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Denver Metropolitan Area

• Conduct nutrition consults in English and Spanish with YMCA members, including personalized assessment and intervention, and utilizing motivational interviewing techniques and medical nutrition therapy as needed, to.
• Conducted free sessions with prospective clients to discuss potential benefits of nutrition counseling, resulting in a 92% conversion rate to paying clients
• Engage with members and staff at monthly lobbying events
• Serve as point of communication for all nutrition programming Downtown Denver YMCA
• Communicate with and provide interpretation for Spanish-speaking members and participants of food security programs
• Design curriculum, develop SOP, and deliver weekly youth-focused nutrition enrichment activities to up to 165 children from low-income families attending after-school programs

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Research Assistant in the Systems Thinking for Obesity Prevention Lab
• Leading a team in the data cleaning and analysis of a dataset of over 3,000 participants to study the effect of menu labeling on ordering behavior
• Serve as co-investigator in a project studying food insecurity among middle-income residents of a rural mountain community in Central Colorado who are not eligible for federal food assistance programs
• Analyzed dataset of 1,500 participants' restaurant ordering behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic and drafting manuscript of descriptive results
• Developed Stata code to replace missing values for key variables using multiple imputation methods
• Conducted baseline and follow-up audits of 25 restaurants in Longmont and Westminster, CO to assess the beverages available on kids’ menus before and after the implementation of a healthy beverage policy. Provided.

• Mapleton Public Schools Nutrition Services (Adams County, CO): 300 hours-Assisted kitchen managers in food production, tray line service, and personnel management-Completed audits of the Afterschool Snack Program in.
• Weld County WIC (Evans, CO): 300 hours-Utilized motivational interviewing techniques to counsel up to 11 high-risk participants per day during 3 weeks of staff relief with limited supervision-Conducted staff training.
• Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (Aurora, CO): 400 hours-Facilitated weight management classes for up to 20 veterans: in-person, telephone, and video modalities-Co-taught cooking class for female veterans.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Teaching Assistant for: Nutrition through the Lifecycle (fall 2019, 2020), Nutrition Assessment (spring 2020, 2021), Integrative Nutrition and Metabolism (fall 2021), and Nutrition Teaching and Counseling Techniques.
• Manage course page on Canvas
• Grade assignments and provide constructive feedback to enhance student understanding of the course material
• Develop quiz questions and materials for dietary assessment project
• Develop case study assignments and facilitate in-class discussions
• Assist students one-on-one during office hours

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

• Research Assistant in the Health Behaviors Lab
• Assisted with participant study recruitment and materials
• Collected anthropometric, survey, and food photography data at health fairs
• Data entry and management in RedCAP
• Analyzed survey data collected in intervention targeting rural parents of preschool-aged children
• Developed intervention materials including workshop handouts for participants in InDesign

Greater Denver Area

• Tutored undergraduate chemistry, biology, anatomy, and physiology

Greater Denver Area

• Worked in organic chemistry laboratory to modify and finalize content for organic chemistry courses
• Employed peer mentoring strategies and served as group leader during organic chemistry classes
• Utilized laboratory techniques including reflux and distillation and instruments including infrared spectrometer and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscope

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Compile database of development and environmental indicators at the municipio level for Central American countries (with an emphasis on Nicaragua) for future analysis of the effects of climate change on seasonal food.
• Conduct literature reviews and write blog posts about issues relevant to climate change, coffee production, and health and food security of coffee farmers
• Field work: conduct surveys in the Matagalpa and Jinotega departments of Nicaragua
• Analyze survey data
• Draft policy briefs

Denver, Colorado

• Same responsibilities as Economist I (see below), as well as:
• Project management activities including client communication and team organization
• Contribute to reports, manuscripts, and proposals

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

• Member of the Public Health Economics Program
• Conduct literature reviews
• Prepare documents for publication, presentation, and proposals
• Code in statistical software, including Stata and SAS, to create analytic data files, manage datasets, and analyze data (through descriptive statistics, model verification, and a variety of regression analyses)
• Conduct cost effectiveness analyses and policy/program evaluations
• Build and analyze economic and epidemiological models

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

• Managed a database in Microsoft Excel of more than 5,000 students for the largest student-run organization on campus
• Communicated and worked closely with members of the Athletic Department and other student directors of Carolina Fever
• Delegated tasks to committee members

Chapel Hill, NC

• Organized phone banks for a variety of Democratic candidates, including Virginia governor Terry McAuliff
• Contacted local politicians for club events
• Helped coordinate activities for the biannual Proud to Be a Democrat Week

Chapel Hill, NC

• Planned fundraising events, such as bake sales, and coordinated volunteers
• Solicited donors through letter writing campaigns

Blacksburg, VA

• Employee of Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
• Experience with equine, camelid, and food animal care

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Nutrition, 4.00/4.00

•Thesis: The Role of Parenting Practices in Preschoolers' Screen Time, Sedentary Time, and Physical Activity in Rural Colorado •Developed.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science, Economics, 3.88/4.00

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Carolina Fever, Young Democrats, Habitat for Humanity•Completed all graduation requirements in.

Education record

•Completed two courses instructed in Spanish by local professors