As NUF's Engagement Officer, I lead Fellow recruitment, selection, and onboarding, alumni engagement, and digital transformation efforts. Before my current role, I led domestic and global fundraising and immersion initiatives in the NYC/CT regions for buildOn, which focuses on breaking the cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. As buildOn’s Development Director, I led multiple groups of donors in mentoring and social learning programs by connecting them with high school students from underserved communities from Bridgeport, CT to the Bronx, NY. I also recruited, trained, and led 18 student groups and donors to fundraise and build 18 primary schools in solidarity with local villagers in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Before this, I was a Sr. Program Coordinator and Partnership Manager at iMentor, where I ran numerous youth mentoring programs for several hundreds of Bronx youth and young urban professionals in New York City and expanded innovative youth mentoring models nationwide. I am a proud alumnus of the National Urban Fellows Class of 2012. I hold a Master of Public Administration degree from Baruch College-Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. I also hold a combined undergraduate degree in Government and Spanish, with a minor in International Affairs, from Skidmore College. I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served as a youth development specialist in the Kingdom of Morocco. I am a native Puerto Rican who grew up in The Bronx, NY, and who enjoys learning languages (I speak four!), swimming, skydiving (I've done it twice!), and biking (I rode from BX to BK and back!).
Listed skills include Youth Development, Foreign Languages, Non Profits, Youth Mentoring, and 46 others.