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San Francisco, CA, US

• Administer all facets of organizational advising structure for 1400 undergraduate business students, including organizing all advising events, developing materials, and assisting students on course selection, adherence.
• Troubleshoot and resolve student academic and registration issues, and contact schools, colleges, and/or other departments to advocate on students' behalf.
• Meet with all incoming transfer students to evaluate transfer business courses and develop graduation plans, and coordinate with faculty on evaluating business courses for transfer credit.
• Point of contact for advising and general curriculum questions and inquiries from prospective students, parents, counselors, and USF colleagues.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Provided general academic advising and monitored progress toward graduation for 600+ students.
• Reviewed and evaluated transfer credits, planned first and second semester schedules, created graduation plans, and advised 200+ new transfer business students each academic year.
• Worked closely with student athletes and coaching staffs to meet progress toward degree benchmarks and on-time graduation.
• Taught multiple courses and held orientations for first semester students.
• Assessed needs and referred students to campus support services and program departments.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Developed lectures and coursework that integrated economic principles with current events and policy for introductory economics courses.
• Advised business program students on course selection and degree tracts.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Created lectures and coursework for online and traditional economics courses.
• Collected and analyzed data on the student learning outcome assessment process and produced reports that evaluated success rates in accordance with current policy and potential changes in that policy.
• Represented the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Faculty Council in which we discussed current academic standards and procedures and implemented new programs school wide.
• Advised for Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
• Coordinated and managed adjunct instructors as well as led selection of academic materials and tests.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Tutored student-athletes in economics courses of various levels.
• Prepared student-athletes for the rigors of academics by providing clinics on writing, test preparation, and project completion.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Advised students on course schedules that aligned with their academic goals and requirements.
• Led and organized orientation for all new transfer students.
• Created curriculum planners for students to show progress toward graduation.

Guatemala

• Led project evaluation of a child sponsorship program.
• Developed and translated surveys and collected data on 470 households in 5 Guatemalan villages for a total of 2160 observations.
• Hired and trained enumerators and monitored for accurate data collection and sufficient sample sizes.
• Inputted and analyzed data; later used in “Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes.”

Master Of Arts (M.A.), International And Development Economics

Thesis: The Impact of Formal Schooling on Migration and Employment Opportunities in Rural Guatemala

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, Honors

Minor: Latin American and Latino Studies