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CERTIFICATIONS, AWARDS

Teacher substitute certificate, 2008.

National Issues Forum, group facilitator training, 2008

Nonprofit Management Institute, NCTC, 2014.

Portage County Leadership Institute.

Nominated for national evangelization award, 1992. 

Director of Religious Education for the Year, Diocese 

    of La Crosse, 1991. 

Stephen P. Gilmour Award, Wisconsin Directors

     of Religious Education Federation, 1984.

 

SKILLS

+ group facilitating (certified with National Issues Forum)

+ strategic planning and organizational development 

+ office skills in word processing, bookkeeping, spreadsheets,

     databases, publicity, communications, internet.

 

SERVICE
Deanery marriage preparation presenter
American Red Cross Board
Eco-Municipality Education Committee
Interfaith Community for the Earth (ICE)
Wisconsin Master Chorale
Diocesan Association of Religious Educators (DARE)
    newsletter editor 2008-11.
Wisconsin Christian Educators Fellowship
Co-chaired state WDREF convention, 1982
 
 
 
Recognition / Skills / Service
Continuing Education 2014-present
 
To practice what I preach--life-long learning--I audit courses each semester at Univ. of Wisc.--Stevens Point:
  Environmental Psychology
  Climate Change: Politics and Policy
  Children's Literature
  Survey of Western Art History I
  Natural Resources Public Relations and Social Science
  Seminar:Gender, Communication, Culture
  Ancient Greek Philosophy
  Women and Religion
  Intro to Peace Studies: Dilemmas of War and Peace
  Capstone Seminar on Human Rights
  Seminar in Public Relations: Social Media Theory
     and Practice
  Literary Theory; Major Authors: James Joyce
  Humanity and Global Environment
  American Politics
  Introduction to Sociology
  Intro to Study of Literature
  Critical Thinking
  American Political Thought
  Contemporary Moral Problems
  Epistemology
  Senior Seminar: Interreligious Dialogue
  Literature and Ecology
  Philosophical Problems: Ethics of Food
  Religion and Society Ancient Israel
  Music in Film
  Senior Seminar: Religion and Ecology
  Human Geography
  Individualized Exercise
  Advanced Environmental Ethics
  Religious Diversity in Modern America
  American Religious History
  Symbolic Logic
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