Joseph Carstens

CarstensJoseph@gmail.com ❖ (661) 485-9182 ❖ Lancaster, CA

WORK & EXPERIENCE
Student Learning Center 2019 – 2020
Student Instructional Assistant / Tutor Chico, CA
▪ Effective mentoring/peer-to-peer communication with a diverse caseload of clients in order to improve their
writing skills.
▪ Succinct, professional communication both in verbal and written form.
▪ Outlining and executing planned lessons for each client.
▪ Ability to work with a wide variety of writing regarding form, genre, structure, and so forth.
▪ Aiding in the seamless transition to remote tutoring given the circumstances of COVID – 19.

Chico High School 2020

Interning, Partner Teacher Chico, CA
▪ Close collaboration with partner teacher in order to gain an understanding of teaching techniques, strategies,
philosophies, and methods.
▪ Understanding the social make-up of a classroom, collaborating with student aides and assessing / providing
feedback to student work.

Freelance 2018 – Present

Essayist /Creative Writer Chico, CA
▪ Accurately assess and write to the requirements, needs, and tone of a given writing assignment.
▪ Work independently as well as in collaboration with editors and exhibit curators.
o Essay: “Knights of Flamboyant Beauty” in the Janet Turner Print Museum’s Imagining the Past.
o Collection: “Matter of the Body” to the English Graduate Council’s literary magazine: The Manzanita
o Prose: “No Need for Faces” in Third Story: Prints and Prose – Janet Turner Print Museum

EDUCATION
California State University, Chico May, 2020
BA, English (Education) // Minor in Creative Writing Chico, CA
▪ Dean’s List Start-Finish; 3.71/4.0 GPA
▪ Speaker at the English Graduate Symposium; presenter at several JT Print Museum exhibits; Wordspring 2020
(Butte College)
▪ Chico State Climbing Club, entailing weekly climbing trips, alongside rigorous coursework

SKILLS & INTERESTS

▪ Skills: Adaptability; excellent peer tutoring/mentoring; written and verbal communication; web design; editing and
publishing; public speaking; Microsoft Office; copywriting; rhetoric; distance tutoring and communication
▪ Interests: Meeting new people; traveling; woodworking; climbing; the great outdoors.

(References Available Upon Request)