Northwest Regional Director of Development Canine Companions for Independence, Santa Rosa California, 2007-2010

• Implemented and managed development of fundraising for $1.9 million northwest regional budget, which include Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Northern Nevada, Montana and Alaska
• Maintained a proactive, creative leadership role in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of annual, capital and major gifts from individual, corporate and foundation sources, including major grant, research, development and reporting
• Coordinated donor patron receptions, multi–state annual fundraising events such as galas and auctions and other cultivation/stewardship activities in collaboration with staff and volunteers
• Oversaw regional direct mail appeals, newsletters, marketing and communications including a calendar of press releases, announcements, annual reports, e–newsletters and presentations
• Developed and maintained close working relationships with the philanthropic community, individual and corporate donors, sponsors, board members and volunteers
• Created new national program entitled “The Mitzvah Project,” an outreach and fundraising initiative directed toward the greater Jewish community

Executive Director, Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County, 2006-2007

• Developed and implemented $600,000 agency budget
• Wrote all grants and subvention requests and enacted all donor solicitations
• Oversaw daily operations, human resources, and staffing issues
• Guided marketing committee in creation and implementation of marketing plan
• Developed strategic plan, fundraising plan and governance policy in collaboration with Board
• Partnered with executive committee to create new and augment existing programs

Director of Development and Communications, MesArt.com. San Francisco, California, 2002-2006

• Oversaw daily operations of an Internet-based visual arts Web hosting company, including advertising, marketing, design, and client development and support
• Prepared and implemented annual budgets which grew from $50,000 to $500,000 in conjunction with company founders
• Grew client base from 200 to 2,000 artists and gallery owners
• Spearheaded partnership-building to position MesArt as top-ranked Web hosting company
• Co-created and implemented business and marketing plan
• Authored all website content

Assistant Executive Director, Artship Foundation, Oakland California, 2000-2002

• Collaborated with Executive Director and Treasurer to prepare annual budgets, which increased from $200,000 to $2,000,000 during my tenure
• Partnered with Executive Director in creating strategic plan and writing all grants
• Served as team member in preparation of long-range facility plan
• Supervised Program Directors and Facilities Manager
• Established twenty-five partnered relationships with for-profit and nonprofit companies
• Supported development and implementation of fundraising and marketing strategies

Program Director, Artship Foundation, Oakland California, 1996-2000

• Directed department heads, oversaw staffing and organized volunteers
• Created new programs for art exhibitions, lectures, poetry readings and dance/theater performances
• Wrote program and project support grants and created yearly program budgets

Founding Partner, Harris   Company, Executive Search, Chicago, Illinois/San Francisco California, 1988-1996

• Conducted executive search consulting for the insurance industry
• Grew annual revenue from $50,000 to $200,000 with a client base of one hundred and fifty small and mid cap companies
• Co-created and implemented strategic business and marketing plan

Adjunct Faculty, Sonoma State University, 2007

• Perspectives on the Holocaust and Genocide

Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

• Poetry of the Sacred: Rumi, Moses De Leon, Dante Alighieri

Faculty, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley California, 2002-2006

• Zohar: The Essence of Jewish Mysticism
• The History of Jewish Mysticism
• The Great Kabbalists: Abraham Abulafia, Moses de Leon, Isaac Luria
• Shabbatai Tzvi: The Mystical Messiah & Jewish Messianism
• Sigmund Freud and The Jewish Mystical Tradition
• Darkness and Light: A Modern Psychology of Kabbalah
• Anti–Prophets in Jewish Interpretation Today: Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt
• Who was “J,” The First Author of The Hebrew Bible?
• The Golem: The Artificial Anthropoid in Jewish History
• Demons, Golems and Dybbuks: Monsters of the Jewish Imagination
• Shakespeare and Kabbalah: The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
• On the Edge of Literary Art, God and Culture: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes
• Franz Kafka: Exemplary Jewish Writer
• The Golden Age of Spanish–Jewish Poetry: Samuel Nagid, Solomon ibn Gabirol, Moses ibn Ezra, Abraham ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi
• Jewish Men and Women of the French Resistance
• Mystical Anti–Semitism: The Myth of Satan

Adjunct Faculty, College of the Holy Names, Oakland California, 1995-1996

• Advanced Conversational English, Department of English as a Second Language
• Level II & Level III: English Grammar and Composition, Department of English as a Second Language

M. Div. The University of Chicago

• The History and Hermeneutics of Religion
• Certifying Examinations in Western Religious Tradition and Religion in the Modern World: (A) Sacred Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, (B) Post-Canonical Periods to the Sixteenth Century, (C) Sixteenth to 20^th century
• Dissertation: “Kabbalah by Writing in Moses de Leon, Gershom Scholem and Harold Bloom.”
• Committee: Dr. Paul Ricoeur, Dr. David Tracy, Dr. Beth Ash, Dr. Lynn Poland

B. A The University of Denver

• Majors in Philosophy, Religious Studies and English with a minor in Jewish Studies, Magna Cum Laude; Golden Key National Honor Society, The Hornbeck Scholar Award
• Academic Adviser: Dr. Carl Raschke

High School Diploma, Suffield Academy

• C. W. Austin Language Prize: French

Poetry

• Nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize for “Orchard” published in Unio Mystica, poems by Daniel Y. Harris, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009.
• Nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize for “I” published in The Blue Jew Yorker.

