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Berkeley, California, United States

operations at venues and festivals. Gate design, access, crowd flow, credentials, various site tasks, community engagement, very light copy editing, some spreadsheet work, development of security documents, staff training materials, safety & security research, asset ordering and placement, site design, shuttle program coordination, light number crunching

Berkeley, California, United States

Manage House at all the APE venues. 2021 Outside Lands: COVID Operations 2021 Life is Beautiful: COVID Operations2022 Outside Lands: Gate Operations2022 Life is Beautiful: Gate Operations

Berkeley, California, United States

Alameda, California, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Collect and organize data on CARES Act distribution from local organizers across the country. Create Powerpoints and Google Data Studio reports to successfully lobby for venue specific CARES act funding and the inclusion of the Save Our Stage bill in the second stimulus package.

Chicago, IL

-Work directly with coaches and principals to create and sustain academic debate teams at 12 Chicago Public Schools.-Communicate with coaches, contracted staff, vendors, school personnel,and the CPS central office to execute timely, organized, debate tournaments servicing between 50-300 students twice a month at locations around the city. -Served as.

Chicago, Illinois

Created a unique position within a Chicago Public high school to reinvigorate the library by adding new books, student artwork, activity stations, and new computers. Assist around 50 students a day with schoolwork, credit recovery, college apps, and any extracurricular pursuit. Work directly with teachers to support English curriculum, host math.

Tutored 14 students in Algebra I throughout a 7 period day. Individualized student instruction and maintained communication with teachers, school administrators, and parents to ensure students success. Improved students’ grades, test scores, and confidence in mathematics. Majority of the students exceeded the benchmark goal.

Greater Chicago Area

Main assistant to the programming director at a classic Chicago venue. Assist in all creative and managerial aspects of executing an event show, from talent booking, to managing schedules, to preparing marketing plans and sponsorships. An intimate knowledge of the Chicago music community is needed to effectively support the programming director.

Chicago Il

Evanston, Illinois

Responsible for receiving, shelving, selling, and stocking books. Completely updated store's website using the built in system.

Evanston, IL

As the Co-Director of the Rock Show I am in charge of running the Rock Show on WNUR, one of the country's last student run independent college radio stations. The Rock Show is on from 2pm-9pm every weekday. In addition to monitoring these DJ's and adding new music to the library, I run weekly meetings, post to social media, reach out to local businesses.

Evanston, Illinois

Responsible for paging materials for patrons, adding new materials to the collection, shelving and organizing archival materials, and completing any special tasks assigned by the librarians.

Chicago

One of six summer interns for the Live Nation Chicago offices. In addition to assisting with social media marketing the summer interns have the opportunity to book a show at the House of Blues.

Danville, California

Participated in all aspects of running a successful independent bookstore in Northern California.

Pittsburgh, California

Provided weekly reading lessons and access to personal library of books to a group of toddler and elementary aged children in a transitional housing shelter.