1. Destinie (Jones) LANDRAC
Guidel, FRANCE 56520
destinielandrac at gmx.fr
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Writing, YaCy Search Engine, Ubuntu, Tour Guiding, Research, Data
Synthesis, Public Speaking, Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, Turkish,
French, Teaching Mathematics, Teaching English as a Second
Language, Unix Systems, Network Security
OBJECTIVE
To increase community cooperation and Green energy usage.
EDUCATION
ICA certified Spanish speaking and listening: fully fluent, 11 December,
2012
University of Bath, England, UK: Master of Philosophy (MPhil), research
degree, thesis through Department of Social and Policy Sciences,
awarded 2010
Boston Academy of English: Teaching English as a Foreign Language
(TEFL) Certificate, awarded 2004
Rivier College: Master of Arts in Teaching, taught degree, (major:
Mathematics, minor: Spanish), awarded 2002
University of Baltimore: Bachelor of Science, taught degree, in
Computer Science, awarded 1993
The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, Midshipman 4th
Class, 1988
Paul L. Dunbar Senior High School, Washington, DC, Pre-Engineering
Program, Graduated June 1988

2. George Washington University, Hi-Scip, program taking courses while
at Dunbar SHS, 1987-1988 (Eng. Drawing, Modern Israeli Hebrew,
Jewish History 70AD-1200AD)
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Motor Coaching Skills Workshop, Guild of Professional Tour Guides of
Washington, DC, 28, November, 2012
Sarajevan Sephardic folk songs (Ladino), Flora Jagoda, Alexandria, VA,
2011-2012
Latin American Youth Center (LAYC), Tutor refresher training: 2010,
2011
DC LEARNS Adult Education Training Core Skills Workshop, Foundations
of Reading II, October 2010
Pilgrims and Pearson's courses: Teaching English, May 2005
NH Teachers of Mathematics Conference, March 2003
5th Annual NH Jewish Educators Workshop, November 2001
LISA 2000 UNIX Systems Administration Conference, October 2000
PAID EXPERIENCE
Founder: SHIR Tours, English/Spanish language step-on tours for
international tour groups on motor coaches, Singing Walking and
Step-On Tours featuring Black-Jewish Community Cooperation in
Washington, DC, November 2011 to Present
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Montgomery College, MD,
August 2011-May 2012
Freelance Tutor: Mathematics and Biblical Hebrew,
Washington,DC, 2010 to Present
Mathematics and English Tutor, Spanish Interpreter,
Independent contractor for Latin American Youth Center (LAYC),
Washington, DC: Synthesizing and simplifying lessons, Spanish

3. interpreting February 2010 to May 2011
Hebrew Tutor and 5th
Grade Hebrew School Teacher
Bethesda Jewish Congregation, MD: February 2010 to October 2010
History of Economics Lecturer
University of Anahuac, Mexico: Researched, prepared and gave lessons
introducing economic philosophy and history in both Spanish and
in English, Fall 2009
Contract ESL Teacher
Berlitz Istanbul, Yasar University Izmir, Turkey: Applied creative
pedagogical techniques to make English accessible for native
speakers of Turkish, 2004 to 2005
Substitute Teacher
NH, MA Schools, 2002 to 2004
Hebrew School 3rd and 4th/5th Grade Hebrew School Teacher
Temple Betenu, Nashua, NH, September 2001 to June 2003
Math Teacher and Unix Systems Administrator
SERESC, The Brentwood School, Nashua, NH: taught high school math,
designed web sites, gave Unix classes, 2001 to 2002
Adjunct Professor
NH Community Technical College, Nashua, NH, CS175 (taught required
course "Introduction To C++"), Fall 2001
Senior INFOSEC Engineer
MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA: Investigating and writing research
reports on software applications and operating systems, Security
on Linux, FreeBSD, Apache, IP Filter. Solaris 5.x, Apache SSL,
Postgress, AppShield, TCP/IP LANs, sendmail, SSH, Qmail with VI in
C, Excell, PowerPoint Presentations, May 2000 to December 2002
System Architect I
Safety Net Solutions, Hampton, NH. Unix security, NFS/SunYP, RCS,
“make files”, training peers at Volpe FAA center, 1998 to 2000

