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DocuSign Envelope ID:0E33E5E7-2F9B-4F3C-9COD-95D21AC52620 <br /> Jill Hemming Austin <br /> 124 Stateside Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919)370-3284 <br /> jihemmin @gmail.com <br /> 6=: <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 perspective <br /> with the goal to inform and influence the procedures and policies surrounding treatment of Lumbee <br /> breast cancer patients. This involves research, conceptualization, interview development,training <br /> of Lumbee interviewers, and ongoing analysis. <br /> 2002-2004 <br /> Researcher and co-coordinator of North Carolina's representation at the 2004 Smithsonian Folklife <br /> Festival program"Water Ways: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Culture." Developed community support and <br /> profiles for the Albemarle Sound region and helped define and coordinate programming to <br /> represent North Carolina's maritime cultures and traditions to festival visitors. Acted as interpreter <br /> 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 <br /> multi-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 graduate <br /> students and neighborhood folks and using a collaborative approach that seeks to engage <br /> community leaders in the planning and implementation of the project, we completed a community <br /> mural, a community history booklet, and a housing advocacy video. The emerging impact of the <br /> project has been the engagement of area residents in a dialogue about community challenges, <br /> solutions and visions for the future. Our work is already becoming a model for similar community <br /> 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 />