Youth Mentoring Consultant and Art Therapist
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Chair, Governmental Affairs Committee at American Art Therapy Association
- Program Director at Bay Area Mentoring
- Program Director at Friends for Youth, Inc.
- Legislative Director at Northern California Art Therapy Association
- Training Consultant at First Exposures
- Past
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- Guidance Counselor at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Adjunct Faculty at Prescott College
- Personal Development Instructor at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Guidance Counselor & Personal Development Instructor at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Education
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- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Speos/Photography Studies in France
- University of California, San Diego
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Sarah Kremer’s Summary
Artist, art therapist, and experienced professional in youth mentoring, youth development, mental health, and community arts fields with strong written and oral communication skills; management and training of employees and volunteers; and successful program development background. Motivated, confident, efficient, and flexible personal skills woven with ability to undertake research projects, creatively understand and develop activities to address life development issues such as aggression management, team building, addiction, parenting skills, stress reduction, communication skills, and problem solving in addition to addressing family systems/dynamics and specific psychiatric disorders such as depression, eating disorders, and self-injurious behavior.
Sarah Kremer’s Specialties:
youth mentoring, youth development, adolescent development, volunteer management, therapeutic treatment, art-based directives
Sarah Kremer’s Experience
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Chair, Governmental Affairs Committee
American Art Therapy Association
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 2009 — Present (5 months)
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Program Director
Bay Area Mentoring
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Bay Area Mentoring was created to help Northern California mentoring organizations more effectively partner with each other and other local programs. Our mission is based on the belief in the power of mentoring, and we are focused on advancing public awareness. Bay Area Mentoring is the lead local partner for National Mentoring Month activities sponsored by the Harvard Mentoring Project, MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Through National Mentoring Month events, the annual Northern California Mentoring Conference, workshops, and networking opportunities, mentoring programs can leverage their voice to reach volunteers, donors, and the media.
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Program Director
Friends for Youth, Inc.
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 2001 — Present (8 years 3 months)
Friends for Youth established our Mentoring Services program in 1979, creating and sustaining community-based, long-term one-to-one relationships for local youth. Since then, we have matched more than 1,650 youth with caring adult mentors. We have an 88% success rate of creating long-term friendships, a percentage significantly higher than the national average. Based on our direct service successes, we founded our Mentoring Institute in 1998, where we strive to improve the quality of youth service by disseminating information on safe and effective practices based on our proven model and the latest research in the mentoring field to the mentoring community through workshops, products, and an annual mentoring conference.
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Legislative Director
Northern California Art Therapy Association
(Mental Health Care industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)
The Northern California Art Therapy Association (NorCATA) is dedicated to representing art therapists from an educational, professional development, training, and political action standpoint. In addition, NorCATA will pursue the highest professional and ethical standards to protect the public that it serves.
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Training Consultant
First Exposures
(Photography industry)
March 1994 — Present (15 years 5 months)
First Exposures (FX) is a unique mentoring/photographic education program for young people sponsored by SF Camerawork. Students ages 11 - 18 are recruited from local agencies serving young people with backgrounds of foster care, homelessness or low-income living situations. Mentors are photographers with a commitment to youth empowerment through education. Our goal is not only to help develop a creative outlet for our students to express themselves in a safe and supportive environment, but also to encourage them to grow and become articulate, confident, and responsible young adults.
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Guidance Counselor
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
Guidance Counselor for the UC Berkeley/Cal Performances AileyCamp, the nationally acclaimed 6-week youth program conceived by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and locally administrated by Cal Performances.
Founded by Alvin Ailey and the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey in 1989, AileyCamp serves middle school students, ages 11-14, from the Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond and Albany Unified School districts. Curriculum includes daily technique classes in ballet, Horton-based modern dance, jazz, and West African dance. Classes in techniques of performance, creative communications, and personal development deepen the students' awareness of their potential for self-expression.
AileyCamp is not a training ground for professional dancers but, instead, uses dance as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, self-discipline, creative expression and critical thinking skills among underserved 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. -
Adjunct Faculty
Prescott College
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
January 2006 — January 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Mentor to student in Adolescent Psychology and Group Dynamics, providing guidance in developing course contracts, scheduled meeting times, and evaluation of work, including research papers
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Personal Development Instructor
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)
June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)
Guidance Counselor for the New York AileyCamp, the nationally acclaimed 6-week youth program conceived by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and locally administrated by the Children's Aid Society.
Founded by Alvin Ailey and the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey in 1989, AileyCamp serves middle school students, ages 11-14, from the five boroughs of New York City. Curriculum includes daily technique classes in ballet, Horton-based modern dance, jazz, and West African dance. Classes in techniques of performance, creative communications, and personal development deepen the students' awareness of their potential for self-expression.
AileyCamp is not a training ground for professional dancers but, instead, uses dance as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, self-discipline, creative expression and critical thinking skills among underserved 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. -
Guidance Counselor & Personal Development Instructor
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)
June 1999 — August 1999 (3 months)
Guidance Counselor for Chicago AileyCamp, the nationally acclaimed 6-week youth program conceived by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and locally administrated by Urban Gateways.
Founded by Alvin Ailey and the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey in 1989, AileyCamp serves middle school students, ages 11-14, from the Chicagoland area. Curriculum includes daily technique classes in ballet, Horton-based modern dance, jazz, and West African dance. Classes in techniques of performance, creative communications, and personal development deepen the students' awareness of their potential for self-expression.
AileyCamp is not a training ground for professional dancers but, instead, uses dance as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, self-discipline, creative expression and critical thinking skills among underserved 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students.
Sarah Kremer’s Education
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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
M.A.A.T. , Art Therapy , 1997 — 1999
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Speos/Photography Studies in France
Certificate , Photography , 1991 — 1992
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University of California, San Diego
B.A. , Visual Art , 1987 — 1991
Additional Information
Sarah Kremer’s Websites:
Sarah Kremer’s Honors:
Author, Mentoring Journal. (2007). Redwood City, CA: Friends for Youth, Inc.
Author, "Mentoring Through Photography". In Auerbach, E. (Ed.), First Exposures. (2006). San Francisco: SF Camerawork.
Author, Friendship Journal. (2005). Redwood City, CA: Friends for Youth, Inc.
Art Therapy Credentials Board, Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (A.T.R.-BC), #03-056
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