Credentials

This is an informal listing of most of JodiAnn Stevenson's occupational credentials, experience, and continuing education. For a formal, more complete overview, please see JodiAnn's current Curriculum Vitae.

Health Coaching

  • Certified Health Coach, American Council on Exercise, since January 2021
  • Health Fitness Specialist, Associate of Applied Science, Delta College, May 2018

Personal Training

  • Certified Personal Trainer, National Strength and Conditioning Association, since April 2018
  • Advanced Certificate in Personal Training, Delta College, May 2018

Fitness & Yoga Teaching

  • Certified Group Fitness Instructor, American Council on Exercise, since March 2013
  • ​Advanced Certificate in Teaching Group Fitness, Delta College, May 2018
  • ​200-hr Yoga Teacher Training, Funky Buddha Yoga Hothouse, August 2018

Critical Approaches to Health Training

  • Certified Intuitive Eating Lay Facilitator, Evelyn Tribole & Elise Resch's Original Intuitive Eating Pros, 2019
  • Size-Inclusive Training Specialist, Louise Green's Size Inclusive Training Academy, 2020
  • Inclusive Yoga Teaching, Dianne Bondy & Amber Karne's Yoga For All, 2021​

Speaking / Teaching/ Professional Training

  • Full-time English Instructor with experience  in a wide-range of cultural & classroom contexts, 1996-2019
  • ​Master's level Spoken Word Performance course, University of Michigan, Flint, Fall 2012
  • Exploring Diversity course, Delta College, Fall, 2008
  • Internet Teaching Techniques course, Delta College, Fall, 2005
  • Advanced Internet Teaching Techniques course, Delta College, Spring 2008
  • Teaching Learning Communities course, Fall, 2005
  • Regular Presenter at Conferences, since 2004
  • ​Performance Poet, since 1994
  • Feminist Anti-Violence Speaker, since 2009
  • Critical and Creative Approaches to Health Speaker & Trainer, since 2021

Writing

  • Bachelor of Arts in English Language & Literature, University of Michigan,  May 1997
  • Master of Arts in English with Creative Writing Emphasis, New Mexico State University, December 2001
  • Master of Fine Arts in Poetry, Goddard College, July 2004
  • Regularly publishing poet, since 1996
  • Regularly publishing storyteller and memoirist, since 2007
  • Semi-regular blogger, since 2008

Leading

  • Wellness Director, Grand Traverse Bay YMCA, June 2023-January 2024
  • Owner & manager, JodiAnn Stevenson Movement, since 2023
  • Owner & manager, Bad Dog Rebel Fitness & Yoga, 2020-2023
  • Owner & manager, Every Body Fitness & Yoga, 2018-2020
  • Owner & manager, Mermaid Fitness, since 2015
  • ​Ongoing community outreach manager for a wide variety of projects, Delta College, July 2005-June 2019
  • Founder & managing Editor, Binge Press, 2004-2016
  • Co-founder & co-manager, The Broken Nose Chapbook Collective, since 2012

Continuing Education in Progress

  • Current doctoral student, California Institute of Integral Studies, Transformative Studies, with research focus on the need for weight-neutrality in health & fitness spaces. Expected completion: May, 2026
  • Current trainee, ACE's Health Coach Advanced Study Program. Expected completion: May, 2024
  • Current participant, Be Nourished Body Trust Training Program. Expected completion: June, 2024

Professional Memberships

Association for Size Diversity and Health, since 2022
Body Positive Fitness Alliance, since 2023
​Fitness Professionals Against Weight Stigma, 2020-2021