Hi! My name is Dena Rosko. I want to network with colleagues and share my vocation with you.

Vision

I seek to live by my calling: to connect with people and to share creativity to encourage and to heal persons and organizations experiencing loss.

Mission

I seek to invest in this calling by refining and consistently demonstrating core competencies in creative nonfiction writing, autoethnographic research, editorial and event photography, and communication and organizational leadership studies.

Perspective

I view the world as interconnected where each person's life influences another's. I base this social identity on my faith, which supports and encourages me to live my life with the end in mind. I want to leave a legacy where I plant a seed of encouragement in each person with whom I interact. This supportive leadership can benefit organizations that want to draft and pursue a shared vision where each team member participates and contributes to a shared vision and mission.

Faith

I value virtues: faith, hope, and love. My grandma influenced me with these virtues, where I learn that faith, hope, and love do indeed last. I rely on my faith and heritage to guide my decisions. Love especially mediates all other virtues, and provides the best motivation for my work.

My faith reminds me that my vocation comes from a deeper and centered place. Though faith can be taboo to discuss in the working world, I regard my social identity as dynamic. I try to resist separating "personal" from "professional." I prefer to live life as a vocation based on my faith, identity, and relationships. I rely on my faith to devote myself to tasks, to grow, and to love people. I love, I live, I grow!

Vocation

Vocation calls me to grow mind, body, and soul and to share creative gifts for a lasting social purpose see (1 Timothy 4.14-16). Vocation informs my decisions to write, photograph, communicate, and to lead. I seek to heal and to encourage persons and organizations experiencing loss. Though I view myself as a deeply spiritual person, I strive to show respect and appreciate others in light of their background and worldview. I learn from people by building rapport through dialogue and empathetic understanding.

Family Life

A long line of opinionated, intelligent, and caring women, including my late 86-year-old Grandma, have mentored me over the years. From Grandma I learn spiritual leadership principles such as staying one's course with trust in God, with love for Jesus and people, with hope in adversity, and with a bit of practical advice and good humor.

I desire to love Jesus with my life and to live by a vocation in the classic sense. I am married to James, who holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Washington. I appreciate that James speaks supportive and positive influence into my life by envisioning a bright future for us and by standing on his principles. Besides being handsome, he has a stellar work ethic and dynamic experience in both the sciences and creative arts.

Recreation

For recreation I enjoy reading, writing, watching classic movies, tea dates and dinners with friends, roadtrips to beautiful places with James, listening to music, photographing people, places, and things, facebooking, microblogging, and blogging, meeting new people and reconnecting with ones I already know, learning what's new, researching, playing with our niece, drinking a hot cup of loose leaf tea, walking near water, and watching sunrises and sunsets.

For More Information

Be free to visit the Write, Photograph, Communicate and Lead, and Research pages of this site to learn more about my work. Resume available upon request. Do Contact Me if interested in partnering with me in my pursuits. I'm a member of Editorial Photographers, Society for Applied Anthropology, and Challenging HateThank you for visiting me at DenaRosko.com!