Kim McMillon

Academic professional with depth of experience in higher education. Direct knowledge and experience in support of arts advocacy and promotion, teaching, advising, and creative writing. Known for crafting innovative curricula and promoting scholarly research. Proven track record of collaborating with diverse teams to drive educational excellence and adapt to evolving academic needs. Recognized for strong leadership, critical thinking, and ability to foster engaging learning environment.

University of California, Merced - Merced, CA

Graduate Teacher Assistant/Teaching Fellow/Lecturer

08/2011 - 07/2022

Stanislaus State University, Turlock, CA

Humanities 3000-Sect 6

Theatre of Transformation (CSUS) (Lecturer)

01/26/18 - 05/17/18

Developed comprehensive lesson plans to meet the needs of diverse student populations.

Integrated literacy strategies into daily lessons to improve reading comprehension among students.

Assessed student performance through various methods such as quizzes, tests, papers, projects.

Taught theatre, and literature as a lecturer, and English, Writing, Intro to Shakespeare, Intro to Chicano Literature, History, and African American Literature as a Teaching Assistant.

• Wrote and directed the musical Freedom's Song, staged at the Merced Theatre on June 25, 2023. The show is based on the research of Dr. Dale Alexander on his family's journey from slavery and was funded by the Sacramento Compremetid@s project.
• Publicized the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Northern California Book Awards and the 2022 and 2023 Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival for Poetry Flash, a literary magazine based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Produced the September 10, 2010, Ethiopian New Year Celebration, Enkutatash. Managed publicity, promotion, set-up, and breakdown of this event with an audience of more than two thousand in Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Park with the support of the City of Berkeley, the Berkeley Police Department, and the Oakland Ethiopian Community and Cultural Center.
• Wrote grants, created, and managed budgets, and produced PEN Oakland's playwriting series, 8 short plays, staged at Live Oak Theatre in Berkeley | 09/2008 - 08/2009.
• Wrote, and produced stage readings of Carlos Diegues' 1984 movie Quilombo dos Palmares on 17th Century Slavery in Brazil. Stage productions at Laney College in Oakland, and Alameda College in Alameda, CA | 04/2007 - 02/2009.
• Produced the PEN Oakland sponsored literary series Oakland Out Loud at the Oakland Public Library in conjunction with the publishing of the Oakland Out Loud anthology | 04/2007 - 09/2007.
• Curated the poetry program for Chandra Garsson's exhibition, Insomnia [Awakening], which focused on the culture of violence that perpetrates child abuse and sexual abuse of women, as told through the individual experiences of one local artist. Poets reading included Ellen Bass, Teresa LeYung Ryan, Jennifer Stone, Alta, Shailja Patel, Mary Mackey, Leslie Simon, etc. | 02/2004 - 03/2004.
• Created Divine Madness-Women Poets, a quarterly series held at Oakland's PRO Arts Gallery that explored women's poetry from the aspect of divine madness. Started a political author's series to explore issues of social justice, and the United States policies and actions throughout the world, particularly in third world countries. | 10/2002 - 12/2003.
• Produced, wrote, and starred the one-woman show, Confessions of a Thespian, directed by Margo Hall and staged at the Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkeley, CA. | 10/1999 - 03/2000.
• Produced, Wrote & Directed Voyages, which premiered at the Nova Theatre in San Francisco in March 1986, and Group produced Voyages. The theme of spiritual enlightenment was explored highlighting issues of race, sexuality, death, and rebirth.

