

Steph Turner
Born and raised Oneida, Steph brings you wisdom from an indigenous perspective.
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And inspired from a trans spiritual paradigm, of being at one with the earth, with nature within and without.
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Multiple college degrees and a couple of internships helps to add discipline to this understanding of our needs.
Lucky in wisdom
Mysteriously, I've been blessed with wisdom for how our needs work. I wrote a book about it, launched this website and now try to apply this wisdom and fresh vocabulary toward the new profession of "need-response".
Unlucky in business
Below you will find a sample of projects for my various entrepreneurial efforts to bring neeed-response to life. None have yet gained traction. I lack the business sense to turn them into a going concern.
Lucky to have me?
Now I am ready to invest this wisdom in an already existing community who seek such wisdom. And who could utilize and even improve these projects. If they will have me.
Evaluating the effectiveness of the program with captured data
for your due diligence...
Improving your wellness and decreasing your pain by resolving your needs
Community healing - equity-focused data literacy - interpreting grant requirements through a community-informed lens - disparate projects in want of a collective to vet and implement what they find as most viable.
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Projects preparing me to serve as Rootead's Program & Data Coordinator
Projects from when I interned at Michigan Consumers for Healthcare as their Fund Development intern. And when I helped Transgender Michigan conduct their first strategic planning process as its founder launched the Trans Day of Visibility. Both apply Master of Public Administration degree I earned at Oakland University.

#01
grant report
Special Opportunity Fund Report
While interning as a fund dev intern at Michigan Consumers for Healthcare, I wrote this report and sent it to their funder, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. They warmly received it.
Grant reporting features collecting data from various staff contributors, including procrastinators. Which I learned to anticipate and still finish by the deadline.

#02
sample grant proposal (MPA assignment)
Grant proposal
"Workforce Development for an Underserved Population" presents a program to grant funders interested in supporting underprivileged populations. I received a top grade for this in my MPA course.
Shows both my focus on economic support for under- employed trans folks, and my skill to organize and write a robust grant proposal.

#03
Funder research data (dimension table)
Grants prospect list
Six-page Data matrix of potential grant funders to approach with our relationship-building efforts. Rows for prospective funders and columns for relevant info like granting criteria.
Shows that I know how to research potential sources for grant funding. Which includes cultivating rapport with program coordinators.

#04
Funder research data (dimension table)
Grants Rubric & Sources
Lists 164 grant funders then available in Michigan. Top giving foundations, community foundations, and corporate foundations. Then identifies which best fits Transgender Michigan's mission.
Shows focus on the potential funders in Michigan. And how to identify funders whose mission aligns with our mission, to provide value to their funding goals.

#05
Excel spreadsheet data fact table
MCH Master Fund Development (prospect research)
Each tab isolates the status of past, current, pending approval and potential grant sources. These unstructured tables could benefit from Power BI or Tableau or similar data analytic tool.
Demonstrates my skills for grant source research, and shows my use of Excel to aggregate information in lookup or dimension tables.

#06
LOI sample
Letter of Intent to Kresge Foundation
Follow-up to a call to a Kresge program associate, to pique their interest in funding initiatives trying to help LGBTQ+ health needs. It would position MCH as a subgrantee to LGBT+ orgs.
Presents my initiative to build a coalition to address an underserved need. And demonstrates that I know how to professionally approach prospective funders.

#07
Excel spreadsheet data
MCH Expense Report
Here is expense data I collected as a Fund Development Intern at Michigan Consumes for Healthcare. It collates the traveling costs of each of us interns, to be reimbursed by MCH.
Shows my data collection skills at ​MCH. Names of each intern remain excluded to preserve their privacy. Steven Hernandez, MCH development director, hired me for this.

#08
strategic planning
Transgender Michigan Strategic Plan 2012-2015
Served on the board of this micro-nonprofit, then helped it do its first strategic planning as the final project for my MPA. Helped the founder as she launched the Internal Day of Trans Visibility.
Presents my strategic planning skills, specialized for micro-nonprofits. Includes reviewing their mission and vision statements, board development, and more.

