Author Archives: Karen Bernstein

Karen joined the Harry Potter Alliance staff in 2008 in the then-brand-new position of Chapter Coordinator. After 2.5 years with chapters (who rock), she stepped down to focus on her work on the Senior Staff. Karen is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill where she studied Broadcast Journalism, Drama, Creative Writing (go Tar Heels!). She is a 2010 Teach For America Corps member currently teaching 8th Grade Social Studies in St. Louis.

One Day…

Karen Bernstein talks about her career as a Middle School teacher, and how it has been in influenced by The West Wing’s C.J> Cregg.

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Intro to Week 4 – Stress Management

This week, we are going to take a good look at the role that stress plays in our lives – and how we can make sure that we manage it so that we can continue to feel accomplished, and continue loving our lives the way we’ve worked so hard this month to do.

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Carpe Futurum wins the Chapter Cup!

written by Danielle Gillen. Congratulations to Carpe Futurum, our Accio Books 2010 Chapter Cup Winner! Carpe Futurum collected a total of 2,542 books, 48 of which were Harry Potter books. These books came from members’ private collections, thrift store and library sale purchases, as well as donations from family, friends, co-workers, and classmates.

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Help the HPA in the $5,000 GoodSearch Giveaway!

Donate to the Harry Potter Alliance for FREE by downloading our Goodsearch Toolbar! Starting at 9am EST today, GoodSearch (a search engine powered by Yahoo) will donate a $1 for every toolbar that is downloaded between April 6th (TODAY!) and April 9th at 9am EST up to $5,000!! Please download the toolbar right now by [...]

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Local Accio Books Drives

This post was written by Danielle. To celebrate Accio Books, chapters are doing some incredible things, including hosting book drives, benefit concerts, and parties. Here are a few of the events taking place this month: Accio Books Party! Hosted by: Dumbledore’s Army of Delaware County When: Saturday March 27, 11am-2pm Where: Helen Kate Furness Library, [...]

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Accio Books! with Chapters

Before I started writing this post, I poked over at the Common Room to see what was going on in the House groups. All I can say is WOW – how cool to see so many people excited about donating books! While all of you are competing against other houses, our HPA chapters are ALSO [...]

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The HPA Is Helping Haiti Heal

Harry Potter fans have joined with members of fandoms from other popular books, movies, and tv series (including Heroes, Lost, True Blood, The Wire and Firefly) to create Helping Haiti Heal, a home-grown effort to contribute to the growing humanitarian aid and charitable relief activities in Haiti. This Saturday, January 23rd, at 2 P.M. EST, HPA’s Potterwatch, PotterCast, MuggleCast, Hogwarts [...]

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"Light Through Darkness" Available in iTunes

Last week’s episode of Potterwatch, “Light Through Darkness” is now available for download on our iTunes feed. If you missed the show last night, or just want to listen again, the podcast is a great way to listen again. We covered a lot in last night’s show, including….

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Livestream on Wednesday at 8:30PM EST

Join us for our first show of 2010 this Wednesday! Throughout this year, we’ll have a live Potterwatch every other Wednesday at 8:30pm EST. We kick off this week by continuing our discussion about stress management and Breaking Out of the Muggle Mindset. We’ll also have a Pledge2Protect update and some news about another new [...]

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Day #3 – Processing Time

Welcome to Day #3 of Breaking Out of the (stressful) Muggle Mindset! Karen here, the HPA’s Chapter Coordinator and your partner in trying to get life a little  bit less stressed in December. Before I launch into today’s tips, a quick reminder that we’ll be on Livestream tonight at 8:30pm EST talking about the muggle [...]

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