Skills — Talitha Abramsen

AWARDS, TRAINING, LEADERSHIP

2016- National INNOVATION AWARD - Brain Balance Achievement Center National Annual Convention
2015- National MISSION AWARD- Brain Balance Achievement Center, Inaugural Recipients of this award, Brain Balance Achievement Center National Annual Convention

ADU (Accessory Dwelling Unit) Specialist Certification Online Course
WeCan GROW (Get Results from Other's Wisdom) Business Development Cohort, Eastham, MA
Interior Redesign Certificate Course (5 day course) Milford, CT 2019
Right Brain Business Plan, Atlanta, GA 2011
Creative Problem Solving: Creative Education Foundation, Atlanta, GA 2011
Building Accountability and Commitment, Designed Learning, Peter Block, NJ 2010
“Public Narrative”, Harvard University, Professor Marshall Ganz 2009
Collaborative Social Change, (3 days), Interaction Institute for Social Change, MA 2008
Coaching EDGE Training (3 days) Interaction Institute for Social Change, Cambridge, MA 2007
Managing with Impact Training (2 days) Interaction Institute for Social Change, Cambridge, MA 2007
People’s Institute Undoing Racism Training (3 days) Springfield, MA 2006
Essential Facilitation Training, (3 days) Interaction Institute for Social Change, Cambridge, MA 2006
Facilitative Leadership, (3 days) Interaction Institute for Social Change, Amherst, MA 2005
Getting Things Done Seminar, David Allen, Inc, (1 day) Boston, MA 2005
Mentors in Violence Prevention Training, (3 days) Train the Trainers seminar, Springfield, MA 2002
Building Exemplary Systems of Training for Youth Workers, (6 week training), Springfield, MA 2000

Massachusetts Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, Commissioner 2008-2009
Massachusetts Governor’s Statewide Youth Council, Adult Sponsor 2008-2010
Smith College LGBTQA Alumnae Group, Founding Member 2007-2008
Organizer, MassEquality, organizing for marriage equality 2007-2008
Organizer, Obama 2008, door to door canvassing, visibility efforts 2008
Vice President, Massachusetts Chapter of N.A.M.E. (National Association of Multicultural Education) 2003
Mentor, to a young Puerto Rican woman since she was 10 years old 2000- 2014
Massachusetts Statewide Cultural Proficiency Steering Committee, member 2006- 2007

IDEA MILL, Holyoke, MA 2011
Creative Problem Solving Institute (5 days), Atlanta, GA 2011
National After-School Alliance, Washington DC, ** 2010
Sharing Skills ~ Building Connections Workforce Development Conference, Worcester, MA ** 2010
Workforce Innovations National Conference, New Orleans, LA 2008
UCONN Closing the Achievement Gap Conference, Storrs, CT 2008
CT Resiliency Conference, Berlin, CT 2008
National White Privilege Conference 2008
MA DOE, College and Career Readiness Summit, Worcester, MA ** 2008
MA DOE, Alternative Education Summit, Worcester, MA 2007
National Assoc. of Multicultural Education, New England Conference, Hartford, CT 2007
Nexus for Social Change, Bowling Green, OH 2007
National Drop Out Prevention Center Annual Regional Conference (3 days), Tampa, F 2007
National Association of Multicultural Education, Regional Conference, Hartford, CT 2006
Closing the Achievement Gap (3 days), Harvard Family Research Project, Cambridge, MA 2006
Examining White Privilege Conference, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley 2004

Talitha Abramsen