#09
brief eCourse for developing wellness
Strategic Planning presentation
When presenting strategic planning to Transgender Michigan, I used Google Slides. I personally knew the founder/ED, and she was patient to follow this long presentation. I wouldn't do it as long now.
Shows my early presentation skills, which have evolved to keep delivery succinct and on point to what the audience specifically need.

#10
MPA thesis
Strategic Planning for a Micro Nonprofit
"Strategic Planning for a Micro Nonprofit Serving the Economically Disadvantaged" is the full title of my MPA thesis, after a year of assisting Transgender Michigan integrate strategic planning.
Covers my first strategic planning experience through an academic lens. Along with addressing challenges along the way.
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Projects complementing Rootead's mission
Experience developing programs for economic justice for a marginalized population, and preparation for job interviewing featuring storytelling skills.

#11
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Mock Interview Self-Preparation
Users get the most common interview questions, along with insights what the question is looking for and how best to answer it. Users can enter their own practiceed answer and rate its quality.
Every Sunday afternoon, I help jobseekers around the world practice for an interview using English as a foreign language. Available in this blog post.

#12
online tutor for learning English as a foreign language
Interviewer Steph
For 4 years, I have provided about 2,000 mock interviews helping jobseekers around the world using English as a foreign language. I help them use their stories to connect emotionally with interviewers.
I turned this into a Fiverr gig. Just as easily, I can turn this into a program for your jobseeking service-seekers. I give helpful tips to each interviewee.

#13
Fiverr gig
I show how to use storytelling in a mock interview
I will coach you how to use the power of storytelling in a mock interview. Services start at $5, then jumps to $45, and $75 for a premium gig. This applies my Cambly service to the whole world.
I bring my screenwriter storyteller insights to each mock interview. I aim to bring this same angle of storytelling to grant reports and the like.

#14
Medium article
List of mock interview websites
This Medium article lists 40 websites currently providing mock interviews. Many but not all utilize AI to allow users to practice on their own. The article showcases my Fiverr mock interview gig.
I bring the power of storytelling to interviewing skills in my Fiverr gig. Instead of using the STAR method like most of these offerings, I help jobseekers use the CAR method.​

#15
logic model for a proposed program
Trans Economic Agency Model (TEAM work) logic model
Flow chart identifying a public problem, proposed agency actions to redress it by transcending barriers, outputs, outcomes and impacts. Includes assumptions, external factors and evaluation metrics.
Addresses situation of economic insecurity. Most remain vulnerable to hourly wages. This lays out the actions for positive economic outcomes and impacts.

#16
PDF presenting idea for nurturing economic justice
GENOPTS mission for social entrepreneurship
GENOPTS: To economically empower those with an unconventional gender experience by providing opportunities to demonstrate earning capacity that addresses their need for economic justice.
Proposal for youth enrichment: develop their business potential by creating and selling these sandwich cookies, with an entrepreneurial mentor for economic justice.
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More projects complementing Rootead's mission
Applying holistic wisdom from an indigenous paradigm to empathize with the unresolved needs of all partisan sides. Then seek to mutually resolve them.

#17
Facebook page
Depolarizing Politics with Love
This page gets frequent views. Likely because it speaks to the underserved need to resist polarization. And who doesn't want to see love as a solution? This election year will likely see more views.
Demonstrates my skill to present this liberating outlook to a public eager for an alternative to divisiveness. This can incentivize conservatives to also value social justice.

#18
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Responsive Depolarization (Harmony Politics)
Users learn to unpack their political views through the indigenous lens of prioritized needs. It treats all sides equally. Polarization melts in 8 key issues, by empathizing with the needs behind each stance.
Let's unpack politics with mutual respect for each other's inflexible priority of needs. More at the landing page. No need to debate when we can vulnerably relate.

