Katherine Witmer Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Law firm specializing in representing both small and large businesses
• Worked with cases within commercial and contract litigation, employment law, tenancy law, intellectual property law, and others
• Performed the duties of both a legal assistant and paralegal for seven attorneys
• Prepared pleadings and motions, organized documents, made filings with courts, and scheduled depositions
• Maintained calendar for filing deadlines, conference calls and meetings, depositions, and court hearings
• Communicated effectively with clients, attorneys, court personnel, law clerks, and judges

Newport News, Virginia, United States

• Worked as an independent student researcher under Dr. Christopher Loy
• Continued to help with the Chesapeake Bay Ethnography Project
• Performed individual research on the cultural significance and changing cultural value of Crassostrea virginica in the wake of triploidy in the Chesapeake Bay
• Conducted interviews with scientists, regulatory agencies, and aquaculture industries
• Presented “The Effect of the Triploid Oyster on the Changing Cultural Value of Crassostrea virginica” at the annual Summer Scholars Symposium Conference

Newport News, Virginia, United States

• Continued to work as a Research Assistant to Dr. Christopher Loy on the Chesapeake Bay Ethnographic Project and furthered the previous research
• Evaluated several Sentinel Sites in order to establish a secondary research site for in-person community interviews
• Surveyed local marinas in the Newport News/ Hampton Roads area to get into contact with local Watermen willing to be interviewed
• Established professional contacts in multiple Virginia regulatory agencies and set up interviews
• Transcribed past interviews with local Watermen

Newport News, Virginia, United States

• Served as a Research Assistant for Dr. Christopher Loy during the Fall semester on his Chesapeake Bay Ethnographic Project
• Collated ecological data on salt marshes in the Chesapeake Bay
• Worked on tracking changes in the aggregate loss and growth of salt marshes as well as salinity in the Chesapeake Bay
• Transcribed past interviews with local Watermen

Richmond, Virginia, United States

• Assisted customers in the purchase and ordering of graduation videos
• Provided materials and assistance at graduations in Northern Virginia
• Managed customers in a friendly and efficient manner and interacted with the general public during presentations