STORYTELLING WORK

 

--Co-Founder, Rocky Mountain Storytellers Guild, served as president, officer, commitee member, performance organizer

 

--Touring Storyteller in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, performing for schools, libraries, and community festivals

 

--Bi-lingual storyteller, gathering, translating, performing in Mexico, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua

 

--Presenter at Storytelling Conferences and Festivals in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and Kansas

 

--Storyteller Artist-in-Residence for the Colorado Council on the Arts

 

--Exchange Place Storyteller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee

 

--Co-Founder of the "Storytelling for Teens-at-Risk"  project in which 12 tellers performed in 31 institutions for incarcerated and hospitalized youth

 

--Member of  "The Traveling Rainbow Tellers", a multi-lingual, multicultural storytelling troupe of culturally diverse storytellers

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

--STORYTELLING MAGAZINE, "Telling Tales to Troubled Youth", May, 1994

--MANY VOICES: TRUE TALES FROM AMERICA'S PAST, National Storytelling Network Publication, "Aunt Clara Brown"

 

EDUCATION

 

--Theatre and Communication degrees, M.A., B.S., University of Kansas and Loyola University of Chicago

 

CERTIFICATIONS

 

--Professional Teachers Licenses in Kansas and Colorado

--Spanish Study in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, Nicaragua