Emily Cusick Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Waltham, MA

• Research, plan, and execute an individual travel and recruitment schedule for six weeks each Fall and four each Spring, with experience in over 15 U.S. states, Canada, and the Middle East
• Serve as member of admissions team that reviews >10,000 first-year admission applications per cycle, and act as first reader forover 1,000 applications annually
• Communicate with prospective students and families through multiple platforms
• Conduct information sessions and attend college fairs
• Manage the Alumni & Parent Admissions Council and support staff working with volunteers. Lead an alumni and parent volunteer base of 3,200 volunteers who conduct prospective student interviews and college fairs.
• Work with the Music Department to oversee the recruitment and selection of chamber musicians for the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Fellowship

Waltham, MA

• Held weekly office hours to provide confidential and individualized referrals, safer-sex education, and pregnancy testing
• Enhanced safer-sex awareness and sex positivity through orientation programs, campus-wide workshops, and lectures
• Developed training manuals and protocols for internal group operations and counselor training
• Advocated for campus policy initiatives and procedures to support student health and safety
• Managed application process for new counselors; assessed, interviewed, and selected finalists in highly competitive new-member process

Silver Spring, Maryland

• Operated the field outreach for the 2010 victory campaign
• Provided regional support for the 2010 Equality Marriage Campaign
• Made thousands of phone calls to constituents, and participated in door to door campaigning
• Helped to develop and lobby for two State Congressional bills, for the Health and Human Services Committee at the Maryland General Assembly

Washington, DC

• Planned and led educational workshops about nutrition, urban agriculture, and produce cultivation for socioeconomically disadvantaged students and families in Washington, D.C.
• Researched and facilitated grant and development opportunities and planned two fundraising benefit concerts
• Produced a report for farm volunteers and employees on pedagogical strategies of nutrition for under-served populations

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked as a Red Cross certified counseling intern in the surgical unit of the national military hospital
• Attended to patient needs, eased physical discomfort and actively listened to the stories of soldiers who were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder

Silver Spring, Maryland

• Reviewed and organized hundreds of grant applications and coded them accordingly
• Answered the phone and respond to emails, set up appointments with grant recipients
• Coordinated with local newspapers for publication of new grants recipients

Master'S In Education, Organizational And Educational Leadership

Master Of Education - Med, Diversity And Equity In Education

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Politics, Education Studies

Activities and Societies: Brandeis Rowing, Brandeis Democrats, Student Sexuality Information Service, Students for Environmental Action

Early Childhood Education And Teaching

Activities and Societies: Studied elementary education and worked an assistant teacher in a Danish kindergarten