Darin Ow-Wing is the Executive Director of Community Educational Services, a nonprofit youth development agency based in San Francisco's Chinatown. He joined CES as a volunteer in 1981 while majoring in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, and became Executive Director in 1995. He is currently working on projects to increase youth voice in school reform, develop young community leaders through a youth-run community radio program, and to build a citywide, multicultural collaboration of employment based youth development programs. Darin is Chairperson of Mayor's Youth Employment & Education Program and Chairperson of the Chinatown Beacon Center. He is a recipient of a 1996 Daniel E. Koshland Civic Unity Award and was a member of the 1998 class of Leadership San Francisco. Darin was also a charter member of the Board of Directors of the Community Network for Youth Development in San Francisco. Currently, Darin is an active member of the San Francisco Summer Jobs Working Group, which is seeking to establish a permanent year-round jobs program for San Francisco youth.




  

James once began each day by singing "The Star Spangled Banner". That was protocol at Francis Scott Key Grammar School in the Sunset where he learned to add, subtract and multiply without aid of a calculator or Excel. Mathematics was fun. With a B.A. in International Relations, James taught middle school math and then took off for Europe, acting in films and roaming the continent. Next stop, Oahu, earning an M.F.A. in Playwriting, acting as Associate Dean of Community Services and managing the University of Hawaii theatre on the Leeward campus. Combining fiscal skills with theatre expertise, James co-founded a classical theatre center in Spring Green, Wisconsin. And as chief financial officer at Playwrights Horizons in Manhattan, he co-produced new works off-and-on-Broadway. James now begins his day with a simple chorus of "Here Comes the Sun".



ACT ONE Program
The ACT ONE Program is undergoing a staff transition. For now, please direct all questions to Ben Wong at benwong@cessf.org

MYEEP/ELL Program

  
Joyce started her work at CES as our English Literacy & Lifeskills (ELL) Program Coordinator. In conjunction with the ELL Program, she also coordinates the MYEEP program at CES. A San Francisco native, Joyce began her career early in high school where she began working as a tutor to elementary school students. Joyce also has served as an English tutor at the City College of San Francisco. While completing her B.A. degree in English at UCLA, she taught afterschool writing courses in Los Angeles area schools.

  

Raymond has been involved with MYEEP for the last four years. Currently as a first-year student at the City College of San Francisco, Raymond began with CES as a MYEEP youth worker. Following his two years as a participant, Raymond moved on to become a Counselor In Training for CES, and a CIT Project Coordinator with the MYEEP central office. He currently works with CES as the MYEEP Program Assistant.



REAL Program

  

BA, Comparative Literature with Distinction, The Colorado College MA, Language, Literacy and Culture, Stanford University Teaching Credential, University of San Francisco Asha has extensive experience in teaching, curriculum development, project coordination, evaluation and grant writing. She taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in Colorado and in Chile and Spanish-bilingual Special Education classes in San Francisco. She has co-written two ESL textbooks. Through her work at educational software company named Academic Systems, she developed pre-algebra curriculum for the Los Angeles Unified School District and remedial writing curriculum for community colleges around the nation. After her time here, she coordinated a Healthy Start program (which included an after school program, parent center, and health services) in San Francisco before becoming a Healthy Start evaluator and grantwriter by joining an educational consulting company.