statement, cv, resume

Why I should get a really Goode job

or

Why YOU should hire me to be the Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent

or

What makes me the right person to do social media for YOU

Poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge defines the aesthetic as that which engages the whole soul.

In life, I seek and find “that which engages the soul.” Then I write and speak about these aesthetic experiences for print, television, radio, and now through social media outlets such as WordPress blogs, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

My eclectic subjects range from literary, visual, musical, and dramatic arts to culinary arts like food and wine, from encouraging my readers to be engaged with their worlds by attending festivals like Burning Man and Coachella to environmental activism such as participating in group bike rides like the First Friday ArtRides I organize or joining a Grow Food Party Crew.

I moved to the Bay Area from Ventura, California as a poet, dancer, and performer at the Renaissance Faire. My enthusiasm for coffee led me as a 20 community college student to train with Mr. Peet of Peet’s Coffee and to work for him at the Menlo Park store.  My ability to convey that enthusiasm plus my love of wine (developed by visiting the tasting rooms of Napa and Sonoma) led to an invitation from the owners of Ridge to work for them in their tasting room.

I loved working at Ridge—I loved the wine, I loved the people, I loved being up there on the Ridge, driving the windy road and through the vineyards, setting out the wines on the picnic table, talking about wine with other enthusiasts. I loved the sense of family and community between the owners, winemaker Paul Draper, and all the people who worked together to put the wine on that picnic table for me to pour.  I also loved taking unfinished bottles home, tasting them as the week and the wine progressed.

I worked at Ridge for a year or so, helping in the tasting room and at special events, leaving to hike the 1700 mile length of California on the Pacific Crest Trail, and then on to UC Santa Cruz for a double major in Environmental Studies and Literature/Creative Writing. Before I left, I bought as much wine as my budget could allow, storing it in my grandfather’s wine cellar back home in Ventura, California. The last bottle of that wine collection was a 1980 Montebello Cabernet Sauvignon that we opened on New Year’s Eve 2001 at the Ahwanhee Hotel in Yosemite Valley National Park.

Yes, special wine makes an occasion even more memorable.

As a grad student in education, I loved teaching my undergraduate writing and environmental studies classes so much that I realized my calling was to teach adults; my masters is in English from the University of Nevada Reno.  Immediately following grad school, I moved to Art City Stone Sculpture Studios in Ventura, where I taught yoga, created and showed paintings and multimedia art, wrote poetry, and helped clients like artists and the City of Ventura to write grants and press releases.  I also had a newspaper column “Art Predator” where I covered food, wine, art, and anything else that caught my fancy and I was a regular guest on a local radio program.

In addition to working in college and university classrooms full and part-time, I wrote marketing materials and hosted promotional events for a program I developed using multi-year grants I helped write.  These materials included creating a website, a promotional video, brochures, newsletters and many other tools.

After many years of teaching college and working in academia, I started a blog in November 2007 to see if I wanted to use it as a teaching strategy. I found I LOVE BLOGGING, I am fascinated by social media, and I love learning about using these new tools for marketing!

Some of the events where I have, in essence, “live blogged” include:
August 2008 WordPress WordCamp SF CA
October 2008 Wine Bloggers Conference, Santa Rosa CA
January 2009 MacWorld,  SF CA (press pass)
January 2009 California Cultural Tourism Symposium (press pass)
Mar/April 2009 Yosemite Nat’l Park region
June 2009 WordPress WordCamp , SF CA
June 2009 Ojai Music Festival, Ojai CA (press pass)

These posts are all at http://artpredator.wordpress.com; some are at http://winepredator.wordpress.com.

One thing has led to another and, to make a long story short, I am on a new career path: using social media as a writer, content provider, and social media specialist for the wine industry—as the new Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent for Murphy-Goode!

RESUME

Gwendolyn Alley, MA
Perceptive. Innovative. Collaborative. Productive. Energetic. Intuitive. Passionate.
gwendolynalley (at) yahoo DOT com

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

ARTS/LIFESTYLE COLUMNIST, BLOGGER Created Art Predator newspaper column. Interviewed sources, researched, wrote arts and lifestyle articles and reviews 1995-1998.  Featured on radio. Developed artpredator.wordpress.com blog November 2007 to present an eclectic range of arts, lifestyle, wine, food, and poetry posts. Developed winepredator.wordpress.com to focus on wine.

