Micro Flower Farmer offering sustainable blooms to a community we love. Sole Proprietor. In charge of Farming operations Business Marketing and Management. Exists to benefit the community of Bow.

During the 2011-2012 school year I participated in the Leadership Development Institute through Hope Community Church. LDI is an internship that allows for growth in three main areas: Christ-Like Character, Biblical Knowledge, and Ministry Experience. My focus in ministry experience was mainly in Women's Ministries with a special concentration in Counseling Ministries. In addition I, along with a fellow LDI intern lead "Spring Retreat" fundraising. Specific Focus of Ministry Areas:Through my work with the Women's ministry I had the opportunity to plan community events, mentor women, as well as do a considerable amount of administrative work. Through my work in "Hope Restored," a counseling ministry of Hope Community, I was able to lead small groups through biblical understanding and together build strategies to succeed in the struggles individuals were fighting through. Also, I had the opportunity for one-on-one counseling opportunities after being trained in "Soul Care."Lastly, through our fundraising efforts, I was able to gain considerable experience in how to successfully work with both the body of the church and the community at large to raise funds for our annual Spring Retreat. This including contacting companies, collaborating with restaurants, working for donations, and selling merchandise.

I currently am serving a year with Americorps as a Family Literacy Member under Minnesota Reading Corps. I am housed in the Saint Paul Public Schools District Office where I am able to work collaboratively with the Office of Family Engagement and Community Partnerships to engage with families, provide resources to students and reach out to families within Saint Paul Public Schools that are in need of additional assistance. For Minnesota Reading Corps, I working with 3 other members to create and implement materials to help tutors connect with families as well as equip families to encourage literacy in their homes. We are aiming to do this through a measure called "Talk together, Read together, Write together" Funded by United Way as well as establish a parent training module to empower parents to equip their child to be proficient readers.

"The Community Adviser (CA) is a live-in student staff member in the Department of Housing & Residential Life. The CA works to create positive learning communities in residence halls/university apartments that support student learning and has specific responsibility for working with students in a particular community. CAs need to be accessible and approachable and are expected to be positive and healthy academic and community role models. Student staff must be able to model effective study and time management skills, be knowledgeable of academic/campus resources and be willing to assist other students in their academic and personal growth and development."-Job Description of Community Adviser Position

I worked at Law Information Technology Services at the University of Minnesota-Law School through my college education. As a Desktop Support Specialist, I worked to provide technological support to the staff and faculty of the Law School, to implement new software and hardware and to maintain the assist all staff with any technological needs they required. By working here I gained experience working on different operating systems, several word processors and applications and gained extensive customer service experience. It also enabled me to quickly create publications, instructions and to explain detailed processes to a variety of individuals.