• Bay Area Art Beat, Berkeley Community Media, Host, 08/02/21, 10/21/22
• Civil Liberties Conversation, we are all Americans, Panelist, Valley PBS, 07/19/18
• Arts in the Valley, 1480 KYOS AM, Merced, CA, Host and Producer, 10/2010, 07/2014

• Tribes #16, The Black Lives Matter Issue, Contributor, Ishmael Reed and Danny Simmons, https://www.tribes.org/
• Black Fire-This Time, Editor, Willow Books, 03/2022
• New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka, Anthology Contribution, Ohio University Press, 02/2021
• Black Power Encyclopedia (1965-1975), Contributor, a two-volume reference work that explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States. Contributed section on the Black Arts Movement., ABCCLIO, 07/2018
• Journal of Pan African Studies, Editor, special edition on the Black Arts Movement, 04/2018
• The Black Arts Movement - Healing Systemic Racism, Author, 08/30/2016
• Fightin' Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose from 'the Blue-Collar PEN', Co-Editor, Heyday Books, 2017
• Oakland Outloud, Assistant Editor, Jukebox Press, 2007
• Words Upon the Waters, Publication Committee, Jukebox Press, 2006

• Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference, 03/16/18 - 03/17/18, Deconstructing the Black Arts Movement from a Feminist Point of View
• Dillard University-Harvard's Hutchins Center BAM Conference, 09/09/16 - 09/11/16, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA, Organizer
• 50 Years On: The Black Arts Movement & Its Influences, 02/28/14 - 03/02/14, UC Merced, Organizer
• Social Justice in the Central Valley, 11/05/15 - 11/07/15, Utilizing the Theatre of the Black Arts Movement to Strengthen the Empathy Muscle, Stanislaus State University, CA, Guest Speaker
• Drama out West, 11/03/13 - 11/05/13, The Black Arts Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area, Presenter
• Black Doctoral Network Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 01/11/12 - 01/14/12, The Transformation of the African American through Black Theatre, Presenter
• 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 1960 - 1980, Presenter

• Words of Liberation: The Exploration of Blackness Through Poetry, Moderator, Sacramento State Library, 06/13/2024, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
• Produced, wrote, and directed a musical excerpt from the play Voyages for the 2023 Black History Month Literary Series, Merced Multicultural Center, 02/04/2023, 1 pm
• Merced County NAACP, 60th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet, Keynote Speaker, 10/01/2022
• Black Fire-This Time, Host, San Francisco Public Library, 07/16/2022
• The Poetry of Black Panther Women, Speaker, April 27, 2022, 2 pm, Sonia Gutiérrez, Puente English Instructor, Palomar College, CA
• Black Women in the Black Power Movement, San Francisco State University Multicultural Center, 03/20/2022, 4 pm - 6 pm
• Quincy Troupe in Conversation with Danny Glover & Terry McMillan, Kim McMillon-Moderator, Feb 10, 2022, 2 pm, San Francisco Public Library
• “Black Arts Movement Discussion” with Kim McMillon, February 1, 2022, 1:00 pm, University of Oregon, Professor Malcolm Frierson's Civil Rights Movement Course.
• University of California, Merced - Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies Lecture Series, Dr. Kim McMillon discusses 'Inclusivity and the Black Arts Movement', Merced County Library, 11/10/2021, 6:30 pm
• Boys & Girls Club of Merced County, wrote & directed play, Halloween's Magic Door, 10/30/2021, 12 pm
• Produced 'Afrofuturism and the Black Speculative Arts', a 3-Part Series, via Zoom, 10/11/2000, 10/08/2000, 12/03/2000
• The Reading Series presentation of Kim McMillon's play, Black Heaven, 11/15/2017, 6:00 pm, Emerson College, Los Angeles
• Produced 'We Wear Our Crown: An Evening of Female Empowerment', UC Merced, UC Graduate Student Association and the Office of Campus Climate, 03/02/2017
• Rethinking Black Feminism and the Woman of the Black Arts Movement, UCSB, 12/02/2016
• UC Merced - Diversity and Inclusion graduate student panel, Facilitator, 08/16/2016
• Produced Two Part Series on Race, Culture and History, Professor Akinyele Omowale Umoja, Professor and historian James Loewen, 04/07/15, 04/21/2015
• Young Voices Speak Out on Poverty & Homelessness, San Francisco, CA, 06/2000 - 12/2000