CURRENT CAREER HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE SCHOOL
- June 2009: Advisor, Middle School Summer Reading
TOWERS CO-OPERATIVE BOARD
EGREMONT FREE LIBRARY
- August 2008, onward: Webmistress for Egremont Free Library (MA) and member of the Library Building Committee
RYE FREE READING ROOM
- April 2004 to November 2006: Young Adult Librarian
THE FOOD NETWORK
- Fall 2000 to Fall 2002: Assistant Editor, Culinary Department
- Spring 2000 to Fall 2000: Freelance researcher/writer
URBAN HORIZONS, AT THE WOMEN’S HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
- Fall 1999 to Spring 2000: Culinary Lecturer and Instructor: taught hands on in a kitchen, lectured on all aspects of food industry
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
- Fall 1998 to Spring 1999: Adjunct Professor: Food Production and Management; International Foods
- Fall 1997 to Spring 1998: Assistant Teacher: Food Production and Management; Catering
- Research Assistant, Recruitment, and Program Advisor
JOHNSON AND WALES UNIVERSITY
- Fall 1995 to Spring 1996: Miami Campus Practicum Instructor and Restaurant Manager
EDUCATION
- Queens College, City University: 2003, M.L.S., Library Media Specialist
- New York University: 2001, M.A., Food Studies, plus 20 post-grad credits
- Florida International University: 1996, B.S., Hospitality Management
- The Culinary Institute of America: 1994, A.O.S., Culinary Arts
- Barnard College, Columbia University: 1992, B.A., English
EXPERIENCE
YOUNG ADULT LIBRARIAN
- Reference and reader advisory
- Created, implemented, and supervised age-appropriate programming, such as
- Middle School Movie Nights
- Book Chats - whatever the book, lets talk about it
- Book Clubs - everyone discusses one book
- Book Court - think a book should leave the shelves forever?
- Book-to-Movie Nights
- Summer Reading Challenges
- Well Read - some of the better books of the year
- Poetry Readings and Workshops
- Calligraphy Workshops
- Chess
- Realistic Fiction Dinners - come as your favorite character
- Review Writing Sessions
- Mapmakers - Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgender, Questioning Teens reading & snacking
- TeenScreen - movies for the older set
- Word Wednesdays - puzzles, crosswords & other linguistic games
- Spin-a-Yarn - the craft group
- Movie Matinees
- Trivia Games
- Implemented appropriate outside programming such as
- SAT preparation
- Red Cross Babysitting Certification
- College Essay Writing Workshops
- CinemaTherapy
- Body Image Workshop
- Cartooning
- Author Visits
- StressBusters
- Created book lists relevant to age and interests:
- Ages 11-13
- Ages 13-15
- GLBQT
- Historical Fiction
- Body Image
- Self-esteem and Sexuality
- Maintained, weeded, and developed the YA fiction and non-fiction sections
- Maintained, weeded, and developed adult non-fiction collections: College & Career, Hard Sciences, Culinary, Graphic Novels, and Crafts
- Manage and maintain content
- Met with all 5th grades during spring semester to orient them with their local public library
- Co-founder of the Rye High School Summer Reading List Committee
- Created informational flyer for RFRR new patrons and Rye residents
- Community representative to C.A.R.E., an anti-bullying taskforce
- Implemented reading motivation techniques through hand selling and book talks
- Taught lessons on web-based searches and using websites as a resource for YA and Adult patrons
- Coordinated with local schools with curriculum support
- Created and performed story times for toddlers
RESEARCHER, WRITER AND EDITOR
- Create content and manage the Towers Co-Operative Apartments website
- Create content and manage the Egremont Free Library website
- Created content for seasonal RFRR newsletter and the Rye Free Reading Room website
- Created content and edited recipes for the Food Network website
- Researched and wrote two encyclopedic entries for Oxford University Press’ Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America: Sherry and Vermouth
- Researched and wrote extensive and in depth essays about food ways, ingredients, and techniques for use as an informational text on a web site and television
- Researched and wrote articles about ingredients and techniques used in nationally distributed advice columns, lesson plans in three schools, and for web chats and broadcast sound bytes using a variety of sources (text, web sites, and magazine/newspaper articles)
- Researched and wrote essays about food ways using archival and text research on: Spain; Italian-American immigrant culture; turn of the 19th-century American ethics, sociology, and mores; and women's food issues
- Developed and wrote style and content guidelines used for incoming recipes web site content
- Edited 80 to 90 recipes weekly for web site content
- Edited 6 to 8 articles monthly for national distribution and web site content
EDUCATOR
- Taught beginner-level computer basics to adults, covering Introduction to the Web, Searching with Google, Exploring Databases, and Creating an Email Account
- Observed and taught classes at Stewart School, Elementary Education
- Created curricula, structured, and taught lecture classes at:
- New York University: Food Production & Management and International Foods
- Urban Horizons: Identification, preparation, and service of food
- Johnson and Wales: Front-of-the-house Service
SUPERVISOR AND ADMINISTRATOR CERTIFICATIONS
- Created purchase orders for restaurants and libraries
- Assessed collections for development and weeding
- Operated a 65-seat restaurant while teaching a 24 to 30-student floor staff
- Managed, trained and directed a food production staff of 24 to 30 persons
- Managed a catering service that worked exclusively for the President of Vassar College
- Adhered to budgets created from grant funding and administrations
AFFILIATIONS
- New York Culinary Historians: Member since 1998
AWARDS AND PRESENTATIONS
- Les Dames d’Escoffier: Educational Scholarship Recipient, 1999
- New York University: Two-year Teaching Fellowship, 1997-1999
- NYLA 2006 Annual Conference: Mapmakers: A Program for GBLTQ Youth
- NYU 2000 Millennial Stews: DeJong Asparagus: The Metaphorical Use of Food in Selected Edna Ferber Novels
CERTIFICATIONS
- New York Librarian, number 21408
- New York City Department of Education File Number: 770886
