Toi Scott Rincón, Puerto Rico 787-460-5137 lscott@gm.slc.edu
Education: Master of Arts, Health Advocacy, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Studied history of U.S. health care, effective models of advocacy, community health advocacy, program designand evaluation, health law, ethics of advocacy, and health policy. Did three internships involving health and environmental justice, diversity research and outreach, training and curriculum development in a hospital environment, and health advocacy and social justice, and effective advocacy and training in community organizations and health care institutions. Capstone/Thesis: Researched cultural competency trainings and anti-oppression trainings to support curriculum design. Targeted workshops on cultural competency and diversity and in health care organizations and health advocacy initiatives in New York City grassroots organizations. Bachelor of Arts, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Austin College Sherman, TX Sustainable Food/ Food Justice Sustainable Food Center/Austin Farmer's Market Austin, TX 2008, 2012-2014 AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA)/ Community Health Organizer.
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Develop, support, and facilitate elementary school wellness teams consisting of parents, teachers, and community leaders through the planning, implementation, and leadership development phases of a comprehensive school and community-based nutrition program, with a focus on local food systems efforts such as local food in cafeterias, community and school gardening, and healthy cooking classes.
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Coordinate Farm to Cafeteria program connecting local farmers to elementary schools
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Manage Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ,Women Infants and Children, and Farmers Market Nutrition Program incentives and develop activities, community engagement and outreach for local farm stand in Dove Springs area of Austin.
Morning Glory community garden Bronx, NY 2011 community gardening and outreach with immigrants and low-income residents. Land and Life Collective community garden in East Oakland, CA 2011 community gardening and outreach with immigrants, low-income residents and youth from east Oakland community.
*Permaculture Design Course Certification – Earth Activist Training- 2014 Environmental Justice Mossville Environmental Action Now (MEAN) Mossville, LA; Bronxville, NY 2009-2010 Fieldwork Intern
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Conducted research and provided data to obtain funding for a free community health clinic and possible relocation for residents
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Provided technological and technical support for social networking websites and support for establishing an online presence with blogs and a website and involvement with Guidestar.org
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Designed Health Resource Directory
Health Justice Medicare Rights Center- Intern - Acted as change agent , created a survey to raise awareness of internal biases in employees and inspired changes in the way they communicated with each other and with their clients. NYC. Spring 2011 Project Renewal – consultant - New York, New York Created a listening survey and developed strategies to improve intake and Medicare coverage for MediVan services at homeless shelters across New York City. Fall 2010 Seton Family of Hospitals- Diversity Department and Office of Cultural Outreach Intern – Austin, TX
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Customized video content to be geographically appropriate to health care professional training “Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking.” Used by the Seton Family of Hospitals, which serves an 11-county population of 1.8 million in Central Texas. Designed a curriculum to identify illiterate patients. Principal researcher on bias, stereotypes, and prejudice and their effects on delivery of health care and patient access to care. Summer 2010.
Literacy Coalition of Central Texas -AmeriCorps Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA)/Health Literacy Program Specialist.
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Designed health literacy trainings for hospital administrators and direct care staff which are now being implemented in clinics and hospitals in Seton Family Hospital Network in Austin, TX.
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Solicited donations for annual fundraiser.
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Developed health care lesson plans and trainings for adult literacy instructors.
