Virginia (Dina) Rubey

Dina Rubey is the Graduate Certificate Program Assistant and a first-year MS student at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

As an undergraduate she initiated a program that sustains undergraduate service learning opportunities in post-conflict northern Ghana in collaboration with  Wyatt MacGaffey, J.R. Coleman Professor Emeritus in Social Anthropology at Haverford College, and Susan Herlin, Professor Emerita in History and Pan African Studies at the University of Kentucky at Louisville. She facilitated theater workshops at the Municipal Library of Esteli, Nicaragua and was a Teaching Assistant to Leslie Dwyer, Ph.D. at Haverford College.

Dina studied restorative justice with  Barb Toews as an Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program  participant and went on to work with Resurrection After Exoneration (Innocence Project) founder John Thompson in New Orleans. Before coming to S-CAR, she directed the foreign language department at Joseph S. Clark High School in the Treme, where she was also a teacher in the inaugural "turnaround" year, when three Clark students earned international recognition for work they produced in her class. Dina received the Creative Connections Partner Teacher of Merit award in 2012 and 2013; she later taught at the immersion-based International School of Louisiana, where she was named a "highly effective teacher."

Dina completed new media training at Al Jazeera headquarters in Qatar in April 2010 as a Soliya Network Fellow and is published in various NewBay Media publications and international non-profit newsletters. She holds a conservatory degree in dramatic arts and awards from Slamdance Film Festival, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and others.