Janne Kelsey Knight

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Boise ID 83709

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janneknight@u.boisestate.edu

Education
Bachelor of English Literature Emphasis
Boise State University, Boise ID

Expected Graduation Date: May 2016

GPA: 3.824

Relevant Experience
Director

May 2015 - Present

Shake it up After School Lowell Elementary, Boise ID

Ensure the expansion of opportunities available to all students, regardless of economic

status, cultural identity, ethnicity, or current English proficiency.
Advocate for diversity, understanding of difference, and recognition of personal strengths
within all students.
Design lesson plans and activities to promote understanding and empowerment through
language and theater.
Create an emphasis in the importance of each cast member and their necessity to a
successful production.
Maintain an environment which is educational, safe, and inspirational to students to
achieve within an opportunity that might otherwise be unavailable to them.
Secure additional volunteer assistance, which is integral to a program which is free for
those who participate within it.
Intern
Other Voices Alternative Imaginations

June 2015- Present

Coordinated and assisted in every way necessary the success of a quilting workshop for
refugee and non- refugee children of the Boise area.
Continued assistance in the creation of a documentary which focuses on the individuals
involved in the workshop, to be submitted to the Idaho legislature in order to advocate for
diversity as well as to be used in Refugee Studies Programs on college campuses.
Facilitated daily operations of quilting workshop.
Served as point of contact for parents of participants, documentary directors, and quilters.
Organized an orientation and thereby facilitated introductions between refugee families,
non-refugee families, and quilting teachers.
Provided daily transportation for refugee children for the duration of the workshop.

Organized the provision of free daily meals for workshop participants.

Shake it up After School

May 2014 May 2015

Co-Director at Lowell elementary. Successfully facilitated 4 th,5th, and 6th graders at this
and other Title I elementary schools in Boise in the study and performance of a
Shakespeare play in a free after-school program.
Created and coordinated lesson plans which encouraged communication and
understanding of material.
Led activities and rehearsals which allowed for all individuals in the program an
opportunity to improve language, reading, and teamwork skills.
Led and directed other volunteers to help them successfully inspire and assist elementary
students in memorization, comprehension, and performance.
Maintained an atmosphere which inspired self-confidence and empowerment through an
emphasis on equality, teamwork, and individual effort.

Service Learning
ISLE 397 Other Voices Alternative Imaginations

Performed 54.5 service hours, June through July of 2015.

Encouraged and assisted workshop participants in quilting squares which reflected their
dreams and ambitions.
Assisted in maintaining an environment in which all cultures and ethnicities were
considered valuable and their strengths recognized.
Observed and documented communication and encouraged the participants to quilt a
square which reflected refugee and non-refugee individuals sharing a future together, in a
non-hierarchal space.
Interviewed participants in order to give voice to their experience, ideas, and identities.

ENGL 345 Shakespeare

June July 2015

February April 2014

Performed 70 service hours at Shake it Up After School, Lowell location, February

through April 2014.
Attended the after school program daily for 7 weeks in order to assist in lessons,
memorization, comprehension, character development, blocking, and final performance.
Carried out tasks which ensured that individuals received an equal opportunity to expand
their skills in language, reading, communication, and experienced success in a stage
production of William Shakespeares Twelfth Night.

Conference Participation
2015 National Undergraduate Research Conference, Spokane WA

April 2015

Presented along with other team members a mapping project focused on the life and
works of Tennessee Williams.
Contributed research regarding literary representation of oppressed subjects, and the
ways in which Williams made visible the legal and social oppression of homosexuals.

Activities and Organizations

Vice President: Gender Studies Association, Boise State University

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