Leslie Howle Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa

Seattle, Wa

As RecTech site coordinator I managed and implemented programming for youth and adults in digital literacy, IT tech skills, and digital media arts at City of Seattle Parks community technology labs. Designed and implemented curriculum for workshops and classes in coding, website development, game creation, digital photography, video production, photojournalism, writing, blogging, Photoshop, etc. Recruited and hired teachers for career awareness programs for teens that included website development, video production, photography, photojournalism, marketing, and graphic design. Worked with the Adobe Youth Voices project to teach teens to create and produce videos. Youth Media video entries won top awards at the MOAHI contest. Youth games we created placed top twenty nationally in Facebook’s Engineer for the Week Competition resulting in our group being flown to Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park California for a three day Hackathon.Managed and taught digital media internships for culturally diverse underserved teens and opportunity youth. Successfully taught and implemented anti-bias practices and problem-solving within the group. Produced several documentaries with teens, one of which was screened at NW Film Forum.

Seattle, Wa

As Workshop Director from 1987 to 2014, I helped build Clarion West to it's present status as an internationally acclaimed annual writer’s workshop. Hired well-known, critically acclaimed authors each week to help new writers build their skills and writing careers.Worked as both workshop director and co-administrator to provide both organizational and day to day oversight. Worked with the CW Board of Directors and community volunteers to help build an inclusive, equitable pedagogical structure with built-in self-evaluation tools, and coordinated student and author selection and management. Worked consistently as the on-site administrator, taking part in and coordinating the day-to-day activities of this six-week annual workshop. Coordinated the CW Reading Series at Elliott Bay Books and University Book Store, created and managed one-day workshops, planned and implemented special events, edited the newsletter, served as Board Chair, and have represented the organization at conventions and public events. As a non-profit educational organization, Clarion West has applied for and received a number of grants over the years; including being the first recipient of an Amazon.com matching grant.Served as the Clarion West liaison with Seattle Central Community College for 15 years. Nominated for a World Fantasy Award both in 2014 and 2007 for my contribution to the field of fantastic literature through my work with Clarion West. I was awarded "The Last Drink Bird's Head Award" as part of a charity fundraiser for ProLiteracy.org that was organized in 2010 by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

Worked at EMP (MoPop was the Experience Music Project then) with Museum Director, former NASA engineer Donna Shirley, to create inclusive educational youth and adult educational programming and outreach strategies prior to and after the grand opening of Paul Allen’s Science Fiction Museum. Created and administrated events such as the three-day 40th anniversary of Star Trek with actors from all three shows.Helped write and then received a National Science Foundation Planning Grant. Was subsequently the project manager for a planning grant conference involving individuals from all over the world. Served as liaison to U.of California, Riverside for the academic Eaton Conference held at SFM. Proposed to Artistic Director Robert Santelli that the Science Fiction Museum create an annual SF Short Film Festival and took on the creation and organization of the festival. As film festival coordinator, I successfully negotiated a partnership with SIFF and then served as liaison with SIFF, film festival judges, and filmmakers who entered the festival. Recruited Lifetime Oscar winner Douglas Trumbull to support an annual Special Effects award in his name.Wrote case statements and budgets for every program or event I developed for the museum’s informal education and outreach programming for a culturally diverse audience of youth and adults.

Ba, Education, Communication, Art Education, English

Received a State of Washington Teaching Certificate K - 12 in 1981 AA in Early Childhood Education with a focus on psychology and human.

Master'S Degree In Progress, Adult And Continuing Education Administration