Work Experience

2004-2008+: PANA Institute at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA.

Communications Coordinator (2007+)

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Administrative Assistant (2004-2007)

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2002-2003: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Berkeley, CA.

Office Coordinator (Church Administrator).

• Primary staffperson for a busy lay-led congregation: 105 members, $124K budget, many public programs, and no minister.
• Managed busy facilities rental service; brought in rental income at at 153% of budgeted projection ($30K projected, $46K actual.)
• Supervised contract and volunteer staff, including bookkeeper, custodian, building & grounds maintenance.
• Provided advice, assistance, and leadership development for congregational committees: worship, membership, social justice, board of trustees, etc.
• Managed financial and institutional information flow and legal records.
• Modernized office systems: built congregational website and email lists; built relational database for tracking memberships, donations, room reservations; installed wireless Macintosh network providing high-speed internet access with additional computer station for volunteers.
• Brought in income at 155% of fiscal year projection ($80K projected, $124K actual)
• Increased membership from 57 to 105 (over three years, the first two as volunteer Membership chair.)

1995-2000: Freelance Desktop Publishing and Computer Services, San Francisco, CA.

Internet training & setups, newsletter and website creation for various clients, including:
• 1997-2000: The Marija Gimbutas home page (biographical film of a visionary feminist archeologist.)
• 1995-2000: Starhawk's Home Page (ecofeminist political activist; author of The Spiral Dance.)
• 1997-98: The San Francisco Bay Area Book Council (independent bookstores). The American Back Society (chiropractic).
• 1996: The Reclaiming Collective. PantheaCon '96. Morningstar Books. Tenberry Software.

1992-1994: Kalleen's Computer Products, San Rafael, CA.

Marketing Department - Publications Specialist.
Produced a bimonthly four-color marketing magazine and related flyers and mailers.
• Research and assembly of content; ad copy descriptive writing and editing
• Scanning and image creation in Photoshop and Illustrator; design, layout, and prepress in QuarkXPress
• Training and supervision of publications assistants; maintaining relations with contributing writers

1991-1992: N.I. Sequoyah Defense Committee, Berkeley, CA.

Activist and law clerk.
• Researched legal questions, made contact with witnesses, prepared documents, and provided general administrative services as a state funded law clerk in a capital case.
• Produced literature to generate interest in the Defense Committee. (Native American sovereignty issues; domestic political repression; international linguistic interest.)
• Made verbal presentations to interested individuals and groups; responded to press inquiries from television and print media.

1988-1989: Unitarian Universalist Association, Boston, MA.

Administrative Assistant, Department for Social Justice:
• Edited, maintained, and distributed the 200-page Resolutions and Resources social justice handbook to member congregations.
• Responded to telephone and written queries from congregational social justice activists; designed various brochures and informational packets on requested social justice topics.
• Created a contact database, and provided general computer consultation and training.

Administrative Assistant, Department for Religious Education:
• Updated membership database design.
• Supported RE/naissance Module leadership education program.

Education and Training

2000-2001: New College of California, San Francisco, CA.
BA in Humanities; emphasis in Multiculturalism and Religious Education.
1998-1999: City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Focus on Holistic Health and Chinese Culture (studies in Traditional Chinese Medicine).
1990-1997: The Reclaiming Community, San Francisco, CA.
Magical and ritual arts training with Starhawk and friends in an eclectic feminist tradition. Courses completed included Elements of Magic, Iron Pentagram, Summer Intensive, Teachers Track. Published an article, "White Feminism and Pagan Men," (Reclaiming Newsletter #59, Summer 1995) exploring gender and race in pagan community.
1991: Humanistic Hypnosis Center, Berkeley, CA.
Certified Hypnotherapist. Training in the use of meditation and imagery for insight and healing.
1990-1991, 1994: Clairvoyant training, Berkeley, CA.
Visualization, meditation, social analysis, guided by Kat Woods (Lewis Bostwick/Berkeley Psychic Institute style).
1989: Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Trained as a rape crisis counselor.
1989-1990: University of Massachusetts at Boston, College of Public and Community Service.
Focus on domestic violence and alternative education.
1987-1988: Brown University, Providence, RI.
Pre-medical focus. Active volunteer in the Women's Center and the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Students educational outreach program; published in the literary journal Passionfruit Review.
1986-1987: Lycee Saint-Dominique, Pau, France.
Total immersion in a high school in France.
1985: Junulara Kongreso de Esperanto, Germany.
Taught myself the language Esperanto at the age of fifteen. Taught a friend the language at the age of sixteen, won a scholarship (Congress-Bundestag/Esperanto League of North America), and traveled together with a U.S. youth delegation in the international Esperanto community for four weeks.
1984-1986: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA.
Focus on history of social justice movements in the U.S., especially labor, women's, gay and lesbian rights. Began active study of feminist theologies and neopaganism.
Language skills:
Fluent in French and Esperanto. Some Russian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese. English placement at the top of the Brown University student body.

Spiritual/Community Leadership Experience

1996 - 2000: First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

1997 - 2000: Young Adult Network (UUYAN ages 18-35) program coordinator. Database, website, listservs, and newsletter; program design and support for two weekly evening meetings (Talking Circle ritual; UU Guest Elders program; Topics in UUYAN Community - Sex, Race, Age; Magical Humanism...); a monthly Circle Worship, periodic overnights, social activities, leadership development, religious education courses.
1997 - 2000: UUs for a Just Economic Community, San Francisco chapter.
1998: founded weekly Social Justice Spirituality Circle.
1997 - 98: Assistant Teacher in Jr. High youth group.
1996 - 2000: various Adult Religious Education classes as student or teacher.

1995-1997: PantheaCon, San Jose/San Francisco, CA.