#19
Udemy eCourse
Defusing Polarization: Understanding Divisive Politics
Learn how a different priority of needs creates political differences and fuels polarization. This 3-hour eCourse earned a 4.1 user rating, from 20 of its 149 enrolled students.
Demonstrates the wisdom to see beyond our differences and demonstrates my skill to communicate something ostensibly contentious in a nonthreatening, engaging way.

#20
Webpage at my previous website
8 Key Politicized Issues
ValueRelating.com served as my original vision for serving humanity with this wisdom. Back then, I was more focused on transcending political divisiveness to bride us all holistically.
Wisdom distilled through a transspiritual lens (of seeing us all as connected) lets me empathize with all sides of a politicized issue. I bring that to you for greater wellness.

#21
Proposed program
Psychosocial wellness empowerment program
This began the vision for a program or service to address structural impediments to wellness. Western medicine's hyper-individualism leaves an underserved gap this program aims to fill.
Demonstrates my program development vision, testable measures, and my holistic approach to wellness. This evolved into the i-need.to platform vision.

#22
Interactive wellness tool
Relationally Responsive (4S)
Indigenous knowledge shows how we cycle through relationships with others in four seasons. These mirror the seasons in nature. Enter your birthdate and see your own cyclic patterns through life.
Features the collection of data solely for the benefit of the user. Also features colorful display to keep the results engaging. Available at this landing page,
#23
Self-published book
You NEED This: Introducing anankelogy, the study of need
During the Covid shutdown, I found time to write about this new social science of anankelogy. That's the disciplined study of need. Every natural need exists as objective fact, opening it to science.
This book captures the indigenous wisdom through the lens of my transspiritual insight. And presents what I consider as my greatest career achievement thus far.

#24
Anankelogy Foundation blog
5 elements of toxic legalism
Solzhenitsyn warned us back in 1978 of legalism. Now we suffer it: 1) hyper-individualism, 2) hyperrationality, 3) overgeneralizing, 4) alienation, and 5) adversarialism. Need-response is the answer.
Need-response exists to fill the gap from adversarialist institutions. Which tend to perpetuate toxic legalism. We can do better with the power of love.

#25
Anankelogy Foundation blog
4 levels of human problems
Anankelogy recognizes 4 main levels of our problems: 1) personal, 2) interpersonal, 3) power, & 4) structural. Social justice speaks to structural problems. Conventional justice get stuck on the 2nd level.
Need-response seeks to address all problem levels. Social justice speaks to structural problems. Conventional justice gets easily stuck on the interpersonal level.

#26
Anankelogy Foundation blog
Law-Fit
Anankelogy recognizes 4 main levels of our problems: 1) personal, 2) interpersonal, 3) power, & 4) structural. Social justice speaks to structural problems. Conventional justice get stuck on the 2nd level.
Instead of passively obeying laws, we can link each law to the need or needs it ostensibly exists to serve. The more such needs resolve, the greater its legitimacy.

#27
Anankelogy Foundation blog
20 emotions that exist as objective fact
Anankelogy recognizes how emotions objectively exist to convey objectively existing needs. While the content of emotions are mostly subjective, resolving needs objectively mitigates such emotions.
Anankelogy starts with a nature-based paradigm. Which asserts the fact of inflexible needs, and asserts there is no such thing as pain apart from unresolved needs.

#28
brief eCourse for developing wellness
Stretch your comfort zone (to improve your wellness)
Students learn they can tolerate more discomfort than they likely assume. They check how long they can hold onto ice cubes, and then receive support to hold onto as long as possible.
Pain only exists to warn us of threats to remove. The better we relate to our pain and identify the underserved need beneath it, the better equipped to resolve needs.
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And more projects complementing Rootead's mission
I am a survivor of state violence, falsely accused and wrongly convicted after coming out as trans before it was safe. I developed projects to help other innocent persons like myself underserved by the adversarial legal-judicial system.

#29
Ebook covering estimated rates of wrongful convictions
The Unexonerated
As a survivor of state violence, I researched academic articles that estimate the rates of wrongful convictions. Then summarized each, along with its determined rate. Which range from under 1% to 15%.
Demonstrates my research skills, along with proper presentation of data. Also shows my writing skills. Not to mention my focus on social justice.

