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Tacoma, Wa, Us

Tacoma, Wa, Us

Sexual Assault Prevention Coordinatorwho focuses on supporting communities through conversations about consent, boundaries, community care, relationships, bystander intervention and more.Well versed in Event Planning, Marketing, Outreach, and Curriculum Development.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

-Communicated with and supported clients of the Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy (SAVA) Center through a front desk phone and in person.-Attended trainings that focused on how to support people with subordinated identities such as; Indigenous survivors, LGBTQ+ survivors, and survivors with intellectual and developmental disabilities. -Answered the front desk phone and responded to questions about SAVA from clients. -Trained Sexual Assault Resource Team (SART) peers on how to conduct SART presentations.-Supported SART peers during their presentations about sexual violence prevention.-Facilitated presentations for people with intellectual and development disabilities (IDD) that focused on consent, boundaries, safe and unsafe touching, private body parts, and healthy and unhealthy relationships. -Adapted IDD presentations to be more inclusive of people with different gender, sexual, racial and disability identities. -Corresponded with local Fort Collins businesses to obtain food, alcohol and travel donations for SAVA’s annual Soiree.-Attended weekly and bi-weekly Cultural Humility Committee (CHC) meetings to assess SAVA staff member’s readiness to address and implement intersectionality in the center, as well as make recommendations on how to make services more inclusive. -Received training as a Rape Crisis Hotline advocate and worked two hotline shifts per month.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

-Communicated with students, staff, requestors and facilitators about upcoming Safe Zone and Visible Voices trainings through Outlook. -Facilitated student and staff Safe Zones that focused on reducing homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism at CSU. -Prepared and organized Safe Zone boxes which included; pre and post assessment forms, self-work forms, facilitator feedback forms, commitment statement form, Safe Zone stickers, and candy and writing utensils for participants.-Encouraged participants of Safe Zone to reflect on their participation in the gender and sexual binary. -Provided support to fellow Pride staff members in setting up and breaking down for larger Pride events. -Shared experiences as a queer and trans person with attendees of Visible Voices panels in order to challenge audience’s perceptions of queer people.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

-Facilitated weekly trainings on topics such as; sexual assault, stalking, healthy relationships, interpersonal violence, consent, etc. -Collaborated weekly with nine other Red Whistle Brigade members to work on peer education projects that focused on consent, sexual violence prevention relationships and more. -Coordinated with six other student staff members to plan and decorate a physical event space for the Feminist Thought and Activism Conference. -Demonstrated strong organization skills by planning and executing presentations that encouraged dialogue and participation. -Attended monthly development trainings about Title IX as well as how to support Indigenous survivors, Black survivors.-Presented on abortion rights for queer and trans people at the Feminist Thought and Activism Conference.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

-Organized and planned a seven-day trip for seven participants to Santa Catalina Island in California. -Budgeted for trip food, lodging, activity and transportation expenses.-Collaborated with a trip co-leader to plan weekly meetings and trip details. -Developed detailed trip itineraries and participant packets.

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Work

Bachelors in Social Work Minor in Women and Gender Studies and French

Bachelor'S Degree, Social Work

Activities and Societies: -Member in CSU acapella group the "Resonant Ramblings" -Student site leader through the CSU "Alternative Spring.