James R. Sheldon
378 Hearst Ave Apt A
San Francisco CA 94112
Cell: (408) 314-8574
voyager640@gmail.com
James R. Sheldon
378 Hearst Ave Apt A
San Francisco CA 94112
Cell: (408) 314-8574
voyager640@gmail.com
PROFILE
Activist/Educator/Scholar with theoretical experience, teaching experience, activist experience, and a commitment to labor, anti-oppression, and social justice
EDUCATION
New College of California, San Francisco. Enrolled in MA in Activism and Social Change. Research interests: critical and queer education and pedagogy, radical mental health, radical unionism
University of California, Santa Cruz. 1999-June 2006. BA in
Interdisciplinary Computer Science Teaching. Narrative Performance
Evaluations available upon request.
Coursework included: Algorithms, Community Teaching Fellowship, Computer Programming, Critical Pedagogy, Databases, Data Structures, Education Reform Issues, Gay/Lesbian/Queer Film, Human Sexuality, Intro to Community Activism, Intergroup Dialogue, Intro to Visual Culture, New Queer Cinema, Queer Theory, Queer Theory and Star Trek (was instructor of record), Sexuality and Culture, Science Fiction in Multicultural America, Software Design
SKILLS
- Activist training
- Familiar with wide range of computer applications as well as software programming and design
- Filing, Photocopying, Typing (100 wpm)
- Long-term organizational planning
- Meeting and Process Facilitation
EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS
- Advised the Aptos Young Religious Unitarian Universalists youth group
- Facilitated a discussion and support group for Queer Geeks
- Facilitated a GSA Activist training small group through GSA Network
- Organized a young adult campus ministry at UC Santa Cruz
- Tutored and taught at Santa Cruz High as part of the Community Teaching Fellowship program
- Tutored under-represented high school students as a part of the Cosmos Program
- Worked with Scouting for All to work to end discrimination against GLBT youth and adults in Boy Scouting
- Volunteered at an at-risk alternative high school in Aptos
ACTIVIST EXPERIENCE
- As a youth, served for four years on the Los Gatos UU Fellowship's Social Justice committee
- Attended an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Organizer Training
- Interned with UAW Local 2865 to organize student tutors and readers into the union
- Organized against the tobacco industry's exploitation of youth as a part of the INFACT Tobacco Industry campaign
- Organized a faculty committee to advocate for queer studies at UC Santa Cruz
- Organized a local branch of the Industrial Workers of the World
- Served on an activist student government for five years at UC Santa Cruz
- Served for two years on the California Teachers Association's State Council of Education, the statewide decision-making body for the organization
- Worked to organize college students with the California Teachers Association's Student Program
WORK EXPERIENCE
Stanford Law School Stanford, CA
Clerical Support Winter 2006
Computer Science Department (UCSC) Santa Cruz, CA
Reader/Tutor Winter 2000- Spring 2004
Writing Program (UCSC) Santa Cruz, CA
Writing Assistant Fall 2003-Winter 2004
Registrar's Office Santa Cruz, CA
NES Assistant I Winter 2003
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- California Teachers Association (Special Education State Council Committee, member of Peace&Justice Caucus, GLBT Caucus, GLBT Caucus Interview Team)
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Computer Science Teachers' Association
- Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
- National Education Association
- Pride @ Work
- Society of Women Engineers
- Student California Teachers Association
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