GRANT WRITER Researched, wrote numerous grants for colleges, artists, community groups with a near 100% success rate (1994-2008). Awarded City of Ventura $5000 Literary Arts Fellowship 2004. Collaborated to write multi-million, multi-year academic program grants on service learning, learning communities, and literacy development. Awarded 5 Staff Innovation Grants from the Ventura College Foundation. Funded thousands of dollars of poetry programming with matching grants from Poets and Writers Inc.

MARKETER Publicized Moorpark College programs, conferences, events in collaboration and alone. Designed, edited, distributed program newsletters and websites  in association with graphic artists and alone. Created, publicized staff development events. Promoted individual artists, gallery shows, Art City studios. Marketed yoga classes.  PR for City of Ventura events. Promoted Spoken Word at Zoey’s Café in Ventura from 2001-2006.  Started yahoo group.

LITERARY WRITER, VISUAL ARTIST Literary Fellow for the City of Ventura 2005. Produced three dozen broadsides of original poetry and art for ARTLIFE Limited Editions. Featured artist Nov. 2003 issue. Published essays in LA Times and VC Reporter. Co-edited and contributed five poems to the anthology between sleeps: the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005. Edited high school and college newspapers. Wrote, produced, anchored high school TV news broadcast. Contributed artwork and ideas for over 30 group shows, curated two group shows, and hung two solos shows. Featured readings at over 50 events. Currently creating audio, video, and podcasts.

EDUCATOR Over 20 years experience teaching: mountaineering, environmental studies, writing, education, literature, yoga, blogging, faculty development workshops. Worked with K-12, college and university (since 1988), community. Presented keynote address, delivered papers, hosted round table discussions, organized conferences. Taught community college developmental writing students to organize and publicize Earth Day activities and literature students to do broadsides to publicize National Poetry Month events.

ADVENTURER Backpacked 2800 miles Mexico to Canada. Led 14,000’ peak climbs in CA, CO.  Cleaned climbs in WY, Utah, CA. Participated in Burning Man 10 times 1992-2007. Traveled over 100,000 miles in a VW van. Aided endangered species recovery.

EXPERIENCE

1997- present      Ventura County Community College District, Ventura, CA
1997-2000, 2003-present, Ventura College, adjunct, English
•    Fall 1999 Full time emergency hire, English
2000-2003, Moorpark College, Full time, grant facilitator
•    Fall 2000, Spring 2001 adjunct faculty, English
•    Fall 2001-Fall 2003, adjunct faculty, Education
1995-present   Back Alley Productions, Ventura, CA
Owner, Writer, Editor, Instructor
•    Created marketing and communication materials for Art City and artists
•    Wrote grants for artists, Midtown Community Council, Artists Union
•    Developed, marketed, taught yoga at various venues
2002-2003        California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA
•    Adjunct, graduate education: philosophy, critical pedagogy,  research
1995        City of Ventura Community Services, Ventura, CA
•    Development Assistant: grant writing, fund raising
•    Media Assistant: wrote media releases, generated stories

EDUCATION

1997     University of Nevada Reno NV  Master of Arts, English
1991     University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Graduate Certificate, Education
1988     University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Bachelor of Arts, Double Major:       Literature/Creative Writing, Environmental Studies

KEYWORD SUMMARY

Perceptive. Innovative. Collaborative. Productive. Energetic. Intuitive. Passionate.

gwendolynalley@yahoo.com  805.648.1708

MY PAST My roots in my local landscape and with its people go deep to influence and inspire my writing and my commitment to my community. My great-grandfather Elmer barbered on Main Street and lived as caretaker at Seaside Park (the fairgrounds) while my great-grandmother Anna wrote for the LA Times and managed Shepherd’s Gardens. My grandfather Manny served in the Fire Department and my mother Suzanne performs living history steeped in local historical gossip. I graduated from high school where I edited the newspaper, anchored a monthly cable news show, and served as a rep on the school board.

I attended community college here, and performed and sold poetry at Renaissance Faires in California and Colorado. At UC Santa Cruz, I studied with Al Young, Page Stegner, James Houston, and Lucille Clifton. As a UCSC graduate student in education, I taught writing and environmental studies, and continued teaching while earning a Masters in English at the University of Nevada Reno.  During and following college, I traveled the West: backpacking 2800 miles from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail (and writing a novel about the experience for my senior thesis), living for months at a time in a tent, a Toyota truck, and a VW van doing field work in CA, NV and WY to protect endangered species.

