Grant Writing Creation Art Center Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami Miami Beach Botanical Garden Miami Beach Cinematheque Miami Beach Sister Cities Program Miami Children’s Choir Miami Hispanic Ballet Miami World Theater Festival MIAMIntelligence The Miami Symphony Orchestra Peter London Global Dance Company

Translations (Corporate & Simultaneous) AARP Cadbury/Adams Cleveland Clinic ESPN Ford, Toyota, GM, Nissan, Acura Georgia Pacific Johnson & Johnson Navarro Pharmacy The Ad Council University of Miami/International Studies

Pola Reydburd, M.A., Educational Leadership and Administration, University of Alabama, 1983 B.A. with Honors, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 1966.

After many years as a Literature and Humanities teacher, Ms. Reydburd received an advanced degree in Education. She was Director of Development at the American School (Colegio Bolivar) in Cali, Colombia, and later became Director of Colegio Jefferson, another bilingual school in the city.

From 1984 -1988, Ms. Reydburd was Executive Director of B'nai B'rith International District 23 (Caribbean), a non-profit Jewish service organization based in Washington D.C. While occupying that position, she coordinated activities for 21 volunteer groups (1,600 members) in seven countries, led leadership training programs, organized an International Jewish New Year cards children’s art competition, coordinated Anti-Defamation League (ADL) offices in the region, and managed an Artists’ and Speakers’ Bureau.

After moving to Miami, she became the Executive Director of the Bakehouse Art Complex, where she administered a 60-studio rental facility, organized exhibitions, and established joint programs with cultural groups and social service agencies. From 1991- 1995, as Assistant to the Associate Dean of the University of Miami’s Graduate School of international Studies, Ms. Reydburd organized international conferences, supervised the Ph.D. examination process, and contributed an article to an anthology on drug trafficking.

Ms. Reydburd served on the Board of Directors of Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia (Cali, Colombia) from 1986 - 1989. Local community service has included the City of Miami Beach Hispanic Affairs Committee; Women’s Business Development Center at FIU; Daily Bread Food Bank; and City of Miami Commission on the Status of Women (Chairperson 1995-98). In February 2005, she completed a four-year term as the Chairperson of the Miami Beach Art in Public Places Committee.

In 2002, she started to get involved in market research. During this time, she has performed simultaneous translation (Spanish<->English) for over 1,500 focus groups, personal interviews, and ethnographic projects in a wide range of product and service categories. Her travels around the country (and around the world) are invaluable for understanding different accents and expressions, both in English and in Spanish.

For the past twenty years, she has been a freelance grant writer for cultural nonprofit organizations, partially listed above. The grants that Ms. Reydburd wrote have generated over two million dollars for dozens of cultural programs.

Ms. Reydburd travels extensively and has published chronicles of her trips. Recent “exotic” journeys have been to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, India, Morocco, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia and Vietnam. Her PowerPoint presentations about travel include “Markets along the Silk Road of Central Asia” and “Arts and Crafts of Central Asia.”

In 2010, Ms. Reydburd and her friend and colleague Claire Tomlin founded "A Greener Miami," a non-profit organization dedicated to environmental education and art-related programs. Special events sponsored by the organization are: "Music @ the Markets," a presentation of classical, ethnic, and jazz musicians in farmers' markets throughout Miami-Dade County which received a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge award; and "On the Road," journeys for small groups to visit private and public gardens and ecological and recycling programs in diverse locations in the United States as well as overseas (i.e., Colombia, Italy).

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