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Melbourne, VIC, AU

Footscray, Victoria

I coordinate and facilitate the Early Harvest program, which empowers children from culturally diverse and migrant backgrounds to create and edit a professionally-published literary anthology.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Developing partnerships to design and deliver customised enrichment programming for Carlton Primary School's students.

Melbourne, Australia

Facilitate monthly excursions with multi-age groups of 30+ culturally and linguistically diverse young people. Coordinate and design activities for weekend overnight camp, support teammates and build team alignment.

Melbourne, Australia

Managed 50-member schools workshop facilitation team to staff workshops and build individual capacities. Oversaw logistics and curriculum for "Thousand Faces" weekend camp serving 40 youth and adult participants. Coordinated Heroes Day, an immersive personal growth program serving 800 year 9 students. Liaised with school stakeholders to orchestrate.

Paris And Tokyo

Designed and carried out two-week summer camps focused on self-exploration and educational empowerment. Led counsellor collaborations and student workshops, mentored students to develop personal projects. Created and oversaw full-day collaborative learning experiences based around history and outdoor education.

New Haven, Connecticut

Collaborated with Yale faculty and graduate students to develop and execute 60+ youth programs and events. Administered budgets, maintained student and stakeholder databases. Networked with educators and community members to promote opportunities and initiate new programming. Managed team of interns, improved workflow systems. Communicated with schools.

Beijing City, China

Led major restructuring of curriculum and operations, co-managed academic leadership team with CEO. Trained more than 25 teachers and staff members in new curricular and operational structures. Strategized to expand programming; created comprehensive rollout plans to integrate new systems. Prototyped the Flourish Program, which won a Chinese government.

Beijing City, China

Collaborated with CEO on curriculum and operations design, provided key program feedback. Taught intensive 3-month course focused on critical thinking, communication, and culture. Supported customer acquisition by helping develop and teach sample classes to prospective clients.

Beijing City, China

Designed more than 20 interactive travel-learning workbooks for international school clients, coordinated and led 3 multi-day cultural enrichment trips with more than 50 students each, created brand-aligned promotional material and apparel distributed to all clients.

Beijing, China

Co-founded startup, built organizational values and mission, developed business strategy. Created more than 10 innovative programs focused on exploratory student-directed learning. Recruited 2 educators from over 150 applicants, devised new team and operational systems. Produced organization’s brand, designed all print and web-based program and publicity.

Greater New Orleans Area

Taught for short periods in various public charter schools across the city, served high-need students in grades K-12, proactively adapted to shifting work environments, provided critical feedback to support startup growth.

Greater New Orleans Area

Devised 4 arts-integrated English language arts courses in alignment with state Grade Level Expectations. Taught 1st, 3rd, 6th and 7th grade students, created new systems and metrics for tracking academic progress. Interfaced with administrators and teachers to improve curricular integration and effectiveness.

New Haven, Connecticut

Recruited and hired 7 teachers from a group of 110 applicants; managed team and oversaw culture. Created and executed comprehensive teacher trainings focused on curriculum design and classroom management. Met with nonprofit Board of Directors to administer $10,000 budget, completed periodic and final reports. Managed six-week summer program logistics.

New Haven, Connecticut

Developed and taught a six-week academic enrichment course on Astronomy as well as two elective classes, orchestrated program activities and field trips in collaboration with other teachers.

Administered and taught lessons for six-week summer English Language Learner Writing Camp. Assisted with student writing initiatives, workshops and activities as well as day-to-day administrative tasks. As a member of the graphic design team, produced mailers, posters, and chapbooks from student content.

Bachelor Of Arts, Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Activities and Societies: The Yale Ex!t Players Improv Comedy Troupe, Tangled Up in Blue Folk Music Ensemble, Freshman Outdoor Orientation.

High School Degree

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