#30
Facebook page
The Unexonerated
Facebook group for those innocence claimants and their supporters who use my Estimated Innocence tool or other similar support tool. Both for peer support and to disseminate these options.
Demonstrates my skill to grow social capital around a common cause. Mirrors eBook of the same name, and webpage publicizing overlooked innocence.

#31
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Estimated Innocence Form
Users enter the specifics of their case of asserted wrongful conviction. The more their innocence claim matches known exonerations, the higher their score of likely innocence.
In 1993 while coming out as trans to my trans sibling, we were falsely accused with a transphobic trope of "child recruiting predators". Available in this landing page.

#32
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Innocence Offending Self-Assessment (IOSA tool)
This collects data to self-assess if complicit in violating the innocent wrongly convicted. The more the user accepts the 12 listed myths, the more likely they perpetuate injustice in the name of justice.
The innocence offending blog post leads to a post inviting you to question your beliefs about justice. There you can download the Word, PDF and Excel versions of this.

#33
brief eCourse for developing wellness
Publicly Declare your Innocence
Innocence claimants answer 10 key questions pointing to their likely innocence. Then they engage others for their support based on the findings. This puts Estimated Innocence in a nutshell.
Instead of repeated disappointments waiting for the biased adversarial justice system to admit its own faults, this affirms innocence without lawyers. Including mine.

#34
sample pages of spreadsheet tool
Public Declaration of Innocence
The first specialization of need-response serves the wrongly convicted innocent. This video short created in Canva quickly explains this potential new service.
I use Canva for my graphic projects. This merely shows one of many projects I have on Canva. I can tap into its resources for data visualization and storytelling.

#35
Anankelogy Foundation blog
Law-fit
Anankelogy recognizes how each norm, like laws, serve as a metaphor for our exposed needs. Apart from how others respect our needs, no one truly cares about laws.
Instead of passively consenting to any law, we can link the law to the needs it ostensibly exists to serve. The more such needs resolve, the greater the legitimacy.

#36
program brochure
TransAction Program (reentry for exfelon trans)
Launched the first program to assist trans exprisoners to reenter society. Served a client and helped her transition back to society. Reached out to Transgender Michigan for their help in guiding it.
Shows my attention to detail as I develop a program for a much-needed service. Also exhibits my commitment to social justice.

#37
Reality Magazine published article, Nov 2008
Remembering not only our dead (p21)
Published article I wrote about how easy the criminal justice system targets gender nonconformists, and objectifies them for their own ends. The article showcases my early attempts to redress this.
Demonstrates not only my writing skill but my experience of being a published writer. The same professionality I can give when presenting reports.

#38
self-produced zine
Trans Spirituality zine, #9
Last issue of a zine I produced and served as editor. It went out to a couple hundred trans prisoners. It helped link them with their peers enduring similar trauma, and sparked the TransAction program.
Demonstrates my writing and editing skills, and my social justice work. This issue covers my program development of the world's first reentry service for trans exprisoners.
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Projects rounding out my fit to serve as your Program & Data Coordinator
Data collection and processing, project management with a Gantt chart, developing and evaluating programs, and much more.

#39
Funder research data (dimension table)
Client Intake Form
Offline 8-page intake form for a wellness client to fill out and return. Provides my ProtonMail email address, for HIPPA compliance. I learned this from my Masters in Counseling degree.
As a counseling intern, I had a 14-page intake form for each new client. Some intake forms keep it brief, in a couple pages. This one collects lean data.

#40
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Wellness check
Users first provide a baseline for their level of anxiety, depression and addictiveness. As they progress through the wellness program mutually addressing needs, they should see these levels decline.
The well check blog post explains this better. And provides a link for anyone to download this spreadsheet version, and a sample PDF version. Accountability to outcomes.

#41
Gantt chart
Podcast production schedule planner
Breaks down the steps for creating weekly episodes for my Need-Response podcast, using a Gantt chart. Later, episodes came out every other week, allowing more time to cover these steps.
This is the latest Gantt chart I have created to cover and schedule the steps of a project. Which serves as my key project management skill.

