Brenda Delfino (she/her/hers) is a poeta, imigrante, based in Riverside, CA. She is a multimodal visual and literary artist and educator. Brenda is passionate about community coalition and creativity for self-determination and healing. She received an MFA in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from University of California, Riverside. She is a VONA and Along the Chaparral Fellow. Her works have appeared in World Literature Today, Los Angeles Review of Books, Spectrum Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her Full length poetry collection Dictaduras de las Aguas. Brenda is a literary and poetry liason at Black Light Arts Collective, a communal non-profit dedicated to redistributing Black artistic knowledge to those who historically have been marginalized from traditional art spaces. She is Poet B in the radio segment Baby Poet at Radio Tirado.
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Education
Nanny
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Jan 2007 to present
Research Assistant
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Aug 2015 to Dec 2015
Camp Counselor
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Jun 2014 to Aug 2014
Counseling Intern
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Jan 2016 to Aug 2016
Teaching Assistant
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Sep 2014 to Dec 2014
Education
M.S. Psychology
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Fall 2016 to present
B.A. Political Science
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Fall 2011 to Spring 2015
Volunteer Experience
Peer Counselor
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Jan 2014 to May 2014
Program Coordinator
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Jan 2013 to May 2013
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Jan 2012 to May 2012
Teen Grief Counselor
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Jun 2013 to Dec 2013
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Jun 2012 to Sep 2012
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Feb 2009 to Sep 2011
Skills & Languages
Organized
Patient
Communicative
Empathetic
Collaborative
English
Spanish
Mandarin
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Guillermo Alvarez
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Margaret Oh
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Rain Tilden
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Doug Bolt
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