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Anthony R. Keith, Jr
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University
Master of Education Degree in College Student Affairs (2007)
The University of Maryland College Park
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies (2003)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July 2009 until permanent full-time position is filled.
Interim Director, Paul Robeson Cultural Center (PRCC)
The Pennsylvania State University
• Developing, directing and administering educational programs, services and resources that support the mission of the PRCC and the Division of Student Affairs.
• Work as a partner with the Hetzel Union Building Senior Director and staff to implement necessary building enhancements, policies, and partnerships across both departments.
• Supervise the overall facility management of the PRCC including reservations processes, venue policy implementation, revenue generation, and enhancement projects.
• Supervising the professional development of center staff including both graduate and undergraduate students.
• Managing PRCC programming funds and over-all budget including campus based fundraising, student activity fee proposals, and other external grant funding or partnerships.
• Maintaining open dialogue with students of color and coordinate intentional outreach efforts to cultural student organizations. Supporting student organization programming goals and facilitate the development of leadership potential among students.
• Represent the Division of Student Affairs on committees and task groups concerned with the climate for diversity at Penn State.
August 2008 – June 2009
Assistant Director, Paul Robeson Cultural Center (PRCC)
The Pennsylvania State University
• Manage the student employee program; this includes the recruitment, hiring, supervision, and professional development of undergraduate and graduate students.
• Develop cultural education, engagement and development programs focusing on the intersections of race, gender, ethnicity, culture and social justice.
• Serve as a representative on campus wide policy and program committees
• Develop cultural community building and leadership experiences for members of cultural student organizations
• Develop co-curricular programs that promote student use of the cultural center’s library and study lounge
• Forge partnerships with academic departments, student affairs units and other Penn State campus systems through outreach and collaborative programming
June 2007 – July 2008
Assistant Director, Multicultural Resource Center
The University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Developed a Cultural Programming Guide for student organizations
• Developed cultural education and cultural arts programs
• Facilitated presentations and workshops on topics of diversity, multiculturalism, social justice, and student leadership to various university constituents
• Co-coordinated a regional conference on multicultural student leadership
• Provided programmatic, leadership, and organizational support for student organizations
• Served as a campus LGBT Safe Zone Ally trainer and facilitator
• Served on a variety of campus policy and program committees
• Facilitated student affairs divisional and community partnerships through outreach and collaborative programming
August – December 2006
Fall Graduate Intern, LGBTA Student Resource Center
The Pennsylvania State University
• Developed an after-hours social and academic safe space that highlighted crosscutting issues affecting the LGBTA community
• Provided programmatic, leadership, and organizational support for a student organization the serves the needs of queer students of color.
May 2006
Summer Graduate Intern, Office of Student Life and Leadership
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
• Co-constructed a Student Policy Handbook
• Co-developed an urban service learning and leadership program
• Co-coordinated summer student activity festivals, concerts and events
• Co-coordinated departmental relocation, space design, and transitional process
• Learned to integrate student development philosophy with departmental management, staff, and office structure
August 2005 – May 2007
Program Coordinator, Paul Robeson Cultural Center (PRCC)
The Pennsylvania State University
• Implemented a large-scale interactive social justice education program
• Provided programmatic, leadership, and organizational support for cultural student organizations
• Developed a cultural development program focusing on issues affecting men of color
• Served on university wide policy and program committees
• Assisted in developing an institutional multicultural competency certificate program
August 2003 – July 2005
Program Assistant, Institute for Youth, Education & Families
• Developed partnerships with municipal officials, city leaders and community advocates whose jobs are to address issues affecting children, youth, and families.
• Provided outreach to municipalities through conference showroom exhibits, and on-site presentations.
• Participated in the implementation of youth leadership and youth development technical assistance projects with cities and towns across the country.
• Wrote, edited and managed articles for the Nation Cities Weekly newspaper, and managed the department’s website.
• Coordinated national conference presentations with municipal leaders on the topics of youth development, youth leadership, and civic engagement.
