Kristina Koutsoudas

Experience

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  Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County (CACHH)

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Senior Intern

  Management Assistance and Organizational Development Enterprise (MODE) * Handled diverse, detailed responsibilities for developing annual arts admin. workshopseries. * Responsibilities included constructing and conducting an in depth survey of desirededucational topics, from constituent members, researching topics based on interviews andanalysis of statistical data from previous workshops, deciding which topics to present,and contacting qualified presenters. * Responsibilities also included making all arrangements for the workshops includingthose between the presenters and CACHH, writing and formatting the workshop brochure forpublicity purposes, and updating and reorganizing the organization's complex data basewith member information and statistical reports of workshop feedback. Show less

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  1998 Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County (CACHH)

  Jan 1998 - Dec 1998

  Administrative Assistant

  Civic Art and Design Department * Support all staff with all communications and coordination of activities. * Assisting in presentation and review of grant applications both departmental and civic. * Securing, scheduling, and hosting grant panelists. * Reorganizing and archiving materials in public resource library. * Organizing layout, running press, and distributing department newsletter. * Recognized by supervisor for excellence in inter-personal communication andorganizational skills, insight, discretion, creativity, and self-motivation.* Position: salaried, full time, $19,200K. Period: one year Show less

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  Young Audiences of Houston, Inc

  Jan 1999 - Dec 2000

  Administrative Assistant

  Primary assistant to five-member staff, especially the scheduling coordinator/officemanager, program director, and the board of directors. * Specifically handled diverse, detailed responsibilities for scheduling arts-in-education programs with artists and all public, private, and parochial member schools inHouston and Harris County. * Responsibilities included:* Negotiating performance availability with artists, mediating conflicts between artists,school administrators, and/or educators,* Marketing programs, creating, compiling and issuing performance program materials foreducators,* Creating and issuing all contracts and performance agreements and artist confirmations(using FileMaker)* Organizing all contracts/confirmations into annual invoice inventory Show less

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  C. G. Jung Center for Studies in Analytical Psychology

  Sept 2000 - now

  Teacher - Dance
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  Studio K Houston

  Oct 2000 - now

  ing Executive planning and organizational development. Project research, design, development, and production. Special event planning and event coordination. Public & media relations.Marketing & sales, contract negotiation. Fundraising, including grant writing and grant review (project assessment).Office management and program scheduling coordination. Development of curriculum & training materials. Instruction/training of subject material.

  • Individual Perform/Teaching Artist

    Nov 2003 - now

  • Artistic/Executive Director-Studio K Houston

    Oct 2000 - now
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  Rice University

  Jan 2003 - now

  Adjunct Professor - Dance

  Creating curriculum for/teaching dance courses for undergraduate and graduate students; also creating & teaching specialty dance classes for all students, faculty and staff

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  2003 Reisman & Simpson

  May 2003 - Aug 2003

  Office Manager/Case Assistant

  Assistant to president and staff of an independent collections agency. Duties include: * General office management/administrative: data entry, report queries and analyses. * Special task assignment involved the review of all active and inactive files for re-integration into an organizational system I designed for this company. * Each file review included an in-depth evaluation and reconfirmation of entire payment; $7,200. Period: four months

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  Dance Houston, Inc.

  Mar 2006 - now

  Teacher - Dance
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  2006- Dance Houston Inc

  Mar 2006 - Aug 2010

  Executive Assistant/Grant Writer/Consultant

  Assistant to the director. Duties include:* Administrative: performance event coordination, creation of organizational publicityand fund raising documents, grant writing, and coordination & implementation of publicityand marketing strategies. * Human Resource: Liaison between artists and director, director and public.* Sales: product sales* Position: contract, quarter time, 10 hours, $1000. Period: August 2006. New contractsas requested.

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  Frankel Interests

  Sept 2006 - Jul 2008

  Executive/Personal Assistant
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  2006- Frankel Interests/ Frankel Family Foundation

  Sept 2006 - Jul 2008

  Executive/Personal Assistant

  2008 * Assistant to the president. A high security position requiring a high degree ofdiplomacy, time management, organizational, and interpersonal, communication skills.Duties include: * Accounting: accounts payable, creation & maintenance of accounts, financial reports,financial movement, payroll.* Administrative: compilation of annual organizational reports, creation oforganizational systems, extensive information management, formal correspondence,foundation management, product/services assessment, review of grant applications.* Human Resources: Liaison with brokerage houses, banks, and other financialinstitutions, dispute resolution/mediation with contract employees & family. Show less

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  Mnemosyne International

  Jun 2011 - now

  President/Founding Director

  Cultural heritage non profit organization dedicated to the preservation of Hellenic and Eastern intangible culture. Activities focus on education and development. Community outreach, documentation, sponsorship, and more.