4. Unix LAN Systems Administrator
Aspen Systems Corporation, Rockville, MD, Unix LAN Security, Raptor
firewall, FTP, DNS, Perl, C, HTML, 1996 to 1998
Contractor
System Administration on SCO 5.0.2. HTML, CGI, PERL, 1996
Programmer Analyst
Disclosure, Inc. Bethesda, MD, HTML, CGI, PERL, C and C++, 1995 to
1996
Associate Software Engineer
Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN), Columbia, MD 1994 to 1995
Technical Assistant
(Hubble) Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, 1992 to
1994
Data Entry Technician, Work Study
University of Baltimore Library, 1991 to 1992
Store Clerk
Dunkin Donuts, 1990
Summer Engineering Intern, via Morgan State University
Kraft-General Foods, White Plains, NY, Summer 1989
Bakery counter staff, part time
White Plains, NY, Summer 1989
Pharmacy Technician,
P/T (during High School) People's Drug Store, Dupont Circle, DC, 1986
to 1988
Summer Engineering Intern
Naval Surface Weapons Center (NSWC), White Oak, MD summer 1987
Laundry employee
White's Laundry, Lynn, MA, summer, 1985
CLASSES and WORKSHOPS TAUGHT

5. Mediterranean Dance in Historical Context teacher, Takoma Rec. Ctr,
2013 -cancelled
“Community Debt Remission," DC Beit Midrash, 20 August 2012,
Washington DC JCC
Economic Democracy, seminar, 5 and 12 April, 2012, DC Social Forum,
Washington, DC
“Shared Monetary Governance and Economic Democracy as 1/2 of
Participatory Democracy”, Occupy DC, 13 November 2011,
seminars at both Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square,
Washington, DC.
“Community Building and Shavuot," DC Beit Midrash, 6 June 2011, JCC
Washington
“Mishnah Gittin and Community Empowerment via Local Currencies
“Mifnei Tikkun Ha-Olam"”, DC Beit Midrash, 16 August 2010, JCC
Washington, DC
"Green Money and Community Empowerment: Local Currencies as a
project of Tikkun Olam", Adas Israel, Tikkun Leil Shavuot, May
18th-19th
2010, Washington DC
Greek Folk dance classes for community via BathLETS in Bath, England
and la Casa de la Cultura in Puerto Morelos, Mexico, 2007, 2009
1 hour classes on Tablet Weaving and “Why Barcelona is Really a
French Town” taught at annual SCA Pennsic Wars, 1998, Western
Pennsylvania, USA
Tutoring fellow student pilots at Tuskegee Airfield for Negro Airmen
International, 1986
PUBLICATIONS/Reviews
Book: "Stayed on Freedom's Call" ISBN 978-3-659-24756-9, LAP
Publishing, March, 2014
Article: “Black and Jewish Cultures in Washington, DC: Shared History

6. and Shared Mandate” Tifereth Israel Menorah, September 2013
Article: “Chayei Sarah & Toldot: Authoritative vs. Organic Processes ”
Tifereth Israel Menorah, January 2011
Peer review of article submitted for publication in journal IJCCR,
November, 2011
Article: “Widening the Sukkah: the Occupy Wall Street Movement and
Shared Monetary Governance” Gather the Jews Blog, October 31,
2011, accessible online at: http://
www.gatherthejews.com/2011/10/widening-the-sukkah-the-
occupy-wall-street-movement-and-shared-monetary-governance/
Article: ‘MONEY AND PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE: A REVIEW OF THE
LITERATURE‘ International Journal of Community Currency
Research 15(A) ISSN 1325-9547, 2011
Article: ‘A Theoretical Framework for Shared Monetary Governance’
International Journal of Community Currency Research 15(A) ISSN
1325-9547, 2011
Book: “Shared Monetary Governance”, ISBN 978-3-639-26780-8, VDM
Publishing, August, 2010
MPhil Dissertation, June 2010, Social Policy, University of Bath, ILL: The
British Library.
Selected Poems in: “Poems from the Cranberry Room”,
ISBN978-0595291557, iUniverse, Inc. Publishing, 2003.
Poem: “Lost in a Rose”, Concrete Wolf Poetry Quarterly Issue Number
2, Summer 2001.
SINGING ENGAGEMENTS
Mrs. Herron Ford´s Theatre song reenactment: Marian Anderson, 22
July, 2012

