Destiny Brown Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Coach 150 Pell-Eligible students throughout their college journey, improving semester one persistence rates from 85% to 96% from 2021 to 2022.
• Manage the student ambassador program, redesigning it to integrate student voices into decision-making processes, supervising the social work intern facilitating the program, and making strategic budget decisions.
• Facilitate engaging community circles and workshops, to foster open dialogue among students to share experiences, acquire healthy coping mechanisms, and enhance their sense of belonging.
• Advocate for expanded basic needs access for college students and improved FAFSA processes by coalition-building at city, state, and federal levels to drive policy change.
• Assist students with college enrollment steps, including financial aid paperwork and other administrative processes, leveraging institutional knowledge of higher education bureaucracy such as bursar, financial aid.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

• Adapted the AP World History curriculum to create culturally relevant lessons that account for learner variability for 117 students.
• Organized events such as a nationwide panel discussion with college students and a poetry showcase for the Black History Month program.
• Demonstrated proficiency in administrative tasks, including lesson planning, grading, and organizational management.
• Sustained a classroom management rate of having classroom participation at 88% or above, consistently delivering engaging lessons across four class periods.

Selected among an extremely competitive pool of applicants across the nation with a passion for eliminating educational inequity. Responsibilities included intensive training on culturally relevant pedagogy, social-emotional learning, classroom management techniques, and trauma-informed teaching.

Columbus, Ohio

• Supervised the facilitation of Grow. Explore. Mentor programs and Power Hour programs at KIPP Columbus for three semesters and plan curriculum for the Grow. Explore. Mentor Program for 75 K-12 students, focusing on.
• Recruited and onboarded over 20 volunteers to contribute to the facilitation of activities within mentoring programs.
• Adjusted to the needs of the Columbus community during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing tutoring and mentoring to middle and high school students at Learning Extension Centers.
• Moderated panel discussions on community concerns such as the Black wealth gap and the role of social activism in government with local nonprofits and the Columbus City Council.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Create testimony in opposition or support of legislation and deliver testimony at the Ohio Statehouse on behalf of the 53, 669 undergraduate students at Ohio State
• Oversee the programming and initiatives on campus to register students to vote, provide voting resources, and spearhead important dialogues pertaining to legislation such as a Voting 101Workshop and Social Activism and.
• Empower 4 deputy directors and a committee of 32 students to participate in the creation of programming

Ohio, United States

• Utilized the VAN program to reach potential Black voters via phone banking and SMS messaging.
• Mobilized Black voters throughout the country to participate in the general election by making at least 240 phone calls and sending 20,000 text messages daily.
• Spoke on panels and recorded videos for the NAACP Youth and College social media about the importance of voting and ways to combat voter suppression to spread awareness to potential Black voters nationwide.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Expanded the social media following and interactions on Twitter for the Morrill Scholarship Program
• Improved upon marketing strategies to gain more participants for scholarship programming
• Developed creative ideas for increased social media presence
• Maintained a level of confidentiality regarding the information on the social media page
• Presented social media as professional to incoming students and other university organizations

Columbus, Ohio

• Mobilized citizens to register to vote and go to the polls to ensure the victory of Democratic candidates throughout Ohio.
• Compiled data for several rural counties across the state to boost civic engagement and voter turnout for the upcoming general election.
• Communicated with potential voters across the state to educate them on the civic engagement process.
• Recruited volunteers for different voter engagement events at the state headquarters.

Columbus, Ohio

• Created an inclusive environment for diverse populations of people on campus
• Extended authentic advice and experiences to prospective college students who are unsure about college processes

Washington, District Of Columbia

• Compiled data from 9 different programs and developed visualizations with various software to analyze participation by court type, job title, geographical location, and previous affiliation with the FJC.
• Assisted staff in the development of program guides, teaching material, seating charts, and learning tools needed for educational programming across 5 court units, training court unit executives on management and.
• Diversified the Executive Edge podcast’s lineup of potential guests in collaboration with the assistant director of the education division by creating outreach strategies to include different perspectives and elevate.
• Designed and distributed program evaluation questionnaires for 75+ new chief judges, chief deputies, and deputy chiefs across multiple seminars and conferences, with employees synthesizing responses to generate and.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Columbus, Ohio

• Researched necessary information to assist caseworkers with constituents’ concerns, handling 20+ cases daily.
• Maintained order of the office by executing tasks such as checking voicemails, faxes, and mail
• Communicated directly with 60+ constituents weekly and represented the Senator’s stances on policy issues.

Columbus, Ohio

Indianapolis, Indiana

Master Of Science - Ms, Urban Studies

Concentration in Urban Planning

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Post-Preparation Baccalaureate Program, Second-Year Transformational Program, North Hall Representative for.

General Studies

Activities and Societies: Junior Class Council, Senior Class Council, Pantherquest, Minority Engineering Program of Indianapolis