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All-Write Educational Advocacy is a mobile multi-service training, teaching, tutoring, and mentoring advocate focusing on professional and academic writing, reading, and public speaking skills for students and professionals of all levels. Mobile services are available throughout the California Bay Area (Fairfield to San Jose), and writing and editing services are available virtually through the internet.
All-Write Educational AdvocacyAll-Write Educational Advocacy provides mobile training, teaching, tutoring, and mentoring services related to the English discipline with a focus on at-risk, under-served, and working-class students and professionals. AWEA provides its services in a way that is cost-effective and convenient to the client's physical location and schedule. AWEA's materials and subject areas include:
Alena Hairston
**Click here for Alena's Vita/Resume.** Alena is a tenured Professor of English at Solano College in Fairfield, CA where she is co-coordinator of the college's Puente Project, normer for the college's Composition Mastery Exam, participant in the college's Basic Skills Initiative and in the Faculty Reading Series, among other various institutional activities. Alena is also an adjunct English Professor at Berkeley City College, Merritt College, and Diablo Valley College. She has previously taught at Santa Clara University, Brown University, Rhode Island College, and Bryant University. She teaches courses in creative writing, literature, composition, and basic skills. In addition to teaching, Alena has volunteered or worked for the Women's Wing of the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute, the Sawyer School (adult education), the American Friends Service Committee, the National Black Child Development Institute, New Employment for Women, as well as a number of other programs focused on social service and educational advocacy. She has also taught fourth grade at Mullica Hill Friends School and tutored students in the Test of English as a Foreign Language and the verbal section of the SAT. Alena is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English, Associated Writing Programs, Modern Language Association, California Teachers' Association, and the California Community College League. Since her high school years, Alena has taught, tutored, and mentored young and adult learners. Prior to teaching, Alena worked as a Senior Project Analyst and Technical Writer with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a Web Production Coordinator at Thomson Publishing, and as a Web Producer at Headland Digital Media (now known as Pearson Education's Learning Network). Her work encompassed managing the production flow of web sites associated with elementary, secondary, and post-secondary textbooks. In these roles she interfaced with all levels of Production -- graphic designers, computer engineers, and web developers -- as well as Management and Legal Counsel in order to ensure timely delivery of web-based publications. An active publishing creative writer, Alena has won several national and regional awards and fellowships for her work, including Persea Books' inaugural Lexi Rudnitsky Memorial Prize in Poetry (awarded for her first collection of poetry, The Logan Topographies), a Cave Canem Fellowship in Poetry, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (top prize), and Brown University's John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction. She was also a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book award and the Rona Jafee Foundation's Writer's Award. Her work has appeared in over a dozen journals and magazines, most recently including ABZ Press, Drunken Boat, and Appalachian Heritage. Alena has also performed in film, plays, and commercials, including A Raisin in the Sun, Jar the Floor, Better-n-Indins, Unfinished Women Cry While A Bird Dies in a Gilded Cage, as well as the Discovery Channel series Women Pharaohs. Current projects include working as an OpenTextbook Reviewer for the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, a Scorer for the Educational Testing Service, and a Consultant for the Maximum Achievement Project. Alena volunteers for the American Red Cross and Volunteers for Peace.
Contact InformationAll-Write Educational Advocacy provides corporate, student, and discount rates for all services. Please send an email to the address below for a price quote. Please be specific in describing your needs. For tutoring, training, and teaching services, please be specific in your description of the subject matter and your desired outcomes. For proofreading and writing services, please specify your project's scope, intended audience, deadlines, and page length requirements.
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Alena Hairston, Owner and Lead Advocate for All-Write, holds a Master of Fine
Arts degree from