Ayah Young

Current

• Training and Events Coordinator at National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
• Freelance Writer at (freelance)

Past

• 2007 Fellow at Young People For
• Volunteer at Women's Choice Clinic
• Program Associate at Rockwood Leadership Program

• Editorial Intern at Sacramento News and Review
• Actress at Suspects: Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

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Education

• San Francisco State University
• Sacramento City College

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Events Services

Websites

• My Company

Ayah Young’s Experience

• Training and Events Coordinator

  National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center's mission is to enhance the quality of social and health services delivered to children who are abandoned or at-risk of abandonment due to the presence of drugs and/or HIV in the family. The Resource Center provides training, information, support, and resources to service providers who assist these children and their families.

• Freelance Writer

  (freelance)

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  January 2001 — Present (8 years 7 months)

  Founder, Editor, and Writer of:
  
  - Teensy Tiger: http://www.teensytiger.com
  - GROUNDED: http://constantlygrounded.blogspot.com/
  
  Writing has appeared on:
  
  - Wiretap: http://www.wiretapmag.com/
  - The Feminist Review Blog: http://thefeministreview.blogspot.com
  - The Tripwire: http://www.thetripwire.com/
  - Sacramento News & Review: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento

• 2007 Fellow

  Young People For

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)

  Young People For protects and promotes our nation’s core values by identifying, engaging, and empowering young leaders and activists and equipping them to work toward positive social change in their communities and across the nation.

• Volunteer

  Women's Choice Clinic

  (Non-Profit; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

  September 2001 — October 2007 (6 years 2 months)

  • Counselor, patient advocate, educator, hand holder.
  • Orient, train, and support new volunteers.
  • Assist in planning and staffing and coordinating fundraising events.
  • Design and produce promotional and outreach materials.
  • Coordinate fundraising events, staff tables.
  • Gynecology health education and outreach.

• Program Associate

  Rockwood Leadership Program

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  August 2003 — August 2007 (4 years 1 month)

  • Manage “Leading from the Inside Out” program, a yearlong series of intensive workshops that annually convenes a class of 21 of the nations foremost leaders in the nonprofit sector.
  • Assist with marketing trainings, recruitment, and post-training efforts, via e-mail, post and all communications.
  • Design and produce collateral for training curriculum and work intensively with designers and printers to produce promotional materials.
  • Conceptualize, design and administer web based marketing campaigns, includes writing copy, photo editing, layout, html hard coding.
  • Extensive professional development through in depth leadership trainings and personal coaching.
  • Represent at community events and conferences, build networks and connections in the public sphere.
  • Participate in organizational and departmental strategic planning sessions.
  • Work intensively with trainers and management team to establish and implement post training evaluation tools, processes and analysis.

• Editorial Intern

  Sacramento News and Review

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  January 2003 — June 2003 (6 months)

• Actress

  Suspects: Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

  September 2000 — December 2000 (4 months)

  Located in a floating hotel (which is itself a restored riverboat) on the Sacramento River, this special dinner theater invites audience members to participate in the action. Seated in a stately room on the boat's lower floors, spectators never know what will happen when each viewer becomes a suspect and an investigator – usually with hilarious results.

Ayah Young’s Education

• San Francisco State University

  BA , Cultural Anthropology , 2005 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Human Rights Summit, Students for Critical Anthropology, Women's Chorus.

• Sacramento City College

  AA , Journalism , 2000 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Xpress Newspaper

Additional Information

Ayah Young’s Websites:

• My Company

Ayah Young’s Groups:

Rockwood Leadership Program, YP4

•    Rockwood Leadership Institute Alumni

Ayah Young’s Honors:

• 2007 Young People for the American Way fellowship recipient, and featured blogger for their website from January-May.
• Lead organizer, media liaison and presenter for the Second Annual Human Rights Summit at SFSU entitled “Hidden Genocides” May 3-6, 2005. Wrote and distributed press releases to local media, organized an information fair representing local social justice organizations, arranged speakers, and wrote and delivered a speech entitled “Understanding the Invisibility of Violence Against Women” for a panel on transnational gender violence.
• Recipient of the Governor's Academic Excellence Award and Scholarship for outstanding academic achievement in reading and literature in 2000.

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