Kim Lynette Abella Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Lead and manage virtual events for a global online UX community, overseeing the planning, execution, and follow-up of workshops, discussions, and other live sessions.- Coordinate cross-functional teams including social media, marketing, HR, and post-production to ensure cohesive event promotion, smooth delivery, and post-event content dissemination.- Plan and facilitate team meetings, creating detailed agendas, taking minutes, and ensuring clear action items are delegated and followed up on.- Facilitate speaker outreach by identifying and connecting with potential speakers with diverse backgrounds, scheduling, and ensuring alignment with community goals and values.- Ensure clear communication among internal teams and external partners to maintain alignment on timelines, deliverables, and tasks, utilizing Notion, Discord, and Google Workspace.- Organize event logistics, including managing registration, setting up virtual platforms like Zoom, Discord, Google Meet, Eventbrite, and LinkedIn and ensuring proper technical support for live events.- Moderate and host events, engaging participants through Q&A, interactive discussions, and breakout sessions, promoting an inclusive and engaging environment for UX learners and professionals.- Track key performance metrics to analyze event impact and gather participant feedback, using insights to improve future event planning and strategy.- Give and receive feedback regularly within the team and cross-functionally to ensure ongoing progress updates and implement improvements across the event planning and execution process.- Maintain team dynamics, providing support and guidance to team members, promoting collaboration, and resolving any conflicts that may arise during the event lifecycle.- Develop strategies for continuous improvement, implementing new approaches to increase event participation, engagement, and speaker diversity.

- Collaborate with various teams and external speakers to ensure smooth execution of events- Source speakers with diverse backgrounds/expertise for collaboration and growth opportunities - Organize team meetings with agenda management and provide comprehensive minutes- Align event formats and topics with community needs- Review monthly performance and provide insights and recommendations- Foster speaker relations for future events and community involvement- Host/moderate during community activities

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Collaborating with Principal Supervisor to convert MA thesis findings into a publishable journal article manuscript.- Manage timelines, priorities, and deadlines for manuscript preparation- Edit and format research materials for publication, maintaining academic writing conventions and adhering to submission guidelines- Coordinate virtual meetings and presentations with academic peers and supervisor- Prepare progress updates, current manuscript drafts, and meeting agendas of research findings- Convey complex information clearly and concisely for its intended audience- Presented project at 57th Annual CSA Conference at Congress 2024

York, Ontario, Canada

Volunteer position for the York Sociology Graduate Association (YSGA)• Documented meeting minutes for YSGA meetings• Acted as liaison between YSGA members and the graduate program assistant.• Coordinated and hosted virtual social gatherings during Covid restrictions

• Collaborated in the development of a joint sociology-geography interactive AR walking tour project for a first-year UBC sociology class• Conducted qualitative narrative interviews and edited interview audio and narrative dialogue• Sourced and corresponded with interviewees• Developed walking tour resources, consulted with faculty, identified and collected relevant background information, assessed potential field sites, prepared online material• Worked within and guided a team alongside a co-research assistant• Communicated project content and goals to team members• Built tour content into the VR & AR training platform Motive.io • Conducted field tests and troubleshot basic technical issues• Received the UBC Vantage College 2019 Educational Innovation Project Award • Included in Congress 2019 (Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences)

• Digitized and managed physical archives as part of the History Alive project.• Conducted data entry in Microsoft Excel to update the HIV Care Registry.• Managed correspondence with organizations for Care Registry information.• Prepared the bi-monthly Positive Living magazine for organization members. • Assisted with additional administrative duties and event coordination (Red Ribbon Breakfast, AccolAIDS, Open House, Volunteer Recognition Dinner)• Set up rooms, AV equipment, and information tables for meetings and events

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Provided excellent cordial, sociable, and efficient customer service and built a strong work ethic• Consistently and successfully worked under pressure and multitasking• Comprehensive experience with customer interaction, processing customer requests • Accurately addressed queries or concerns & following all procedures and protocols• Provided information and services at customer service desk

• Co-facilitated workshops focused on gender and sexual issues.• Provided information and directed individuals to support workers during tabling events.• Offered resources for healthy sexual relationships, consent, and sexual education.

Master'S Degree, Sociology

Thesis: Hybridized Identities of 1.5- and second-generation Filipinos in the Canadian Diaspora Graduate in the field sociology.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Joined UBC Photo Society (2017-2018), Outreach Volunteer at AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre, Golden Key.