Portland Community College:
Coordinate on going year long project on theater and activism. Students create interactive touring performances. The year 2001/02 featured a performance on post September 11 Anti-Muslim/Anti-Arab oppression. The year 2002/03 featured performances based on sexual assault and harassment and domestic violence.

Mainlander Property Managers:Facilitated "Team and Communication Building" retreat for all staff.

TACS - Diversity Leaders Network:Lead participants in exercises exploring class issues and service provision.

CITE Collaboration:
Collaborated with CITE to teach middle school children playwriting techniques write and perform educational plays on the topic of energy and conservation.

Oregon Department of Human Services Statewide Diversity Conference:
Wrote, directed and performed "There is More Room on this Journey" an original hour long play dealing with issues of diversity pertinent to DHS. Performed to over 600 attendees.

Americorps, Communities in Partnership to Stop Violence Against Women and Children:
Facilitate theater and traditionally based anti-oppressions diversity trainings for Americorps volunteers. Also: lead workshops that help members to reflect on the past year and create a graduation ceremony/performance.

Creative Differences Seminars (U.S. West, PGE):
Lead theater based workshops with corporate executives on becoming allies to diverse staff working within their organizations.

Eugene CALC:
Co-facilitated day-long training on anti-racism

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - National Conference:
Facilitated workshops on "Using Theater as a Tool in Anti-racism Trainings" and "Working on Homophobia with Middle School Students"

National Drama Educators Association:
Taught social change/popular education techniques to drama educators at national conference.

Women's Resource Center, PCC:
Lead Women's Resource Center staff through anti-homophobia/heterosexism training.

Camp Caldera:
Taught theater classes during week long arts based summer camp for a diverse group of middle schoolers who usually would not have access to summer camp.

Portland State University:
Teach class surveying social change theater.

Oregon State Breast and Cervical Health Conference:
Lead conference attendees through team building experiential theater activities on the theme of "Barriers to Collaboration".

Youth Builders:
Worked with youth ages 17 - 24 to explore issues of diversity and respect. Created performances that toured to middle schools.

Tualatin High/"Hay Problemas":
Worked with Latino and non-Latino Tualatin High School students to build community between the two groups. Created an interactive play addressing tensions and proposing solutions that was performed for the rest of the school and community.

SEI/Caldera:
Taught after school drama class at Self Enhancement Inc. Worked on theme of "Future Goals and Dreams".

George Middle School/SUN:
After school program creating original interactive performances on issues of family, racism and homophobia.

South Asian Women's Empowerment and Resource Alliance:
Worked with members to create an educational theater piece on domestic violence in the South Asian community.

Filipino Oral History Project:
Taught techniques for members to use when dramatizing their intergenerational interviews within the Filipino community.

Western States CSTI Regional Conference:
Facilitated day long seminar for national community activists on using theater to promote social change in their community and co-facilitated two day anti-racism workshop.

Rock and Roll Camp for Girls:
Used theater techniques to facilitate series of anti-racism trainings for steering committee and camp staff.

Youth Opportunities:
Facilitated after school project in coalition with a multi-cultural youth empowerment program. Created an interactive student written performance on the issues of respect and disrespect for cultural differences.

Unitarian Economic Justice Conference:
During plenary, explored the issue of activism around economic justice in an interactive performance and discussion.

Video Production Class:
Taught video production class in coalition with MediaRites, GreenFire productions, and the Roosevelt Family Resource center. Sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the class focused on dating and domestic violence. Fifteen students created four public service announcements on the subject that will be aired on local TV stations. One of the PSA's won the Young Film Makers Award 2001 from the NW Film and Video Center.

Multnomah County Juvenile Justice Life Skills Groups:
Facilitated two workshops for boys' anger management group using theater to explore non-violent conflict resolution. Facilitated workshop with young women's Females Reaching Excellence by Empowerment (FREE) group focusing on body image/relationship issues.

Sexual Minority Youth Recreation Center (SMYRC):
Co-facilitated anti-racism workshop for youth and staff of SMYRC encouraging youth to focus on issues of racism within their community and practice intervention techniques.

Pitzer College, California:
Lead four-day seminar with 16 college students using theater to explore body issues such as eating disorders and sexual assault. Created interactive performance attended by administration, faculty and students from the Pitzer College community. Following the seminar and performance students began an eating disorder support group and doing campus organizing around sexual assault/harassment issues.

Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV) Board of Directors:
Co-facilitated anti-oppression workshop for members of the WSCADV Board. Three-hour session included self-exploration around issues of privilege, empathy building activities and interactive problem-solving role-plays.

Video Production, Dalai Lama "Educating the Heart" Conference:
Assisted in creation of video about youth peace activists. Video showcased at youth conference "Educating the Heart" in May 2001 where the Dalai Lama spoke.

Columbia River Correctional Institute, WICS Life skills class for women:
Facilitated a weekly class for the WICS women's life skills class at the Columbia River Correctional Facility. Created self-exploratory, issues oriented theater as well as stress relieving, fun activities. Worked toward performance for graduation. Created pieces dealing with goals and obstacles within the prison and upon release.

Open Hand Self-Defense Studio:
Explore issues of self-defense with children ages 6-13. Create role-plays and theater exercises to examine feelings and practice self-defense options.

Love Makes a Family:
Work with youth ages 8-13 to explore issues of growing up in sexual minority families. Children of support group participants perform the plays they develop as a way of building understanding between generations. Also co-facilitated day long anti-racism training for staff and board.

Portland State University:
Facilitate workshop each term in the Women's Studies 101 class using theater to explore issues of violence against women. Lead theater workshops exploring issues of racism within the Women's Studies Department and various classrooms.

Safe From the Start Conference:
Created a group performance with 250 conference attendees based on true stories from youth and their relationship to violence.

Boys and Girls Aid:
Produced interactive, issues-oriented theater with youth involved in the criminal justice system and the GLAD pregnancy prevention program.

National Domestic Violence Conference:
With conference attendees ages 10-18, many of whom were survivors of domestic and sexual violence, created a play about the affects of domestic violence on young people. Performed the play at the end of the conference to the over 1000 conference attendees. At the same conference facilitated a workshop at the Lesbian/Bi/Trans Women's Institute consisting of large group (over 100 participants) theater exercises that built community and explored issues pertinent to sexual minority communities.

Pathfinders Teen Parents Academy:
Collaborated with teen moms for four months exploring life issues through theater and creating a performance, "Hello, Happy Birthday!" for family and friends. Performance highlighted oppression society places on teen moms, difficulties/joys of teen motherhood and involved audience participatory scenes. Performed "Hello, Happy Birthday" as the closing ceremony for the Oregon Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Conference.

MediaRites Summer Theater Camp:
Worked with youth ages 12-15 for two weeks to create six short plays and perform them for family and friends. Focused on the theme "Sorting It Out."

Roosevelt High School:
Taught year-long anti-violence theater class culminating in a student written, interactive, community wide performance. The multi-cultural class was composed of many students who were referred to the class because of difficulties they were having at home and/or in school. The play, "What You Need to Know," was an environmental/roving piece; the audience moved from classroom, to hallway to cafeteria as the students performed scenes of real life issues that they face in schools. Some of the issues covered were racism, drugs and alcohol, domestic violence, homophobia, fighting and rumors. Many of the scenes incorporated audience input and participation, such as audience members taking the place of an actor to explore different manners of resolving a conflict or solving a problem.

Domestic Violence and the Workplace Conference:
Worked with conference-planning committee to create a script and produce a performance concerning issues of domestic violence and the workplace. Performed during the plenary for the 200 employers, human resources and EAP personnel who attended the conference.

Roosevelt High/Columbia Correctional Institute Joint Project:
Facilitated a collaborative empathy building project with inmates in the life skills class and Roosevelt High School students. The inmates wrote short autobiographical stories and the youth created scenes based on these stories. Photographed the scenes, paired them with the stories, and presented resulting performance to the inmates.

Six-Week Social Change Theater Class:
Teach a community class for community activists, social service workers and theater artists. Class focused on using theater as a tool for community building, education and social change.

Girls with Developmental Disabilities Group:Worked on a short-term basis with girls with developmental disabilities using theater for self-exploration and boundary setting.

Adult and Family Services/ED-NET:
Wrote and directed four educational videos for Oregon Adult and Family Services. Videos were presented over Oregon's ED-NET as live teleconferences and were distributed statewide.

Urban League/Portsmouth Middle School - Lead Poisoning Prevention:
Worked with 8th grade class to create and perform an educational play about lead poisoning. Performed the play at Portsmouth as well as at local elementary schools and local conferences highlighting urban environmental issues.