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Operated literacy hotline for Spanish callers. Assisted in design of Central Texas health care directory. Austin, TX. 2008- 2009
Publication:
Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives - Foreword 2014 Trans Bodies Trans Selves resource guide- co-author and advisor of race/ethnicity chapter 2010-2014 Blackgirldangerous.com "Frankly Not About Food Forests" 2014 DecolonizingYoga.com “Countering Racism and Oppression in Holistic Healing” 2013 “Meet Us at Our Table” 2013 “Queering Food Justice” 2013 “We are the Sum of Our Ancestors: Decolonizing Herbalism” 2013 Wildgender.com- contributing writer "Shades of Masculinity: On Strength, Perceptions of Power and Desirability" 2012 "The Paradoxical Problem of Passing, Pronouns and ‘Coming Out’ at Work" 2012 "Ain’t I a Man? I Mean, I AM a Man. Toi’s Take On Glenn Ligon: America" 2012 "Becoming a Black Man, Being the Change: Black Transmen Advocacy Conference2012 "New Masculinity: Redefining Ourselves, Emerging From Our Cocoons" 2012 Afropunk.com The Master's Tools 2012 Peopleofcolororganize.com- contributing writer "Why People of Color burn out in anti-racist organizing” 2012 The Scavenger online magazine: “Neither Black man nor Black Woman: Living on the Outside”, “The Challenges of Genderqueer Love” 2011, 2012 Examiner.com- healthy living examiner : Culinary cures: healing through food 2012 Have a nutritious New Year 2012 Low cost healthcare tips for Austin’s uninsured 2011
Academic Papers "A Health Advocacy Approach to Social Justice " May 2012 "A Culture of silence, African American Women in Pain: A lupus story" August 2011 "Ethics of Transgender Medicine" December 2010 Micromessaging and its Affects on Delivery and Access to Health Care in the Hospital Workplace August 2010
Developing Anti-Racist Ethics March 2010 African American women healers of the South and healing as a resistance to the institution of slavery December 2009
Blogs Genderqueer Street Philosophactivist- talk about activism and organizing and the intersection between race, gender and sexuality. Has gotten 50,000+ hits since my first post in February 2011. Queer Herbalism-resources for herbalism and holistic healing and history with an anti-oppressive lens. Avocat Website www.afrogenderqueer.com Activism/Organizing Community Organizing Undoing Racism Austin Collective– Austin, TX 2012-current organized anti-racist trainings and outreach for community leaders in non-profits and organizations across various sectors from local to state level, including environmentalists, educators, politicians, judges, police officers and artists. Research. Facilitation. Trans Bodies Trans Selves resource guide- Community organizer, Facilitated national Community Involvement Forums covering topics of identity and health. Co-editor. Co- Author. Race and Ethnicity chapter advisor. 2010-currently Resource Center Dallas – Diversity consultant- design LGBT diversity trainings. Design Gender Workshop/Trans 101. Trainings and workshops to be is implemented with numerous institutions and organizations, including their own with 2,000 volunteers. Dallas, TX. 2011- 2012 Audre Lorde Project- Member/Volunteer/Organizer for Safe Outside the System anti-violence informational campaign. Daring to be Powerful training. NYC. 2011 Allgo- collaborate to organize community involvement forums for bringing transgender/gender nonconforming Texans together in Austin, TX . Board member for retreat development. Workshop facilitator. 2011- currently Quorum Forum - Organized for community empowerment and sustainable collaboration through skillshares and events in NYC. 2010 Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change- program support for activism, leadership, arts, and healing. 2010currently.
Campus 'Be the Change' - campus social justice radio show- Radio DJ. Promoted dialogue about current local, national and international events, and issues regarding race, gender and sexuality. 2010-2011 LGBT community health profile Westchester County- needs assessment for LGBT community in Westchester County 2010 Diversity and Activism Programming Subcommittee- organized campaigns, events and programming, funding review 2009-2011 Graduate Women of Color group- Founder and Facilitator- facilitated dialog about diversity within academic institutions and health advocacy 2009-2010 Graduate Diversity Dialogue group- co-facilitator 2009-2011 F.E.A.R. Project- co-facilitated workshops/ identity processing student dialogue group on diversity and social justice. 2009-2011 Workshops and Panels Putting Down the Master’s Tools: Using your Words, Writing and Art to Queer Social Justice Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 2014 Race, Racilialization and Queer Sexualities Mayaguez,Puerto Rico 2014 Healing from Internalized Oppression Austin, TX 2014, 2013 Harvest and Bounty Skillshare Food for Black Thought 2nd Annual Symposium Austin, TX 2013 Writing for Survival, Resistance, Activism Youth Workshop Santa Cruz, CA 2012