CLAIRE N. KAPLAN 104 Diamond Road, Troy, Virginia 22974 434.982.2774 (Work) Or 434.242.9734 (Cell) E-Mail: [email protected]
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CLAIRE N. KAPLAN 104 Diamond Road, Troy, Virginia 22974 434.982.2774 (work) or 434.242.9734 (cell) E-mail: [email protected] SUMMARY Consultant and creative thinker with a broad understanding of sexual and intimate partner violence, college student development, and experiential learning, and educational policies. Twenty years’ experience with student advising, guidance on personal and academic concerns, as well as in the development of mentoring and support programs. Skilled coalition builder. Experience with event planning on a wide range of concerns affecting women and men. Published author and successful grant writer, having raised over $170,000 from state grants and private foundations. EDUCATION Ph.D. Social Foundations of Education/ Women’s Studies Curry School of Education 2004 University of Virginia Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration 1999 M.P.W. Professional Writing/ Screenplay & Non-Fiction University of Southern California 1983 B.S. Animal Behavior/Environmental Design University of California, Davis 1977 EXPERIENCE Administration Director, Sexual and Domestic Violence Services, University of Virginia Women’s Center—1991 to present Manage program that promotes educational programming and provides intervention services to survivors of sexual assault, intimate partner violence, child sexual abuse and stalking. - Supervise Director of Counseling Services (.5 FTE). - Develop, administer, and monitor annual SDVS budget. - Serve as advocate for students seeking guidance on options following an assault, or who are in abusive relationships, including internal hearings before the Sexual Assault Board. - Supervise SDVS graduate assistants and interns in implementing our ongoing and annual programs: - Survivors Support Network - Sexual Assault Leadership Council - Men’s Leadership Project - Red Flag Campaign - Public Educational Events - Train administrators, faculty, staff and students, including Judiciary Committee Investigators, Resident Staff, Teaching Assistants, New Student Orientation facilitators, and other allied professionals concerning appropriate ways to assist students and co-workers who are survivors. - Advisor to SAFE (Sexual Assault Facts & Education), a student-led peer-education organization. - Consult with faculty whose students have been assaulted, abused or stalked. - Work with faculty to integrate issues of sexual assault and domestic violence into their curriculum. - Encourage student utilization of local sexual assault and domestic violence crisis centers, criminal justice system, and University resources through various educational and media campaigns. - Published nationally-recognized and emulated Handbook for Survivors, distributing over 8,500 to date. This book is distributed throughout the area - Manage Sexual Assault Education Council to facilitate collaboration and communication among various stakeholders - Developed and maintained former SDVS website (upon which current pages are based) - Annually educate students, faculty and staff on sexual assault, intimate partner violence and stalking. - Facilitate access to programs and services by disabled and D/deaf individuals, and international scholars/spouses 2 through coordination with Learning Needs & Evaluation Center and International Center, including the development of translated editions of resource materials. - Established resource library of books, audio- and videotapes, and journals. - Produced video on experiences of sexual assault survivors: “True Stories: The Many Faces of Sexual Assault.” (1993). - Represent campus sexual assault programs on the Board of Virginians Aligned Against Sexual Assault (1991-2004) and on its successor organization, Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance Interim Supervisor, Diversity and Advocacy Events Program, University of Virginia Women’s Center—January, 2008-2009 Supervise Director of Events and interns, manage budget and set Fall, 2008 schedule for Women’s Center signature events, visiting artists, scholars and activists speaking on Grounds until a new Director of Diversity and Mentoring is hired. Interim Associate Director, University of Virginia Women’s Center—1995 to 1996 Assumed some of the Director’s responsibilities during her one-year sabbatical including: - Budget development and oversight for entire Women’s Center. - Supervision of Programming Department (Visiting Scholars, Artists and Activists, events celebrating 25 years of coeducation at UVA, our first conference for alumni, and coordination with the Director of Development). - Executive Editor, In Other Words—1995-95. - Supervised editor in production of 12-page quarterly tabloid newspaper, including story editing, art selection, layout, advertising and distribution of 10,000 copies city-wide. - Maintained working relationship with The Daily Progress, Charlottesville’s local paper, which printed In Other Words in exchange for advertising revenues. - Supervision of Publicity Department to ensure that events were adequately promoted. Initiated in-house discussions of promotional campaign to elevate the visibility of the Women’s Center. Executive Director, National Coalition Against Sexual Assault—1990 - Established first national office for long-time all-volunteer coalition in Washington, D.C. - Directed all administrative operations (fiscal management, fundraising, grant writing/research), technical assistance, policy tracking, canvassing operations, volunteer recruitment, public relations, and conference planning. Director of Training and Outreach, Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (Now Peace Over Violence)—1987 to 1989 - Revamped and implemented 56-hour volunteer training for hotline counselors, averaging 25 trainees three times per year to ensure adequate staffing of 24-hour crisis hotline that covered Los Angeles County. - Opened training and hotline to Deaf volunteers and supervised Deaf Services program. - Developed Speakers Bureau training. Consulted on all other agency training, including child abuse prevention staff, self-defense instructors and assault prevention courses as employee benefit packages. - Created volunteer recruitment campaigns that successfully kept hotline and other programs staffed 24 hours/day, seven days/week. - Raised visibility of services among non-English-speaking and Deaf communities and increased their participation in volunteer staff. - LACAAW representative to local and national television, radio, and print media, including radio and television talk shows and news organizations. - Coordinated all media and public relations projects. - Developed and served as managing editor for both monthly internal and quarterly external membership newsletters. Teaching Women in Central America: Local Activism in Global Perspective. University of Virginia Study Abroad Program Program/Dept. of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Summer Session, 2007. Intensive two-week summer term course in San Salvador, El Salvador aimed at sharpening comparative analysis of women’s issues, activism, and leadership across different countries of Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua). 3 Gender, Violence, and Society. University of Virginia, 1999-present. Undergraduate seminar on sexual and domestic violence from a multicultural and global perspective. Offered through the Curry School of Education and Studies in Women and Gender. Co-taught with Mary Carter Lominack, Executive Director, Shelter for Help in Emergency. Global Theories of Women’s Advocacy. University of Virginia, College of Arts and Sciences, Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG) 316, Spring 2004. Required course for SWAG majors who participate in a service-learning internship with the University of Virginia Women’s Center. Gendered Violence in Society. University of Virginia, Curry School of Education, Department of Foundations, Leadership and Public Policy (EDLF) 589, Spring semesters 1999-2002. Masters-level seminar on the impact of sexual and domestic violence, and child abuse, from a multicultural, global perspective. Co-taught with the executive director of the local battered women’s shelter. Development University of Virginia Women’s Center - Wrote four state-funded grants, raising over $170,000 for the Sexual And Domestic Violence Services (formerly the Sexual Assault Education Office). - Solicited co-sponsorships from various University offices and community programs in excess of $50,000. - Co-produced (1995) benefit concert with Ferron and Freyda Epstein (with New Music Times, Inc.). Valley Deaf Festival, Valley Advocacy & Communication Center for the Deaf—1989 - Coordinated all public and media outreach for annual Fresno, CA-based event, resulting in best-attended event with widest media coverage to date. Producer, Benefit Concert for Democratic Socialists of America • November, 1988 - Produced benefit concert in Los Angeles, featuring Latin American women’s band, Sabiá, and jazz artist, Kimberley Miller, raising approximately $1,000 for the organization. Co-Producer, Benefit Concert for L.A. Commission on Assaults Against Women and El Rescate Refugee Center • November, 1986 - Produced, developed publicity, and served as liaison with El Rescate staff in the production of benefit concert with Bonnie Raitt, Robin Flower Band, and Sabiá. Associate Producer: LACAAW Comedy Night at the Comedy Store • March 1986 - Coordinated recruitment of celebrities and comedians for annual fundraiser in Hollywood, California, including Ed Asner, Elayne Boosler, Louie Anderson, Kate Clinton, Phyllis