Kendyll Naomi Pappas is currently studying creative writing and fine art in San Francisco. Since moving to the city in 2006, 826 Valencia has been a familiar place for her. Tutoring after school and going into classrooms all around the city has enabled her to share her fondness for writing, learning, and creating with students of all ages. Throughout this past year, she has assisted with a variety of creative-writing workshops, and has recently designed curriculum for a six-week writing camp she will be teaching this summer. She has a strange affinity for spiders and wool.
Eugenie Howard-Johnston, our Events and Programs Coordinator, joined our staff in the summer of 2008 after graduating from Berkeley with a Masters in Social and Cultural Studies in Education. Eugenie's hometown is Oxford, England, where she also attended university to earn her BA in Classics. She spent most of her time out of the library, planning events for a variety of nonprofits, such as the Joint Action Committee Against Racial Inequality, TravelAid and Survival International, as well as traveling across the globe. Before moving to San Francisco, Eugenie worked at a high school in London for two and a half years, where she was Head of the Media Studies department and also taught English, Latin and French. She was twice nominated for National Teaching Awards. In addition, Eugenie has written for British newspapers and attended The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. She is now doing her best to spell in American