Teaching Thursday nights!Gentle Flow 5:30-6:15Yin Yoga 6:30-7:15

Currently taking a pause - but back in 2025!

Committee position working with representatives from other County of Monterey departments to brainstorm and create wellness courses and classes to County employees. Writing a monthly article for the employee newsletter on wellness topics and working on developing a county wide wellness book club

As the Programs, Outreach and Youth Services Manager for Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL), I provide library services to over 200,000 individuals across 3,000 square miles via 16 branch libraries and 3 bookmobiles. I supervise two direct reports, oversee MCFL's Reading Machine vehicle (early literacy outreach), 10 Homework Centers, MCFL's social media platforms and 31 branchlets.My favorite duty is overseeing MCFL's virtual programming. I create and edit engaging, educational and fun video content for MCFL's YouTube Channel targeted at a variety of age levels. I also edit and produce video content created by other staff members and am in charge of posting video content to Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.I create system wide publicity and marketing for programs and services to be distributed both in person and virtually using Canva. Materials include flyers, brochures, and informational graphics and posts for social media.I conduct regular staff trainings both in person and virtually, connect interested organizations to our branches with the purpose of establishing program partnerships, and serve as the system selector for all youth materials, young adult materials and graphic novels.I actively help maintain MCFL's webpage event calendar, write and apply for system wide grants, and write promotional pieces on system wide initiatives and programs for various media outlets. I provide back-up to MCFL’s branches by acting as a substitute reference librarian, children’s librarian and storytime presenter and am currently filling in at the Seaside Library.As a supervisor, I use my belief in fairness towards all, as well as my compassionate, friendly and thoughtful personality, to create an open and fun working environment where staff feel appreciated, supported and able to express themselves and their ideas in a safe and welcoming environment.I work out of MCFL's administrative offices, and am often found on the road traveling up and down Monterey County.

Scheduled monthly meetings for SPLAMBA (School Public Library Association of the Monterey Bay Area), created agenda, facilitated discussion during meetings. Worked with committee to arrange annual workshop for March 2021.

As a Youth Services Librarian for Monterey Public Library, I served as the lead coordinator for programs and services targeted towards Kindergarten-5th graders. I worked with staff to plan and conduct the Summer Reading Program, as well as created and implemented the library’s first Winter Reading Program: developing the reading logs, purchasing prize books and creating all logistics for the program. This program had 1,000 participants in it's first year!I had a large role in outreach and was the lead coordinator in partnering with local schools and organizations to educate youth about the library. I served as back-up Bookmobile driver, driving to the vehicle's 8 stops every week for 3 months. I also drove to a local elementary school every other week for a year and a half to provide access to books after the school got rid of the school library.In house, I worked the Library Help Desk an average of 20 hours a week, providing general reference and readers’ advisory to patrons in person, over the phone and through email. I created and maintained displays for the youth area that included both passive programs, information about library events and showcased new and seasonal materials. I was responsible for creating all publicity materials for upcoming library programs including flyers, bookmarks, monthly press releases, monthly event calendars and social media posts. I selected and purchased materials for the library’s collection including children’s DVDs, children’s fiction, children’s graphic novels and children’s audiobooks.I served as the lead grant writer in an effort to purchase a new electric bookmobile for the library and also served as the Librarian In-Charge on a regular basis. In an attempt to help improve staff morale, I created and led the Party Planning Committee. This team created monthly events to help boost a sense of togetherness and good will among staff members.

My position as Children's Librarian (both Librarian I and II) at the San Mateo Public Library was very focused on program planning. I was the lead coordinator for major system wide programs: the Family Read Aloud Program (estimated 1,000 participants annually) and the Summer Learning Challenge (estimated 2,000 participants annually). Over 5 years I planned and presented approximately 1,040 storytimes, with between 75-100 participants per storytime. I also was the library’s Staff Liaison to the Latino Cultural Advisory Committee and planned and conducted programming geared towards, or related to, Latino patrons and/or the Latino Experience.I was responsible for the marketing aspect of program planning, developing all publicity materials for both the Children’s Department and the Latino Cultural Advisory Committee. I was an active member of the Social Media Team, creating and running the library’s Instagram account which amassed over 1,000 followers in its first year.My proudest accomplishment in this position was my work with tweens. I planned and conducted monthly programming for tweens for 4 years, equating to an average of 48 programs with 35-50 participants per program. I started a Tween Advisory Group and was featured in a School Library Journal article about tweens!I worked the Children’s Reference Desk daily providing general reference and readers' advisory to patrons. I filled in on all public reference desks and at SMPL’s two branches as needed. I selected and purchased materials for all areas of the library’s youth collection, as well as for the adult Spanish collection.I was a supervisor in my role as Librarian II and supervised one direct report, as well as the library's Teen Summer Learning Assistant volunteers - a group of 15-25 teens, and regularly served as acting in-charge manager.

In this role, I worked on-call at various libraries throughout the San Mateo County Library system. I worked the front desk providing customer service and circulation assistance to patrons.

In this part-time position, another aide and I created and led a week long science series for elementary school kids on Spring Break. Each program in the series was an hour long and the series ran for 5 days. Each program had 60-100 participants. I also filled in for storytimes as needed.My day-to-day job duties involved shelving library materials, merchandising and maintaining the general appearance of the library so that things were easy to find and aesthetically pleasing for patrons and staff, and filling in on the circulation desk when needed assisting library patrons with questions about their accounts and library materials.

My first job with "librarian" in the title! In this position I worked hours at the Downtown and Children's branches of the Palo Alto Public Library system. In both locations I worked the reference desk to assist patrons with reference needs in person, over the phone and through email. I helped other librarians with programs they were conducting and updated library handouts and flyers as needed.

Gaining a ton of storytime experience, in this position my sole responsibility was planning and conducting storytimes! I selected age appropriate materials and conducted storytimes for groups of children ages 2-5, as well as babies, three times a week. Participants at these storytimes ranged from 70-100 people per storytime.

This role helped me get a feel for what it is like to actually work at a library. While serving as an intern at the Willow Glen Branch Library I assisted with preschool and toddler/baby storytime twice a week, assisted patrons with using the self check machines as well as locating library materials and using the library catalog, conducted weekly one-on-one computer help sessions teaching patrons the basics of Yahoo, Microsoft Word and answering any questions they might have, assisted in weeding projects to help maintain the library’s collection of materials and maintained the general appearance of the library by tidying areas and arranging displays.

Assisted in-house editors with proofreading and citation research for submitted manuscripts.

While completing a minor in Education at UC Davis, I interned in an ESL English classroom at Davis Senior High School. I worked with small groups of students ages 15-18 on understanding and performing Shakespeare’s “King Lear”. I worked with individuals on understanding the depths and complexities of Shakespeare and worked with students one-on-one to improve writing skills and learn proper essay formatting and formal writing procedures. In addition, I encouraged students as they worked towards performing a short scene from “King Lear” in front of a live audience.Please note, the exact dates of this internship might be off, but it was during my junior year at UC Davis.