Education

• Advanced art study in classical design and painting; Barnstone Studios Allentown, Pennsylvania.
• Secondary Education Certificate in Spanish; Moravian College Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
• Master of Divinity; Moravian Theological Seminary Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
• Master of Arts in Religious Education; Presbyterian School of Christian Education Richmond, Virginia.
• Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art and Religion (Magna Cum Laude); Moravian College Bethlehem, PA.

Employment

1995 – Present.   Teacher of Spanish, Art History, and Comparative World Religions.

1987 - 1995.  Associate Pastor of Religious Education; Director of  volunteers, youth groups, community services programs; presented programs on how theology impacts the visual arts.

1984 - 1988.  Delegate to the National Council of Churches Executive Committee, Governing Board, and the Church World Service Committee.

1993 - 1995. Art Instructor; Part-time position. Taught drawing and design for private studio adult evening classes.

1994 - 1995. Art Instructor; Adjunct faculty member. Taught drawing and design for undergraduate adult programs.

Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities for Summer 2008 stipended position of study in Madrid, Spain, “Authors in the Prado” (a multi-disciplinary study program combining Spanish literature with visual art).
  
• Premio Nordeste (North East Award) from the North East Conference on Foreign Language (NECTFL) for summer study at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2008.
  
• Maron Grant Travel/Study Scholarship to Spain, 2000, and to Italy, 2006.
  
• Zolton Fuisz Travel Scholarship to Hungary 2004.

Accreditations

• Pennsylvania Secondary Education Certificate.
• Ordained as a deacon by the Moravian Church.

Background

• Lived in Guyana, South America for ten years.
• Bicycled through Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula.
• Volunteer work in Israel on an archaelogical dig at Tell Akko.
• Taught with the Moravian Church in Honduras and Nicaragua.
• Traveled and studied throughout Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; Spain, Itally, Portugal and Netherlands.
  
• Written and oral fluency in Spanish and Italian.