Graduate research assistant in Dr. Filip Loncke's AAC Lab at UVA.

Provide safe and high quality private horseback riding lessons. This includes conducting participant assessments, creating lesson plans, providing lessons and schooling horses.

Responsible for the training, behavior and exercise routine of each client horse. Activities may include:• Developing & implementing specific exercise routines• Under saddle work• Ground work• Training in general manners• Correcting behavioral issues• Preparing horse for sale

Provided cognitive, swallowing, language, and voice evaluation, therapy, and discharge planning to medically complex adult patients and their families. Collaborated with multidisciplinary team (PT, OT, nursing, physicians) to provide patients with cohesive care.

Provided speech and language evaluations and therapy to elementary school-aged students. Also implemented interdisciplinary practice to maximize therapeutic benefit as appropriate with students.

Student clinician in UVA's SJC providing speech and language evaluations and treatment under the supervision of UVA's clinical instructors.

• GPA: 3.69• Certified in companion animal nutrition (May 2017)• Golden Key International Honor Society: top 15% of class• Academic Honors, Southern Illinois University, 2013-2014 • President of dorm floor, 2013-2014• Awarded Hunt Team Rookie of the Year by the SIU Equestrian Team, 2013-2014 • Auditioned and selected to be a panelist at the SIU Speakers’ Forum• One of select equine science students invited to represent the equine science program of SIU at the Springfield Horse Fair• Southern Illinois University Out of State Scholar Award, Southern Illinois University, Present• Southern Illinois Scholarship for Freshmen, Southern Illinois University, Present• Awarded Most Active Team Member by the SIU Equestrian Team, 2014

• Prepared barn for visitors and horse owners• Maintained cleanliness of tack room, restroom, feed stalls, and pastures• Check each horse for signs of illness and injury • Prepare each horse’s feed • Ensure horses have clean and adequate amounts of water available

Responsible for the well-being of the resident small animals:• Check for signs and symptoms of illness and injury• Administer medications as directed and/or prescribed• Exercise small animals to maintain their emotional and physical well-being• Maintain cleanliness and biohazard security protocols • Maintain environmental controls for safety and welfare of resident animals

• Manage volunteers and mentor junior interns• Assist in training of horses• Exercise horses under saddle• Check horses for signs of illness, injury, and treat as needed • Warm up, cool down, and tack/untack horses• Turn out and lunge horses to maintain physical and emotional well-being• Maintain cleanliness of stalls, aisles, and grooming and wash bays

Support customers at point of sale to ensure world class shopping experience • Suggest products and services solutions• Opened and closed the store for business• Merchandising; in store product displays and at show booths