Erin Cary
Operations and Content Integration Coordinator
Erin Cary (she/her) is ATLAS’ Operations and Content Integration Coordinator; she manages high-impact communications, coordinates details related to statewide, regional and virtual events, and provides specialized leadership and support in multiple areas of statewide professional development.
Erin holds a Master of Arts in ESL from Hamline University, specializing in Adult Education; a Master of Arts in German Languages and Literatures from The Ohio State University; and Bachelor’s degrees in English and German from the University of Minnesota Morris. She has worked in MN ABE since 2009 as a teacher, administrator, and in curriculum writing and professional development. She teaches beginner ELLs for Metro North ABE in Brooklyn Center; instructs graduate courses in the ABE licensure/MAT program at Hamline; and co-develops CILIA-T, an integrated civics/academic English/digital skills curriculum for adult learners. She is a co-founder of the teacher/learner self-advocacy movement #IamABE, which supports equity work, professional issues, and activism in MN.
As Operations and Content Integration Coordinator, Erin manages and distributes the MN ABEConnect newsletter; maintains the centralized Events calendar; and assists in maintaining ATLAS’ website. She leads the planning and execution of regional and statewide in-person and virtual events; provides technical hosting, planning, and logistical arrangements for virtual events for ATLAS as well as partner grantees. Erin also oversees creation and distribution of high quality evaluation processes for all events; and oversees the creation and distribution of accurate Continuing Education Units (CEU) documentation to attendees of ATLAS events.
She also supports (and participates in!) professional development initiatives in areas such as LGBTQ+ representation and antiracism; administrator support and development; and ESL and foundational literacy instruction.
Contact Erin for:
- Presenters: Meeting rooms set-ups, AV, and other logistical requests. Registration, guest rooms, participant number information, copy requests and all venue questions.
- Participants: Registration questions, special dietary and other needs, guest rooms, cancellations, flyer/schedules for meetings and events, CEUs.
- Venues/Suppliers: Guest room blocks, billing, audio visual, set-up questions, schedules, catering, and all logistical concerns.
- ABE Connect, ATLAS Web site and Events Calendar Contributors/Audience: logistical and content questions about the statewide e-newsletter for MN Adult Education providers, as well as ATLAS' web site and events information.
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