Sara Dennison Email & Phone Number

Awa Facilitator Bio Https://Amherstwriters.Org/Affiliate-Directory/#!Biz/Id/60B6B0Aa0Dfb83727926A0A8

• Facilitate face to face and virtual writing workshops in the Amherst Writers and Artists Method.The method is supported by the following philosophy and functions according to the essential practices listed below:1. Everyone has a strong, unique voice.2. Everyone is born with creative genius.3. Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or education level.4. The teaching of craft can be done without damage to a writer’s original voice or artistic self-esteem.5. A writer is someone who writes.Link to more information about the essential practices of the AWA method here. https://amherstwriters.org/what-to-expect/

Coach Bio Https://Ikigaitribe.Com/Sara-Dennison/

Offer clients a toolkit to help find toward balance and fulfilment by making intentional choices about daily habits, routines, and boundary setting to ensure they arrive at their roles as caregivers having held enough space for themselves first.

Salem, Oregon

• Teach, evaluate, design curriculum, materials, lectures, online classrooms, rubrics, feedback,assessments, projects, and activities in physical, hybrid, remote, and asynchronous modalities for9-11 sections (25 each) of analytical composition, rhetoric, and research per academic year.• Engage students ages 16 through retirement with varied linguistic, racial, cognitive, and genderidentities, differing abilities, and value expressions in critical inquiry and civil discourse.• Serve as an active member of the English Program, Faculty Senate, the Academic Standards AdvisoryCouncil, Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee, assessment workgroups, as an occasionalprofessional reviewer for the Chemeketa Press and Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon,and as Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Advisor for a two year term.• Mentored faculty seeking to balance the demands of full-time teaching post pandemic with thepassions that sustain them by piloting an Ikigai Coaching workshop as a sabbatical project.

• Key player on a core staff team including the Conference Director and Coordinator who work year-round to plan, evaluate, secure grant funding, and market for the Northwoods Writers Conference.• Assist with event planning and coordination of logistics, sound set up, videography, book sales,constituent correspondence, staff, teaching faculty, and distinguished visiting writer, physical andvirtual workshop attendee, and auditor needs during events.• Master of Ceremony for participant readings, a Virtual Writing Group Facilitator, intern manager,Online Architect responsible for designing and building websites, document archival, memberonboarding packets, and assisting with compiling survey responses for grant reporting.

Bemidji State University

• Team taught first year Honors courses (HOPR 1104) & (UNIV 1190) aimed at unifying academicinquiry, sustainability, community resilience, and food sovereignty.• Collaborated with representatives from the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Sioux Chef,Environmental Advisory Committee to bring local expertise into the classroom.• Designed curriculum, projects, rubrics, lectures, original materials, online classrooms, and evaluated,assessed, provided feedback on academic writing, compositions, and presentations, for analyticalwriting, research, and rhetoric courses (ENG 1151) & (ENGL 2152) as GA and Adjunct.

Bemidji, Mn

• Provided crisis intervention services to youth (ages 9-17) for a 24-hour nonprofit serving Minnesota.• Performed intake assessments, crisis counseling, case management services, discharge, shift dutiesrequired to run a household of up to 10 children and teens on a given day.• Collaborated with a team of counselors to ensure the physical, mental, and emotional safety ofclients and coordinated responses to daily activities and emergencies.• Organized, planned, implemented, and assisted with daily programming and occasional Rock Soberand Suicide Prevention events for youth in-house or for regular drop-in center attendees.• Coordinated services with Child Protective Services, social workers, law enforcement, schools,juvenile detention centers, tribal agencies, counselors, and other referring agencies.• Drafted narrative evaluations for youth on 30-day evaluation for placement referrals.• Documented, organized, and archived

Minnesota

•Project manager for four key outcomes including co-coordinating, marketing for, and organizingweekly Sustainable Tuesday educational events at the Rail River Folk School, mobilizing a city-widegrease waste reduction initiative, acting as volunteer coordinator for MN GreenStep Cities, andengaging with the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Green Team about food sovereignty issues.• Planned, facilitated, organized, marketed, and helped coordinate over 62 workshops, presentations,outreach and educational events, and implemented and reported 7 new best management practicesto MN GreenStep Cities Program while serving on the City of Bemidji Sustainability Committee.• Engaged with 979 individuals (46 staff, 644 adults, and 289 youth) and helped manage 97 volunteerswho worked a combined 311 hours on sustainability projects during 11-months of service.

• Environmental Advisory Committee Member 2013-2015• City of Bemidji Sustainability Committee Member 2013-2015• Co-Facilitator of City of Bemidji Sustainability Committee 2013-2014• MN GreenStep Cities Coordinator 2013-2014• Sustainable Tuesday Event Program Co-Coordinator partnering with 2013-2014Rail River Folk School & Indigenous Environmental Network• Sustainability Office Worker for Bemidji State University 2006-2010• Outdoor Adventure Leadership Intern for TrekNorth High School 2009-2010• Ecology Instructor, Director, and Winter Camping Guide for Tomahawk Scout 2006-2007Reservation

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa

Fiction

Master Of Arts, Rhetoric And Composition, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Fine Arts, Creative And Professional Writing, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honors Program

Bachelor Of Arts, Spanish Language And Literature, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Honors Program

Minor, Outdoor Education