#42
Co-hosted podcast
Need-Response podcast
Using Descript to produce a biweekly podcast, cohosted by Gastavo from Brazil. Engage an audience to help shape the new professional field of need-response, to mutually resolve needs.
Demonstrates my skill to implement a weekly program and to communicate professionally to a diverse audience. Which supports a timeline for an existing program.

#43
Medium publication
Need-response
Need-response applies the new social science of anankelogy, the study of need, to our problem of unresolved needs. The Medium publication aims to publicize this new service to the world.
Showcases my vision to grow a new profession applying anankelogy, for understanding our needs. Every natural need exists objectively, so let's start there.

#44
Wix website
Anankelogy Foundation
The website serves as the public face for this foundation to grow interest in this new social science for understanding our needs. And for applying it to the new profession of need-response.
Using CRM, email automations, entry forms for collecting data, protecting such data per HIPPA and GDPR, blogs for helpful articles, creating booking services, and more.

#45
Wix mockup website
Demo for proposed platform: i-need.to
Users express their specific needs to those impacting them, inviting a mutual response. As they refine their responsiveness skills, they gain courage and support to speak their truth to power.
Feedback to this demo can inform how to iterate or pivot for a working MVP, using Base44 or bubble.io to create a fully functionable and testable need-serving platform.

#46
Power BI dashboard
'I-need' messaging platform to mutually resolve needs
Data from by users about their affected needs get linked to their wellness outcomes. Those in positions of power earn legitimacy when the data validates their effective leadership. Win-win.
Steph is new to this powerful business intelligence tool. And does not have a business email yet to publish the dashboard online. But that may soon change.

#47
using Excel pivot tables
I-need.to dashboard modeling
Ten fictional clients serve as placeholders to demonstrate how the "I-need" message program can positively impact wellness levels. To keep impactors measurably accountable for their impactful actions.
Demonstrates my skill utilizing Excel pivot tables, and to showcase my equity-focused data literacy. Community grows from mutually supporting each other's needs.

#48
Descript video production
"I-need" messages - explainer video
Descript is my go-to platform for creating engaging videos and audio files. I use it to create each podcast episode, clips and promo shorts. This one introduces my "I-need" platform idea.
Data visualization and storytelling can be delivered not only in real time but also as a professionally produced video. I have many such videos on the Descript site.

#49
Interactive Excel spreadsheet form
Alienation ruins wellness, individually and collectively. Users fill in this interactive form to provide data about their relationships. Then take step to draw closer to each other.
Another form to collect data for the user's benefit. Offers a solution to creeping alienation, as we become increasingly estranged from each other. Available at this landing page.

