• Manage successful creative writing school serving thousands of adults of diverse ages, ethnic, and professional backgrounds• Develop teaching and educational program methodology resulting in numerous students completing and publishing books, articles, and procuring movie deals• Design evaluation metrics, apply customer suggestions to improve classes and expand from one class to over 50 different course offerings• Design custom courses for Walt Disney company creative… Show more • Manage successful creative writing school serving thousands of adults of diverse ages, ethnic, and professional backgrounds• Develop teaching and educational program methodology resulting in numerous students completing and publishing books, articles, and procuring movie deals• Design evaluation metrics, apply customer suggestions to improve classes and expand from one class to over 50 different course offerings• Design custom courses for Walt Disney company creative and professional staff of all levels• Market and sell classes, serve as “face” of Writing Pad in interviews on TV, NPR, and in publications such as LA Weekly and Daily Candy• Supervise and train office staff of 7 and teaching staff of 50 Show less

• Essays, stories, op-ed’s published in the NY Times, Salon.com, Narratively, The Frisky, and San Francisco Chronicle• Poetry published in Pearl, Squaw Valley Review, California Quarterly, Karamu, and The Great American Poetry Show• Articles on love and dating for Match.com