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San Diego, California, United States

• Partner with Vista Unified School District (VUSD) and their MTSS team to strategically develop their restorative justice practices (RJP) program and create systemic equitable change across 26 school sites
• Develop and deliver customized trainings for school staff, provide coaching, and create spaces for educators to focus on the art of trauma-informed community building and amplifying joy and belonging for their students.
• Facilitate processes to repair harm when it… Show more
• Facilitate processes to repair harm when it occurs, including coaching, pre-conferencing, and facilitating harm circles that bring all involved parties together to dialogue about what has occurred and find ways to move.
• Facilitate proactive community-building circles for both students and school staff and hold space for courageous conversations based in shared humanity, dignity, and values
• Onboard and support new team members including training them on the use of the team's systems, providing opportunities for co-facilitation and coaching and curating community-building activities

San Diego, California, United States

• Partner with Vista Unified School District (VUSD) and their Student Support Services team to strategically develop their restorative justice practices (RJP) program and create systemic equitable change across 28 school.
• Facilitate processes to repair harm when it occurs, including coaching, pre-conferencing, and facilitating harm circles that bring all involved parties together to dialogue about what has occurred
• Develop and deliver customized trainings for school staff… Show more
• Develop and deliver customized trainings for school staff, provide coaching, and create spaces for educators to focus on the art of community building and amplifying joy and belonging for their students and themselves
• Facilitate proactive community-building circles for both students and school staff and hold space for courageous conversations based in shared humanity, dignity, and values Show less

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego, California, United States

Sunburst Studios is a unique and down-to-earth collection of handmade, slow-made and mindfully crafted jewelry. Everything we create is inspired by and rooted in nature, healing and spirituality, curated for the loving and adventurous at heart.At Sunburst, we believe that life is made up of millions of little "sunshine moments." Moments, things, people.

San Diego, California, United States

• Provided trauma-informed care and case management including crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, coaching, advocacy and referrals, to support unaccompanied minors in transitioning into temporary emergency.
• Worked with unaccompanied minors to find, contact and engage family members/guardians, as part of their reunification process
• Conducted investigations, which included interviewing a child’s sponsor, obtaining confidential information, gathering… Show more
• Conducted investigations, which included interviewing a child’s sponsor, obtaining confidential information, gathering evidence and documenting findings, in accordance with Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

Greater San Diego Area

• Ensure 24/7 advocacy services are provided to all survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, at their sexual assault forensic (SART) exam
• Provide crisis intervention, psychosocial and mental health support, safety planning, peer counseling/coaching and advocacy to victims/survivors of sexual and intimate partner/domestic violence, all using motivational.
• Advocate on behalf of sexual assault victims/survivors within various systems, to empower them and to meet their… Show more
• Advocate on behalf of sexual assault victims/survivors within various systems, to empower them and to meet their needs
• Recruit, hire, train, supervise, evaluate and schedule a team of 7 staff and 50+ volunteer advocates
• Create an environment sustaining volunteer engagement for people of all genders, ethnicities, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc.

Greater San Diego Area

• Manage and coordinate the day-to-day functioning of the DAFE advocacy response system, including scheduling exam response, training responders and building and supervising a team of volunteer staff responders
• Provide confidential crisis intervention, psychosocial and mental health support, safety planning, peer counseling, coaching and advocacy to victims/survivors of sexual and intimate partner/domestic violence, all by.
• Maintain a caseload of 30… Show more
• Maintain a caseload of 30 clients at a time
• Develop, organize and maintain DAFE program management systems, protocols and documents, according to grant terms and standards
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with community partners, and namely forensic health medical services, law enforcement agencies and the prosecutor's office Show less

Greater San Diego Area

• Facilitated restorative circles with youth in classrooms in various middle schools and high schools in the San Diego Unified School District
• Mentored San Diego youth on topics of inclusivity, conflict resolution and self-care
• Conducted data entry of indicator measurements for restorative practices in schools as well as for teacher and district restorative practice trainings