February 2002 – July 2003
Civil Rights Program Assistant, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Managed a video library with over 350 collections related to Equal Employment Opportunity issues
• Wrote and Co-Edited the ARS Disability Awareness Newsletter (DAN)
• Project team member and liaison for a federal student internship program for racial and ethnic minority students at Miami-Dade Community College
• Served on the ARS Diversity Day planning committee and chaired the Hispanic and Latino subcommittee.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2009 - Present
Instructor, Racism and Sexism
The College of Liberal Arts
The Pennsylvania State University
This is a three credit undergraduate course focusing on race and gender as social identities, systems and structures of racial and gender oppression, and avenues for social justice and social change.
Spring 2006
Teaching Assistant, The Diaspora Institute: Cultural Leadership
The African American Studies Department
The Pennsylvania State University
The Diaspora Institute was a semester long leadership experience that is centered on under-represented cultures. Through weekly sessions, students were exposed to cultural discovery, leadership models, practices of past leaders of color, contemporary social and political issues, and provided opportunities to explore current needs of various cultural communities
Summer 2006
Teaching Assistant for Course: Global Art & Feminism
The Women Studies Department
The Pennsylvania State University
This was an undergraduate course that explored the use of visual and performance art as mechanisms for addressing gender issues within the United States and abroad. The first part of this course was taught at Penn State and the remainder was a four-week cultural immersion in Tanzania, East Africa.
CULTURAL IMMERSION EXPERIENCE
June 2009 (Five Weeks)
Tanzania, East Africa
Field Study: Indigenous Knowledge and Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania
This cultural immersion program is a partnership with the Paul Robeson Cultural Center and the Gender Studies Department at Hamilton College
• Assisted in the coordination of co-curricular learning opportunities for 17 undergraduate students – focusing on the culture of several indigenous groups in Tanzania which include: Maasai; Hadzabe, Barabiag; and Chagga communities.
• Assisted in facilitating on-site programs and events with organizations that support the empowerment of women in Tanzania. These organizations focused on various issues affecting women including: HIV/AIDS; economic development; gender experiences, and women’s rights.
February 2007 (One Week)
Trinidad and Tobago
The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
• Served as a cultural arts delegate and spoken word artist from Penn State University.
• Served as a featured artist in the Educative Arts Festival
• Participated in educational workshops on community arts and social action
• Toured the island and learned about Trinidad culture including a visit to an Orisha yard
• Engaged in conversations with UWI students on the topic of cultural artistic expression and leadership
June 2006 – July 2006 (Four Weeks)
Tanzania, East Africa
This cultural immersion was sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department at Penn State in partnership with the United African Alliance Community Center (UAACC) in Arusha, Tanzania.
• Served as a teaching assistant for a Global Arts & Feminism course at Penn State - the immersion experience was as a co-curricular opportunity for about 20 undergraduate students.
• Toured surrounding villages, schools, went on safaris, and participated in an overnight visit with people of the Maasai tribe.
• Facilitated discussions between undergraduate students, faculty members, and staff on issues of power & privilege, community leadership & social justice.
• Collaborated a song with Tanzanian hip-hop artist on the topic of “Revolution & Power”
• Co-taught an intermediate English course for UAACC students on the topic of Poetry
• Engaged in cultural community building activities with local Tanzanians
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
• National Association of Student Personnel Administrators
• American College Personnel Association
ARTICLES
• Read It, Watch It, and Listen: Multimedia Resources for Conversing About Race, About Campus (January/February 2009)
WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS
• Elements of Social Change and Avenues of Resistance, Adler Conference, Hamilton College (2008)
• Deconstructing Diversity– Multicultural Leadership Conference, UNC Charlotte (2007)
• “Poetry and Feminism: Art as Social Change” – Guest Lecture, (Women Studies) (2007)
• Defining Culture through Hip Hop – Crossroads Charter High School, Charlotte, NC (2007)
• “Power, Privilege and Oppression” – Guest Lecture, Penn State, (Women Studies) (2006)
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