Toni Roberts

The Bayview Correctional Facility for Women, NYC (2009, 2010)

Empowerment Workshop Facilitator; Keynote Speaker

The Glebe Senior Center (2008)

Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator

The New York Public Library (1989, 1991, 2006, 2009)

Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator

Palladia, Inc., Domestic Violence Shelter for Women (2003-2005)

Inwood House Residence for Pregnant Teens, NYC, (2000-2003)

The Amethyst Women’s Project (Women in Recovery from Substance Abuse) (2004)

Creative Expression/Self-Empowerment Workshop Facilitator

The New York City Public School System (1996-2002)

Arts-in-Education Consultant Teacher & Creative Expression Specialist

The Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, NYS (1999-2000)

Literacy through Creative Self-Expression Workshop Facilitator

♦Completion of 40 Hour Core Curricular Course, Consciousness Development Program; The International Academy of Consciousness, NYC (2005)

♦Thirty Graduate Credits in Education (NYC Board of Education Masters Equivalent) from Herbert H. Lehman Graduate School of Education, Bronx, NY and the NEDA Institute at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

♦Bachelor of Arts, Spanish; City College of New York

♦Bronx Council on the Arts Fiction Awards (2008, 2006, 1991)

♦New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellow (1989)

♦Mayoral Appointee: NYC Commission on the Status of Women

Creative Empowerment Workshop Facilitator, BRIO Saturday Café, Bronx Council on the Arts (2012)

Panel Member, Parallel Careers for Artists (Sponsored by the Bronx Council on the Arts (2008)

Free Monthly Support Group for Women (2004)

Free Six-Week Women’s Empowerment Program, Casa Atabex Ache, Bronx, NY (2002)

Workshop Facilitator, PASE Conference at Hostos College, Bronx, NY

Creative Strategies for Visual Literacy (A NYC Board of Education-approved Teacher Training program)

Moving Hearts, Minds & Pocketbooks, The Anatomy of An Effective Letter of Solicitation, an article written for www.saveawoman.org (2011)

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Letter of Solicitation for Bloodline Foundation, Inc. and Co7, LLC (2010)

Breath of Love, Collage, Cross Bronx Online Literary Arts Magazine (2008)

The Bull and The Tramp and I Remember Frisky, two children’s picture books; revised/rewritten for Ethnicity Cards, LLC, Publisher (2008)

Telling Our Stories by the Writing Club of the Glebe Senior Citizen Center; compiled and edited by Toni Roberts (2008)

A Book of Inner Journeys by the Women of Aegis (Palladia, Inc.); compiled and edited by Toni Roberts (2004)

Writing for Our Lives by the LEAP Mothers at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility; compiled and edited by Toni Roberts (2000)

My Bronx Riviera and Matando el Día, Poetry, Soundings…A Writers’ Journal (1999)

Meditations on Sacred Spaces…Sacred Places, Prose and Photography, SageWoman Magazine (1998-1999)

An Invitation to Solitude and The Fall of the God, Artwork, Prose and Poetry; the Crone Chronicles (1998-1999)

Resurrecting the Divine Feminine, SheInk Magazine (1998)

Women’s Rites for Self-Healing, a series for the NY Beacon Newspaper (1994)

♦After School Program Manager and Teacher Trainer; Consultant Staff Developer for The Bell Foundation, NYC (2000-2003)

♦Academic and Personal Counselor at Lehman College Adult Education Center, Bronx, NY (1996)

♦Museum Educator; Teacher Trainer; Program Developer; Public Relations Coordinator at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (1995-1998)

♦Co-Founder and Coordinator of the Bronx WritersCorps for the Bronx Council on the Arts (1994-1995)

♦After School Program Manager/Teaching Artist for Arts Connection, NYC (1989-1994)

Formerly licensed Regular Teacher of J.H.S. Spanish; The NYC Board of Education Permanent eligibility for a NYC Board of Education License as a Substitute Teacher of J.H.S. Spanish

Spanish as a Second Language