PROFESSIONAL

2007, Member, Task Force PlaNYC, Office of the Mayor
2006, Member, Advisory Council, Office of the NYC Public Advocate
2005, US EPA, Region 2, Individual Citizen, Environmental Quality Award
2005-03 Member, NY City Council Asthma Task Force
2002-00 Member, Center for Global Health Task Force; Team Leader
Since 1999 Founding Director, Asthma Free School Zone
Since 1988 President, Real World Productions, Inc. (RWP)
Since 1999 Fellow, The Albert Schweitzer Foundation

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT – Design, Training, Production, Evaluation

Campaign Creator/Project Director
Asthma Free School Zone, a primary prevention, health promotion project; winner US EPA 2005 Children's Environmental Health Excellence Award; US EPA Region 2 Environmental Awareness Award; Winner 3-year federal Sept. of transportation CMAQ funding; Winner NYS Health Foundation Grant 2006, Proposed 2004 NYC legislation mandates citywide implementation. (Since 2002)

HIV/AIDS poster campaign in the Ewe language of the Volta Region (1999), Ghana, Margret Marquat Hospital and the Maternal Child Care Village Nursing Service (1999)

Needlestick awareness in-service training and poster campaign for NYCPD police officers. Police Academy and REMSCA (1998)

Health Literacy Consultant
Campaign design and materials development for public health interventions for low literacy and ESL learners. US Environmental Protection Agency, New York City Department of Health, TB Unit, The Poison Control Center (Pfizer 2001 Health Literacy Grant), Bellevue Medical Center: Emergency Medicine Institute/Center for Immigrant Health/Health Education Literacy Program, Literacy Partners, Hesperian Foundation, Sickle Cell Thalassemia Patient Network

Lecturer/Trainer:
Classroom and workshop teaching at the university and professional level: Using Media for Health Promotion, Cultural Diversity, Health Literacy. Bellevue Medical Center, Emergency Medicine Institute, NYU School of Medicine, The Center for Collaborative Planning, Public Health Institute (CA), Hunter College School of Nursing and Urban Public Health, Hesperian Foundation

Media Designer/Producer
Program development and production of health and education in various media, including radio (water safety, language instruction, school readiness) and video (unintentional poisoning, teacher training): NYC Poison Control Center, Unintentional Poisoning: Prevent - React, 14-minute animated video in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese.

Curriculum development for training of radio education producers and writers. Ethiopian Media Center, RWP, Academy for Educational Development, USAID; for instructional unit: Reducing Barriers and Improving Health Care Delivery in Diverse Settings. The Center for Global Health, Institute for Urban and Global Health, NYU School of Medicine

Health Materials Evaluator:
Evaluator of language diversity and availability of health promotion and education materials for NYC area immigrants. Hunter College Urban Public Health Program, CUNY

Evaluator for content and format of graduate-level, public health course, Radio Programming for Health Promotion. Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Resident Technical Advisor:
Institutional Capacity Developer for South African NGO. Assisting in design and production of daily radio-assisted lessons for primary school classrooms, including all print materials (guides, posters, workbooks, learning aids and comic books); training and supervision of scriptwriters and graphic designers. Scale-up from pilot project to nationwide program. Open Learning System Education Trust (OLSET), Educational Development Center (EDC), USAID (1992-1996)

Campaign Designer and Trainer of creative team and supervisor of production for eight-part Haitian radio soap opera concerned with community health, water-borne diseases, water conservation and water purity, in Creole. RWP, EDC, USAID (1996)

Program Advisor on materials design and distance education opportunities for girls; Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Dacca, RWP, Education Development Center, USAID (1995)

Co-Director/Writer of AIDS Awareness video, :30 PSA "Volunteerism" Manhattan Cable TV, NY (1992)

Resident Technical Advisor: Script evaluation for Swaziland Radio Learning Project, Mbabane, RWP, Education Development Center, USAID
1989-1990

Co-Producer/Project Manager/Writer of original 52-part educational interactive radio series with worldwide broadcast. English Language Teaching by Broadcast, RWP, Macmillan Publishing, Smithsonian Inst., USIA (1988-1989) .

EDUCATION
Hunter College, CUNY, NY: Community Health Education, MPH with Honors
New York University, New York, NY: Communications, MA
Sarah Lawrence College, New York, NY: Writing, BA

DISTINCTIONS
2005 Excellence Award, US EPA, Children's Environmental Health Award
2005 Environmental Quality Award, US EPA, Region 2, Individual Citizen
2002 Finalist, Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute Fellowship
2001 Academic Achievement Award, Urban Public Health, Hunter College, CUNY
2001 Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), national accreditation
2000 New York Fellow, The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship
1997 Prizewinner, New York State Public Health Association
1991 Gold Medal, Best Educational Series, Tuning in the USA, International Radio Festival (NY)

PRESENTATIONS
2007 Presenter, American Public Health Ass.;The Built Environment, (DC)
2006 Presenter, New York City Asthma Partnership Semi-annual Mtg. (NY)
2006 Presenter, National Association of Community Health Centers (TN)
2006 Presenter, 27th Minority Health Conference (NC)
2004 Roundtable leader, American Public Health Ass.;The Built Environment, (DC)
2004 Panelist, US EPA (Region 2), Integrated Approach (NY)
2003 Presenter/Roundtable leader, Nat'l Asthma Conf.: School & Community, (DC)
2001 Presenter/Workshop Leader, Women’s Health Leadership Conference (CA)
2000 Presenter, Cancer, Culture & Literacy (FL)
1999 Presenter, American Public Health Assoc. (IL)
1998 Presenter, American Public Health Assoc. (NY)
1997 Panelist, International Health Unlimited Radio (UK)

SKILLS
Creative campaign design, curriculum development, project management, evaluation, teaching, train-the-trainer, materials design, materials production, media production, research and development

LANGUAGES
English (4), French (2), and Spanish (2), Zulu (1), HTML, SPSS