Sasha Marie Kinney

QUALIFICATIONS: Creative, self-motivated program coordinator seeks teaching or program management position. Background includes ten years teaching and tutoring in diverse communities with a focus on literacy, experiential activities, youth leadership development, and curriculum design; eight years experience capacity building of non-profits and schools, including project research, resource assessment, development and evaluation, community outreach, volunteer recruitment, and workshop facilitation; twelve years experience in writing, copyediting, layout and design. Proficient in Microsoft Suite, QuarkXPress, InDesign and ArcGIS. Conversational Azerbaijani (Turkic) RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: Graduate Research Assistant, Office of the Chief Information Officer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 2012-present Research and evaluate on-campus and national student technology access and learning environments Survey undergraduate students on use of technology in education Service-Learning Specialist, Office of Humanities, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL 2009-2011 Developed and managed over 50 curriculum-based service experiences at three west-side public high schools, e.g., school-wide community health fair, citywide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, and largescale cross-curricular gang violence prevention project Designed inquiry-based curriculum for subjects, e.g., biology, geometry, English, psychology, band, and art Built sustainable school-community partnerships with over 30 non-profit organizations for two schools Developed database of over 200 northwest service-learning agencies for Chicago Public Schools Provided professional development trainings for staff on community outreach and curriculum design Organized and taught six-week Summer of Service and Leadership program for 9-11 graders Facilitated after-school service activities Staffed Executive Working Group for incoming CEO Recommendations and new CPS Education Vision on Community Partnerships/Family Engagement/School Climate English as a Second Language Teacher, U. S. Peace Corps, Neftchala, Azerbaijan 2007-2009 Lesson planned and taught conversational English to grades 5-8 Facilitated enrichment activities, e.g., conversation clubs, art projects and games for students, ages 6-15 Designed ELL reading and writing curriculum for Volunteer classrooms and Peace Corps Resource Center Provided in-service professional development trainings for Volunteers, teachers and staff Board member of the Trans-Caucasus Writing Olympics, an annual writing competition encouraging creativity in Azerbaijani youth Co-editor of the Azlander, a 30-page quarterly Peace Corps/Azerbaijan literature magazine for Peace Corps Volunteer friends and family, and Peace Corps Headquarters, DC Teacher/Tutor, Alvarado Writers Workshop, Alvarado Elementary School, San Francisco Unified School District, San Francisco, CA 2007 Created lesson plans and facilitated creative and expository writing activities and integrated art projects in after-school, grant-based program for below grade level, ELL and at-risk students, ages 10-12 Communicated with teachers and parents on student progress

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE: Multi-program Volunteer, 826 Valencia (a non-profit writing center), San Francisco, CA 2004-2007 Tutored and led at-risk and ELL youth in writing workshops, and storytelling and bookmaking classes Editorial board member of published professional quality student-written publications, e.g., Exactly, Home Wasnt Built in a Day, and three issues of The 826 Quarterly ELL Summer Workshop volunteer, tutored students in six-week intensive program to improve writing skills Public Relations Co-committee Leader for Comedy Night, 826s most profitable fundraiser of the year EDUCATION: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. Master of Science in Library and Information Science, certificate in Community Informatics, July 2011-present Focus areas: youth literacy, digital learning, inquiry-based learning, civic engagement, teacher resource development, learning environments, and school-community partnerships Seton Montessori Institute, Clarendon Hills, IL. Montessori Assistant Paraprofessional Certification (American Montessori Society), Ages 0-6, 2011 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California. Four times Deans List. Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, concentration in Non-governmental Organizations and Human Rights; Minor in Political Philosophy, 2007 Instruction Associate at the Community Involvement Center, facilitated reflective seminars for college students on service learning and volunteered seven hours a week at non-profit organization, Fall 2006 Senior Editor at SFSU International Relations Journal, Fall 2006 President Amnesty International at SFSU, 2005 American River College, Sacramento, California. Honors. Associate of Arts in Social Science, 2004 Opinion Page editor, copy-editor, writer, reporter at The Current newspaper, 2002-2004 RECOGNITION: Restorative Justice and Peace Circle trained, Balanced and Restorative Justice, July 2011 Awarded Rosie the Riveter Award by Chicago Public Schools Service-Learning Initiative for being willing and able to do anything to get the job done - AmeriCorps VISTA service, November 2010 Awarded 826 Valencias first-ever in-schools Volunteer of the Month Award, January 2007 Successfully completed California International Marathon and fundraised for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Societys Team in Training, December 2001