Education

1997-1999 McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)

M.A. in Anthropology

1993-1997 University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)

B. A. in Anthropology and Foreign Languages

Work Experience

August 1999 – present Refugee Resettlement Case Manager,

World Relief, Stone Mountain, GA

Primary Duties:

Case management: Provide cultural orientation to newly arriving refugees; arrange for basic necessities for arriving refugee families; maintain up-to-date case files on each client; work with church and individual volunteers

French interpretation/translation and grant writing (as needed)

Specific Accomplishments:

§ Served as case manager for refugee clients from Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Congo, et al.), Europe (Bosnia, Kosovo,Russia), Asia (Vietnam, Burma), and Latin America (Cuba)

§ Researched and presented information on the historical and cultural background of certain refugee groups to other service providers

§ Taught and developed special curricula for cultural orientation classes for the Somali Bantu and Meskhetian Turks

§ Served as a coordinator for the collaborative cultural orientation of the Somali Bantu

§ Coordinated cross-agency planning and meetings regarding cultural orientation

§ Chosen as a secondee with Cultural Orientation Trainers Exchange in 2003

§ Wrote several successfully funded grant applications

August-December 1997 Teaching assistant, Department of Anthropology

January – May 1999 McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Primary Duties:

Teaching Assistant: Lecture at weekly laboratory sessions; offer weekly conference hours; grade exams and projects; create and administer quizzes; attend class lectures

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in French:

B.A. in Foreign Language (French); extensive travel in France, Quebec; interpretation experience in court, legal proceedings, medical visits; translation experience with civil records, announcement, forms; case manager for African francophone refugee clients

Familiarity with a variety of other languages of refugee clients

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING CONFERENCES

Georgia Refugee Resettlement Conference – 2002, 2003

Francophonie 2001: Global Challenges of Strengthening Democracy and Human Rights

World Relief National Technical Training – 2002, 2004, 2008

PRESENTATIONS

“Overseas Cultural Orientation: A First Hand Perspective” Invited presentation at the World Relief National Technical Training, World Relief Headquarters, Baltimore, MD. March 4, 2004.

“The Changing Face of Resettlement in Georgia: The Somali Bantu” Invited presentation for a workshop at the Hands On Atlanta/City Cares 2004 Leadership Conference. February 28, 2004.

“The Somali Bantu: Facts, Figures, and the Challenges Represented for the Resettlement Community

” Invited presentation/training for refugee and community service agencies. Decatur, GA. October 17, 2003.

RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS

Redd, D., 2004. “A Model of Collaborative Cultural Orientation for Refugees: The Somali Bantu Working Group in Atlanta, GA” Refugee Reports. 25(4):11-14.

Redd, D. 2003. “Cultural Orienation Trainers Exchange Report: August 2003 – Kenya” For the Cultural Orientation Project, http://www.culturalorientation.net/kenyareport03.html

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2003: Nairobi, Kenya and Kakuma Refugee Camp

Secondee, Cultural Orientation Trainers Exchange Program

August 1997 - June 1999 : Montréal, Québec, Canada

Student and Teaching Assistant, McGill University

January – June 1996: Paris, France

Student, L’Ecole Superieure du Commerce Exterieur

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Work experience with Office 2000 Suite, Windows 2000, and other basic office programs

Knowledge of HTML and other web programming languages (www.davidredd.com)

REFERENCES

Available upon request