Volunteer
Resource Center of the Americas
2006-2007
Provided support to bookstore staff: Formatted digital images and composed text for bookstore website, created and maintained bookstore's MySpace page, assisted with set-up and staffing of bookstore events, including cashiering.

Director
Keiko Media Arts Project
1998-2006
Founder of Keiko media arts project, which published an annual zine and a monthly e-newsletter; it also maintained a complementary website. As volunteer project director, I performed all administrative and production functions, including finance, publicity, marketing, page-design, imaging, layout, and website management. As editor, I managed working relationships with an international group of some 20 contributing writers and artists who produced the publication's content: reports, reviews, interviews, commentary, analysis, poems, memoirs, short fiction, photographs, illustrations, and cartoons. Overall, the project was a forum for exploration of and dialogue about societies and cultures of the far north.

Staff Roundtable Member
American Society for Clinical Pathology
2003-04
Participated (for a few months) in staff roundtable discussions of workplace diversity issues. This fledgling staff group sponsored and endorsed diversity awareness events and activities within the organization.

Steering Committee Coordinator
Independent Press Association, Chicago
2002
Coordinated steering committee of independent periodicals publishers whose purpose was to lay the foundation for a local/regional branch of the Independent Press Association. The committee accomplished this goal by organizing public outreach events and member services workshops, and through the hiring of a start-up coordinator. My responsibilities as steering committee coordinator included: facilitating committee meetings, taking and distributing meeting minutes, setting up listservs, sitting on a hiring committee, and representing the IPA at public events.

Deputy Voter Registrar
1988-1994
Qualified by office of the county clerk to register eligible voters of the city of Chicago and all of Cook County. In 1988, as a registrar sponsored by Chicago Voter Registration Coalition, I registered over 400 voters. I also worked on voter registration drives in conjunction with Greater Chicago Citizens for the Arts, Lesbian/Gay Voter Impact, and Southwest Voter Registration Education Project.

Secretary
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Union of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1992-93
Took meeting minutes. Conceived of and designed outreach materials. Co-chaired student-led critique and discussion group. Drafted organization's constitution. Set up computer database of membership and computer bookkeeping file.

Campaign Coordinator
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Students for Braun
1992
Coordinated SAIC campus publicity, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and voter identification for US senatorial campaign of Carol Moseley Braun, who won the election. I also served as member of Illinois Students for Braun steering committee and co-led a voter registration workshop at statewide campaign volunteer retreat.

Advisory Board Member
Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
1992
Solicited sponsors and program book advertisers. Processed festival entries and staffed public outreach table at Lakeview street fair.

Project Co-Coordinator
Voter Registration and Education Project
1992
Coordinated electoral projects on the School of the Art Institute of Chicago campus, including voter education bulletin boards, voter registration drives for both the primary and general elections, and an eight-page voter's guide published in the student newsmagazine. In conjunction with this project, I was a lead organizer of a student delegation that traveled from our campus to Washington, D.C. to participate in the 1992 March for Women's Lives.

Treasurer
Chicago DSA
1989-90
Set up bookkeeping system. Paid bills, deposited payments, and prepared financial reports. Participated in Chicago DSA executive committee and general membership meetings. Served as organizational liaison to Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance and as delegate to national Democratic Socialists of America convention.

Departmental Representative
Allied Film and Video
1988-89
Departmental representative to employee committee that advised company management of employee concerns, devising solutions to workplace problems and proposing improvements to policies and working methods.

Secretary
Democratic Socialists of America Youth Section, Wayne State University
1984-85
Participated in organizing Central America Teach-In.

Campaign Volunteer
Timothy C. Evans for Mayor, 1989. Michael Dukakis for President, 1988. Luis Gutierrez for Alderman, 1986. Jesse Jackson for President, 1984.