When I returned here in 1994, my father helped me build a studio at Art City. I wrote “The Art Predator” newspaper column, hosted poetry at Café Voltaire and Zoey’s Cafe (over five years and 60 shows), organized and curated three art and poetry shows with readings at Art City (one funded by a City Artist’s Fellowship), participated in dozens of art shows including two solo shows (one on the Queen Mary), published three dozen poems in ARTLIFE, made multiple chapbooks, and gave readings in California, Nevada, Washington, and New Mexico.  In 1997, I began teaching at local community colleges part and full time; with grant money, I presented poetry, speaker, and living history events for the campus and community. In 2004, the City awarded me a Literary Arts Fellowship.  In 2008, my students and I organized Earth Month and National Poetry Month events including workshops and readings from Amalio Madueno, Laynie Browne, and Al Young.

MY PRACTICE: My environmental studies thesis advisor Dr. Ken Norris taught me about dedication–he would get up to write at 4am, then return to sleep. I am in my eighth year of participating in “The 3:15 Experiment” where poets worldwide wake nights in August at 3:15am local time to write, staying connected with the hypnogogic/hypnopompic state, between awareness and dreams. In 2006, I co-edited a collection of 3:15 poetry with Danika Dinsmore, who began the experiment with Bernadette Mayer in 1993; it includes 24 poets from around the globe. Other influences on my practice include workshops with Natalie Goldberg, Ntozake Shange, Bob Holman, Sharon Doubiago, Julia Cameron, and at the Taos Poetry Circus, and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. In June 2008, I participated in the Conceptual Poetry & Its Others Symposium where presentations and conversations with Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Barbara Henning, Craig Dworkin, Christian Bok and others still reverberate and influence my projects; to improve my blogging, I just returned from WordCamp in San Francisco.

MY PURPOSE & PROJECTS: Writing and poetry foster understanding within an individual and between individuals by bridging differences and connecting people.

• In November 2007, I started this blog,  http://artpredator.wordpress.com where I post poetry and prose several times a week. By August 18, I’ve produced 260 posts in nine months, and received 700 reader comments, over 22,000 page views, and have regular readers from all over the world. (9/9/08 update–closing in on 24,000 page views)
• I am preparing to send out Love & Terror at 3:15am: Poems from the 3:15 Experiment 2001-2008.
• On 8/8/08, I started a new writing project where at least once a week until 9-9-09 (at least 54 times in 13 moons) I plan to loop from my house down San Jon Barranca to the Beach to the Ventura River to Main Street to head east back to San Jon Barranca and home. Each week I will travel my loop in present time but also back in a periodicity of 50 years, then 500, then 5000, etc. I intend to observe and write about the present conditions (the seasons, the actions, the interactions) and integrate and incorporate the past (natural and cultural history). I will draw on my mother’s research using sources from the Museum, and my own research including interviews with social and natural scientists, in order to tell the stories of the Ventura bioregion, from Pine Mountain to the sea, from various perspectives. (To review posts related to this project go here 9/3/08 and here 8/21/08.)

“The Art Predator”
CV (a little tongue in cheek but all the readings and facts are authentic)

ART PREDATOR CV
Ventucky CA (SO SB NO LA)
http://artpredator.wordpress.com

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Master of Arts in Enflish,
University of North American Casinos
Theory and Practice of Teaching Wiring, Digging the Donner Party w/Don Hardesty, Death Valley Desert Dioramas, Native American Lit & seduction, Truckee River robbery. Second language: biology. Thesis: Desert Dances (advisors Tchudi and Glotfelty).

Graduate Certificate, Educration,
Uncle Charley’s Summer Camp
Feminist/Multicultural Pedagogies, Literacy Development, Critical Theory/Pedagogy, Science Studies with Primate Visions Donna Haraway.

Bachelor of Arts, Literature/Creative Writhing,
Uncle Charley’s Summer Camp
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Studies,
Uncle Charley’s Summer Camp
Double Major Senior Thesis: Switchbacks a novel about a 28000 mile Mexico to Canada backpacking trip

Diploma, Buny High School, Ventucky CA
Print and broadcast journalism, leadership, tutoring, rabble rousing, cookie baking at keg parties

EXPERIENCE

Back Alley Productions:
ART PREDATOR BLOGging, literary and visual arts, editing, tutoring, yoga instruction, bike riding, stone sculpture sanding, food growing, outdoor living, 315 experimenting, body painting

