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Apr 24, 2020
9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Creative Mornings-(see event online link below)
Literacy

New Mexico History Museum

LITERACY VOLUNTEERS of SANTA FE


Since 1985, Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe (LVSF) has been serving the community by providing literacy instruction for adults and their families. We believe that literacy is essential to improving the quality of life of individuals, promoting economic growth, and building an informed, responsible citizenry.  Our purpose is to offer programs that provide free, quality tutoring in basic literacy and English as a Second Language, financial literacy, health literacy, citizenship and numeracy skills.


Over the past 34 years, LVSF has trained 4,902 tutors, who have provided over 504,327 hours of instruction to help more than 13,780 adult students obtain essential skills and reach their fullest potential. This represents volunteer contributions equivalent to over $12 million. Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe is the only program in Santa Fe County that provides free literacy tutoring services for adults.


Kimberly Wiley, President of the LVSF Board of Directors, was born and grew up in Chicago.  She is a retired Management Consultant, with IBM’s Global Business Services and previously with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.  She specialized in advising businesses undergoing significant change, such as a merger, on how to develop and implement a new business culture, performance management systems, and an organizational design to support their mission and values.  She received a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College, and an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.  Her hobbies are reading, cooking, and traveling.  Reading has been so important in her life. Some of the best advice she ever received was from her favorite high school English teacher, who advised her to read a book each week just for herself.  Helping others to discover the doors that being a readier can open was what motivated her to seek out Literacy Volunteers when she retired.  She has been an ESL, Basic Literacy, and Citizenship tutor with LVSF since February 2012, and has been honored to help her students achieve their goals.  She joined the LVSF Board in spring of 2014 and became President of the Board in 2017.


Silvia Kingsford, Director and Student Representative on the LVSF Board of Directors, was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico. She studied at the Technological University in Chihuahua, and in 1999, she graduated with a degree in industrial engineering.  Silvia moved to the United States in 2001 for better opportunities, and she soon began working at Ten Thousand Waves, where she is currently a supervisor of spa staff.  When LVSF started offering free English classes for all employees at Ten Thousand Waves in 2017, Silvia began studying with Susan Haase, her tutor.  She was honored as New Mexico’s ESL student of the year at the Roundhouse. Silvia has continued her studies with Susan and is currently studying to take the United States citizenship exam.  Silvia also arranges for all of the individual and small-group English classes that LVSF conducts at Ten Thousand Waves for employees and has been a champion of the program.  In 2019 she was awarded the Literacy Advocate of the Year award at the LVSF Annual Meeting.  Silvia joined the LVSF Board in 2019 and also serves on its Development Committee.


Here is the link to the April 2020 Literacy Volunteers talk:



 


 





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