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Austin, Texas, Estados Unidos

Rifeline is a public involvement and community relations firm serving organizations that rely on public support to achieve their goals. As a Senior Community Outreach Manager, I support implementing public engagement and community outreach plans on behalf of clients, manage strategy and execution on mid to large projects or portions of large programs, and supervise team members.

Austin Y Alrededores, Texas

I copyedit and consult on academic and professional documents written by experts, for experts or lay readers, including journal articles, grant proposals and stakeholder reports, book manuscripts, doctoral and master's theses, and technical manuals. I specialize in social science research manuscripts.

Austin, Texas, United States

Led professional staff in Academic Counseling and Tutoring in setting, assessing, and meeting program goals. Recruited, trained, and supervised 160 student educators serving over 3,500 unique students in nearly 20,000 service hours supporting over 100 courses per academic year. Developed self-paced and interactive training program via LMS and live facilitation. Built relationships and advocated for ACT programs with partner programs and departments. Created initiatives to increase program visibility and utilization. Initiated and facilitated plans to enhance the quality of ACT services, particularly around increasing access for students from historically underserved communities. Offered 1-to-1 counseling to students to build skills and find resources to help attain their learning goals.

Greater Chicago Area

Greater Chicago Area

As Program Coordinator, I handled the day-to-day administrative needs of five program directors and a part-time teaching staff of 80+. I managed payroll processes, staff communication, temporary academic appointments, and tutor program logistics. I also assisted with pedagogical training, teaching staff development, and program assessment and data analysis.

Led undergraduate seminars and workshops on academic writing and rhetoric. Developed teaching materials and analytical assignments to teach students to recognize and practice sound, reader-oriented principles of written argumentation. Provided students with detailed written assessment of their writing as a pedagogical tool. Worked individually with students to provide guidance through the writing and revision process.

Advised undergraduate residents and facilitated community life through programming and relationship building. Hired, advised, and developed student leadership. Planned, promoted, and assessed community programs and events. Administered budget, room changes, and evaluations. Completed extensive training in crisis management and university resources and policies.

Language and the Human II - Winter 2016Language and the Human I - Autumn 2015Language and the Human III - Spring 2014

Greater Chicago Area

Hired, trained, and supervised team of research assistants. Led a project for automatic phonetic transcription (forced alignment) of a large, multi-year spontaneous speech corpus. Communicated progress and goals to Principal Investigators. Collected, managed, and analyzed phonetic data and presented research to academic audiences.

Chicago, Il

Doctoral Candidate (Abd), Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Chicago Linguistic Society (Executive Officer)Completed all coursework, foreign language requirements.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Chicago Linguistic SocietyThesis: Coarticulatory influences on /l/ and /r/ perception in American English

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication Studies

Activities and Societies: Epsilon Kappa Epsilon (university honor society); Most Outstanding Student, Dept. of Communication StudiesMagna.