Virginia Kennedy

17 Church Street Cooperstown, NY VirginiaKennedy67@gmail.com 570-394-0219 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Otsego Land Trust Executive Director March 2013-present Cooperstown, NY Direct all administrative facets of organizational operation and success Plan and manage budget Assure proper organizational governance in accordance with Land Trust Alliance Standards and Practices Direct and govern staff, interns, and volunteers Participate in land protection transactions Manage fee-owned public-access lands Lead and/or manage outreach, fundraising, and advocacy campaigns Lead press relations and public outreach efforts Manage data collection and tracking Write and manage grants Interface with public and board of directors to advance mission Represent Otsego Land Trust as member of County Agricultural Sustainability Board Represent Otsego County as appointee to Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Advisory Committee for revision of NY State Open Space Plan Delaware Highlands Conservancy Outreach and Development Manager May 2011-March 2013 Hawley, PA and Bethel, NY Develop programming and special initiatives Develop organizational messaging and direct and develop all communications between the Conservancy and the public including newsletters, e-news, website, and social media Direct and develop press communications including press releases, media invitations, and press conferences Manage merger with and integration of the Conservancy and Eagle Institute Manage Eagle Institute staff during integration into Conservancy Manage organizational partnerships Direct political advocacy actions Oversee volunteer recruitment and coordination Direct member and donor cultivation and outreach Manage and write required grants Organize and manage annual gala fundraiser

Delaware Highlands Conservancy Writing and Outreach Consultant May 2006-May 2011 Hawley, PA and Bethel, NY Chair of Natural Gas Committee

Write grants, newsletter articles, articles for general media, and organizational outreach materials Participate in organization and production of fundraising initiatives and educational programming

Cornell University PhD Fellow August 2006-May 2011 Ithaca, NY Writing Seminar Instructor and Cornell American Indian Program Teaching Assistant Conference organizer for Cornell American Indian Program for Eco-conference 2009 and Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law Conference 2010: Liaison to invited speakers Liaison between English Department and American Indian Program Coordination of guest travel, lodging, and conference needs Arrangement for and of conference site Coordination of book sale and presentations with Cornell Bookstore Coordination of conference meals, registration, and volunteer recruitment Coordination of media and public relations: Writing press releases and public service announcements, email blasts to relevant University and public community organizations, writing follow-up articles for general press and University press Development of conference budget and direction of allocation of budget funds University of Scranton and Marywood University Adjunct Professor of Literature and Composition May 2001-May 2006 Scranton, PA Lakeland Regional High School Freshmen-Senior English Teacher September 1986-May 1993 Wanaque, NJ Dance Expression Dance Arts Ballet and Modern Dance Instructor/Company Choreographer September 1990-2008 Hamburg, NJ EDUCATION PhD English/American Indian Studies Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

September 2012 MA English Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ May 2000 BA English / Teacher Certification K-12 Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ May 1986 BA Dance Performance and Education Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ May 1983

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS Buffalo Spirit Award for graduate/professional student who provided outstanding leadership and support for students and programs of Cornell American Indian Program Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 2011 Moses Coit Tyler Prize for best essay by a Cornell graduate student in the field of American history, literature, or folklore Cornell University, Ithaca, NY May 2011 Environmental Sustainability Grant for exploring cross-cultural responses to climate change Cornell Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY April 2011 Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies Graduate Research Fellowship Newberry Library, Chicago, IL 2009-2010 Honorable Mention for best essay submitted by a graduate student Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Victoria, Canada Spring 2009 Cornell American Indian Program Graduate Research Grant for travel and on-site interviews Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Summer 2009 Cornell American Indian Program Graduate Research Grant for on-site research , Pine Ridge and Rose Bud Reservations, South Dakota Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Summer 2008 Scholarship Award to attend The Shifting Borders of Race and Identity: A Research and Teaching Project on the Native American and African American Experience: A project supported by the Ford Foundation University of Kansas in Partnership with Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS Fall 2005 J. Golden Taylor Award for best essay submitted by a graduate student

Western Literary Association Conference, Omaha, NE Fall 2001 Lawrence Conrad Scholarship Award for Excellence in the Study of American Literature Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Spring 2000 PUBLICATIONS Shop Local, Save Land in Pennsylvania Forestry Magazine, 107:9, Spring 2013. The Heart of the Matter in Whole Thinking Journal, Vol. 7, Spring 2012. Book Review: N. Scott Momaday: Remembering Ancestors, Earth, and Traditions: An Annotated Biobibliography by Phyllis S. Morgan in American Indian Cultural and Research Journal, Spring 2011. Book Review: Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture by Shari M. Huhndorf and Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin in American Literature, December 2010. Book Review: Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape by Lee Schweninger and The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast by Lisa Brooks in American Literature, 81:3, September 2009. A Conversation with David Treuer in Studies in American Indian Literature, 20:2, Summer 2008. Native Americans, African Americans, and the Space that is America: Indians in the Fiction of Toni Morrison in Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds, Eds. Sharon Holland and Tiya Miles, Duke University Press, Summer 2006. Un-learning the Legacy of Conquest: Possibilities for Leslie Silkos Ceremony in the Non-Native Classroom in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Special Edition, Summer/Fall 2004. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS The Land is a Way of Thinking: The Promise and Danger of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference , Sacramento, CA, May 2011 (Also organizer and chair for the full panel: TEK and the Transformation of Ecological Understanding.) The Animal that therefore I am: Jacques Derridas Indigenous Ecology. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference, Victoria, Canada, Spring 2009 Shouldering the Work of Paradise: Native Americans and African Americans in Toni Morrisons Paradise. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, March 2008 Who are We to Be? The Troubling Power of Representation in Toni Morrisons Beloved and David Treuers The Hiawatha. The First and the Forced: Indigenous and African American Intersections, Lawrence, Kansas, November 2006 A Sense of Place: Locating the Indian in the Novels of David Treuer. Modern Language Association Conference, Washington DC, December 2005 The Story is Survival: Parallels in Indigenous African and Native American Literature. National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, Chicago, Ill, March 2005