Ventucky County Community College District,
Faculty in Academic English Obfuscation and Education Change Agentism, Full and Part-time, Teacher/Reading Development Partnership Grant Facilitator, Literacy Specialist

Californification State University, Valley of the Dolls,
Adjunct Faculty, Edufuscation

University of Northern American Casinos,
Graduate Student Instructor, Engfish

Community College of Northern American Casinos,
Adjunct Faculty, Engflish

Uncle Charley’s Summer Camp
Graduate Instructor: Writhing Program, College Score
Teaching Assistant: Lickature, Environmental Adventures
KMart College: Town Hall Manager, Assistant to the Provost, dessert taster and distributor

Select other employment and experience
finding spotted owls and stopping logging activities in Clearcut National Forest, Peregrine Fund hack site feeder of baby quail to peregrines and sitter, Renaissance Faire hay bale stage road poet sales and dancer, City of Ventucky moolah finder and hooplah maker, substitute ringmaster, Collegiate Peaks mountaineer, Peet’s caffiend sales and education, Ridge Winery tasting room edumonte, “ Art Predator” rag columnist, Ventucky College Press editor

OTHER EXPERIENCE includes
backpacks: Pacific Crest Trail  Mexico to Canada, 2800 miles
technical climbs: Pingora, Wolfshead, Castleton, Irene’s Arete, The Grand Teton;
non-technical climbs: Mt Whitney, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia;

AWARDS AND GRANTS, select and recent

$50-$350 in numerous matching grants from Poets and Writers, Inc

2007 $2500 Staff Innovation Grant, Ventucky College Foundation

2007 $1500 Two Civic Engagement Grants of $750 each, Californification U

2005 $5000 Artist’s Fellowship, Established Literary Artist, City of Ventucky Cultural Affairs

2004 $1200 Staff Innovation Award, Ventucky College Foundation

2003 $400 Tech Mentorship with Dr. John, Un-Moored College

2002 Faculty Initiative Award, Un-Moored College

2001 $500 Faculty Development Travel Award to Taos Poetry Circus, Un-Moored College

2000 Finalist, Open Slam Competition, Taos Poetry Circus, Taos NM “That Man” “These Brothers They“

before the millienium:

3 Staff Innovation Awards, Ventucky College Foundation

2 Earth Day Grants with Midtown Community Council, Californification Parks Foundation

2 City of Ventucky Artists Fellowships

1 Climbing gym membership, Jackson Hole Wyoming, for “granite lover” poem

2 Tuition fellowships to Squalid Valley Community of Writers, 1 from Lannon Foundation

1 $1000 Research Grant, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU
“Landscaping with Language”

1 Graduate Student Travel Fellowship, Modern Languid Association meeting, SF

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, recent and select

10/01-12/06 Host, Curator, Grant Writer, Spoken Word Salon, Zoey’s Café, Ventucky, features * funded by Poets & Writers:
➢ 2006 Slam 101 finals; Ventucky: Marsha de la O, Phil Taggart, Shelley Savren, Elijah Imlay, gauvin, Alis Soto, Suzanne Lawrence, Jeff Grimes, Kurt, Mama Val, Friday, Mary Kay Rummel, Roe Estep; Cambodia: David Oliveira; Sweden: Emil Brikha; New York: Rich Forster*; Pacific NorthWest– Oregon: Sharon Doubiago*, Antoinette Claypoole; Washington: Paul Nelson, Dawn-Marie Oliver; Vancouver, Canada: Danika Dinsmore*, Tod McCoy; Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: Dolores Dorantes; Minneapolis: Michael “Spam” Hall, Scott Vetch, Cynthia French; Fallon NV: nila Northsun*; LA County: Pat Payne*, Anne Silver, Larry Jaffe, Jen Hofer, Brigitte Secard, Frankie Drayus, Waymon Barnes, Charlotte O’Brien, Jelena Andjelkovic, Liz Gonzales, Jorge Monterossa, Dorothea Grossman, Brendan Constantine, Rick Lupert; Oxnard: Jackson Wheeler, Ryan Gillenwater, Tim Pompey, Paradox, F. Albert Salinas; San Luis Obispo County: 2004 Poet Laureate Michael McLaughlin, Dian Sousa*; Santa Barbara County: Edwin Shaw, Enid Osborn, David Starkey, Glenna Luschei, Chryss Yost, Kelly Peinado, Lisa Citore*, Paul Willis*; Rocky Mountains–Taos, NM: Amalio Madueno*; Denver: Eleni Sikelianos

