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Collaborate with three other Spanish-speaking staff members to deliver family outreach and culturally relevant bilingual instructional support in the classroom for approximately 150 students.Interpret and facilitate conferences, IEP meetings, student evaluations, and disciplinary proceedings.Serve on Family Engagement Action Team with school and community stakeholders, committee to plan and run annual Culture Fair, and Safety Committee. Create curriculum and deliver lessons in after school program and summer school.

Developed curriculum and taught intensive English course to Kogakuin University students visiting North Seattle College.

Seattle

Developed content strategy and timeline for research in collaboration with CEO and engineering team.Collaborated with software engineers to develop requirements for and test site database tools. Populated database with all world travel attractions, ranked within regions, with content such as activities.Participated in weekly design reviews and project planning as part of Agile team. Researched travel destinations and populated database, wrote site copy, maintained content calendar, wrote blog posts, and managed social media channels pre-launch through acquisition by Airbnb.Routinely tested software and site performance, filing bugs in Asana.Reviewed resumes, scheduled candidate interviews, reviewed notes and communicated outcomes to CEO.

Uw Intensive English Program, Ielp

Taught Reading 3 and Listening and Speaking 4 as a graduate TA. Independently taught a group of international students each quarter in the UW Intensive English Program. Developed course materials, lesson plans, quizzes, and assignments. Collaborated with other teachers to create and edit testing materials.

Directed a team of 39 staff members supervising several hundred high school students. Managed program logistics for two sessions of 600-800 students as part of four-person team. Planned and led arrival and departure transportation, improved scheduling for on-time departures. Met weekly with program directors to debrief and plan upcoming projects.

Stanford University

Led five counselors supervising two sessions of residential biosciences-themed camp. Created staff duty schedules and met weekly with Senior Residential Assistant to debrief.

Provided in-home math and reading tutoring to elementary and middle school students through a federally funded program for under-performing public schools. Tutored a range of subjects including Spanish, math, and writing to private clients through the same tutoring agency.

Remote

Translated loan profiles from Spanish and Portuguese to English for the Kiva site.

Led a team of six counselors in the Biosciences House of an academic, residential summer camp at Stanford University. Handled residential issues including recreational activities, field trips, and discipline. Assistant taught a biology-themed course.

Colima, Mexico

Assistant taught in the English language program of the Universidad de Colima alongside a mentor teacher. Led conversation classes. Prepared cultural presentations and activities relating to U.S. culture.

East Palo Alto, Ca

Worked as Americorps member in the Early College Program of a charter high school. Assistant taught Cañada College courses in a high school setting: prepared materials, offered classroom support, and provided after-school homework help.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages

Bachelor'S Degree, Spanish, Human Biology, 3.73

Earned a double major in Spanish and Human Biology, with a Human Biology Area of Concentration in "Language Development in Society.