For the last 10 years, I have worked on a variety of creative documentation and publishing projects ranging from anthologies, literary magazines, textbooks, and guides. I am an adept book project manager, producer, editor, and contributing writer, and work well with a design team to honor the spirit and message of any given project.
BOOKS:
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"AIMPRINT: NEW RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ARTS & LEARNING," 2008
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning tells the story of Project AIM, the arts integration mentorship project of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This book offers an expansive model for art integration that places relationships—between people, processes, concepts, and curricula—at the center of effective teaching practice. AIMprint develops a theory of practice that incorporates both the varied and collective interests of teaching artists, teachers, principals, college faculty, program administrators, and public school students. The authors provide concrete examples of how to create a community of learners at every level of an arts partnership; access higher-order thinking strategies that link art and literacy learning; utilize engaging templates for the development of high-quality arts-integrated curriculum and instruction; and build reciprocal partnerships between colleges and universities and between teaching artists and public schools, in order to improve the quality and texture of education in the lives of school children.
CO-EDITOR / BOOK PROJECT MANAGER: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN
CO-EDITOR: CYNTHIA WEISS
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Amanda Lichtenstein, Cynthia Weiss, Joanne Vena, Jenn Morea, Avery R. Young, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Leah Mayers, among others in the AIM Teaching Artist Cadre and partnering school principals and teachers
A Columbia College Chicago Publication
AIMprint: New Relationships in the Arts and Learning tells the story of Project AIM, the arts integration mentorship project of the Center for Community Arts Partnerships at Columbia College Chicago. This book offers an expansive model for art integration that places relationships—between people, processes, concepts, and curricula—at the center of effective teaching practice. AIMprint develops a theory of practice that incorporates both the varied and collective interests of teaching artists, teachers, principals, college faculty, program administrators, and public school students. The authors provide concrete examples of how to create a community of learners at every level of an arts partnership; access higher-order thinking strategies that link art and literacy learning; utilize engaging templates for the development of high-quality arts-integrated curriculum and instruction; and build reciprocal partnerships between colleges and universities and between teaching artists and public schools, in order to improve the quality and texture of education in the lives of school children.
CO-EDITOR / BOOK PROJECT MANAGER: AMANDA LICHTENSTEIN
CO-EDITOR: CYNTHIA WEISS
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Amanda Lichtenstein, Cynthia Weiss, Joanne Vena, Jenn Morea, Avery R. Young, Cecil McDonald, Jr., Leah Mayers, among others in the AIM Teaching Artist Cadre and partnering school principals and teachers
A Columbia College Chicago Publication
BLOGS
MANENO (POETRY NIGHT SERIES) Blog featuring writing produced during Maneno poetry reading series in Stone Town, Zanzibar. CONTRARY: THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR DISCONTENT Contributing writer to a literary blog featuring "Dispatches from Zanzibar" monthly essays about life on the island of Zanzibar, Tanzania, East Africa. TENDER POLITIC Site created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago as lead facilitator for the teachers' summer institute Personal Manifestos, Public Contradictions, based on the work of Jenny Holzer. Teachers examined the power of text as image to create art interventions. This site was updated as a live curricular document. STANZAZBREAK This site shared compelling poetry and participatory poetics residencies and projects with young people in Chicago and beyond. It was an ongoing exploration of why poetry and imaginative writing as a catalyst for school change & transformation. |
SOCIAL MEDIA | COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT I occasionally manage social media content on FB, TWITTER & INSTAGRAM accounts to share relevant news and information and build and engage community: Current: The Kanga Book Past: Busara Promotions, Sauti za Busara Break Arts: International Arts & Education Collaborative, Long Live the Girls Mustapha's Place TaraJazz |
![]() FEATURED
"On the Chopping Block Again," Ed. Magazine -- Harvard Graduate School of Education The Chicago Guide for Teaching & Learning in the Arts -- Chicago Public Schools |
![]() BOOK REVIEWS
I occasionally write book reviews over at www.goodreads.com, mostly fiction, autobiographies and poetry. |