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California, United States

Baldwin Park, California, United States

Provide individual, group, and family counseling services at local elementary, middle, and high schools and in the evenings at the Educational Outreach Program facility.Provide psychoeducational support and training in raising happy, healthy children to parents at local schools in the Baldwin Park Unified, El Monte, Mountain View and La Puente School.

Fullerton, California, United States

Support Department of Social Work faculty in the instruction of Master's Thesis Capstone research projects for the 2-year full time cohort of MSW graduate students.

Fullerton, California, United States

Conduct independent and faculty-led research on childhood maltreatment, mental health outcomes, mindfulness, and resilience in a prospective longitudinal study in collaboration with Kaiser Foundation Research Institute and the University of Southern California.

Anaheim, California, United States

Provided case management with motivational interviewing to support caseload of 6+ clients in identifying, planning, and achieving their independent living, employment, and housing goals.Facilitated weekly process groups by implementing motivational interviewing, person-centered therapy, mindfulness-based interventions, harm reduction, trauma-informed care.

Berkeley, California, United States

Provided counseling, rehabilitation, and on-site support, including assertive engagement and crisis de-escalation as needed, to aid in participants’ wellness and recovery goals in a milieu-based approach.Partnered with participants to implement active service plans, goals, and discharge plans focused on housing, employment, and independent living skills.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Cooked up to 280 covers a night prepared to chef’s exact specifications and simultaneously covered both garde manger and pastry stations to set the pace for service.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Cooked up to 300 covers a night, mostly on highest-volume and most-variated station (14 dishes) during peak hours, fueling company’s record growth and initial sustained profitability.

Greater Chicago Area

Led product strategy and implementation, coordinating support services across all cross-functional teams and collaborating with company leadership to spearhead sales growth, fueling successful acquisition of the startup, as well as funding of a new team within the acquiring parent company based on developed methods.

San Francisco Bay Area

Partnered with VP of Sales & Marketing to engage, demo, and close 100% of all new enterprise-level deals (>$100K annual contract value) in 2019.

Greater Seattle Area

Led category team in revenue growth for managed brands compared to forecast, growing a $13.6 million managed book of business by an additional +18.3% YoY, by collaborating with internal and external partners across all functional touchpoints of the retail business to improve inventory productivity rate (+12.4% YoY), shipped units (+31% YoY), product margin.

Berkeley, CA

Designed and launched new ipira.berkeley.edu website to revive 10+ years of inactive web management by coordinating project tasks with 7 developers between 4 administrative offices, learning Drupal 7 CMS, leading front-end development of 50+ webpages, managing project workflows for 3 Interns, researching and implementing SEO best practices, and editing all.

San Francisco Bay Area

Spearheaded teams of 8-11 graphic designers to deliver and implement branding strategy to social enterprises through customized pro-bono marketing packages, including web design, event signage, style guides, press kits, social media campaigns, branded merchandise, promotional advertising, fundraising graphics, and UX/UI design.

Berkeley, CA

Shot documentary photography across a breadth of subject areas for #1 ranked College Newsletter and Website (California College Media Association 2011).

Berkeley, CA

Funded independent student-run newspaper as the 1st place recipient (novice division) in annual “Account Exec-Off” sales competition, by cold-calling and cold-walking into local community storefronts, selling print advertising placements, and collaborating with business owners to coordinate effective advertising campaigns.

San Francisco, CA

Recruited and managed a team of 3 interns to conduct market research; develop operational relationships with partners, consultants, supply managers, and clients; and coordinate and implement omni-channel marketing campaigns.

Washington, D.C.

Coordinated logistics, itineraries, and equipment for National Photographer, while providing direct aid to displaced residents amidst infrastructure breakdowns, in response to the Moore Tornado of Oklahoma and the Yarnell Hill Fire of Arizona in 2013.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Community Mental Health, 4.000

Activities and Societies: Master of Social Work Association (MSWA)2024-2025 Fulltime Cohort Representative & Mentor, Orange County.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Media Studies/Mass Communications; French Minor, 3.507

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Marketing Association Internal Vice President & Director of Design Consulting, Berkeley Women in.

Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies

Interdisciplinary studies with selected coursework in Chemistry (Harvard University) & Psychology (University of Queensland, Australia).