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• Spearhead relationship-building with written, verbal, and electronic communications, with volunteers and stakeholders within a broadly diverse demographic.• Community outreach through traditional media, such as television and print, as well as our own publications.• Grant writing, management, and reconciliation.• Events and Volunteer Training: Successfully plan events ranging from small training sessions to programming for more than 150 attendees.• Chair Lunenfeld Grants Committee: built a diverse committee from all areas of Buffalo, led several rounds of the redesign of the granting rubrics, the distribution, follow-up processes, ensure supports for those awarded the grants (often entirely new to every aspect of this process)• Chaired Volunteer Coordination Committee: recruited, mentored, and worked to retain volunteers for periodic events as well as for board membership.• Stewarded the organization through an intense period of growth, including a reconsideration of by-laws, policies, procedures in order to comply with state law and requirements and to create foundation for continued growth.• Initiate strategic replacement and succession planning as well as strategic plans to reinforce our organization’s infrastructure, optimize processes and policies, and foster continued growth.• Develop and manage budget for the organization.

• Spearheaded relationship-building with written, verbal, and electronic communications, with volunteers and stakeholders within a broadly diverse demographic.• Grant writing, management, and reconciliation• Manage donor management system• Manage website• Stewarding of donor and sponsor relationships• Community outreach through traditional media, such as television, print, and our own publications.• Directed the process to build a development infrastructure, including choosing a new donor management system, a new platform for the website in coordination with a grant from NYCON• Member of the Executive Leadership Team

• Led and managed the English Department, grades 5-12. Led the department of 12 faculty in curriculum writing, course planning. Participated in student placement and testing. Initiated and facilitated new programming and activities to benefit students, faculty, and the institution.• Planned, wrote, taught, and administered classes of 10-20 students in grades 9-12. Foundations of Literature, English and Commonwealth Literature, American Literature; Senior electives in Contemporary African Literature, Women’s Literature, Children’s Literature, Graphic Novel, etc • Advised student groups (assigned advisees, Students for Multicultural Awareness, Sexuality and Gender Awareness (SAGA), Feminist Club, Environment Club) with discussion, event planning, academic and extra-curricular planning.• Coordinator of Advanced Placement Program. Oversaw the AP courses, curriculum, and faculty, organize and administer the AP exams and their implementation, and manage the budget.• Director of the curriculum committee for the English department. Conducted yearly review of curriculum and summer reading assignments.• Committee Work. Participated in various departmental and school committees, event planning, reviewing department and school policies. Notable participation in mentoring and strategic planning.• Managed student publications.• Member of the Diversity Initiative Team. Led diversity training for students, faculty, and staff. Attendance of People of Color Conference and chaperone for Student Diversity Leadership Conference.

• Supervised Liberal Arts faculty, 12 full-time and 45 part-time. Developed and maintained an evaluation process that could work with the faculty union, and saw every faculty member’s class at least once. Worked with Human Resources to ensure that all faculty files were complete and up to date. Chaired four hiring committees conducting national searches, hiring five new faculty members.• Supervised Liberal Arts curriculum review and development. Directed the writing and review of existing and new curriculum for the purpose of the new bachelor-level programs, maintenance of articulation agreements, and accreditation.• Participated in accreditation process with Middle States.• Supervised arts and sciences students, i.e. all of those in the general education courses. Advised and administered students in the Liberal Arts major. • Scheduled all of the general education courses and instructors.• Managed the budget for the Liberal Arts.• Planned, taught, and administered curriculum for courses in writing and literature for 5-20 students, effectively communicating varied and complex information to audiences ranging from novice to expert, using standard classroom and online tools.

• Planned, taught, and administered curriculum for courses in writing and literature for 18-45 students, effectively communicating varied and complex information to audiences ranging from novice to expert, using standard classroom and online tools.• Served on Basic Communications Assessment Committee that created rubrics for and planned objective and college-wide assessment of verbal and written communication.• Served on the Children’s Literature Committee that assessed the teaching and curriculum for the college’s children’s literature courses. The committee also organized a conference, To See the Wizard, that drew scholars and writers of children’s literature from the region.