#50
trifold brochure
20 Character Refunctions
Moral principles like honesty, humility and love can help resolve needs better than impersonal rules. These 20 "refunctions" stand out. A refunction is anything that helps to properly resolve needs.
Consider these 20 as a firm starting point. Of course, there are many more. Shows how common principles fit an indigenous need-resolving commitment.
Full job description
POSITION PURPOSE:
This is a key position supporting the success and integrity of our programs. The Program Data Coordinator assists directors and managers by supporting program information evaluation efforts, ensuring accurate grant reporting, and coordinating operational needs for programming. This role requires strong, equity-focused data literacy, the capacity to interpret grant requirements through a community-informed lens, and careful monitoring of compliance expectations to ensure resources are used responsibly and in alignment with our values. The ideal candidate has excellent attention to detail, strong administrative skills, and the flexibility to accommodate after-school, early evening, and occasional weekend programming.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
These are summarized expectations; they are not your limitations, and duties may expand as appropriate to the job title:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Coordination Duties:
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Support timeline that has been established for new and existing programs
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Identify and managing supplies and equipment for programs and events
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Prepare for public outreach events
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Supporting registration and data collection and retention in our client retention management system (CRM)
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Collect and compile quarterly program data, including meeting with each branch to review outcomes and prepare a report-out for leadership and quarterly reports.
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Serve as the liaison between Programming and Marketing by ensuring Marketing receives timely, accurate information for promotions, registrations, and outreach.
Data, Evaluation & Reporting
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Ensure all branches submit complete and accurate program information for registration creation, including schedules, descriptions, fees, and required details.
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Collect, input, organize, and maintain organizational data such as gathering participant testimonials and feedback as part of ongoing program impact data collection, and organize submissions for use in reports, grants, and marketing materials.
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Monitor data trends and share insights with directors to support decision-making.
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Maintain accurate program documentation, including incident reports, receipts, and data files.
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Develop summaries and reports to support internal planning and external reporting
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Gather participant testimonials and feedback as part of ongoing program impact data collection, and organize submissions for use in reports, grants, and marketing materials.
Grant Compliance, Tracking & Support
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Maintain working knowledge of all active grants, goals, activities, deliverables, timelines, and reporting requirements
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Ensure programming aligns with funder expectations and compliance criteria
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Support preparation of narrative, data, evaluations, and documentation for grant reports and submissions
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Assist with grant writing activities by providing data, program descriptions, and supporting materials
SKILLS:
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Strong project management, scheduling, and workflow tracking skills
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Proficiency in conflict resolution and culturally competent practices
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Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently
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Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
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Attention to detail with the ability to ensure accuracy in all tasks
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Strong problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues efficiently
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Upholds Rootead’s commitment to integrity, collective care, and clear communication when engaging on behalf of the organization both internally and externally
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Discretion and confidentiality in handling sensitive information [HIPAA and GDPR compliance]
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Ability to provide support tailored to the unique needs of diverse individuals
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Adaptable and open mind/heart
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Anti-racist/social justice lens
EDUCATION/WORK EXPERIENCE:
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High school diploma or equivalent
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Some experience in project management, program evaluation, and data collection
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Previous experience working with youth and families is preferred
WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Routine office environment; day-to-day computer work and interaction with supporting staff. Must be able to lift 25 - 50 pounds. Must have reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, vehicle insurance that meets the state’s requirements, and be able and willing to travel 10%-20% of the time as needed.
Steph Turner,
prospect Program and Data Coordinator ready to start on day one.
First 30 days:
Listen, learn, and map systems
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Focus
Understand Rootead’s culture, programs, and existing data practices, while building trust across the “reclaim the village” ecosystem.


31 to 60 days:
Improve systems and co‑create tools
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Focus
Introduce light‑lift improvements to data systems, and co‑design tools that reflect Rootead’s indigenous, BIPOC communal holistic wellness lens.
61 to 90 days:
Optimize, deepen evaluation, and support sustainability
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Focus
Move from set‑up to optimization, deeper evaluation, and using data to support fundraising, sustainability, and community voice.

I identify as "post-transgender"
My trans experience never fully aligned with the dominant narrative of a gender identity. My transcendence of gender norms points more to an indigenous pull to transcend any conventional barriers to full wholeness.
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After moving to Kalamazoo in 2016 to be closer to family, I ceased presenting as conventionally transgender in public spaces. Pronouns are not an issue with me. But appreciated.


as a tribally enrolled Oneida of Wisconsin
I visibly have European ancestry (German), but identify more as indigenous. I pass as a white person, which costs me authentic relating. I am BIPOC to the core.
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You can consider me a PBOC: a person bleached of color. As a result of past government policy to "kill the Indian but save the man", I am a "pale faced Indian", to use an outdated term.​
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I risk being cast as a "pretendian". That's someone claiming to be Native American for its apparent gains, but has no actual roots in any indigenous nation. I must continually resist acculturation and internalized colonization in a world judging books by their covers.
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I do not consider myself as a two-spirit, but as a "transspirit" who is spiritually compelled to transcend convention to live holistically. I am now more Anishinaabe in my cultural leanings since moving to MI.
Looking forward to applying all the skills to the new role of Program and Data Coordinator.
248-872-5500, texting is preferred
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