7. “Occupy Shabbat” Niggun requests: Jewish Occupy DC., Friday, 11
November, 2011.
Jerusalem Day Performance: Ring House Senior Center, Rockville, MD,
June 2nd 2011.
Melodic appearance, Stagehand and Director´s Assistant for script
blocking as Frida Kahlo: “Variations on the Death of Trotsky”
Theater at First, Somerville, MA 2004.
PRESENTATIONS / TALKS
Shabbat Chol HaMoed Pesach Drash, “Passover and How Time Banking
can Ameliorate Modern Day Slavery” Classic Residences, Chevy
Chase, MD, March 29th
, 2013
Dvar Torah for Parashat Reéh, on Time Banks as Part Two of Community
Empowerment, Tiffereth Israel Synagogue, Washington, DC,
August 27th, 2011.
“Community Empowerment via Time Banks” , Wesley UMC,
Washington, DC, March 27th
, 2011.
Dvar Tikkun on “TakomaTime”, Tikkun Leil Shabbat (TLS), Washington,
DC, December 17th, 2010.
Parashat Re´eh -“Time Banks: Loan Remission Step Two”, Dvar Torah at
Adas Israel´s Traditional Egalitarian Minyan, Washington, DC,
August 7th
, 2010
“La Gobernanza Compartida del Dinero”, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo,
Mexico, June, 2009
"Community Empowerment through Local Currencies" at The Bell,
Bath, UK, July 2010
“Shared Monetary Governance” Poster Presentation at 2008
Heterodox Economics Conference, Cambridge, UK, July 2008
Departmental presentations: Department of Social and Policy Sciences,
University of Bath, 2007, 2008, 2009

8. “Is Nothing Sacred?” Storvik Storytelling competition, Post-Pennsic
Dessert, MD, 1998
Community Organizing and Outreach
The “Community Arranged Marriage Cooperative Project” begun
February, 2013
Grant Applications Advisory Review Panelist for the DC Commission
on the Arts and Humanities’ FY13 Community Arts Grant Round #2
(CAG), March, 2013
Planning and facilitating “Family Values through Film and Babylon 5”
series, 2011, 2013
Planned, hosted and facilitated:
“The Princess Bride” film and discussion Tuesday, June 21st
, 2011
“Muppet Treasure Island” film and discussion Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Founder and facilitator: telephone-based Interfaith Prayer Circle, 2010
to present
Planned, hosted and facilitated:
Fourth Multi-Ethnic Evening of Song, May 22nd
2011, Muhlenberg Park,
Connecticut Ave, NW
Third Multi-Ethnic Evening of Song, March 27th 2011, my home,
Washington, DC
Second Multi-Ethnic Evening of Song, Jan 30th
2011, my home,
Washington, DC
Multi-Ethnic Evening of Song, Sunday, Dec 26th
2010, my home,
Washington, DC
Propsal: Proyecto Abuela Vida, Public Libraries: Merida, Yucatan, and
Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, México, http://
www.academia.edu/1658959/AbuelaVida 2009
Proposal: “Aprendizaje Participativa: Teatrales” Shira Destinie Jones con
Hébert Serrano, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, and Oaxaca,

9. México, Viernes 24.7.2009
Activist, Bath Stop War Coalition (SWC), Bath, England, UK 2006-2009
Founder, University of Baltimore chapter of Students for the
Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)/Computer Science
Club, 1992-1993
CANTORIAL VOLUNTEER CONTRIBUTIONS
Chanted Megilat Esther, Chapter 7, Havurat Shalom, Purim 2004,
Somerville, MA
Chanted Parashat Vayikra, 2nd Aliyah, Zoo Minyan, March 2010
Washington, DC
Chanted Hol haMoed Pesach, 2nd, 3rd Aliyot, Adas Israel TEM, April
2010 Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Bmidbar, 6th
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, May 2010,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Ki Tavo 4th Aliyah, Zoo Minyan, August 2010,
Washington, DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat part of service, Ruach Minyan, August 2010,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Netzavim-Vayelech 2nd
Aliyah, Adas Israel Traditional
Egalitarian Minyan, September 2010, Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat HaAzinu 7th Aliyah and Maftir, Adas Israel
Synagogue, Traditional Egalitarian Minyan, September 2010,
Washington, DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv, Ruach Minyan, September 2010,
Washington, DC
Chanted Sukkot Shabbat CholHaMoed 4th
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM,
September 2010, Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Bereshit 5th
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, October 2010,
Wash., DC