Pagan conference. A large annual gathering of presentations from many different groups and traditions, organized by the Ancient Ways community center. Presented workshop on paganism on the internet in 1995, resulting in the formation of an enduring online community. Built event website in 1996.

1990-1997: The Reclaiming Community (Feminist Spirituality with Starhawk and friends), San Francisco, CA.

Member of an established pagan community providing large public rituals eight times a year, plus smaller classes and events.
1990-1993: Multicultural Ritual Planning Group (mostly pagans of color, working with author Starhawk and other Reclaiming witches; planned the annual Multicultural Samhain, a public ritual against racism attended by several hundred people; year-round circle meetings for 20+ people.)
1993: Evening Classes: Elements of Magic, Iron Pentagram series.
1994: Reclaiming Summer Intensive (California Witchcamp).
1995: Reclaiming Teachers Training.
1996: Created the reclaiming.org website for greater accessibility of community documents, and organized the first e-cell of webspinning volunteers. Created the RESTR listserv to facilitate wider community inclusion in the organizational restructuring process.

1990-1993: Pagan and Feminist Spirituality circles, Berkeley, CA.

1993: Blood Sisters, a women's spirituality group for women of color.
1991: Pagan-based 12-step group for recovery from patriarchy.
1990: Pagan coven formed from UC Berkeley campus students (from the UU-led Bisexual Rap group).

1990-1993: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Berkeley, MA:

Participated in weekly interfaith death penalty vigils at San Quentin prison, and small-group community (Talking Stick Circles, M. Scott Peck) work.

1988-1989: Unitarian Universalist Association staff, Boston, MA:

Department for Social Justice (with Loretta Williams, Jay Deacon)
Department for Religious Education (with Jeannellen Ryan, Judith Frediani).

1985-1987 (age 16-18), Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA:

Organizer of WINGS, a high school women's spirituality group.

1980-1984 (age 11-15), First Parish Unitarian Universalist, Framingham, MA:

Youth group leader (Jr. High, Liberal Religious Youth, and Young Religious Unitarian Universalists.) Youth Adult Council member. Massachusetts Bay District conference participant.

District-level (Pacific Cental District) Unitarian Universalist activities, 1997-2002.

2002, led District Assembly workshop on multiculturalism.
2001, led Leadership Development Day workshop on multiculturalism.
2000, Lifespan Religious Education Consultant Advisory committee. District Assembly Planning committee, Bridging Program (Youth to Adult Rite of Passage) committee.
1999 - 2000: PCD Young Adult Network steering committee. (UUYAN Now! Claiming Our Adulthood conference and ritual, planning committee Jan-Apr 1999; Creating Sacred Space worship leadership curriculum team, Jan-Feb 2000; weekend-long Bridging program, Spring 2000; ongoing outreach, publications and database.)
1999, Lifespan Religious Education Consultant Task Force member.
1998, 1999: Leadership Development Day (Track Meet) participant.
February 7-8, 1998: Growth Conference participant.
Fall 1997: PCD Young Adult Network conference, small-group leader.

Continental-level Unitarian Universalist activities, 1998-2003.

2003: Helped organize a ground-breaking conference of Asian-American Unitarian Universalists.

2000: February, Southwest District (SWD) Young Adult Leadership Conference, "Spiritual Calling and Leadership Vision." Keynote speaker; led workshop on changing group dynamics via worship design. June, General Assembly, Nashville, TN. Presented the influential "Children of a Different Tribe" workshop; received the UUA Young Adult and Campus Ministry award.

1999: General Assembly, Salt Lake City, Utah. Helped organize a significant young adult leaders contingent from my congregation. August, Young Adult annual conference (ConCentric and OPUS): provided a workshop, "Children of a Different Tribe." Participants in tears; Marlin Lavanhar invokes the name "Prophet of UUYAN."

1998: General Assembly, Rochester, NY. Young Adult Caucus Vice-Moderator and worship planning team. West Coast UUYAN Conference, "The Big O," Oregon.

UUs for a Just Economic Community continental meetings: January 1999, Rowe, MA; June 1999, Salt Lake City, UT; March 2000, Chicago, IL.

DRUUMM (Diverse and Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries) continental meeting: June 1999, Salt Lake City, UT. June 2000, Nashville, TN. December 2001-2002, webmaster www.druumm.org.

Social Justice Activism Experience

Cultural Experience/Identity:
Bisexual, cross-class, mixed-race, humanist pagan UU.
2000-2003: Berkeley, CA.
Various leadership roles within of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, a congregation focused on social justice activism.
1997-2000: San Francisco, CA.
Nurturing relations between UUYAN (the UU Young Adult Network) and UUJEC (UUs for a Just Economic Community).
1992-1997: San Francisco, CA.
Pagan- and anarchist-based study and protest actions. Challenging White Supremacy workshop series with white anti-racist activist Sharon Martinas, 1992, 1994. Anarchist Conference, 1996. California Prison Focus (Pelican Bay Information Project), mental health work with survivors of human rights abuses with Dr. Holbrook Teter, 1997.
1990-1992: Berkeley, CA.
Weekly death penalty vigils. Recovery movement work. Published in the ground-breaking bisexual feminist anthology, Bi Any Other Name, Alyson Press, 1991.
1989-1990: College of Public and Community Service, Boston, MA.
Active in GAMIT (queer student group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology); 1989 March on Washington for Women's Lives; Rape Crisis Hotline volunteer.
1987-1988: Brown University, Providence, RI.
Lesbian/Bi/Gay Students Association activist; educational outreach to freshman dorms. Women's Center volunteer.
1984-1986: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, Sudbury, MA.
Created a much-needed Women's Movement History textbook supplement, still in use. Organized an Esperanto club and a feminist women's group.