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I currently work as a Department Coordinator for National Geographic and have had a variety of experience in the television industry. However, I have had prior experience teaching, tutoring, and mentoring youths. I am looking to merge my interests in video production and teaching later in my career and feel this opportunity would be a wonderful complement to this endeavor. I strongly believe in the talents and power that today’s youth hold, and want to teach them how to harness it to not only benefit themselves, but also their communities.
After moving to D.C. in 2002, I had the privilege to work as a Boarding Instructor for the Schools for Educational Evolution and Development (SEED Public Charter) in Southeast D.C. One main challenge was transforming the abundant energy today’s youth have into more positive channels. I am confident that this opportunity with your organization will reinforce the knowledge I have gained as well as expose me to new and challenging situations. My main responsibilities included managing a household of ten to eleven middle school girls. The students lived at the school throughout the week and went home on the weekends. Each day I taught an hour-long class on “life skills” which exposed my students to the challenge of encountering the world around them and defining their place in it. For instance, I noticed the overwhelming amount of students who liked songs with what I felt were sexually explicit lyrics. During one Life Skills class we compared Chingy’s “Holidae Inn” to Blackstar’s “Brown Skinned Lady” and discussed the contrasting portrayals of African-American womanhood.
About once a month each grade level cohort would have a closed campus weekend when students would stay on campus until Saturday evening. Boarding Instructors were expected to plan culturally enriching activities and outings. One weekend I chose to introduce my students to West African culture. We spent an evening in Adams Morgan at a West African restaurant and bought cloths at a local African store to wear at our traditional African drumming and dance workshop the next day.
These creative approaches were balanced out with more practical experience. I was responsible for monitoring my student’s daily activities and behavior, setting a high standard of maturity and creative problem solving when disagreements arose. I monitored their study hall and academic success as well as acted as the main liaison between their parents and academic instructors. I created and implemented various incentive and academic study programs to maintain a positive interest in their grades. Everyday I tracked and documented my students’ behavior in order to generate report cards at the end of the academic quarter. But perhaps most importantly, I had the honor of being a mentor, mother, teacher, and sometimes social worker (all rolled into one) for my students.
I have always been curious to observe and learn how young individuals encounter and then connect with their world. I am confident that my prior experiences make me a qualified candidate for this position.
Sincerely,
Tanya |
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Tanya's Experience:
study skills
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I had the privilege to work as a Boarding Instructor for the Schools for Educational Evolution and Development (SEED Public Charter) in Southeast D.C.
My main responsibilities included managing a household of ten to eleven middle school girls. The students lived at the school throughout the week and went home on the weekends. Each day I taught an hour-long class on “life and study skills” which exposed my students to the challenge of encountering the world around them and defining their place in it as well as ways to be more efficient in doing their school work.
I was responsible for monitoring my student’s daily activities and behavior, setting a high standard of maturity and creative problem solving when disagreements arose. I monitored their study hall and academic success as well as acted as the main liaison between their parents and academic instructors. I created and implemented various incentive and academic study programs to maintain a positive interest in their grades. Everyday I tracked and documented my students’ behavior in order to generate report cards at the end of the academic quarter.
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video production
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Please see below for my video production experience:
Retirement Living TV
Associate Producer, “The Voice”
Assisted Producer with daily 1 hour live to tape talk show
Researched, developed and pitched story lines to Executive Producers on a weekly basis
Conducted field shoots and oversaw editing sessions for show packages
Pre-interviewed and booked guests
Wrote package and show scripts
Assisted with floor production during show tapings
Coordinated compilation of deliverable materials
Oversaw workflow of Production Assistant
National Geographic
Department Coordinator, Digital Studio
Work with Senior Producer to manage daily content for website partners: Youtube, MSN, Hulu, Myspace, Itunes
Coordinate with National Geographic Channel to input and upload channel’s video content to partner sites
Coordinate with National Geographic Digital Media’s Technology group to implement and refine technical processes for content upload
Use Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, video encoding software, and ftp software to process content uploads
Manage upload of weekly podcasts for Itunes
UNIWORLD GROUP INC.
Production Assistant, “America’s Black Forum”
Assisted Producers with production of a weekly 30 minute live to tape roundtable discussion show
Tracked and coordinated all commercial integration with and billing for advertising clients
Conducted pre-production research, interviews and field production
Coordinated all travel and accommodation logistics for show guests
Assisted with writing and production of “Moneywise” segment
NAHB PRODUCTIONS-“Rock Solid”, weekly 1 hour home improvement show
BANYAN PRODUCTIONS- “Ambush Makeover”- 30 minute reality makeover series Jun-Jul 2004
THE WIRE PRODUCTIONS- “The Wire”, weekly 1 hour dramatic series on HBO May 2004
MAGUIRE-REEDER LTD- full service communications company Mar-Jul 2004
BIG CHIEF ENTERTAINMENT “Get The Hookup”, 30 minute game show for TV One Jan-Mar 2004
WGBH NATIONAL PRODUCTIONS-PBS/CPB Producer’s Academy Workshop May-Aug 2002
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO- Networking organization Feb-Jun 2003
CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL- “Race-The Genealogy of an Illusion”, 3 hour documentary Jan-Mar 2002
WGBH LOCAL PRODUCTIONS- “Basic Black”, weekly, 30 minute magazine show Jun-Aug 2001
BLACKSIDE FILM & TELEVISION - “This Far By Faith”, 5-hour documentary Oct 2000-Mar 2001
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