10. Led Shabbat Maariv service, Ruach Minyan, October 2010, Washington,
DC
Chanted Parashat Noach 5th
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, October 2010,
Wash., DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat, Ruach Minyan, November 2010, Washington, DC
Chanted Vayishlach minchah 1st Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, November
2010, Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Vayishlach 1st
Aliyah, Zoo Minyan, November 2010,
Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Vayeshev 1st Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, November
2010, Wash., DC
Led Shabbat Maariv service, Zoo Minyan, December 2010, Washington,
DC
Chanted Parashat VaYigash 2nd
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, December
2010, Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Vayera 3rd
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, January 2011,
Washington, DC
Led Shabbat Maariv service, Ruach Minyan, January 2011, Washington,
DC
Chanted Parashat Mishpatim 4th
Aliyah, Adas Israel TEM, January 2011,
Wash., DC
Led Kiddush and Mezumin by invitation, Ruach Minyan, April 2011,
Washington, DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat, Ruach Minyan, May 2011, Washington, DC
Led Shabbat Maariv service, Ruach Minyan, June 2011, Washington, DC
Chanted for Rosh Chodesh, Adas Israel morning minyan, July 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted for Rosh Chodesh, Adas Israel morning minyan, August 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat VaEtchanan 1st
Aliyah, Adas Israel Shabbat Minchah

11. and Monday and Thursday morning daily minyan readings,
August 2011, Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat VaEtchanan 1st
Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, August 2011,
Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Shoftim 6th Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, September 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Ki Tavo 1st
Aliyah, Adas Israel Shabbat Minchah and
Monday morning and Thursday morning daily minyan readings,
September 2011, Wash., DC
Chanted Parashat Ki Tavo 1st Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, September 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Shmini Atzeret Aliyot 2-4, Tiffereth Israel, October 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Toldot 7th Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, November 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Miketz 6th Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, December 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Yayigash 4th Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, December 2011,
Washington, DC
Chanted Megilat Esther, Chapter 7, Tiffereth Israel, March 2012,
Washington, DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv, Silver Spring Egalitarian Minyan,
March 30, 2012
Chanted Shabbat Pesach days 1 and 8 #1, Tiffereth Israel, April 2012,
Washington, DC
Led Psukei D´Zimrah (Shabbat) service, Tiffereth Israel, 26 May 2012,
Washington, DC
Chanted Shavuot DayI 5th
Aliyah, Tiffereth Israel, Sunday, 27 May
2012, Washington, DC
Chanted for Rosh Chodesh, Tiffereth Israel, Sunday, August 2012,

12. Washington, DC
Chanted Parashat Bo, Aliyah Rishon, Ohr Kodesh, 17 January, 2013,
Chevy Chase, MD
Chanted Parashat Yitro Rishon, Ohr Kodesh, 28, 31 January, 2013,
Chevy Chase, MD
Chanted Parashat Yitro Rishon, Tiffereth Israel, 2 February, 2013,
Washington, DC
Chanted for Rosh Chodesh Chanukah, Women of the Wall service at
Adas Israel, Friday, 14 December 2012, and Monday, 11
February, 2013, Washington, DC
Chanted Megilat Esther, Ch. 7, Tiffereth Israel, 23,24 February 2013,
Washington, DC
Led Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv, Classic Residences, 29.3.2013,
Chevy Chase, MD
Chanted for Rosh Chodesh for Washington Women of the Wall, 11.4.13,
Tiffereth Israel
Led Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv, Silver Spring Egalitarian Minyan, 19
April, 2013
Chanted Parashat Emor Shlishi, Tiffereth Israel, 27 April, 2013,
Washington, DC
Led Shabbat Maariv service, Tiffereth Israel, 3 May 2013, Washington,
DC
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Founded The Adulthood Challenge, 2014, Joined Women´s Chevra
Kadisha of Greater Washington, DC January, 2013, Sang Negro
Freedom Spirituals, Sephardic ballads, Hebrew and Spanish songs:
Takoma Park Open Mic, Modern Times Cafe Open Mic, The DC
Center for GLBT Rights Open Mic and poetry performance nights:
2010-2012, SERVAS hostess, 2003-2005, Volunteer Receptionist

13. Latino Community Center, Nashua NH, Summer 2002, Exercise
and cleaning/care for horses, Nashua, NH and Puerto Morelos, MX,
Fencing, Weaving, Markland ‘Battle of Hastings’ Reenactor, Capitol
Area Food Bank Volunteer (1997), Civil Air Patrol, National Capital
Wing (cadet Lt. Colonel -1987, Bolling Cadet Squadron, Bolling
AFB) (1985-1989), Israel Scholarship: Council of the Great City
Schools (November, 1987), Tuskegee Summer Flight Scholarship:
Negro Airmen International (1986), passed FAA Written Exam for
Private Pilot (1986), Red Cross First Aid training (1986)