• Utilizing a DEIAB lens, construct and implement people infrastructure and supervise operations including payroll, benefits administration, employee engagement, recruitment, and onboarding, and learning and development initiatives. • Strategically research, write, and execute a human-centered people operations strategy to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, psychological safety, and improve employee experience. • Audit, enhance, and develop HR practices, ensuring compliance with all state and federal regulations and develop and implement policies, processes, training, and initiatives to support compliance. • Maintain people management systems and ensure data integrity in all processes and applications. • Direct, supervise, and lead the People & Culture team. Providing strategic vision for people operations. Manage, develop, and coach employees. • Create, implement, and oversee equity review process and employee grievance reporting process. • Strengthen relationships through employee engagement opportunities to connect, learn, and act, resulting in increased trust and organizational impact. • Manage recruitment and hiring processes, including job description creation, recruitment, posting, interviewing, and reference checking of qualified job applicants, collaborating with managers. • Develop and implement accessible onboarding and orientation processes and practices. • Utilizing an equity lens, operationalize standards of skills and capacities position levels and salary bands; provide clarity of advancement opportunities and performance expectations. • Develop policies, procedures, and tools to support performance improvement processes and oversee performance improvement plans, terminations, and grievance investigations. • Streamline people operations through conversion of all HR projects into templated & automated project management software.

• Collaborate with CEO and Directors across the organization to identify specific equity, diversity, and inclusion goals, develop processes for tracking milestones, and serve as a change-agent resource internally and to other stakeholders to ensure goals are met.• Design, implement, and facilitate specialized bias training based on emerging research-based trends both in person and virtually for all central staff and veteran fellows.• Serve as an organization-wide resource on issues of diversity, inclusion, equity, disability and accessibility, gender and racial justice, and bias.• Ensure each learning environment is welcoming and inclusive of diverse veteran identities, optimizing warrior- scholars’ engagement during programming. Serve as an onsite resource during programming to empower and support warrior-scholars providing intentional support to those from underrepresented communities.• Established a committee of internal and external partners to create and implement Women’s Veterans Empowerment Dialogues to improve services and support of these veterans by facilitating inclusive spaces for female and feminine of center veterans.• Identify and address accessibility issues and barriers to ensure a successful and inclusive experience for warrior-scholars.• Developed organization-wide diversity and inclusion strategic plan with tracking milestones and success metrics through the identification of specific equity, diversity, and inclusion goals across all programs.• Advise the Director of HR on any barriers to success or opportunities for leadership for WSP central staff and fellows.• Collaborate with the Director of Human Resources using an inclusive lens to identify talent; establish and conduct recruitmentand hiring processes for all employees.• Organize the creation and implementation of programs that build momentum for diversity, equity, and inclusion.• Completed a comprehensive program-wide curriculum assessment with a diversity and inclusion lens.

