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
Certified Personal Trainer, American Council on Exercise, since December 2023
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