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DocuSign Envelope ID: 26350935 -D1 DF -47BB- 9676- CBE4F7DD63FB <br />Resume of administrator <br />Jill Hemming Austin <br />124 Stateside Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919)370 -3284 <br />jihemmin@gmail.com <br />Professional Experience <br />2008 <br />Class Instructor, Curriculum in Folklore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill <br />Taught 485 Introduction to Folklore, a survey course for 90 undergraduates. <br />2006 -2007 <br />Assistant Director, Traditional Arts Indiana <br />Worked with Executive Director, Jonathan Kay, to develop a statewide network of programs and <br />support for traditional arts in Indiana. Developed traveling exhibit series, co- produced public <br />programs and performances, and evaluated organizational structures for improvement. <br />2001 -2005 <br />North Carolina Mammography Project, Lumbee Breast Cancer Oral History Project, <br />Consultant. With a team of health care specialists from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <br />and UNC- Pembroke, I oversaw the development of an archive of 30 interviews with Lumbee <br />breast cancer survivors that examine the experience of breast cancer from a Lumbee <br />perspective with the goal to inform and influence the procedures and policies surrounding <br />treatment of Lumbee breast cancer patients. This involves research, conceptualization, <br />interview development, training of Lumbee interviewers, and ongoing analysis. <br />2002 -2004 <br />Researcher and co- coordinator of North Carolina's representation at the 2004 Smithsonian <br />Folklife Festival program "Water Ways: Mid - Atlantic Maritime Culture." Developed community <br />support and profiles for the Albemarle Sound region and helped define and coordinate <br />programming to represent North Carolina's maritime cultures and traditions to festival visitors. <br />Acted as interpreter and presenter at festival. <br />1999 -2001 <br />Southern Oral History Program, Project Coordinator <br />A major oral history initiative, "Listening for a Change" was launched across the state by a multi- <br />disciplinary team of researchers seeking to elicit a more inclusive state history. As one of the <br />project coordinators in the initiative, I worked with colleague Alicia Rouverol to develop a project <br />focused on the changing neighborhoods of Northeast Central Durham where large numbers of <br />Latinos are settling into historically African - American communities. Managing a team of <br />graduate students and neighborhood folks and using a collaborative approach that seeks to <br />engage community leaders in the planning and implementation of the project, we completed a <br />community mural, a community history booklet, and a housing advocacy video. The emerging <br />impact of the project has been the engagement of area residents in a dialogue about community <br />challenges, solutions and visions for the future. Our work is already becoming a model for <br />similar community building initiatives. <br />Student Action with Farmworkers, Folklife Consultant <br />SAF administers an internship program each summer to give college students an opportunity to <br />work within the farmworker community on advocacy issues. Over three years, I helped the <br />organization develop a documentary structure for surveying folklife among farmworkers. In a <br />