Weena Pun Email & Phone Number

Baltimore, Md, Us

Ithaca, New York, United States

• Draft and edit narratives, including responses to Requests for Evidence, for individuals seeking various immigration-related services, including O-1 nonimmigrant visa, H-1B of national/international renown, J1 waivers, and employment-based U.S. permanent residency through their extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics (EB-1A, EB-1B, EB-1C) and/or through national interest waiver petitions (NIW)

• Draft and edit narratives, including responses to Requests for Evidence, for individuals seeking employment-based U.S. permanent residency through their extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics and/or through national interest waiver petitions

Ithaca, New York Area

• Design and teach First-Year Writing Seminars (FWS)• Design and teach Introduction to Creative Writing Seminars • http://english.cornell.edu/weena-pun

Ithaca, New York Area

• Design and teach a First-Year Writing Seminar (FWS) on Short Stories• http://english.cornell.edu/weena-pun

United States

• Assisted Professor Brett Troyan in teaching a six-week summer history course entitled 'Tales of Latin America' • Graded academic essays

Ithaca, New York Area

• Read and commented on submissions to the literary magazine• http://www.epoch.cornell.edu/

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Assisted to keep earthquake-affected communities, humanitarian agencies and the media well informed about relief and recovery work• Prepared a weekly bulletin, Open Mic Nepal, wherein we debunked rumours circulating in the affected communities and answered concerns related to relief, recovery and reconstruction work and policies• Provided help to community-based radios with content for their programmes• Wrote articles for the Kathmandu Post based on field visits to affected districts • http://citizenhelpdesk.org/nepal-archive/

Patan, Nepal

• Published five stories by the end of the fellowship• The first story, on police harassment migrant labourers face in Malaysia, was published in the Kathmandu Post• The second story, on gifts that migrant workers bring home, was published in New York-based [wherever] magazine• The third story, on migration of urban youths to the Gulf countries, was published in the Kathmandu Post• The fourth, on allegations of sexual affairs that wives of migrant workers have to endure, was published in Himal Southasian• The fifth, on migrant labourers and songs, was published in Himal Southasian.

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Beat: social issues• Reported on the issues of the marginalised, on gender- and caste-based discrimination • Covered legal and policy issues, rape and inheritance laws, citizenship debate, Kamlari system, migration• Wrote feature articles for yearly supplements and (still write) for the Post's On Saturday, a weekend special• Wrote (still write) a bi-weekly column, now monthly, under a pseudonym• Edited op-ed pieces and articles when needed• Coordinated and prepared the publication of special supplements: 22nd anniversary special and 2015 New Year Special• weenapun.com/the-kathmandu-post/

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Supported Course Leader Wayne Redpath, Instructor of Anthropology• Held discussions for three hours every week (one hour a group) with students on social and political affairs, such as constitution writing and gender• Assigned weekly writings, in which the students had to critically analyse their reactions to a particular event on a given day • Graded students based on their critical skills and on their improvement over the course of the semester

Patan, Nepal

• Commissioned and edited articles for web exclusives• Wrote mediafile snippets as Chhetriya Patrakar for the monthly magazine• Contributed stories,compiled blog pieces for the 'Voices' section, proofread the final copies for the monthly• Still write for the magazine (now a quarterly bookazine)• old.himalmag.com/component/authors/articles/Weena-Pun.html• himalmag.com/author/weena-pun/

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing

Bachelor'S Degree, English, Creative Writing