Poetry

Hyperlinks of Anxiety, Cervena Barva Press, (forthcoming) 2012

Anthologies

Views from the Middle of the Road IV, Compiled by Lucinda Clark, 2009
A Poet’s Haggadah, Passover Through The Eyes of Poets, Edited by Rick Lupert, 2008

Poetry

Unio Mystica, Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009

Experimental Writing

Paul Celan and the Messiah’s Broken Levered Tongue, co-authored with Adam Shechter, Cervena Barva Press, (forthcoming) 2010

Academic

• Jews in the French Resistance (In Process)
• Literature and Kabbalah: The Connectivity (In Process)

• Editorial Committee, Reelcontent.org, 2008 and current

• Associate Editor, The Blue Jew Yorker, 2009-2010
• Director of Research and Development, Mad Hatters’ Review, 2007-2008
• Poetry Editor, Muse Apprentice Guild, 2005-2006
• Poetry and Essay Editor, MesArt.com, 2002-2005
• Poetry & Essay Editor, Tea Party Magazine, 1999-2002

• National Association of Temple Administrators
• Jewish Community Center Association of North America
• Modern Language Association
• The United Poets Coalition, Regional Coordinator of Poets 4 Peace

• “Israel Solidarity–A Humanitarian Gathering.” Master of Ceremonies, The Friedman Event Center, Santa Rosa, CA, 2006
• “Emergency Humanitarian Gathering in Solidarity with the People and State of Israel.” Speaker, Congregation B’nai Israel, Petaluma CA, 2006
• “Divine Images: Community Artist Encounter The Second Commandment.” Panelist, The Jewish Community Library, Bureau of Jewish Education, San Francisco CA, 2004

• “Executive Director’s Conference,” The Jewish Community Center Association of North America, New Orleans, LA, 2007
• “JCCA Biennial 2006,” The Jewish Community Center Association of North America, Philadelphia, PA, 2006
• “Getting to the Core Conference,” The Jewish Community Federation, Temple Isaiah, Lafayette CA, 2005

Administration

Canine Companions for Independence

• “Paws for a mitzvah: Teens jump-start program to benefit assistance dog nonprofit.” J. The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California (Charitable Giving Supplement), Volume 113, Number 45, November 13, 2009. Also available online at JWeekly.com
• “Exceptional Dogs for Exceptional People.” The Seattle Mariners Magazine, September 2008
• “Canine Companions takes over San Francisco hearing program.” The North Bay Business Journal, Volume 22, Number 22. August 25th, 2008

The Jewish Community Center, Sonoma County

• “Sonoma County JCC up and running, even without a building,” J. The Jewish News Weekly, June 30th, 2006

Lectures

• “Book ’em: Contra Costa Jewish fest spotlights locals,” J. The Jewish News Weekly, October 23rd, 2005

Culture and The Arts

• “Dysfunctional public arts,” The Oakland Tribute, October 4th, 1998

Journals, Reviews, Books and Websites

• New Hope International Review, July 2008
  A citation of a review of Poetry Salzburg Review #11
  “The poetry here is also very varied in terms of form. There are a significant number of poems that experiment with language in ways that move beyond mere experimentation to actually add to the subject matter. Examples include Daniel Y Harris' THE LAMENT OF DAVAR.” –Juliet Wilson, Reviewer.
• Emerging Writers Network, November 7th, 2007
  A citation of a review of Mad Hatters’ Review, #7
  “…a really nice review of the 7th issue of Mad Hatter's Review – pretty cool seeing one online journal hyping another, and I think Daniel Y. Harris gets it right, Carol Novack is doing some wonderful things in using all the internet has to offer to create a truly wonderful journal.” –Dan Wickett, Reviewer.
• Laurahird.com, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “Other poems include Daniel Y. Harris’ bittersweet threnody The Bone.” –Peter Tennant, Reviewer.
• Dogmatica, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “Its name is German (translation: being and becoming), the cover a brick wall (recalling those wonderful gritty New Wave band photos) and very early on it boasts these lines by Daniel Y Harris –– “carved like a pas de deux on a patch / of rib–work without nerves” –– which nails what Sein und Werden are about: raw, eclectic, experimental writing with a dash of art thrown into the mix.” –Susan Tomaselli, Reviewer.
• Whispers of Wickedness, 2007
  A citation of a review of Sein Und Werden, Volume 1, Issue #2, Doppelganger, 2006
  “There’s poetry aplenty, again, always inventive, all of it immediate and a good deal of it raw and brutal. My favourites are Bone by Daniel Y Harris, which is a single, beautifully visceral sentence in which image builds on image in a cry that led me (poetry is always subjective!) through a complaint of disappointed love to its tragic conclusion.” –Terry Grimwood, Reviewer.
• Echoes in Exile, Sheema Kalbasi, 2006