Kirby Urner

Resumé

• 4D Solutions, principal (curriculum writer, teacher trainer, and computer programmer working mostly in the public domain and for public sector clients)
• Linn Group Home, tutor and academic specialist (helped the kids with homework and projects after school)
• Portland Public Schools, Instructor for talented and gifted elementary school students
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),contributing editor for the Asian-Pacific Issues News (2 years), clerk of the Latin America, Asia-Pacific Program
• Center for Urban Education (CUE), Portland (trainer, programmer and tech support provider for the public sector) -- CUE was a subsidiary of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO)
• McGraw-Hill, consultant and contributing mathematics text book editor, Rockefeller Center, Avenue of the Americas, New York City
• Project VOTE! (Amercians for Civic Participation, Inc.): non-profit voter registration and outreach to USA disenfranchised, Washington, DC
• St. Dominic Academy, high school geometry-through-calculus teacher (plus world history, honors humanities), Jersey City, New Jersey

Education

• List owner, Synergetics-L: list for discussing RBF's philosophy (Janurary, 1995 - March, 2000)
• First volunteer webmaster for the Buckminster Fuller Institute (ending Dec 21, 1996)
• Saint Peter's College, graduate-level courses in education
• The Centers Network, New York & New Jersey Area Center seminar and training logistics supervisor
• Princeton University, BA, philosophy, Class of 1980 (also Woodrow Wilson School courses in World Hunger & North/South relations, computer programming) -- resident of the 2 Dickinson St. Coop
• Scuba diver, NAUI-certified by Gill Gilleland, USMC (Ret.), Philippines
• International School, Manila, Philippines
• Southeast High, Bradenton Florida (one semester)
• Overseas School of Rome, Italy (grades 3-8)
• Junior English School, Rome, Italy (first form)
• Markham Elementary, Portland, Oregon (grades 1-2)

Personal

• Fellow travelers: Dawn Wicca (wife), Alexia Brenholtz (teenager, Dawn's first), Tara (toddler, Dawn's second, my first)
• My parents are Jack Urner (b. May 20, 1930 - d. October 13, 2000) and Carol Urner (b. April 21, 1929). They've lately resided in Maseru, Lesotho, Southern Africa (we visited them there in '94, and '99), and previously in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Philippines, Italy, Portland, Chicago, DC, Washington State (where they met). I was born in 1958 in Chicago. My younger sister Julie, lives in Greater LA.
• The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), could claim me as a member from birth (May 17, 1958) until July, 2000, when I resigned, following an inward cue. I frequently attend Bridge City Preparative Meeting in Portland, Oregon.