"Girl Gazing from her Window," N. Pinede (1982)
Whidbey Island, Washington.
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Education
- PhD, Philosophy of Education, Indiana University, 2002. Ford Dissertation Diversity Fellowship and Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education, 2000-2001. American Educational Research Association Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000.
- MA, Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University, 2001. Hearst Minority Fellowship, 1996-1997.
- MA, English and French Literature, St. John's College, Oxford University, 1989. Rhodes Scholarship, 1986-1989.
- BA, Special Concentrations (Literature and Social Criticism), magna cum laude with highest honors, Harvard University, 1986. John Harvard and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholarships, 1982-1986; Captain Jonathan Fay Prize, 1986.
- Additional coursework: University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism; University of Paris, Sorbonne; Cambridge University, England.
Professional Experience
- Director of Communications, Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs, Indiana University, 2008-present.
- Writer/Editor, Office of the Vice President for Institutional Development and Student Affairs, Indiana University, 2006-2008.
- Writer-Publications Specialist, Office of the Vice President for Institutional Development and Student Affairs, Indiana University, 2005-2006.
- Visiting Faculty, "Introduction to American Philanthropy," Hutton Honors College, Indiana University, Fall 2005.
- Instructor, "Writing the Memoir," People's University, Bloomington, Indiana (see recommended readings); 2005.
- Writer/Editor, IU Office of the President, 2003-2004. Wrote and edited correspondence, speeches, and other documents.
- Program Coordinator, Grantmakers Without Borders, 2002-2003. Coordinated program committees, website, research, and other aspects of funders' network.
- Writer/Researcher, Literary Newsmakers for Students (Thomson Gale, 2006). Education in the 1930s and 1940s in American Decades Primary Sources (Thomson Gale, 2003).
- Adjunct and Associate Instructor, IU School of Education, 1998-2003. Taught "Education and American Culture," (history and philosophy of education, multicultural education, arts in education, and service learning and graduate seminar in Philosophy of Education.
- Graduate Assistant for Director of External Relations, Office of the Dean, IU School of Education, 2000-2001. Conducted historical research project on School of Education alumni college presidents. Wrote and edited feature articles for alumni magazine (e.g., "The Higher Education President"), annual report, and other publications.
- Research Associate, Center for Public Service and Leadership, IUPUI, 1997-1998. Wrote publicity and research material for university service-learning center, including AmeriCorps and America Reads. Designed website and edited sourcebook.
- Researcher/Editor, Resource Guide for Indiana Writers, Writers Center of Indiana, 1997.
- Assistant for Development, The Peirce Edition Project, IUPUI, 1997. Helped establish development office for American philosopher's critical editions, published by Indiana University Press. Conducted prospect research, donor relations, and market survey for capital campaign, external communications, and institutional and individual fundraising efforts.
- Interim Staff Liaison, Association of Black Foundation Executives, at Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, IUPUI, 1996-1997.
- Executive Assistant to President and CEO, American Refugee Committee, 1995.
Writing Residencies, Workshops, and Awards
- Pabst Endowed Fund for Writers Scholarship, Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2010.
- Pierre Toussaint-Roger Jerome Radloff Foundation Scholarship, 2009-2010.
- Elizabeth George Foundation Scholarship (full-tuition merit scholarship), Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program, 2009-2011.
- Individual Artist Program Grant, Indiana Arts Commission, 2008-2009 (novel).
- NY Summer Writers Institute Master Fiction Class with Marilynne Robinson and Mary Gordon, 2008.
- Fellowship for writer's residency at Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers, 2008.
- New Voices Scholarship to Key West Literary Seminar, 2008.
- Scholarship to Vermont Studio Center, 2007.
- Residency at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, 2007.
- Grant to support novel-in-progress from the Elizabeth George Foundation, 2007.
- Paris Writers Workshop. Writing Intensive Tutorial, 2006.
- Indiana Arts Commission, Individual Artist Project grant, 2005.
- Honorable Mention, Greer Fellowship for Creative Writing, Bloomington Area Arts Council, 2005.
- Scholarship to Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) Writing workshop, 2005.
- Indiana University Bookstore Scholarship, Indiana University Writers' Conference, 2005.
- Thomas Jones Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 2005.
- Scholarship to A Room of Her Own (AROHO) retreat, 2005.
- Scholarship to RopeWalk Writers Retreat, IN, 2004.
- Member of Combined Fiction and Nonfiction Workshop, IU Writers' Conference, 1999 and 2000
- Fellowship to Norcroft Women Writers Retreat, MN, 1995.
- Visiting Minority Scholar/Artist in English and Communications, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1994-1995.
- Writing Workshops with Carol Polsgrove (IU School of Journalism); Scott Russell Sanders (IU); Al Young and Charles Harper Webb (IU Writers' Conference); Bharati Mukherjee and Bernard Taper (UC Berkeley); Lewis Hyde and Perri Klass (Harvard).
- Workshop Member, Women Writing for a Change, IN.
- Scholastic Gold Key Award for Poetry; Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Periodical Writing Award; Glamour Top Ten College Women; Harvard Festival of One-Act Plays.
Selected Publications
- Nonfiction: "Revisiting the Big Three Foundations," (co-authored with Robert Arnove) in Critical Sociology, 2005; Chapters on Education in American Decades: Primary Sources (Gale, 2003); "Finely Aware and Richly Responsible: Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum and Maxine Greene on Literature, Ethics and the Moral Imagination" (PhD Dissertation, 2002).
- Journalism: "The Higher Education President," Chalkboard; "Krik? Krak?," Twin Cities Reader; "Hope on a Caribbean Island," San Francisco Chronicle; "Discovering Myself as a Black Woman," Radcliffe Quarterly; "If You're Thinking of Living in Milford," The New York Times.
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