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DocuSign Envelope ID:3E2A8197-2735-44CA-8810-5AD399233576 <br /> Mark Smith-Soto, and Priscilla Webster-Williams <br /> February 2017: Poetry of Witness, featuring William Black ley, L. Teresa Church, <br /> Maura High, and Earl Huband <br /> • June 2016, Chapel Hill Library: Organizer and host of Remembrance: an Evening of African- <br /> American Poetry, to honor the Charleston, South Carolina parishioners murdered during a Bible <br /> study meeting on June 17, 2015. Featured poets: L. Teresa Church, Jaki Shelton Green, Sheila <br /> Smith McKoy, and Gideon Young <br /> • Organizer and instructor for the following writing workshops held at the Orange County Main <br /> Library in Hillsborough: <br /> April 2015: Getting Honest and Yet More Honest <br /> July 2015: Heroes, Heroines, and Heartthrobs <br /> February 2016: Writing About Race <br /> April 2016: Poetry and Personal Identity <br /> October 2016: Revising Toward Clarity, Energy, and Elegance <br /> February 2017: Writing Poems of Witness <br /> May 2017: Wrestling the Four-Tongued Beast: Revision and Imagery <br /> • 2014-15: Co-wrote and co-facilitated two survivor-led writing support groups for women <br /> survivors of domestic violence, funded by a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission <br /> and conducted at the Compass Center in Chapel Hill.A journal of survivors' work, The War <br /> Against the Mirror: Reflections on Domestic Violence was produced with funds from the grant. <br /> Paid Work in the Arts: <br /> • Instructor of the following poetry classes/one-day workshops held at the Robert and Pearl <br /> Seymour Center in Chapel Hill: <br /> Summer 2015: Writing Your Life Story Through Poetry, an eight-week workshop <br /> Fall 2015: Poets Critique Group, an eleven-week workshop <br /> September 2015: Writing from the Rope Bridge <br /> November 2015: Soundtrack <br /> February 2016: Writing Poems of Witness <br />