Jeanette Shelburne






JeanetteShelburne

Jeanette brings over 30 years of professional experience and education to her classes. After graduating from UCLA, she began her career by teaching Dance, Gymnastics and Yoga for 7 years at Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake) in Los Angeles.

Next, Jeanette became a professional writer, writing for several popular animated children's television shows (MGM Animation, Nelvana), penning feature film scripts (Ames Communications) and designing educational interactive programs (Fox New Media, Universal New Media, Tir Na Nog Designs, The Brighter Child Series). She is currently a member of the Writers Guild of America.

Jeanette taught 12 years for LAUSD, Division of Adult and Career Education where she also served as a Faculty Advisor. Her classes have been featured in numerous newspaper articles (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Daily News) and cable TV ("Aging in LA"). She has also been a featured speaker at numerous professional conferences (LAUSD, West Hollywood Book Fair, California Writers Conference, Southern California Genealogy Conference).

After Jeanette stopped teaching due to the pandemic, she focused on writing and has had her work published in Perceptions Magazine, El Portal Literary Journal, Brief Wilderness-Shoe Music Press, Brushfire, The Courtship of Winds, Avotaynu Magazine, On the Bus 25, and Side-Eye on the Apocalypse (LA Poets & Writers Collective). She is currently writing a novel.




For more information: email   jeanette@jeanetteshelburne.com

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