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• Continuing as a Shareholder and Board Member • Manage day to day operations including finances, marketing, human resources, technology • Lead team meetings, goal setting, and company communications• Remained mission-focused to help underserved and underrepresented populations secure fair financing and become homeowners• Exercised change management transitioning this small start-up to corporation status• Worked proficiently with all Microsoft products (especially Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams), Canva, Wix, Meta Business Suite, Google Suite, Google Ads, Google Profile, Zoom, GoDaddy, LegalZoom, and the Star Tribune• Collaborated with shareholders, board members, investors, business to business partners, colleagues, clients, and community members

District Advisory Committee member, St. Michael-Albertville School District Co-lead community Vote Yes committee to pass an operations referendum, 2021• Recruit and encourage community members to learn about public education• Collaborate with school officials, ask questions about what is happening in our schools, bring additional ideas to positively impact kids and our community• Organize volunteer teams working toward a common goal• Work efficiently under pressure and within tight deadlines• Advocate with state legislators for local policy and financial needs• Support diversity, equity, and inclusion work and activities within the district

• Manage all aspects of a self-employed business including relations, communications, scheduling, finances, graphic design, marketing• Elementary through adult-aged voice and piano students; beginning through advanced levels• Average of 25 students each year with nearly 100% retention rate• Collaborative pianist for local middle school choral programs

Middle School WestChoir teacher grades 5-8, lead teacher grades 5 and 6Director of extra-curricular SATB boys’ ensemble, grades 6-8Racial Diversity and Equity Committee member• Built lasting relationships in a new school environment within the parameters of a pandemic • Strong advocate of K-12 music programs

Children’s Music Director and Volunteer Coordinator, November 2012-July 2017Saint Andrew Lutheran Church Preschool Board, 2011-2017Worship and Music Committee ChairPastoral Search Committee• Coordinated communications by and between volunteer committees, church staff and the community • Created digital and print articles and marketing materials for the preschool, church newsletter, and outreach programs such as Vacation Bible School

• Middle School Honor Choirs, District Choirs, All-County Choirs• State Choral Assessment and All-State Chorus Auditions• Member of the committee that redesigned the state rubrics for performance and sight-singing • Sight-reading composer for high school District Chorus auditions

Robert Frost Middle SchoolHead Middle School Choral DirectorMusic Department Chair, 2005-2008• Taught four choirs, directed extra-curricular musical theater performance• Diverse classes of learners including Gifted and Talented, ED, LD, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, ESOL/LEP • Increased chorus participation 185% in five years• Organized choral department fundraiser generating $18,000 annually• Selected to perform at the Virginia Music Educators Association state conference, November 2005

Lake Braddock Secondary SchoolHead High School Choral DirectorFounding Tri-M Music Honor Society Sponsor, 2001-2003• Taught five choirs, extra-curricular ensembles, music director for musical, collaborated with orchestra for yearly major work concert, managed active parent booster organization• Organized choral department fundraising and travel to New York City; Philadelphia, PA; Germany and the Czech Republic; Nashville, TN