CONSULTING
Current Projects
University of
California-Berkeley (Berkeley, CA). Lead Evaluator for the Oakland Technology
and Education Collaborative, a digital storytelling project to create
“college-going identities” with low-achieving ninth grade
students, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Community Technology
Center program.
Bay Area
Video Coalition (San Francisco, CA). Lead Evaluator of the Job Campaign Manager
Initiative, a digital tool to support unemployed and under-employed adults in
four San Francisco low-income
housing developments, funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
(Richmond, CA). Lead Evaluator for Learning Without
Borders, a media literacy and multicultural arts program for 4th
graders, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Arts in Education
program.
California
Arts Council Demonstration Projects. Lead evaluator for a several
arts education projects. Member of the
CAC Evaluation Advisory Committee.
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation
( Lowell,
MA). Lead Evaluator for a Community
Technology Center
program addressing information access and the digital divide funded by the
U.S. Department of Education.
Miami Museum of Science (Miami,
FL). Lead Evaluator for a virtual reality
project to promote gender equity funded by the National Science Foundation.
National Alliance of
Media Arts and Culture (San Francisco,
CA). Development and fundraising for a
multi-year youth media program.
Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA).
Consultant for "How to Read a Film" 3-day teacher education
workshop, as part of a multi-year project funded in part by the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Past Projects
Mt. Hood Cable
Regulatory Commission (Portland, OR). Lead evaluator and consultant to assess the
grant-making activities of this Commission and to recommend improvements in
their grant-making for local schools, non-profits and municipal agencies
(October 2003).
Young Audiences of
the Bay Area (San Francisco, CA).
Lead Evaluator for Arts 4 Learning, an on-line professional development tool
for teacher (August 2003).
Taos Talking Pictures (Taos,
New Mexico). Provide technical
assistance for program evaluation, strategic planning and fundraising for
events and programs related to this film festival (Spring 2003).
Texas
Commission on the Arts (Austin, TX).
Consultant for seminar on integrating arts education and digital media
programs in the state of Texas (February
2001).
ZEUM (Yerba Buena
Center, SF). Lead Evaluator for
school arts program funded by the Department of Commerce TIIAP grant to ZEUM
(1997-2000).
Southeastern Utah Education Service
Center (Price, UT). Lead Evaluator for software development of
SURWEB, a multimedia, web-based archive funded in part by the U.S. Department
of Education (1995-2000).
Office of Technology, U.S. Department of Education (Washington,
DC). Presenter for the Educational
Technology Evaluation Institute, a forum for professional evaluators in Ann
Arbor, MI. (August 1998, 1999, 2000).
National Cable Television Association
Consultant for the View Smart to Vote Smart Project. (July 2000).
Austin Museum
of Modern Art and the University
of Texas at Austin.
Consultant for the Museum’s video education program. (October 1999).
Universidad Nacionales de Educaciónes a Distancia (Madrid,
Spain). Consultant and
Keynote Speaker. (March 2000).
British Film Institute (Warwick
University, England).
Consultant and Keynote Speaker for a seminar on the moving image and
information technologies. (January 2000).
Education Network
Consortium (St. George, UT).
Consultant and report writer for educational technology policy seminar
(January 1999).
World Council on Media Education and the University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Conference organizer, speaker, and funding consultant for the first
conference in South America for mass communication
professionals and communication educators. (November 1997/ May 1998).
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