowledge between tribalcommunities and the academic communities at UCLA; serving on campus committees dedicated to increasing Native American enrollment in the UC systemPlease visit YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ktWbXYqfQ) to view my media consultant work on indigenous issues. UCLA AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES PROGRAM, Lecturer, American Indian Studies,Teaching the series of experiential service learning courses entitled Working in Tribal Communities, which trains students to develop and implement projects with Native nations’ leaders andstakeholders; advising graduate students on theses and dissertationsPlease visit YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFWbEy8OXDE) to hear students discuss my Working in Tribal Communities classes (beginning at minute 7:40).

Teaching literature and writing courses including Basic Freshman Composition, Developmental Writing, Analytical Writing, Creative Writing, Introduction to Literature, and 20th Century NativeAmerican Literature; methods included student-community outreach activities

Temporary postiion teaching developmental writiing and reading as well as freshman composition and literature.

Jd And Ll.M, Federal Indian Law & Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Law

Activities and Societies: Native American Law Student' Association, Secretary and Co-Chair, Clinical Fellow, Indigenous Peoples’ Law &.

Ba And Ma, English Literature & Writing Pedagogy

Activities and Societies: Served as tutor at the Writing Center, Master's Thesis: "Terror and Reason: A Native and Non-Native Dialogue.

English Literature

Associates Degree, Liberal Arts

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Honor's Society Pi Alpha Sigma Honor's Society Peer Writing Tutor Writing Workshop.