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Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can in the way we can, in order to keep our community more beneficial than we inherited it.
About Nathan Jones...
Poet. Author. Publisher. Teacher. Son. Brother. Father. Friend. Expatriate to be. Man for all seasons.
Nathan Anthony Jones hails from the Jazz capital, a.k.a., The Big Easy. He exited his mother's womb making waves the year Jimi freaked Woodstock over 4 decades ago. He is a 7th Ward Bayou Bourbon Street Boogieing Baby born bubbly and bouncing to the African spiritual beats of the bamboulas and banzas of the Congo Square in New Orleans.
Nathan's poetry is cayenne pepper; spicy and feisty, political and social, reflective and eclectic and fulfilling like a hot bowl of gumbo and rice and a jar of homemade lemonade on a humid Southern summer afternoon. Raised in Oakland, he is a poet, teacher, publisher and author of several books: Revolutionary Erotica & Other Poems, Black Man in Europe: Micro Volume, Black Man in Europe: The Novel, and tExcerpts From My Soul...Read Without Prejudice.
Nathan holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from
Mills College, a TESOL Trinity College Certificate
from Oxford House College, Barcelona, an MA in
Ethnic Studies (ABT) from San Francisco State
University, and a BA in Sociology from California
State University, Hayward. Nathan has
been in the field of education for over sixteen
years. He has taught at Luxor Academy,
New Village Public Charter School, Saint Martin de
Porres Catholic School and the College of Alameda.
Nathan has worked as a Director of Community
Services at Marin Academy, an Academic Mentor at
James Madison Middle School and Parker Elementary
Schools and an Intervention Specialist for the
Oakland Public Schools. He has been an
Instructor for the Level Playing Field Institute,
where he has taught English in the Summer Math and
Science Honors Academy (SMASH) program, on the UC
Berkeley Campus. Nathan has also tutored
multiple subjects to urban youth at the Berkeley
Public Library. Nathan teaches College
Preparatory English for Holy Names University in
conjunction with the Upward Bound Program, where he
exclusively provides services for Oakland High
School students; specializing in teaching critical
reading, writing, poetry, and test taking
strategies, ultimately preparing students for SAT I
& II Exams and California Exit Exams.