• Partnered with Human resources to design and implement specialized training for professional faculty and through curriculum development and assessment.• Developed, designed, facilitated, and assessed two sections of Power, privilege, identity, and allyship by serving as adjunct faculty for University College, annually.• Developed curriculum for VCU’s inaugural Mosaic a social justice living learning community and Lavender House an LGBTQIA+ leadership living learning community.• Planned, created, facilitated, and evaluated diversity educational presentations and trainings for campus departments including Varsity Athletics, Recreational Sports, Career Services, and Residential Life and Housing.• Designed and facilitated the Queer Coffee Hour program, providing LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff a weekly opportunity for education and LGBTQIA+ community building.• Analyzed Recreational sports’ student support services for marginalized student populations.• Developed annual Pathways to Womanhood event, a women’s leadership and empowerment program for faculty, students, and staff.• Developed and implemented LGBTQIA+ History month and Women’s HerStory month.• Created and chaired the annual Lavender Empowerment Summit committee, LGBTQIA+ leadership retreat for over 170 Virginia college students. Solicited funding and support through campus partner collaboration. Created and oversaw web presence and promotional materials.• Created and maintained the Greek Ally program. Facilitated educational workshops promoting diversity and inclusion within Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Completed the Division’s LGBTQ Resource Library by identifying purchases of resource materialsServes as a resource for students, faculty, and staff on LGBTQ issues for the division by designing and facilitating educational presentations for numerous departments including career services and residential life and housing Created a Residence Life LGBTQ curriculum and trained 131 undergraduate student Residence Assistants, four Graduate Assistants, nine Hall Directors, and four Assistant DirectorsAssisted a Grace Harris Leadership Development team in the planning and implementation of the final stages of the “ if you can, you can” campaignCreates and facilitates small group specialized LGBTQ educational workshops for various departments including the Athletic Department, the Department of Undergraduate Academic Advisors, and the University Student Commons and ActivitiesCoordinated VCU’s presence at Virginia Pride through arranging logistics, soliciting funding and volunteers from various departments, and organizations including: Athletics, Admissions, the Alumni Association, Equality VCU, and the Office of Multicultural Student AffairsCollaborates to support existing LGBTQ campus initiatives with Gender Safe, Equality VCU, and OMSAVCU representative in the Richmond Safe Zone Coalition Partners with the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities. Spoke on a Religious Inclusion in the workplace panel for the Richmond Area Roundtable discussion, volunteered at the VCU Prejudice Awareness Summit, Participated in a Diversity Awareness Metrics training

Excelled at coaching athletes based on their personality, their abilities, and their desire to succeed. Counseled twenty-seven players weekly concerning identity development, resiliency, athletics, and academics.Designed and delivered educational workshops in inclusion, leadership, communication, team cohesion, emotional well- being, and leadership development.Utilizes five years of college field hockey playing experience to educate twenty-seven college athletes Meets with players concerning athletics, academic, social, cultural, and emotional well beingUtilized budgeting and organizational skills to create a balanced budget for the 2014-2015 academic yearDeveloped the inter-squad committee program promoting leadership and efficiency within the programDigitized field hockey program’s equipment inventory, evaluations, and travel itinerariesSolicits potential high school recruits through social media, email, phone, and in person evaluation locally and internationallyDeveloped in depth understand of NCAA compliance regulations to maintain NCAA compliance of the field hockey programDevelops and facilitates goalkeeping practice plans and individual training sessions

Assessed clients of imminent risk due to mental illness, or co-occurring substance use or intellectual disabilities, including danger to self, others, or inability to care for self due to mental illnessDiagnostically evaluated persons presenting in crisis, to include mental status, risk current functioning and diagnosisCounseled persons in crisis situations using supportive interventions Assisted stabilizing persons in crisis at risk of hospitalization Conducted pre-admission screenings for voluntary or involuntary hospitalization in accordance with Virginia StatutesProvided person center-based and on-call home based servicesWorked collaboratively with agency and community clinicians on behalf of crisis disposition and triage

Researched campus climate and student expectations at VCU through constructing and implementing three surveysDeveloped and facilitated LGBTQ diversity trainings for numerous campus offices and organizations including Residential Life and Housing, Sorority and Fraternity Life, the VCU Police Department, and the School of Education Devised curriculum and facilitated two weekly LGBT discussion groups focusing on topics related to LGBT student life; In the discussion groups’ end of the year evaluations 100% of students “agreed” or “completely agreed” that discussion group was a safe, fun, respectful, and educational environmentUtilized budgeting and organizational skills to design over 30 events for LGBT and Women’s history month programming Advised the LGBT student group Student Equality through attending weekly meetings and encouraging leadership development, program planning, and organizational functioningDesigned and implemented LGBT programming on campus collaborating with community organizations including the Gay Community Center of Richmond, University of Richmond’s Common Ground, Fan Free Clinic, Safe Harbor, and Equality VirginiaFormed the Office of Multicultural Affairs LGBT career interventions programCollaborated with other departments including VCU Career Center and Wellness Center to encourage LGBT inclusive programmingFacilitated numerous safezone trainings as requestedProvided students with individual and group mental health counseling in areas concerning social, academic, cultural, gender identity, sexual orientation, and emotional well being regularly