As a humanities junkie with a passion for community service, I am driven by a desire to efficiently solve complex humanitarian problems. My wide variety of professional experience in university board work, policy think-tanks, undergraduate housing, and nonprofit management has helped me construct a robust skillset including professional mentorship, empathy, marketing, board strategy, policy advice and enforcement, and deep research. I enjoy synthesizing these skills to produce grant applications, media content, and educational resources of maximal social good and functional utility for my clients. I am ambitious and adaptable, and can function in and toggle between a variety of work environments. In my work with Hope Cottage, I get to view nonprofit development through both ground up and top down lenses. As a Youth Educator, I engage directly with our community members through rigorous “Love Notes" presentations. These evidence-based, multimedia discussions survey relationship skills including respect, consent, communication, safe sex, and relationships within long-term life planning. As a Development and Marketing Coordinator, I get to write grant applications, manage our social media accounts and website, and help plan both individual events and long-term development strategy for our organization. This high-level institutional knowledge helps me better represent my organization to my clients, whose shared experiences, in turn, help me better strategize around community needs. Although I am extremely committed to performance within and beyond the demands of my work, I also believe in holistic personal and professional enrichment. As such, I pursue intellectual and service projects beyond my 9-5 job. These projects include board work with small nonprofits, volunteerism as an English teacher, and pending publications with private and public academic journals. Such community engagement helps me bring my sharpest and most well-rounded, energized, and fulfilled self to work.
