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Provide department strategic management and leadership. Manage department budget oversight and planning. Manage program recruiting and retention. Curriculum design and assessment. Develop program operations manuals. Provide job and internship counseling to current and former students. Draft and maintain program MOU’s and policy documents. Teach online and face-to-face graduate level courses as needed. Oversee on-site face-to-face field school locations in Africa and the U.S.(Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda & Chattanooga).

Coordinate, direct and manage services associated with the Global Community Development Master’s Program. Oversee on-site face-to-face field school locations in Africa (Tanzania, Kenya). Develop and monitor field school budget. Build new partner relationships. Develop program operations manual for Rotations 2 and 3 of the master’s program. Provide job and internship counseling to current and former students. Grant analysis. Draft and maintain program MOU’s and policy documents. Recruit students. Monitor and manage international student finance and payments. Teach online and face-to-face graduate level courses as assigned.

Assess and monitor current meal partners including the Child Care and Adult Food Program (CACFP). Respond to client concerns. Schedule and conduct nutrition education classes with partner agencies. Conduct bi-annual client satisfaction surveys. Assist in conducting annual training for site coordinators. Maintain statistics and perform various administrative tasks.

Conducted electronic document review, including privilege review and quality control review, for law firms on a variety of matters including pharmaceutical, breach of contract and patent infringement litigation. Worked with and familiar with different e-discovery platforms including Relativity and Concordance. Conducedt legal research and draft 50 state survey regarding mortgage commitment terms, conditions and content for subsidiaries of state chartered banks.

Selected and analyzed appropriate legal source material and wrote articles for various Thomson Reuters publications including American Jurisprudence and the Maryland Law Encyclopedia. Conducted research and edited articles for submission.

Drafted outreach materials including brochures for community members, testimony for legislative hearings and witness statements. Drafted a variety of legal documents including client letters, motions, briefs and memoranda. Investigated housing complaints made by low-income residents of public and subsidized housing in Baltimore City. Provided advice and counsel to public and subsidized housing residents. Provided direct representation to clients in administrative hearings and court proceedings.

Filed affirmative civil cases in D.C. Superior Court in the area of consumer law. Communicated with Superior Court personnel via telephone, letter and motions regarding filings and conducted pre-trial conferences. Managed case calendar for multiple active matters. Drafted court documents, such as entries of appearance and certificates of service. Acted as “Friend of the Court” per request of judges to investigate and serve process. Netted more than $50,000 in awards and fees for clients and organization and provided direct representation for low-income elderly residents of the District of Columbia in consumer related litigation. Investigated and litigated cases involving foreclosure rescue scams, predatory lending issues, debt collection, and identity theft. Conducted discovery including taking and defending depositions. Advised and counseled seniors through “Know Your Rights” presentations about consumer law related matters. Served on D.C. Superior Court Small Claims Division rules committee. Served as a panel member in continuing education course designed to train practicing attorney about emerging trends in consumer law during the National Legal Aid and Defender Conference.

Assisted with the development of a system used to manage database which tracked and assigned workers compensation cases involving persons affected by Hurricane Katrina and serviced as a liaison between WCRC and the Centers for Medicare Systems. Managed internal database; monitored and implemented system updates; conducted trainings for employees about regarding changes to database. Conducted final reviews of workers’ compensation set aside proposals.

Provided online instruction to adult and returning students seeking an undergraduate degree. Instructed two sections of Communications 210, Business Communications, which included: facilitating online classroom discussions by providing discussion topics, grading written assignments from students, enforcing academic honesty policies, answering any course related questions that arose from students and providing overall course grades.

Protected investors from commodities fraud schemes and enforced provisions of the Commodities Exchange Act. Investigated complaints about potential violations of commodities laws. Those investigations included: responding to investor complaints; taking witness statements, investigating Ponzi schemes, and responding to anonymous broker complaints. Filed cases in multiple Federal jurisdictions against boiler rooms that used aggressive telemarketing tactics to defraud investors and who misappropriated investor funds. Drafted court documents, such as entries of appearance and certificates of service. Responsible for all aspects of commodities investment fraud cases, including taking testimony, developing investigative plan, analyzing potential violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, performing document review and making recommendations to the Commission regarding appropriate legal action. Acted as co-counsel in CFTC lawsuits and assisted in all aspects of civil litigation including, depositions, motions practice, hearings, developing trial strategy and legal research.

Provided direct representation to low-income residents of the District of Columbia in landlord and tenant matters. Acted as “Friend of the Court” per request of judges to investigate and serve process. Litigated housing cases involving District of Columbia Landlord Tenant law before the Civil Division and Landlord and Tenant Branch of the District of Columbia Superior Court; drafted pleadings, discovery, and various motions. Drafted court documents, such as entries of appearance and certificates of service. Provided representation in administrative hearings before various District of Columbia agencies including the District of Columbia Housing Authority and the District of Columbia Office of Administrative Hearings. Introduced future lawyers to the area of public service and to the practice of law by supervising third year law students in civil cases before the District of Columbia Superior Court and Administrative agencies. Provided classroom instruction in the area of Trial Advocacy. Participated in the creation of course outlines and curriculum and coordinated and supervised undergraduate interns.