Lisa Whitmer Email & Phone Number

Candlestick Point SRA, Bayview, San Francisco

• Develop and run high-quality, culturally relevant events & programs in partnership with local CBOs
• Strengthen collaborations with non-profits, foundations, and community groups, such as California State Parks Foundation, Parks California, Literacy for Environmental Justice, and the SF Parks Alliance
• Coordinate outreach efforts in the Bayview Hunters Point community
• Cultivate productive relationships with various State Parks, the City and County of San Francisco, and other governmental entities and regulatory agencies, including the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of.
• Manage, hire, schedule, and evaluate FT and PT interpretation and maintenance staff
• Develop systems to improve communication & streamline operations to provide top notch visitor service

New York, New York, United States

• Led programming, operations, & marketing for a robust Adult Education department with enthusiasm
• Drove strategic growth, increasing annual revenue from $1.8M to $2.4M
• Inspired a team of 8 FT staff and 200 PT instructors to deliver 700 high-quality courses/year in 12 content areas
• Increased BIPOC representation by organizing events with experts including Indigenous forest managers & food sovereignty activists; Black & LGBTQ+ landscape architects; Latinx botanists; and Asian Ikebana masters
• Provided academic guidance and created a warm, supportive community for 6,000 students per year
• Diversified instructor base by broadening recruitment efforts and standardizing hiring processes

Bronx, New York

Brooklyn, New York

• Devised & implemented a new video education strategy to teach hard business skills to entrepreneurs
• Revised curriculum to increase the interactivity of Etsy's global entrepreneurship program

New York, NY

• Led programming, operations, & marketing for 90+ robotics & video game design after school clubs
• Increased revenue by 15% by improving the quality of staff, curricula, marketing, and stakeholder relationships
• Expanded access to cutting edge tech for BIPOC students by developing vibrant partnerships with Title I schools
• Designed CCSS standards-based projects that integrated robotics & game design into math and history classrooms
• Diversified the staff of 30+ part-time teachers by widening recruitment efforts and standardizing hiring processes
• Led regular professional development for PT teachers in technology, pedagogy, & classroom management

New York City Metropolitan Area

Brooklyn, NY

• Partnered with six low-income public schools to teach video production to K-12 students
• Recruited and hired a diverse pool of teaching artists to lead culturally relevant programs
• Wrote curricula and overhauled media lab to keep video and TV production classes current with emerging tech

• Coached 20 educators at 11 sites to facilitate authentic youth media production
• Provided curricular and technical support to ensure sites met Foundation goals as Adobe Youth Voices grantee
• Presented professional workshops at the WNET Celebration of Teaching and the AYV Summer Institute

Brooklyn, New York

• Managed logistics & media for an award-winning documentary about Kathleen Hanna, a cultural icon who was the lead singer of feminist bands Bikini Kill, Julie Ruin, and Le Tigre, as well as a co-founder of the Riot.

Berkeley, CA

• Facilitated workshops for young people and educators to make digital stories about pivotal personal moments
• Created curriculum in Spanish and English to help educators integrate digital storytelling into their classrooms

San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for all stages of production for my directorial debut, No Strings Attached, a doc about the neo-burlesque revival that won the Audience Award, Best Documentary and Best Short Documentary at various film.

Oakland, CA

• Co-produced Emmy nominated Delano Manongs, a doc about Filipino involvement in the UFW grape strike
• Edited rough cuts, conducted archival research and managed logistics for commercial and documentary films

San Francisco Bay Area

• Created & refined standards-based lesson plans for the PBS documentary series Independent Lens
• Coached San Francisco youth as they crafted short personal documentaries for Conscious Youth Media Crew
• Guided students in making films for the Harvard Center for Astrophysics’ black hole exhibit at the Chabot Space & Science Center
• Created curricula for historical documentaries available for download on the PBS website
• Supervised teens on the Tulalip Reservation as they created a short film for Native Lens/Longhouse Media

San Francisco Bay Area

• Facilitated collaboration & information sharing between novices and experts in the service-learning field
• Coordinated and led workshops promoting service-learning throughout the Pacific Region and the nation

Aragon High School, San Mateo

• Voted Most Distinguished Teacher by my students each year I was eligible due to my enthusiasm and rigor
• Created an extensive oral history project that turned an ethnically & socioeconomically diverse student body into a cadre of historians who wove stories from community members into the fabric of world history
• Diversified instructional strategies with an emphasis on critical thinking and skill building to meet CCSS standards
• Heightened students’ interest & understanding of U.S. and World History by utilizing primary sources

Ba, Anthropology

Clad Social Science Teaching Credential, Secondary Education

Ma, Education