CONSULTING

WHAT I CAN OFFER YOU

If you're interested in developing creative opportunities in the nonprofit sector for the literary arts, environmental humanities, resilient communities, or collaborative community engagement, please get in touch. I would enjoy the chance to help you create successful programs and projects. My experience and skills with the following could be part of our work together:

• Planning and development of conferences and ongoing programs
• Project development and management
• Evaluation of conferences, programs, and projects
• Process planning, coaching, and evaluation for community collaborations

MY EXPERIENCE & BACKGROUND

At the Island Institute, I developed skills in all aspects of nonprofit administration as well as program planning, development, and execution. The breadth of the Institute's programming was built around interests I shared in the literary arts, environmental humanities, resilient communities, and collaborative community initiatives.  Specifically, this included

• The annual Sitka Symposium, an interdisciplinary conference on writing and ideas focused on story, place and community. It ran from 1984 to 2009. One additional Symposium was held in 2014.
• Residencies for writers that provided time and space for their work as well as interaction with the community. I directed the program from 1989 to 2014.
• Connotations: The Island Institute Journal of prose and poetry by Institute program participants. Published twice a year from 1993 to 2014.
• Community sustainability projects, including partnerships to produce community indicator reports and a community food assessment.
• Training opportunities in collaborative leadership to resolve contentious community issues.
• Resilient Communities gatherings — a Resilient Communities Roundtable and Fostering a Literature of Resilience, a gathering of women writers.