Stephanie R.
Private tutor in Poughkeepsie, NY
Education
BA in Cultural Studies from SUNY Empire State College (forthcoming in May 2015)
Experience
—Creative and Curriculum Director, The Knowledge Project 1998-2001 —Private writing coach, 1997-present —Director of Arts Programming at The Children's Aid Society, NYC 1996-1998 —Published author (nine books under the Andrews McMeel imprint) —Non-profit organizational structure strategist I am a prolific executive strategist, published author, editor, educator, and working artist. As a lifelong interdisciplinary practitioner, my consulting portfolio encompasses successful projects with private-sector business, non-profit agencies, government and ad hoc creative and business project teams. Career Highlights. Cultural and Communications: In the San Francisco Bay Area, as Executive Director of Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, I oversaw exhibits and a robust multidisciplinary program serving 1,300 artist-members and a public constituency of over 100,000 regional residents. I have been a curator in Buffalo, NY and Oakland, CA, and served on the Jury panel for the annual Trash to Treasures exhibit in Berkeley. I also served four years on the founding Advisory Board for T-Salon, a Bay Area based national literary magazine. In the late 1980s, I co-created Soul To Soul Teleconferencing Network, the first pre-Internet video teleconferencing system for the New York City Board of Education, connecting three inner-city schools in New York City’s Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan. This innovative distance-learning environment was launched with the assistance of public-private partnerships, and efforts to raise over $4 Million in cash grants, in-kind technology and services from prestigious organizations such as Project Share/Intelsat, Nigeria Telecommunications, University of Ife, Nigeria, Stern Telecommunications, Citicorp, and the New York State Council on the Arts. As a working artist, I have exhibited and performed at world-class venues, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, the Everson Museum, Lincoln Center Plaza, the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 38 Awoloro Road in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Ampex American Music Festival. She has presented at literary venues in the US, Canada, Germany, and the UK. I have been a guest lecturer at New York University, Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute, and Lincoln Center’s arts-education program for inner-city youth. Business, Nonprofit, and Government: As a consultant to Project for Public Spaces, an international urban-redevelopment organization, I created two multidisciplinary community panels to advise on the creative repurposing of the Pacific Pipe Factory on historic Mandela Parkway in Oakland, California. I consulted to the City of Oakland’s Public Art Department on a web-based public art guide. I hired photographers, web designers, and admin staff; designed the platform and the branding concept; art-directed; and conducted audience-market research. In Canada, I was engaged by the City of Calgary’s Arts and Culture Division to create This is My City, a citywide artrmaking program teaming local citizens with professional artists. As Director of Special Projects for Proprietary Media in New York, I worked on the re-purposing of the American Zoo and Aquarium Association’s environmental content for public access education. Recent clients include: The Center for Photography at Woodstock; Friends of the Congo, an international peace-advocacy NGO; Altaira Wealth Management, in Geneva, Switzerland; and the legal group at Avanade, a Microsoft-owned global business-technology firm. I have also consulted to Bay Area clients such as PEN Oakland, The Oakland Art gallery, The Myers Law Firm PC), Metrovation Properties, Energy Voyager (a green energy startup), the Oakland Art Gallery, and numerous other private clients. Literary and Publishing: I was Senior Editor of the 2004 and 2009 editions of The Sustainable World Sourcebook, The Sustainable World Coalition’s manual for strategies to reduce carbon footprint and engage in sustainable lifestyle choices. As a literary coach and editor to dozens of writers, my clients have included attorneys and businesspeople, patent scientists, fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, and memoirists. I have also edited Masters theses and Doctoral dissertations, and have advised authors on manuscript content, style, and structure. My nine published books include Everyday Zen, Office Zen, and a biography, The Dalai Lama. My most recent books, One Flash of Lightning: A Samurai Path for Living the Moment, and The Zen of Small Things, were released in 2005 and 2006, respectively (all Andrews McMeel Publishing). One Flash went to a second edition in 2007. My writing has been anthologized in Words Upon the Water, Oakland Out Loud, and in the 2013 and 2014 editions of The Metropolitan Review. My poetry has been featured on poetz.com, the literary Web site founded by poet, musician and producer Jackie Sheeler, and on the cultural blogsite of award-winning poet Kim Shuck. I am currently working on my tenth book, a novel, The Autobiography of Pinchas the Tailor. • For Scholastic Books Professional Development, co-designed an early Internet writing tutorial prototype. Editorial consultant and Teachers Edition writer at The McGraw-Hill School Division, at Scholastic Books, and the Language Arts department at Inkwell Publishing Solutions. • From 1995-2000, I wrote Teachers Edition lessons for English Language Arts at the McGraw-Hill educational division, as well as high school English curricula for Inkwell Publishing Solutions. • Creative Director for The Knowledge Project, a New York-based literacy-enrichment organization, Created K-12 public school programming curriculum, as well as professional development courses in the teaching of writing, student workshops with published authors, and co-produced the Children’s Creative Writing Campaign, an annual national event funded in part by Credit Suisse Boston. • Visiting writer at California Poets in the Schools (CPITS), and a teacher at the teen offenders’ facility in Marin County. In 2009, I led a workshop at the annual CPITS writers’ conference. • Frequent workshop presenter at the New York State Theater Educators Association Conference, teaching collaborative techniques for K-12 theater and writing educators. • Editor, In Our Own Write, a 1997 compendium of K-12 student writing from throughout the New York City Board of Education schools. Education. • Rochester Institute of Technology, Photography. • Daemen College, Painting. • BA in Interdisciplinary Art and Writing, SUNY Empire State College, forthcoming in May, 2015.
Availability
Weekdays after 9AM
Can Meet
Up to 1 hour away at my regular hourly rate, Up to 20 minutes away for no additional charge
Hobbies
I am an avid film and music buff, and enjoy attending live classical and jazz music performances. I have been riding horseback since the age of seven, and enjoy swimming, hiking, and camping.
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