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Minds Matter is a national nonprofit mentoring and college success organization whose mission is to connect driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.

The Institute for Nonprofit Practice equips the nation’s most promising social impact leaders with the skills, resources, networks, and confidence they need to boldly advance their organizations and missions, creating a more equitable future for all. Senior Fellows facilitate practice seminars with a small cohort of leaders participating in the Core Certificate Program. They guide the group as they engage in action-oriented problem-solving to tackle specific leadership and management challenges they face within their current jobs and at their organizations.

New York City

Minds Matter NYC is the founding and largest chapter of Minds Matter, a national nonprofit mentoring and college success organization whose mission is to connect driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.

Greater New York City Area

The Education Pioneers Visiting Fellows Program works with select partners in education to connect, develop, and inspire talented leaders currently on staff within their organizations. Visiting Fellows have full membership in the summer Graduate School Fellowship cohort, a diverse and multidisciplinary group of leaders from education, business, policy, and law backgrounds.

Greater New York City Area

CPRL assigns graduate students to high-priority, professionally guided, semester-long consulting projects for organizations working in education. Working in interdisciplinary teams, graduate student consultants provide design, strategic, planning, and implementation advice and support on matters that combine management, legal, governance, policy, regulatory, and technological issues crucial to the mission of the client organization.

Greater New York City Area

Humanities New York (formerly the New York Council for the Humanities) is an independent nonprofit affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. It offers grants and programs in the public humanities to other nonprofits, primarily in the educational and cultural sectors, throughout New York State. Program development, administration, and evaluation• Directed youth and community programs throughout New York State• Developed new programs, with a focus on programming for Latinx communities• Created culturally uplifting and relevant programs for BIPOC youth• Evaluated new and existing programs using quantitative and qualitative dataTraining and professional development• Expert in facilitation and training facilitators• Developed intervention strategies for improving facilitated conversations• Advised organizations looking to implement conversation-based programming• Led professional development for nonprofit professionals • Invited presenter at national academic and professional conferences Advocacy and fundraising• Advocated for state funding from NYS Legislature, yielding $400K annually• Was awarded a $300K federal grant to establish nationwide reading and discussion program for American Muslim youth• Wrote successful grant applications, generating $195K in new funds • Coordinated partnerships with partner organizations

Greater New York City Area

Taught courses in English Literature (Macaulay Honors College), English Composition, BIPOC American Literature• Wrote and implemented curriculum in literature and composition• Served on the Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation committee• Graduate Teaching Fellowship (2006-2007)

Third Grade Team Leader

Austin, Texas Area

Bilingual teacher at a Title I school in East Austin. • Developed grade-level appropriate curriculum and led classroom instruction in all basic subject areas: reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and English as a second language• Taught all subjects in English and Spanish• Created after-school academic intervention and enrichment programs in reading and writing; taught summer school program in science

Master Of Education (M.Ed.)

Doctoral Student

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