Bogotá D.C. Area, Colombia

• Collaborated with Interpeace and the UNIPEP (Police Unit for Peacebuilding) unit of the Colombian National Police on their portfolio of peacebuilding and transitional justice activities.
• Compiled data on all progress made in regards to collaborative efforts led by UNIPEP, in the first year after the implementation of the 2016 Final Colombian Peace Accord and produced the first annual monitoring report.
• Conducted research for a… Show more
• Conducted research for a project to create international alliances between UNIPEP and universities, peacebuilding organizations and funding institutions to assist with carrying out and spreading word of the innovative.

Greater San Diego Area

• Led project work and facilitated communication between two distinctly different teams: Women Empowered, which consisted of technical experts in the areas of empowerment and microloans and savings, and Strategic.
• Designed and conducted systematic review of outcomes, challenges, lessons learned and recommendations from six recent international studies of the micro-loan and saving program, called Women… Show more
• Designed and conducted systematic review of outcomes, challenges, lessons learned and recommendations from six recent international studies of the micro-loan and saving program, called Women Empowered
• Synthesized a study brief of a post project sustainability study report on Women Empowered groups in Ethiopia, meant to guide field staff to implement programming with best practices in mind Show less

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

• Created, managed and carried out a Downward Accountability Perceptions Evaluation of various Lima projects (Agriculture, Crafts, Social & Economic Development and Housing) in the South African provinces of.
• Developed survey tools and traveled to remote communities to conduct 200 field interviews
• Authored report of research findings and recommendations for organizational downward accountability

Greater San Diego Area

• Researched femicides in Mexico as part of an international project to document violence against women
• Created Social Innovation Mapping Tool of the border region of California and Baja California
• Planned and facilitated a networking event for social innovators in Tijuana, Baja California
• Facilitated Applied Peace Education Seminars in Ensenada, Baja California and Culiacán, Sinaloa, México

Cartagena, Colombia

• Developed and planned interactive lessons and taught English to adults, adolescents and children in varying levels of proficiency (A1 through C1)
• Created exams for advanced English courses and administered proficiency exams

Greater Boston Area

• Managed various projects, including overseeing consultants, managing large budgets, working within deadlines and client and compliance parameters
• Organized several global environmental auditing programs and EHS compliance projects, including one that examined scrap vehicle tire recycling and disposal in seven LAC countries
• Translated and analyzed household water-use surveys for a major contaminated site project in Brazil
• Prepared downstream audits of e-waste ITADs within… Show more
• Prepared downstream audits of e-waste ITADs within several jurisdictions for a top electronic company
• Conducted global chemical compliance work on major product stewardship project for an oil & gas client

Rochester, New York

Honduras

• Planned and implemented WASH-based interactive educational lessons, which centered on water sanitation and conservation, for both adults and children in the area of a newly-installed potable water system
• Developed household water usage and satisfaction surveys, which were created to gauge project PMEL (planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning) indicators and education needs in the community
• Led the team that pursued new project opportunities in the region through extensive… Show more
• Led the team that pursued new project opportunities in the region through extensive networking activities Show less

Rochester, New York, USA

Pittsford, New York, USA

Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

• Conducted Internet research to support the work of an engineer in implementing alternative biomass energy in a South African village.
• Translated and edited CDM documents, 2009 annual report and project reports.
• Updated and edited PR media such as the atmosfair website, flyers and letters to supporters.

Ma In Peace And Justice

Certificate In Restorative Justice Facilitation And Leadership

Bachelor Of Science (Bs)

Restorative Justice: Addressing Harm Conferencing (21-Hour Training Certificate)

Mediation Skills For Restorative Justice Practitioners (12-Hour Training Certificate)

12-Hour Certificate In Restorative Justice Conferencing

32-Hour Certification Training

Certificate In Mediation

Completion Of 12 Hour Workshop

Danger Assessment Certification

Tefl Certification (120 Hour)

Education record

Education record