Summer 2006, 2007 Facilitator, free afternoon literacy activities for 12-18 year old at-risk girls, Artbarn

Organizer, LIVE

Member, Talespinners Living History Performance Group (activities include Architecture Weekend); Midtown Community Council; AFT; Poets and Writers, Inc; Ventucky Poetry Festival 1998-2002; Ojai Poetry Festival 2007

PUBLICATIONS

Poetry and Prose Publications and Projects, recent and select

The Moon Magazine May 2007, Ft Wayne Indiana (2 poems)

between sleeps: the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005, co-editor with Danika Dinsmore, (en theos press: 2006); five poems

“8/10/05” Poem, Ventucky County Star, April 20, 2006

“8/3/01” Poem, VC Reporter, April 13, 2006

“A walk through the future: A poet imagines what Midtown could look like one day” VC Reporter essay March 17, 2005

Over three dozen poetry/artworks in over 30 ARTLIFE Limited Editions issues 1996-2004 including:

June 2004 “Man Ray Kitty,” Feb. 2004 three untitled poems, Nov. 2003 front and back covers, featured artist/poet, chapbook, 3 untitled poems, Oct. 2003 untitled from The 3:15 Experiment, Sept. 2003 untitled from The 315 Experiment, Aug. 2003 “Lucky Penny,” July 2003 “I was thinking about getting a dog” March 2003 “Taxes” Feb. 2003“bread” March 2002 “Two Tongues Untangled” Dec. 2001 “Waiting” also at www.art-life.com Oct. 2001 “Sonnet for September 11” (placed first in issue), Dec. 2000 “I would rather be an oak than a eucalyptus…” Dec. 1999 “Moon Muses” also at www.art-life.com

Beyond The Valley of the Contemporary Poets: 2003 anthology: “Man Ray Kitty,” “usually,” “I tried to wake him”

ARTLIFE POEMS: Cheaper by the Dozen, Back Alley Productions, 2003

“Love and Terror: Poems in August at 315am” 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 www.315experiment.com

“Celebrate” Ventucky Community Values Magazine Spring 2001 (also in ARTLIFE March 1999)

Invitational and Feature Poetry Readings and Events recent and select:

12/06 w/musician Jeff Kaiser, Bell Arts Factory, Ventucky (host Ryan Gillenwater)

9/06 Corners of the Mouth, Linnea’s, SLO (host Kevin Patrick Sullivan)

9/06 Experimental Poetry & Film Festival, Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA

6/06 Tao of Sex: Poetry, music, dance, curated by Lisa Citore, Zoey’s Cafe

4/06 3:15 Fiesta: coordinator, featured, workshop co-facilitator, panelist, publicist, host:
> 4/20 Un-Moored College
> 4/20 Barnes & Noble, Westlake
> 4/20 Zoey’s Café, Ventucky
> 4/22 Bell Arts Factory, Ventucky: poetry workshops and panel co-facilitator
> 4/23 Artists Union Gallery, Ventucky
> 4/24 Barnes & Noble, Westlake;
> 4/24 greeneverymonday, Culver City (host Rat Pack Slim)
> 4/25 the underground, Ventucky (host Dan Flores)
> 4/26 The Ugly Mug, Orange (host Steve Ramirez)

4/06 Slam 101, the underground, Ventucky (host Paradox the Poet)

4/06 The 100th Broadside celebration, Cobalt Café, Reseda CA (host Rick Lupert)

3/06 Wednesday Writing Workshop facilitator, the underground (host Mama Val)

12/05 Slam 101, the underground, Ventucky CA (host Paradox the Poet)

10/05 Artsweek, Ventucky City Hall, (host Alice Atkinson) sponsors: City of Ventucky, Poets & Writers Inc

10/05 Rhythm and Words, Seabreeze Gallery, Ventucky (host Richard Newsham) sponsors, City, Poets in the School

5/05 Tao of Sex, UC Santa Beer Belly Multicultural Center (curator Lisa Citore)

4/05 Foothill Tech “Poetry Alive” Ventucky CA: 2 readings (host Linda Kapala)

4/05 Un-Moored College, funded by Poets & Writers (host Tracy Tennenhouse)

12/00, 01, 02, 03, 04 ARTLIFE Anniversary Invitational Ventucky CA (host Phil Taggart)

11/04 Rhythm and Words Series, E.P. Foster Library, Ventucky CA (host Lucia Lemeiu

