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VOLUNTEER FACILITATOR
Summary

Group facilitator, independent scholar, experienced educator, trainer and administrator. Working primarily with issues around trauma, identity and ethics to explore healing through dialogue, relationship, lived experiences.

Experience
Volunteer Facilitator11/2014 to CurrentRiverside Area Rape Crisis CenterRiverside, CA
  • Facilitate a weekly girls club in a middle school.
  • Aims to increase participants' self esteem and develop sisterhood to form a foundation for leadership skills. Long term, concentrated work towards the prevention of sexual violence in their communities.
  • Worked with the school counselors to engage staff support for the project, gain interest from girls to join the group and ensure compliance with district policies.
  • Attend monthly Task Force meetings with community stakeholders
Founder and Facilitator - 'Talking About Us'08/2013 to 08/2014Baobab Centre For Young Survivors in ExileLondon, UK
  • Conceived of, piloted and gained a year's state funding to deliver a philosophical discussion group with young refugees and asylum seekers, members of a non-residential therapeutic community.
  • The group provided the young people with a space to discuss the wider conceptual values and beliefs that had been identified as thematic blocks in their psychotherapeutic progress.
  • Discussion group was seen to increase resilience in the short term, exhibited through greater ability to engage in constructive discussion with those in authority.
  • Hired a new facilitator before moving to the US, maintain supportive contact with the Clinical Director and new facilitator.
Office Manager07/2011 to 02/2014Baobab Centre For Young Survivors in ExileLondon, UK
  • First administrator for non-residential therapeutic community providing psychotherapy and practical assistance to young asylum seekers and refugees - set up Clinical and Financial administrative systems.
  • Financial administration, including day-to-day book-keeping, grant management and coordination, budget creation and management.
  • Clinical administration, including coordination of referrals and production of reports for use in court, timetabling of all clinical work.
  • Event organizing, first point of contact for all clients, referrers, outside agencies, volunteer coordination, coordination of charitable governance, maintenance and updating of website.
  • Centre follows a community and holistic approach - participated in the community: observed group therapy, worked theoretically with counselors, participated in community meetings, created a central space for community information with a sense of warmth and safety.
Teaching and Learning Consultant02/2012 to 02/2012World Association of Girl Guides and Girl ScoutsLondon, UK
  • Edited a draft education pack for the 'Stop the Violence' campaign providing teaching a learning guidance and materials to the author, especially with regard to the cultural sensitivity needed for global delivery, gender awareness needed for some groups including both boys and girls and an advisory on how to ensure accessibility for those less academically able.
History Coordinator, Behavior Management Specialist, Teacher, Mentor09/2005 to 07/2011Centre AcademyLondon, UK
  • Roles above held in final year of employment, previous roles - Religious Education Coordinator, Citizenship Education Coordinator, Careers and Work Experience Coordinator, Personal, Social and Health Education Coordinator, Founder and Coordinator of Life Skills and Vocational Curriculum.
  • Centre Academy is a small (max 70 pupils) independent special school specializing in helping students with ADHD, ADD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, ASD and various other difficulties to access the national curriculum where possible.
  • Behavior management - Trained and supported colleagues in the implementation of Restorative Justice principles across the school. Advised school management on the need for a school-wide approach.
  • Worked closely with parents and outside agencies (Social Services, Police, Employers, Educational Psychologists), working closely with multidisciplinary team (SEN specialists, Speech Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychotherapists) on Individual Education Plans.
  • In second year saw a gap in provision and set up and managed delivery of life-skills/vocational curriculum for those unable to access GCSE's at KS4, including enabling students to set up a successful social enterprise.
Teacher of Religious Education01/2009 to 04/2010Southfields Community CollegeLondon, UK
  • Placement carried out two days a week for two terms followed by two block placements the last of which was in April 2010.
  • Southfields is a large mainstream school with the diverse intake of a London community college.
  • Resources created for unit of work on Buddhism and Buddhist meditation taken on by the school for use across their department, especially for non-specialist teachers.
Teacher of Religious Education09/2004 to 02/2005The Royal Docks Community SchoolLondon, UK
  • Taught almost 600 11-16 year olds a week, planning, delivering and assessing a wide range of classes based on the Newham agreed syllabus for RE.
  • Planned and practiced with both the specific needs of individual pupils in each class and specific community needs for religious understanding in mind, the approach had demonstrable positive impact.
  • School regarded as in 'challenging circumstances', and had a completely inclusive policy.
  • Position involved liaison with families and the school senior management on emotional and behavioral, as well as academic issues.
Intern08/2001 to 05/2002B'tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human RightsJerusalem, Israel
  • Updating website, translating documents from Hebrew to English, fundraising, coordinating mailing lists and outreach work with international students at the Hebrew University.
Volunteer07/2000 to 08/2000International Palestinian Youth LeagueJerusalem, Israel
  • Worked and lived with Palestinian youth running a summer camp in the Old City of Jerusalem for 4 - 13 year olds.
  • Participated in Restorative Justice circles.
Education
BA: Hebrew and Social AnthropologyJune 2003School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon, UK

Hebrew and Social Anthropology 2:1 (Hons) (GPA 3.35)

*Including one year spent at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


MA: Philosophy2013Birkbeck CollegeLondon, UK

Dissertation topic - Empathy, dialogue, morality

Merit overall with Distinction on some papers (US equivalent - GPA 3.0)

Only MA student to present at yearly departmental study weekend which included eminent Oxford Philosophers

Post Graduate Diploma: Law2004City UniversityLondon, UK

An intensive year course which provides graduates with the equivalent of an undergraduate degree in Law.

Certifications

Fully accredited UK teacher, qualified to work in any secondary school to teach any subject, specialism - Religious Education (Training: TeachFirst, Summer 2004. QTS: University of Gloucestershire, Aug 2010. Induction completed July 2011)

In the process of transferring UK accreditation to a California accreditation.

Conference Presentations

Nov 2015 - (Dis)Junctions: Strange Bedfellows University of California, Riverside Paper presented - Empathy, Morality and Radical Alterity: A Levinasian Critique  

July 2015 - European Philosophical Society for the Study of the Emotions: 2nd Annual Conference University of Edinburgh Paper presented - Possibilities of the Face-to-Face as an Empathic Relation: Levinas and the Empathy as Morality Debate 

December 2014 - American Philosophical Association: Eastern Division Meeting Philadelphia Paper presented - 'Talking About Us' at the Baobab Centre: Philosophy as Therapy with Young Refugees

Skills

Skilled user of Microsoft Office Suite, confident in ability to pick up new software and platforms quickly.

Fluent in Hebrew, basic Arabic


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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Riverside Area Rape Crisis Center
  • Baobab Centre For Young Survivors in Exile
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
  • Centre Academy
  • Southfields Community College
  • The Royal Docks Community School
  • B'tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights
  • International Palestinian Youth League

School Attended

  • School of Oriental and African Studies
  • Birkbeck College
  • City University

Job Titles Held:

  • Volunteer Facilitator
  • Founder and Facilitator - 'Talking About Us'
  • Office Manager
  • Teaching and Learning Consultant
  • History Coordinator, Behavior Management Specialist, Teacher, Mentor
  • Teacher of Religious Education
  • Intern
  • Volunteer

Degrees

  • BA : Hebrew and Social Anthropology June 2003
    MA : Philosophy 2013
    Post Graduate Diploma : Law 2004

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