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youth workshops
I currently offer workshops for adults, high school and college students around the US and in Pakistan. To book a workshop, please contact me through Voices Breaking Boundaries.
Aug 2009: Express Yourself: A Writing | Blogging | Video workshop for Pakistani college and high school women, Houston, TX. This project was run through Voices Breaking Boundaries and funded by St. Luke's Episcopal Health Charities.
Jan 2009: Reading and talk at Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi and Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. (Organized by the US Cultural Attaché).
Oct 2008: Women’s empowerment workshop, Duke University’s Women’s Center, Durham, NC.
Jul 2007: Reading and talk at University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Spring 2007: VBB literary instructor for Showcase of Poetry/Prose, Art and Music (SPAM!), Lee High School, Houston, TX.
Fall 2005: VBB literary instructor for Showcase of Poetry/Prose, Art and Music (SPAM!), Lee High School, Houston, TX.
Summer 2005: VBB literary instructor and administrator for Retelling Histories, a collaborative project between VBB, Youth Advocates and Project Row Houses at Lee High School, Houston, TX.
Spring 2004: VBB literary instructor for Writing Workshop for Vietnamese Youth at Vietnamese Cultural Center, through Inprint Inc. Houston, TX.
Spring 2004: VBB performance instructor for La Voz Femenina, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
Summer 2003: VBB project administrator of Multi-Disciplinary Workshop and performance, Furr High School, Houston, TX.
Spring 2003: VBB performance instructor for La Voz Femenina, Lee High School, Houston, TX.
Fall 2002 – Spring 2003: VBB literary instructor and administrator of Multi-Disciplinary Elective at Furr High School, Houston, TX.
Summer 2002: VBB literary instructor and administrator of Multi-Disciplinary Summer After-School Program at Sharpstown High School, Houston, TX.
Fall 1999 – Summer 2002: Writing instructor for Making Noise, a writing workshop for young women, Inprint Inc., Houston, TX.
Fall 1994 - Summer 1997: Writing Instructor for Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS); taught workshops at a variety of spaces including: The Menil Collection, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, and many more sites around Houston, TX.