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vILT: Action Mapping Strategy Session
Friday, December 8 & 15, 2023! Join our free, fun, experiential peer learning workshops on needs assessment and analysis, action mapping, and performance consulting.
Click the title text for event link. Facilitator guide coming soon. For a preview, e-mail kate@prosocialpower.org

Yellow line drawing of a person climbing an arrow with gears in the background. Title reads INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN FOR REAL-WORLD IMPACT. Text reads, Don't give people info dumps! Gaining knowledge is not enough. People also need to change what they DO. Set measurable goals for the changes that you want to see, and create opportunities for people to practice working towards those goals.

Instructional Design
for Real-World Impact
I created this tab interaction with Articulate Storyline as an introduction to my pragmatic, prosocial approach to blended learning and performance improvement campaigns for adults.

Black starry sky with hot pink text box that reads A BRIEF HISTORY OF GENDER. Three people are pictured in front of a hot pink timeline with blue stars: a South Asian person with a bindi and pink and orange outfit, peeling a banana; a black and white photo of Zuni artist We’wha wearing two buns and a traditional dress with geometric patterns while holding a basket; and Mexican artist Lukas Avendaño wearing a long, hot pink skirt, no shirt, and a hot pink flowered headband. White text box reads “The gender binary is a relatively new concept in human history. Muxes in Mexico, two-spirit Indigenous people in North America, waria in Indonesia, mudoko dako in Uganda, and chibados in Angola are just a few examples of the many people who have lived, and continue to live, beyond the binary.”

A Brief
History of Gender
I used Adobe Photoshop and Articulate Storyline to create this interactive timeline, resource list, and discussion guide as part of a learning and fundraising campaign to support trans and gender expansive people.

A couple sit on the floor, watching a laptop and smiling.

Why You Should
Always Caption Your Content
I created this short, empathetic eLearning course and resource guide with Articulate Rise as a call to action for content developers and facilitators to create more high-quality, accessible work.

DEIJB Performance Improvement Campaign
Download this proposal for a sample of my holistic, results-based approach to transformative learning, performance improvement, and evaluation.

Performance Improvement Campaign
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Published Writing

Note: the following pieces feature my writing, not my layout and design.

A white woman with long hair, a leopard-print top, and spiral earrings stands in front of a window full of plants holding a sign that reads

Domestic Workers
Save Lives
Analysis on reproductive labor and the
caring economy - commissioned for Medium by Domestic Employers (a partner of NDWA) and reprinted in MomsRising

Approximately 40 Latine and Indigenous parents and children stand smiling for a group picture in a park, with leafy trees in the background.

El Amor de la Comunidad
Photo essay and bilingual interviews with Chicago (im)migrant parent educators and community organizers - published by Transition Network and republished by Resilence

A four-panel collage with activists of all ages standing in front of government buildings in protest; holding a baby; and holding signs that say Free Marissa Now.

From Self-Defense to Self-Determination
Interview with Aleta Alston-Touré on the Free Marissa movement, racial justice activism, and forming the first US intentional community led by Black women - published by Transition Network
(Some of the formatting has been lost, and the images are no longer visible. For an unformatted version with original photos, please see this document.)

A group of people of all ages, including toddlers in strollers, stand in front of a building wearing winter coats and holding signs that say

Come For the Fun, Stay for the Revolution
A roundup of grassroots community organizers who occupy public spaces to
bring intergenerational art and programming to people of all ages, published by Transition Network and republished by Resilience

A sepia image of a tan house with brown trim, flat, barren land, and a brown sky after a dust storm.

Demeter in Kansas
Historical fiction excerpted from novel-in- progress Inside the Wow, blending research about queer, burlesque, and climate change history. This piece won second prize in the 2016 Literal Latte Fiction Award. I also received generous support from Blue Mountain Center to work on it.

For more about my prosocial approach to analysis, learning, team building, training, accessibility, inclusion, and blended
learning, see the offerings page:

Offerings

Awards and Distinctions

Columbia College Chicago Follett Fellowship for outstanding writing, 2012-2015

Blue Mountain Center 4-week residencies in New York for "fine work that evinces social and ecological concern," 2015 & 2017

Granum Foundation Prize longlist for excellence in writing, 2022

First Prize, Chicago Newberry Bughouse Square Soapbox Speech Award, 2016

First Prize, Chicago Guild Complex Prose Award, 2014

Second Prize, Literal Latte Fiction Award for historical fiction, 2016

Finalist, Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Award, 2009

Check back soon for more detailed case studies of my learning experiences and more Storyline scenario-based projects!

In the meantime, here are some links for inspiration
on building more inclusive communities:

Resources