As a lifelong educator and community leader, I have strong organizational, facilitation and communication skills. As a gifted education teaching specialist, I spearheaded establishment of a model school-wide enrichment program in New York state. Through all professional and community leadership projects that I initiated or supported, I developed extensive interactive skills for alliance and consensus building.

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Career Highlights:

• Director, Endicott Teacher Resource Center, Endicott NY

• Gifted Education/Schoolwide Enrichment Teacher Endicott NY

• Teacher, Adult Basic Education, Highbury College, Portsmouth, England

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Education:

• University of California, Berkeley BA in History with Honors

• Oregon State University, post-baccalaureate courses in Education

• International Teaching and Training Centre, Bournemouth, England, RSA Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

• Southampton University, Southampton, England, Certificate in Further, Adult and Higher Education

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Professional and Community Leadership Skills:

• Moderator of televised candidate debates WSKG public TV, NY

• Workshop and conference presentations on gifted and enrichment education, NY

• Workshop presentations at AAUW National  and State Conventions

• TV and radio interviews on professional, community and women’s issues

• Webinar presentations on nonprofit board leadership

• Blog articles and Letters to the Editor published

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Discussing status of women in academia at the University of Guam

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Preparing for a radio interview about education and employment opportunities and pay equity for women

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“AAUW Guam was privileged to have Patricia visit us early in 2012. Her genuine warmth, lively personality, and enthusiastic interactive manner were apparent from the outset. Patricia was tireless in her willingness to encourage and support us. Her ability to dynamically communicate on Guam via TV, radio, small and large group presentations, interviews won her much praise. She has significantly inspired and empowered AAUW Guam Branch.”