8 Parker Place

Somerville, MA   02143

Phone: (617) 629-0516

E-mail: ksaner@hds.harvard.edu

Personal Information

Date of Birth:   April 27, 1975

Marital Status: Married

Birthplace and Citizenship:   USA

Work experience

2003-Present      Institute for Resource and Security Studies        Cambridge, Mass.

Information Technology Assistant

•  Website Maintenance; Computer Networking and Consultation; Editing and Cataloguing of Institute Reports

•  Field Representative in Afghanistan and Pakistan on “Health and Violence Reduction”

2003-2004                         Solis, Inc.                             Allston, Massachusetts

Junior Director and Project Assistant

•  Intercultural facilitation and communication

•    Researching issues related to Solis' endeavor to enable college students in the United States and the Middle East to collaboratively explore the relationship between the two regions, with the aim of improving intercultural awareness

•  Computer graphic design, video editing with Pinnacle Studio 8 , web-conferencing technology, internet research

2002-2003              HGSE Financial Aid Office                Cambridge, Massachusetts

Office Assistant

•  Document tracking & Data Entry in Powerfaids financial software; Assisting Students

2001-2003         HGSE Learning Technologies Center      Cambridge, Massachusetts

Audio-Visual Technician

•  Set up and maintain audio-visual equipment & maintain office hours

•  MS Access database, computer skills and setup; assisting students with software applications

1998 -2000                       Prairie View, Inc.                              Newton, Kansas

Mental Health Worker

•  Intensive supervision of emotionally troubled teenagers and children

•  Clinical interactions, activity planning, daily clinical charting

•  Achieved Staff Shift Supervisor, overseeing staff duties and making clinical decisions

•  Developed a curriculum on conflict management and taught course to teens

1997-1998            Trinity and First Mennonite Churches               Hillsboro, Kansas

Interim Community Youth Leader

•  Presenting weekly services, planning events, interfaith and scripture studies

•  Presenting several major congregational speeches

Education

2001-2002            Harvard Divinity School                    Cambridge, Massachusetts

Masters of Theological Studies Candidate

•  Treasurer of Shura :   Student Islamic Forum on Campus, 2003 & 2004

•  Co-director and Treasurer and   “Islam in America Conference” 2003 & 2004

•  On planning committee for Islam in America Conference 2002

•  Student Representative on “Committee on Academic Programs” 2004

•  Member of Harvard Prison Education Organization

Related Research                                                  (Class Title)

•  Nonviolent Hermeneutics of the Qur'an    -    (Major Themes of the Qur'an)

•  Ethnographic field study and film treatment on the “Initiative to Educate Afghan Women”    -    

                                                                     (Transcultural Cinema)

•  The Rhetoric of Justice in Post 9-11 Justifications for US Military Intervention    -                                                                     (Religion, Gender & Political Conflict)

•  Policy and Ethics in the US Intervention of Afghanistan     -    (Moral Use of Force)

•  Justice and Interpretation             -              (Hermeneutics and Theology)

Other Classes                     

•  Islamic Theology and Philosophy

•  Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought

•  Christians and Muslims:   Mutual Perceptions and Changing Views

•  The Mystical Traditions of Islam

•  Comparative Liberation Theology

•  New Testament, Biblical Studies and the Empire

•  Judaism: The Liturgical Year

•  Introduction to Hinduism

1993 - 1997                       Bethel College                         North Newton, Kansas

Bachelor of Arts – Religious Studies            

•  Received Thresher award for senior thesis & overall academic excellence

•  Graduated Summa Cum Laude

•  Classes in “Interpersonal Conflict Management” and “International Conflict”

•  Campus Conflict Management Team Member – 2 years

•  Chairperson of Service Corps   - 2 years

•  Campus Religious Service Team – 4 years

•  Production Manager for College Radio Station -- 2 years

•  Minor in Music Theory and Performance

Language Education

2000-2001                    Zarka Private University                            Zarka, Jordan

Intensive Arabic Language Studies Certificate

Intermediate and Advanced Classical Arabic  -  Graduate Level,

                                                                      Harvard Divinity School

Intermediate German   -   Undergraduate Level, Bethel College

Volunteer experience

Community Victim / Offender Reconciliation Program – Hillsboro, KS

Volunteer at Newton Area Peace Center – Newton, KS

Construction Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity & Mennonite Disaster service

Interests and activities

Theology & Comparative Religions, Conflict Management and Nonviolence

Reading, Woodworking, Model Railroading, Music, Graphic Arts

References

Gordon D. Thompson, Executive Director

Institute for Resource and Security Studies

27 Ellsworth Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02139   USA

e-mail:   gthompson@irss-usa.org

website:   www.irss-usa.org

Liza Chambers, Co-Director

Solis,   Inc

66 Chester St., Ste.1

Boston, MA 02134

e-mail:   liza.chambers@solis.net

website:   www.solis.net

Elizabeth McMullen, Financial Aid Assistant

Harvard University Graduate School of Education

6 Appian Way     Cambridge, MA 02138      (617) 495-3416

e-mail:   elizabeth_mcmullen@harvard.edu

website:   www.gse.harvard.edu/financialaid/