3/04 Valley Contemporary Poets anthology publication party, Portrait of a Bookstore, Studio City, CA (host Elizabeth Iannacci)

12/03 Valley Contemporary Poets, Cobalt Café, Reseda CA (host Frankie Drayus)

10/03 Poetry Zone, Karpeles Manuscript Museum, Santa Barbara, (Virginia Mariposa)

9/03 Tuesday Night Poets, Abednego’s Book Shoppe, Ventura CA (host Roe Estep)

8/03 Moonday, Santa Monica CA (hosts Anne Silver and Alice Pero)

6/03 Murphys CA (host nilaNorthSun)

3/03 ARTLIFE Poetry Series, Artists Union Gallery, Ventura CA (host Phil Taggart)

2/03 Arcade Series at the Carnegie, Oxnard (host J. Wheeler; Poets & Writers)

6/00, 01, 02, 03 Poets Living Room, Taos Poetry Circus, NM (host Amalio Madueno)

11/97 San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival (host Kevin Patrick Sullivan)

9/95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 05, 07 Black Rock Arts Festival, NV (various venues, hosts, radio stations

COLLEGE SERVICE recent and select

4/08 12 Earth Month events including Earth Day and a visit by California Poet Laureate Al Young

5/07 Advisor (with Dr. Porter and others), VC Planet Preservation Club

4/07 Member (nominated by Dr. Calote), American Democracy Project, CSU and community colleges VCCCD and SBCC faculty are working together to bring an environmental theme and service learning opportunities to our campuses.

4/07 Organizer, Global Warming 101: VC Earth Day, service learning project with English 1A and Bio 10 students

9/06 Organizer, International Peace Day, service learning project with English 1A students

3/06 Facilitator, “Journaling for Healing” V C Breast Cancer Support and Advocacy Group

2004-2007 Host and curator, V C Writing Life Speaker Series readings/lectures/discussions include
Poets Sharon Doubiago, liz gonzalez, Maria Melendez, Amalio Madueno, Jen Hofer, Pat Payne, Amy Uyematsu, Shelley Savren, Ryan Gillenwater; Editors Chris Erskine, Hillary Johnson; Author Matt Lawrence, Like a Splinter in Your mind: The Philosophy Behind the Matrix Trilogy; Living Historians Glenda Jackson “Civil War Mourning Practices,” Suzanne Lawrence as Helen Hunt Jackson etc.

9/03-07 Participant, V C One Book, One Campus

11/03, 12/02, 4/02 Presenter, Oxnerd College Scholar Series (host Shelley Savren)

1998-2003 Auctioneer’s Assistant, V C Art Auction

2000-2003 Member, Un-Moored College Committees
Academic Faire, Learning Community Institutes, Staff Development, Creative Writing Course Outline revision

4/01, 02, 03 Presenter, Un-Moored College Multicultural Day:
> Voices of the Taos Poetry Circus with Amalio Madueno of New Mexico, Pat Payne of LA, and gauvin of Ventucky;
> African American Voices with Sojourner Kincaid Rolle of Santa Barbara and gauvin of Ventura

1999-2001 Participant, Multicultural Collaborative Learning Communities, Ventucky College
Retreats, meetings, flex day presenter

PRESS radio and print, recent and select

April 28, 2008 Blogtalk Radio Interview by nila northSun and reading

April 2008 Ventucky County Star, National Poetry Month “Lifelines,” Karen Lindell

Dec 2006 Ventucky County Star, Karen Lindell

July 2006 “Invitation to Create,” VC Reporter, Saundra Sorenson

May 18, 2006 “Slam through the poetry at Spoken Word Salon event,” Ventucky County Star

April 21, 2006 radio interviews on KKZZ with Lisa Osborne

April 21, 2006 KVTA on Planet Spence

April 20, 2006 “In the Wee Small Hours” by Karen Lindell, Ventucky County Star Time-out

April 13, 2006 “Burning the Midnight Oil at 3:15am” by Stacey Wiebe, VC Reporter

March 25, 2006 “Beyond Words” interview/reading with host Roni* KCLU, Thousand Oaks CA

Jan. 10, 2004 “Beyond Words” interview/reading with host Roni* KCLU, Thousand Oaks, CA

Dec. 11, 2003 “Poet celebrates new life and ARTLIFE” by Michel Cicero, VC Reporter

July 31, 2003 “Rocket Garden with Chris Vestuto” interview/reading KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA