RESOURCES
Queer101: the super, simple comic guide
JOBS
DiMenna Children’s History Museum Family Programs Educator at New York Historical Society (NYC) Doesn’t this sound like fun?
Development Director at Dixon Place (NYC) I moved to NYC because places like Dixon Place existed here and no where else
Administrative and Operations Assistant at Girls Educational & Mentoring Services, Inc. (NYC) Love these guys
Bookkeeper at Doing Art Together (NYC)
Director of Park and Open Space Operations AND Project Manager for Planning and Public Involvement for Governors Island (NYC) Seriously, get your Leslie Knope on
Communications Director at Malaria No More (NYC)
Director of Strategic Communications at Echoing Green (NYC)
Audience Development Coordinator at The Kitchn (NYC)
VP Industry Programming at The Paley Center for Media (NYC) media programming for media people YOU GUYS
Senior Producer at Melissa Harris-Perry (NYC) If you get this job, you have to become my best friend
Development Coordinator at Transportation Alternatives (NYC)
Frontend Engineer at The New Yorker (NYC)
Trainer-Mentor at Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) (NYC) This is the first social justice organization for which I volunteered. They are awesome.
PT Freelance Writer for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (NYC)
Senior Writer at the Freelancers Union (NYC)
Events Coordinator at Urban Arts Partnership (NYC)
Children’s Garden Coordinator/Supervising Instructor at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn)
Development Manager at Chicken & Egg Pictures (Brooklyn)
Director of Special Events at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) I really like this one.
Executive Director, HMI:Newark at Hetrick-Martin Institute (Newark, NJ) You guys, help the gaybies!
Director of Policy and Advocacy at Wider Opportunities for Women (DC)
Managing Editor at the Chronicle of Philanthropy (DC)
Executive Director at Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence (Dayton, OH)
Executive Director at Local First Chicago (Chicago)
Direct Marketing Manager at PetSmart Charities (Phoenix) I will bother you for donations if you get this one.
Assistant Director, Institutional Giving and Development Relations at Hammer Museum (LA)
Marketing/Events Coordinator for Olympia Film Society (Olympia, WA)
OPPORTUNITIES
Volunteer at the Athena Film Festival (NYC)
Activists for Social Development Fellowship
Call for a teaching artist for project on homelessness
Call for Submissions for Third Woman Press
Become an Upworthy Contributing Curator
Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award
Beacon: Crowdfund your writing
The Leonard C. Goodman Institute for Investigative Reporting
Nelson Algren Short Story Award
EVENTS
- January 28: “Documented” Film Screening and Interview with Jose Antonio Vargas (Oakland)
- January 29: Athena Power Talk: A Conversation with the former President of The White House Project, Marie Wilson (NYC)
- January 30: Re-Imagine Work – Etsy Career Info Session (Hudson, NY)
- February 1: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (multiple cities/online)
- February 6: Sexy Valentine’s Day Party with Babeland and BUST (NYC)
- February 6-9: Athena Film Festival (NYC) tickets are on sale now
- February 21-22: Take Root: Red State Perspectives on Repro Justice (OK)
- February 23: A Conversation with Piper Kerman (OITNB) and other formerly incarcerated people (Oakland)
- March 8: Small Works for Big Change: A Fundraiser for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (NYC)
- Now to March 23: The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter (NYC) Went to this over the Thanksgiving weekend and it was really great! A lot more global than I expected.
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