Renata Sancken

me at the Laura Ingalls Wilder family homestead in De Smet, South Dakota Above, me at the Laura Ingalls Wilder family homestead in De Smet, South Dakota.

Hello! My name is Renata Sancken. Welcome to my online portfolio. As of summer 2016, I am in the process of backpacking around the USA and eventually relocating to the Boston area. Aside from my passion for literature and library services, my other interests include hiking and storytelling. I have been a frequent storyteller at Louisville's Moth StorySlams and have twice progressed to the annual GrandSlams. I am also the co-host of the popular book podcast The Worst Bestsellers.

After I received my Master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Graduate School of Library and Information Science, I worked as the teen services librarian at the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library from 2012-2016.

I graduated from Grinnell College in 2007, where I double-majored in English and history. At Grinnell I served as the editor-in-chief of the satirical newspaper The B&S, co-led the Student Campaign for Increased Political Engagement, served on the History Student Educational Policy Committee, and generally managed to pass the time until Grinnell got Facebook. I also spent my summers working at Girl Scout camp, where I honed my patience and my ability to entertain and educate groups of children.

After graduating, I worked at a private school in San Francisco in the office and afterschool program. In 2008, I began my two-year service as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic. I worked with the DREAM Project to provide teacher training, English classes, and computer skills training to the underserved community of Callejon de la Loma. I was also the editor-in-chief of the volunteer magazine, the Gringo Grita. In the DR I learned a lot about intercultural communication and eventually managed to learn Spanish.

 me with the girls I brought to the Encargados del Futuro (Future Leaders) youth conference in Santiago, Dominican Republic Above, me with the girls I brought to the Encargados del Futuro (Future Leaders) youth conference in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

I originally designed this website as a project for the web design class I took in summer 2011. I used TextWrangler and hand coded the HTML and CSS, both of which are W3C valid.

2702 Paoli Pike #103
New Albany, IN 47150

sanckenr@gmail.com

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