Davey Aguiar, M.A. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

- Lead in planning, staffing, and facilitating monthly Saturday workshops for 35 college-going students to enhance purpose, social emotional wellness, identity, college prep, academic skills, and financial literacy. - Piloted a Scholar Newsletter that improved communication between scholars and site staff. - Advise Denver's Scholar Advisory Board that empowers student voice in program design and leadership decision-making, while providing mentorship of younger scholars. - Coach and follow-up with students as needed to enable students to meet programmatic outcomes.- Collaborate with colleagues and community stakeholders to create data-driven intervention strategies. - Regularly collect student feedback to elevate future programming while tracking student data through Salesforce. - Stay current with best practices by participating in professional development such as the Sustained Dialogue Institute.

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Promote the BOLD (Broadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity) Center's mission and the College of Engineering and Applied Science's goal to broaden access to CU Engineering and to improve access, recruitment, enrollment, student retention, and performance for womxn and underrepresented minority students throughout the college.Major Highlights: • Manage and advise 9 affinity-based, professional engineering student societies on leadership, budgeting, programming, outreach, retention, and recruitment for their organizations (i.e., SWE, NSBE, SHPE, etc.).• Support in designing and assessing comprehensive student programs with outcomes related to career & academic development, cultural/diversity awareness, and community-building.• Collaborate and manage relationships with local and national industry partners (I.e., Salesforce, Ball Aerospace, Trimble, and Apple) to create programs, events, and networking opportunities while also supporting the recruitment of mentorship programs such as Ball Sisters and Ball BIPOC Mentorship programs.• Holistically advise, coach, and support a caseload of approximately 150 BOLD Leadership & Engagement scholarship students in areas of academic & professional development, while also making referrals to student affairs resources (I.e. Financial Aid, Bursar’s Office, First-Generation Enrich., Residence Life, CAPS, etc.)• Track, collect, organize, and assess data collected from the BOLD community to improve areas in student programming and engagement, while also reporting data to the BOLD Advisory Council.• Collect and track quantitative and qualitative university data and literature to support the academic and social success of womxn, historically marginalized, first-generation, and low-income students in STEM.• Establish and build meaningful relationships with diverse student populations informed by student development theories (I.e., Intersectionality, Belonging, Funds of Knowledge, CRT) and personal lived experiences.

Denver, Colorado

Major Highlights:• Co-supervised, hired, trained, and evaluated 27 Resident Assistants (RA) alongside Resident Director through developing weekly staff meetings, professional developments, documentation meetings, and 1-on-1 meetings.• Revised, assessed, and constructed RA staff development trainings through RA feedback into curriculum guides.• Maintained a first-year community consisting between 180-350 students by addressing student and facility concerns, working with front desk operations, while organizing occupancy of the building via StarRez Database.• Participated in an on-call duty rotation to respond to crisis, policy violations, and facilities issues for 2,500 students involving independent problem solving with the ability to think strategically in the moment and engage other campus offices to resolve issues (I.e. Campus Safety, On-Call Crisis Counselor, etc.).• Adjudicated student conduct cases utilizing Maxient judicial system and assign educational outcomes and status outcomes varying from warnings to probation as it complies with university policy.• Addressed needs that arose in residence halls that correlated with issues such as Title IX, social justice, and equal opportunity through submitting reports and referrals, while respecting confidentiality and privacy.• Collaborated with student affairs partners to create building-wide programming events (both in-person and virtual) and address community concerns in four themed communities (Social Justice LLC, Pioneer Leadership Program (PLP), Environmental Sustainability, and Honors).

Denver, Colorado, United States

Major Highlights:• Co-taught 14 first-generation students in the 1 credit course, “Unlearning to Learn,” designed to assist in the transition and success of first-year students in the 1GenU program in a higher learning environment.• Co-led in developing and maintaining a curriculum that covered self-awareness, identity development, personal growth, and self-authorship.• Tracked, analyzed, and reported mid-quarter and end of quarter grades and developed action plans for students with low academic performance through referrals and support.• Maintained all records and grade reports in accordance with institution policy via Canvas.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Major Highlights:• Developed and implemented an alumni engagement program to recruit previous grant-participants in mentoring current participants as well as gathering feedback on experiences for future grant proposals.• Developed a professional development opportunity for graduate interns and assistants at institution to assist in career searches.

Lowell, Massachusetts

Major Highlights:• Assisted the Senior Director of Orientation & Campus Tours in the supervision and development of 30 tour guides through monthly staff meetings, trainings, 1-on-1 meetings, and evaluations.• Presented for prospective students, high school groups, transfer students, and grant-funded organizations (TRIO, Upward Bound, GEAR, etc.) about admissions requirements, application process, financial aid, scholarships, and campus life.• Developed and implemented a new shadow day program for accepted students in the Francis College of Engineering.• Maintained and updated the campus tour schedule through Salesforce, TargetX technology, and Teams.

University Of Massachusetts Lowell

• Assisted professional staff with creating, maintaining, and implementing cultural programming and events on-campus.• Facilitated and presented at trainings that promote diversity education, equity, and inclusion for student body and academic departments.• Designed and cultivated programming, presentations and resources to create a sense of belonging for LGBTQ+ students.

University Of Massachusetts Lowell

As a Resident Advisor (RA), the expectations and responsibilities of my positions included assisting students regarding personal, social, and/or academic concerns through needs assessment; refering students, when necessary, to appropriate campus and/or community resources; initiating and maintaining on-going contact with the residents on the floor and building throughout the year in order to develop positive community relationships; and respecting all confidential material and information that was delivered to me as a staff member. In addition, other responsibilities included creating, maintaining and implementing a community-specific residential curriculum; encouraging student participation in University and residence hall sponsored programs and events; and promoting mutual respect for all students inclusive of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, abilities, etc. Lastly, my position as a resident advisor included administrative duties such as duty logs, evaluations, work orders, incident reports, fire health and safeties, roster verifications, and any other procedures; conducting floor meetings; and other duties assigned by Complex/Resident directors, or professional staff.

University Of Massachusetts Lowell

My position requires a knowledge base of all of our campuses at UMass Lowell and what the university offers in terms of academic, social, and cultural opportunities. Tours are given to prospective students and their families.

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

As an Orientation Leader, our position requires us to help accepted students (Freshmen or Transfers) accomodate to their new chapter at UMass Lowell. We were assigned a group of students that we would remain with for the entirety of their 2 day session, if the student was a freshman, and 1 day session, if they were a transfer. The Orientation program provided them with the knowledge that, as new students, should have prior to attending the university in the fall and helped them develop connections with current students. This position develops leadership skills, public speaking, and time management.

University Of Massachusetts Lowell

As a Teaching Artist, my position required me to help teach students from the Greater Lowell/Boston area how to play violin, viola, and cello starting from Grade 4 to Grade 12. I helped facilitate Prelude (First year), Overture (second year), and Lowell Youth Orchestra (high school students) classes in which I would teach about musical scales, theory, appropriate concert ediquette, and performance.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Higher Education

Emphasis in Diversity & Higher Learning

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Psychology

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