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Boston, MA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston Area

I was responsible for bringing the flagship SMASH summer program to Massachusetts, joining a 15 year-old family of programs spread across six states. In this role, I led a team of 15-30 staff members to support 40-100 rising 10th through 12th graders in a three-summer-long enrichment program designed to increase the participation of students of color in.

Cambridge, MA, USA

Technical lead for the Action Learning Office. Provide guidance on systems for supporting ~15 Action Learning Labs (independent faculty-led experiential learning courses). Assessment lead for the Action Learning Office. Leading efforts for standardizing evaluation across labs and promoting the development and exchange of best practices in MIT Sloan Action.

Greater Boston Area

Deepened relationships with faculty and staff in partnership with my colleague, by explaining policies, sharing best practices, and offering centralized support. As a result, five labs increased their reliance on our office, further unifying the action learning experience across the School.Led data migration project to consolidate historical action.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Managed a STEM transition initiative for incoming first-years with student volunteers and graduate student staff. Grew initiative from a 3-day pre-orientation program for domestic students to a one month, blended-learning, summer bridge program with international participants.Oversaw a student-run mentoring initiative for undergraduate STEM students. Grew.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Assisted with the development, administration, and processing of summer course evaluations. Wrote scripts to streamline the aggregation and dissemination of evaluation results, which was previously done manually. Assisted with the planning of the 2010 Writers' Conference. Coordinated the travel of guest speakers, meeting locations of workshops, and room.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Co-taught employability skills and basic financial literacy to under-served youth as part of a summer program.Adapted the given curriculum to meet the needs and interests of our students and designed supplementary activities and projects to help students meet the program goals.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Formalized assistant director's data tracking and reporting needs in a way that could be represented in a RDBMS. Updated existing reports and wrote new ones to meet the needs of the AD and her staff.Corrected structural flaws and data inconsistencies in the previous database in preparation for migrating information to a new database.Designed and built a.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Explained coding and theoretical concepts in introductory and upper-level computer science courses. Proudly watched all students that I worked with individually complete the course, and many go on to be teaching assistants and head teaching assistants themselves.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Worked in Brown Laboratory for Linguistic and Information Processing. Studied linguistic models stemming from "motherese".

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Worked in Brown Laboratory for Linguistic and Information Processing. Studied document coherence.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Processed data from large geographic datasets using ArcGIS and Google Earth.Created graphical visualizations of the data for the USGS website and internal and external reports.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Maintained Windows and Mac Workstations. Developed inventory system for the office.Wrote feasibility outlines for technology-based science outreach.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Provided technical support to faculty and staff over the phone.Developed and taught digital literacy workshops, covering basic through intermediate web design with HTML, CSS and Javascript, basic through intermediate use of Microsoft Office, and basic Adobe Photoshop.

Master'S Degree, Critical Ethnic And Community Studies

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Ron Brown Scholar Sidney Frank Scholar Concentrated in Computer Science with coursework in Education.