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Wilmington, De, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

As the Program Manager, I collaborate with the Rodel team and organization partners to improve Delaware's education system. My key projects include increasing teacher diversity through thoughtful changes in recruitment and retention and improving the quality of college and career education throughout Delaware. As a team, we are constantly thinking about scalability so that more students can benefit from an improved, more equitable, education system.

Wilmington, De

In Delaware TeenSHARP offers two high school programs. I managed both the Delaware Goes to College Academy program and the Striver Delaware program. Striver scholars receive programming each Saturday over the academic year consisting of undergraduate college courses taught by professors at near by universities such as University of Delaware, Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Students also take a rigorous math course and receive lessons about college readiness weekly. The Delaware Goes to College Academy is designed as a blended in-person and online program to provide students with free, high-quality college admissions guidance. The program assists students with the selection of high school courses to prepare them for college, selection of colleges to apply to, writing college essays, visiting college campuses, applying to scholarships, completing and negotiating financial aid, and preparing to transition to college.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Managed and planned strategic recruitment efforts for specific regions of the country; cultivated staff recruitment planning efforts including management of staff proposals, feedback, and broad office recruitment goals and providing training to staff. Evaluated and selected applicants for academic excellence, extracurricular impact, and fit with institutional goals. Contributed territory knowledge and analysis in selection committees involving partners from all four undergraduate schools. Managed all aspects of admitted student sponsored travel including: implementation of new system through World Travel, management of various funds and $100,000 budget. Planned 35 Experience Penn events: recruit, train, and prepare alumni panelists, communicate with guests, and evaluate feedback.Served as liaison for 2016 Philadelphia Cheesesteak Counselor Tour planning committee – event that brought 50+ counselors to tour Penn, Temple, and four other Philadelphia institutions over a 3 day visit. Planned and implemented Counselor Connection and CBO Counselor Connection, led selective admissions workshop, case study exercise, and booked travel for guests.

Support associates and senior staff in the execution of project tasks and research activities. Serve as assistant on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Consortium project to support review of English language arts and mathematics items to ensure proper alignment of the items to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Prepared English Language arts curriculum materials for Baltimore County Public Schools aligned with Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and 21st century skills.

District Of Columbia

My fellowship consisted of two placements, first I worked with SEIU on the Immigration Reform Team and afterward I worked in the office of US Senator Coons. As a Legislative Fellow in the office of Senator Coons (DE) from Jan 2013 - May 2013 I assembled daily updates for Foreign Relations staff consisting of press clips focusing on over 15 countries in Africa. I also formulated immigration related questions that were used by the Senator in Senate Judiciary hearing. I was responsible for Initiating and continuing conversations with organizations in Delaware to better understand state immigration reform needs. My duties also included drafting legislative memos on education and immigration related bills and conducting research to assist health, education, labor and immigration staff. As the Immigration Fellow with the Immigration Reform Team at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from Aug 2012-Jan 2013 I created and maintained an excel workbook monitoring members of Congress on immigration issues; used the immigration workbook to create SEIU 2013 immigration action plan; assisted in execution of immigration training for non-minority members of SEIU; coordinated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) beta testing volunteers; and compiled quotes from political as well as organizational leaders on immigration post election.

Cornell University

In this role I frequently communicated college information to prospective students and parents, contacted community-based organizations in order to recruit minority and underrepresented students, and oversaw mailings and updated materials list.

Uc Berkeley

Explored specific concerns raised by workers at a Mental Health Facility. Researched workplace hazards, interviewed workers and observed them under actual working conditions. Through this process I was able to gain an understanding of the world of work from the workers' perspective. As a program participants I, along with my partner, developed a final report detailing our findings, as a way to give something back to the workers. We hope that this information can be used to improve the work environment at Napa State Hospital.

Engaged and participated in the multiservice campaign focusing on SodexoIdentified facilities contracting Sodexo; strategically decided where organizing will be successful Creatively acquired documents, financial statements, and other records; wrote, requested, and tracked numerous FOIAs and PRAsAnalyzed and compiled relevant information gathered from Lexis-Nexis, labor databases, and other sources such as Guidestar, and Hoovers Online

Manage 30 members, conduct weekly meeting, Advocate and educate Cornell campus on the DREAM ActPlan and execute various events such as Dia de la independencia, Dia de los Muertos, Brown ThursdaysWrite budget and coordinate group trips to university conferences

Furnished weekly employee disciplinary reports and presented to Hospital DirectorParticipated in grievance and pre-termination hearings, responsible for annotation and summarization of proceedings Prepared Performance Plans for 2 employeesConducted employee training audit and presented to Hospital Director and Training Department

Masters Of Science, Public Policy Analysis

Bachelors Of Science, Industrial And Labor Relations

Activities and Societies: Cornell Tradition Fellow MEChA de Cornell CU IMAGE