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Eric Goldscheider

31 Beston Street Amherst, MA 01002

(413) 253-0179  eric.gold@verizon.net

www.eric-goldscheider.com

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts (1990 – 1993)

·         Masters degree in Political Science

·         Teaching Assistant

 

Friends World College

Huntington, New York / Kenya / Europe (1981 – 1985)

·         Bachelors Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies

·         Student Body President (1985 - 1986)

·         Editor of Student Newsletter, Mooncycle (1985 – 1986)

 

 

WORK HISTORY

 

New York Times / Boston Globe / UMass Magazine / Special Projects

Freelance Contributor (1998 – Present)

·         New York Times: National Desk, Metro, Education Life, CT Weekly

·         Boston Globe: Magazine, Focus, Metro, World, Learning, Home, Food, Business, Op-ed, Travel, Special Sections

·         A-Z International: Writer, project assistant

·         Benjamin LaGuer Project

·         UMass Magazine: Features

 

School for International Training

Nairobi, Kenya / Brattleboro, Vermont (1995 – 1998)

·         Academic Director – Responsible for program design and execution for university students earning college credit in East Africa

 

Springfield Union-News & Sunday Republican

Springfield, Massachusetts (Circulation: 100,000)

·         Staff Feature Writer (Living Section 1995)

·         Business Reporter (Hampshire County Bureau 1989 – 1990)

·         General Assignment Reporter (Franklin County Bureau 1988 – 1989)

·         Town Reporter (1988 – 1990)

 

University of Massachusetts Prison Education Project

Gardner & Shirley, Massachusetts

·         Instructor, “Basic News Writing” (1991)

 

The Recorder

Greenfield, Massachusetts (Circulation: 15,000)

·         Town Correspondent and General Feature Writer (1986 – 1988)

 

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

·         Teaching Assistant, “Ecology, Technology & Society” (1983 – 1984)

·         Frequent contributor of opinion articles to The Minnesota Daily (1982-1984)

 

Ground Zero Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

·         Assistant to the Director – Organized major benefit, produced brochure and assisted in outreach and educational campaigns (1983 – 1984)

 

Various Theaters

·         Lighting Designer, Technical Director, Production Assistant, Stage Carpenter and Actor at theaters including:

 

The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Repertory Theater (New York, New York); The American Conservatory Theater, The Magic Theater (San Francisco, California); The College of Santa Fe Traveling Theater Company (Santa Fe, New Mexico); The Childrens Theater Company, The Guthrie II Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota) (1974 – 1981)

 

 

OTHER TRAVEL

 

·         Elderhostel tour leader of Holland, Germany and Poland: “European Jews Past and Present” (1989)

 

·         Leader of Experiment in International Living travel/study tour of Kenya (1987)

 

·         Full year travel in Europe researching and writing senior thesis on Green parties, including two months as a participant/observer (doing German – English translations) in the parliamentary press office of Die Grünen in Bonn, Germany (1984 – 1985)

 

·         Full year study in Kenya, including conception and implementation of an agricultural development project for the U. N. Food and Agriculture Organization (1981 – 1982)

 

·         Agricultural laborer (harvesting grapes) in Vingrau, France and construction worker in Salzburg, Austria as well as travels in Eastern Europe (1978)

 

·         Toured New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico as technical director and actor in the College of Santa Fe Traveling Theater Company (1976 – 1977)

 

·         Extended Travel in: Jamaica, Ecuador, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, South Africa, Botswana, Holland and Canada (1991 – 2001)

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