J. Sam Milstone Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

3001 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, Il 60618

Chicago, Illinois, United States

● Effectively initiated H-1B and H-4 extensions for Cummins Inc. Foreign Nationals and their families.● Handled daily mail and any correspondence from USICS, during the COVID-19 Pandemic● Cooperated with 9-member team to collect necessary document and prepare upwards of 250+ Adjustment of Statuses in the month of October 2021.● Prepare and monitor +100 immigration cases, including adjustment of status, extension of status, change of status, consular notification, and premium process upgrades.● Developed templated letters of support, emails, and outlines of best practice for assistant paralegals to use to aid Foreign Nationals.

Greater Chicago Area

● Worked closely with Registered Nurses to supervise a 16-bed acute pediatric, mixed-gender unit.● Led skills-based/therapeutic group sessions adhering to a LGBTQ-informed hospital curriculum, as well as, creating engaging age-specific group activities for children from 5-17-year-old patients.● Authored nightly progress notes on each psychiatrist’s patients; describing behavior, affect, and treatment progress. ● Advocated for LGBTQ specific treatment in the “Polaris” unit which treated patients of minority gender identity status.

Greater Chicago Area

● Worked under Dr. Brian Feinstein’s mentorship on various aspects of his ongoing research on- and off-site.● Designed blueprint recruitment material for the Bisexual Visibility Project and communicated with editors to create useful social media ads.● Draft wrote various updates and profiles of the project with minimal supervision which utilized feedback from editors and publish to press.● Concurrent with draft writing responsibilities, added extra items examining sexual orientation and gender identity to the survey. These resulted comprised my Undergraduate Thesis.● Coded a 300+ item survey via Qualtrics which was distributed to 700+ participants.● Sat in on Dr. Feinstein’s instruction preparing fellow interns to conduct quantitative phone interviews.

Chicago, Illinois

● Part-time employment at Chicago based firm Kopka Pinkus & Dolin for 3 years.● Cooperated with fellow support staff to maintain a functional work environment in order to facilitate attorney's work.● Required extensive instruction at initial employment to understand legal English and role of different documents pertaining to court proceedings.● Maintained file copies and digitize paper files for 15+ active attorneys.● Preformed basic hardware IT tasks to allow easy billing for attorneys. ● Filed Notarized legal documents to Federal, Illinois State, and Cook county courts.

Greater Chicago Area

● Worked in collaboration with Dr. Courtney Bonam and Caitlyn Yantis.● Examined the construction of first impressions relative to ethnicity and race.● Ran hour-long sessions facilitating Participant’s Qualtrics surveys, with the study’s construction involving deceit. ● Organized 100+ paper logs of participants and encoded qualitative data via Excel.● Required posting sessions on recruitment software in advance, and corresponding participants. ● Attended monthly lab meetings with study heads to discuss better lab functioning. ● CITI Human Subjects; Social / Behavioral Research Investigators Course Certificate (2017-18).

Master'S Degree, Mental Health Counseling/Counselor, 1St Year

Bachelor Of Science, Applied Psychology, Alumni

Activities and Societies: In-touch Crisis and Support Hotline Paraprofessional, UIC Pride member ● Honors: cum laude, Dean’s List, Honors.

Associate Of Arts And Sciences - Aas, Transfer Science, Alumni

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Member GPA 4.0/4.0 magna cum laude Graduated as a Presidential Scholar