Kayla Hernandez Email & Phone Number

New York City

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Perform extensive qualitative coding through MAXQDA system to draw themes from Play Collaborative Meeting Minutes across three different cell, sector, and district levels in Rwanda.• Assist in project outputs for dissemination, including digital dissemination report, to be presented to the government of Rwanda in order to inform social policies that promote positive early childhood development. • Collaborate closely with local and global research teams to address ongoing progress in research projects.

• Orchestrates small groups of Direct Service Team members on monthly visits to Franciscan Children's Hospital to drive the mission of spreading sunshine and engaging with pediatric patients.• Strategizes how to increase positive engagement between members and pediatric patients. • Actively maintains communication and collaboration with the national Project Sunshine organization, and Direct Service Team contacts, including Franciscan's Children's Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Ronald McDonald House.

• Developed and implemented unique fundraising strategies to meet annual fundraising goals established by Project Sunshine national organization. • Collaborated with and built long lasting connections with local businesses to support fundraising efforts. • Managed logistics of fundraising events while simultaneously delegating responsibilities to other organization members.

• Maximized member engagement by sending bi-weekly informative emails to list-serve of 100 P.S. club members.• Responsible for taking detailed meeting minutes at weekly deliberations with Executive Board.• Maintained an organized and clean Google Drive of organization's documents and contacts.

• Bolster student engagement and awareness on topics of social justice, anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion through the selling of social justice theatrical programs.• Maintain detailed knowledge on more than 10 social justice theatrical programs necessary to make sales as well as the technical expertise on Salesforce to keep the database of thousands of contacts up to date.• Consult with over 50 clients in universities across the country per week to analyze their Diversity, Equity and Inclusion demands and present appropriate solutions.

• Conduct a qualitative research study on Underrepresented Minority Students’ Perceptions of Culturally Responsive Teaching.• Navigate through the extensive databases of PsycInfo and JSTOR to gather research on the topics of the cultural lens approach, learning outcomes, and academic feedback as they relate to students of minority backgrounds.• Assist in conducting student interviews and organizing results to gain insight on how students of minority cultural groups are affected by academic policies in predominantly white institutions.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Conduct a comprehensive literature review of research on the Structural Injustices Impacting Women to be used for future programming and grants at the Women’s Lunch Place.• Navigate through the extensive databases of Boston’s Public Health Commission and Feeding America to compile the most up-to-date statistics on systemic issues relating to women of marginalized communities.• Actively synthesize and report research gathered to enhance the services and programming at WLP.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Applied Psychology & Human Development And Communications

Activities and Societies: Jenks Leadership Program, Project Sunshine, Engineering Healthcare Innovation, Organization of Latin American.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Social Inequality Service Immersion at the Getafe Central YMCA

Education record

Activities and Societies: Student Body President, Leadership Organization, Key Club, National Honor Society, Make-A-Difference Club.