How I Spent 2022

(inspired by Derek Sivers)

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Here’s how I spent 2022, listed alphabetically I focused on: consulting, honors, humor, improv, performances, professional development, speaking, being a standardized patient, teaching, workshop facilitation, and writing.

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Focus: Consulting

  • Delivered virtual training workshop as part of a collaborative team to deliver content to Fortune 500 Top 25 company managers on how to become a trusted ally and express vulnerability during career conversations with supervises.

  • Hired as a Senior Equity Facilitator and Consultant for the Center for Equity and Inclusion facilitating diversity, equity, and inclusion-related training, consulting, and coaching using culturally responsive and experiential learning techniques.

  • Just Collaboration has been hired by returning clients to deliver anti-oppression training for staff and the Board of Directors including a subcontract hire to provide data collection and data analysis for community members.

Focus Honors

  • Say Hey August Honoree who was recognized in the largest multi-cultural networking event in Oregon and southwest Washington. Mary’s intro is viewable here.

Focus: Humor

  • Completed Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH) Humor Academy Level II in March and started Humor Academy Level III.

Focus: Improv

  • Member of the planning committee for From Another Mother Festival (F.A.M. Fest) an improv festival happening the weekend of Juneteenth(17th-19th) featuring talented troupes, workshops, jams, and much more! In addition, the festival included filming an anthology of the history of Black Improv!

  • Produced an anthology and documentary of the history of Black Improv. This project was supported in part by the Frank-Ratchye Fund For Art @ the Frontier Grant #2022-040 and the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Cast in a recurring show, Dropped Notes: An Outrageous Musical Revue, first Saturday of every month at 9:30 p.m. at Curious Comedy Theater. See events to know which shows Mary will perform in.

  • A regular guest with Kickstand Comedy for Secret Aardvark show in Portland Oregon, playing with 30 of the top improvisers in Portland

Focus: Performances

  • Told a 5-minute story for Broke Gravy & Friends event in September at the Clinton Street Theatre to a live audience of over 100 attending

Focus: Professional Development

Improv has become my avenue for professional development. Classes both increase my skillset as a performer and support me off stage with my communication. In 2022 I took the following:

Focus: Speaking

  • Hired as Speaker for Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC) Fall Symposium: Decolonizing Theatre on the topic of applied theatre's role in race equity and DEI.

Focus: Standardized Patient

  • Supported current medical students to become more compassionate care providers through the portrayal of fictional patients. This was one of the last jobs I had while living in Pittsburgh and I feel privileged that it was one of the first jobs I was able to do in the pandemic because of the move to virtual engagement.

Focus: Teaching

  • Hired as Adjunct Instructor by Point Park University Conservatory of the Performing Arts (COPA) to teach Spring 2022, Ensemble Lab V: Combining methodologies from playback theatre and theatre of the oppressed to create ensemble performances.

  • Extended contract as Special Visiting Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama to teach Theatre of the Oppressed-An Introduction to Forum Theatre Performance and Applying Improv to the Workplace for Spring 2022.

Focus: Workshop Facilitator

Focus: Writing

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