Sou MacMillan - Poetry, prose, music, visual arts

December 2006 – current: Education Coordinator
Highland Grace House, Community Healthlink, Worcester, MA
As liaison to clients’ schools, responsible for academic programming and helping residents to meet their academic goals. In addition to handling administrative tasks associated with clients’ home schools, runs a guided independent study classroom, assists with GED studies, and manages an arts-based alternative programming curriculum during non-school year blocks. Additionally is responsible for meeting standards of the National School Lunch Program.

March 2006 –December 2006 : Residential Counselor, Relief Staff
Highland Grace House, Community Healthlink, Worcester, MA
As accessory staff for day-to-day in-house activities, responsible for implementing programming for residents on a consistent basis in accordance with Substance Abuse Division Standards and policies procedure. Assist in facilitation and implementation of the treatment plan for clients.

September 2004 - February 2006 Administrative Coordinator
First Night Worcester, Worcester, MA
As one of two formal office staff members answering to a Board of Directors, this is a key organizational position in the planning and execution of an annual city-wide New Year's Eve arts festival. Duties include contracting of artists and venues, coordination of over one hundred volunteers, coordination of large mailings and databases, in-office cash accounting, and acquiring of permits, as well as general office tasks.

June 2003 - September 2004 Administrative Assistant
HR Department, Allmerica Financial, Worcester, MA
As part of the human resources department at Allmerica Financial, duties include support for recruiters and administration of pre-employment screening for job applicants.

April 2002 - June 2003 Gallery Interpreter
Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA
As part of the education department at Higgins Armory Museum, Gallery Interpreters lead visitors and tour groups through the collection in the Great Hall and Special Exhibits.

May 1995 - Present Owner/Operator
Doublebunny Press, Worcester, MA
Doublebunny Press acts as writers' printing, bookmaking, and periodical-producing resource. Doublebunny also offers resume and other typesetting services, from flyers to business suites, and cites such discerning clientele as Higgins Armory and Clark University.

June 2001 -August 2002 Board Member
Worcester Po8ry Project, Worcester, MA
As the governing body for the Worcester Poetry Slam and Poets' Asylum, the WP8P runs two weekly readings, has featured over three hundred different poets from 15 different countries, has fielded a team to the National Poetry Slam the past nine years, and has helped build a large poetry community in the Worcester County area.

September 1997 - December 1998 Administrative Assistant
Wachusett Regional School District, Princeton, MA
Duties at the Superintendent's office included desktop layout and website development, as well as reception and general office tasks.

September 1994 - April 1995 Warehouse Facilitator
Global Logistics, Columbus, OH
For HJ Heinz Company, designed and operated a system that coordinated pickup of freight from eleven warehouses in six states. Duties included telephone cooperation with warehouse operators, transportation specialists, freight line dispatchers and drivers; data entry and technical writing for logistics manual. (Promotion from Lot Management Coordinator position, MultiModal.)

July 1994 - September 1994 Lot Management Coordinator
MultiModal, Columbus, OH
For Ford Motor Company designed and operated a system intended to keep the Ford, Lorain motor plant incoming freight lot at low-traffic. Duties included data gathering and entry, mapping and organization, telephone cooperation with plant staff and freight line dispatchers, use of Ford's on-line systems, technical writing for logistics manual. (Promotion from file clerk position, Railvan.)

November 1993 - July 1994 File Clerk
Railvan, Columbus, OH
Filing on various systems including numerical, chronological, and alpha-sequential.

Ongoing participation in various spoken word and music projects including touring the US with poetry and with bands, and organization of shows and productions such as Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues in Worcester in February 2002, and coordination of poetry events at Ohio shows of Lollapalooza tour in 1994. Personal credits in recordings/publications include Off the Page documentary (Cleveland State University Press), Poetry Slam (Manic D Press), Bottomdog Coffeehouse Anthology (Bottomdog Press), My Name Is Esther Cohen (Double Deuce/Caroline Records), Pigasus (Burnt Sienna Records), The Art of... (Furnace Records), Gimpy and If Money Burns (Doublebunny), and recordings with Wolfgang Parker & the Jumpin' Terrors.