Carolyn Kinsman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru (1963 - 64)
Carolyn Kinsman served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru (1963 - 64)
Carolyn Kinsman
C. Kinsman Design
505-242-9207
e-mail: ckinsman2@aol.com
Carolyn Kinsman C. Kinsman Design 505-242-9207 e-mail: ckinsman2@aol.com
Carolyn Kinsman, designer, teacher, facilitator, mediator, consultant, and owner of C. Kinsman Design, has been working in education and training since 1961. Her experience includes educational research, bilingual/bicultural materials design, and the development and implementation of experiential training models. C. Kinsman Design provides a range of services, including graphics and communications design, writing, editing, book design, and publication assistance.
She holds a degree in B.A. in Design from Southern Illinois University, where her unique educational experience awakened a deep passion for education and human learning. In the late 1980s she entered a post graduate program in Educational Foundations at The University of New Mexico to develop further grounding in the field. Carolyn has taught design process, problem solving, and communications at The State University of New York at Buffalo and The University of New Mexico and communications courses for the Experimental College of Human Learning at the Institute for Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1963 to 1965, Carolyn served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru, helping to establish artisan production and marketing cooperatives, than worked for two years in Puerto Rico, where she was part of a team that developed experiential approaches to Peace Corps volunteer training. She was a partner in a small business consulting and design firm in Lima, Peru, for two years, and lived a total of nine years in Latin America. She is fluent in Spanish.
Professionally, Carolyn employs a comprehensive systems approach, whether creating a piece of visual communication, a learning model, or a program. She uses her training as a mediator and facilitator and experience as a teacher and problem solver to move clients toward self-education and self-responsibility.
Clients include schools, small and large businesses, governmental agencies, non-profit organizations, artists, service providers, and consultants. Her work includes the design and production of educational, training, and promotional materials and processes. In addition, she delivers direct services in training, mediation, conflict resolution, and facilitation. She has a strong commitment to service and community involvement, serving on various advisory boards and boards of directors of non-profit organizations.
A poet, painter, mother, sailor, gardener, and construction aficionado, Carolyn is committed to experiencing deeply, working heartfully, and living fully!
