Kyndall Dowell Email & Phone Number

Novato, California, United States

• Conducted research to identify the correct defendants for cases (including contractors, manufacturers, suppliers, and other types of businesses. • Conducted research to identify and locate the correct people to serve for defendants. • Used various online and offline sources to find information (state corporation databases, county and city government records, LexisNexis, newspaper databases, libraries, in-house records, etc.) • Communicated findings with attorneys, paralegals, investigators and other staff and request further information as needed. • Reviewed existing defendant and agent information to confirm it is current. • Assisted attorneys and other staff to find additional information regarding defendants. • Wrote memos summarizing findings and save relevant research, documents and exhibits. • Created and updated database records for defendants and agents. • Informed other departments and individuals of relevant updates. • Obtained information and order records from government agencies.

Oakland, California, United States

Attending court hearings 3x a week in downtown Oakland at the René C. Davidson Courthouse to brief cases of injustice and write editorials on behalf of The Vanguard, a student run academic legal journal. -Drafted editorials on court cases, documenting legal proceedings and decisions.-Completed research, compiled data, updated spreadsheets, and produced timely reports and journals.-Performed routine data entry or document management.-Participated in workshops and presentations related to projects to gain knowledge on legal issues and court proceedings.

Berkeley, California, United States

-Hired as a part of the research team under the mentorship of both Graduate student instructor and university Faculty member.-Collected and documented personal narratives, organized art exhibitions, and facilitated community programming to inform and engage the Black students and Bay Area locals.-Developed effective skills of communication and adaptability as result of working independently in a deadline-oriented setting.

Berkeley

Interning for the African American Student Development Office, working in the Fannie Lou Hammer Black Resource Center as a means of extensively planning intentional events and welcoming and serving members of the Black community at UC Berkeley.

Berkeley, California, United States

I’ve spent a lot of my time during undergrad being of resource to communities of color and from marginalized backgrounds holistically, through my campus commitments/leadership roles. Over the past few years, I’ve worked in student government both on and off campus to meet people where they’re at, with the intention to give them access, platform and visibility. After years of community engagement and advocacy efforts, I’ve since retired from campus organizing and am hoping to continue to serve campus communities/organizations through my role in the lead center. What’s exciting about the LEAD center is that it is the epicenter of student groups and of their needs. It facilitates everything from legality to financial to community enrichment and festivities. From working within/for and participating in student groups on campus, I’ve seen the work that can be done to positively impact others and I want to be apart of that.Being a Black student myself, with the layered identities I hold, I understood the confusion many of my peers had with navigating campus resources and demystifying campus polices for their individual benefits, or in other severe cases, their survival. I’ve dealt with a lot of situations where my identities weren’t accommodated for or met with university policy and had to develop creative avenues for management or relief. The disconnect doesn’t end with myself, but is something I’ve observed with many students both within the Black community and beyond, in regards to how comfortable students feel with interacting and engaging with university entities like the LEAD center, for having their voices heard, thus needs met.Peer Leadership Consultants (PLC's) are a diverse group of student leaders who provide assistance to all communities at the LEAD Center. Our purpose is to provide educational experiences, advisement, and administrative support to students and their organizations.

Berkeley, California, United States

BUILD is one of the biggest literacy programs in the East Bay that connects UC Berkeley students to youth of the Bay Area to serve as mentors to help aid them in their reading/learning experiences.As a mentor, my sole responsibility is to meet my children with intention and initiative. I see my role as being someone that is committed to their growth as a scholar through practicing flexible, accommodating, resourceful, patient and nurturing styles of teaching that create learning environments that are comfortable and encouraging. I feel that this opportunity is for me to use what I’ve learned in my education and training thus far, as a base for constant reflection and evaluation of my skills and to continue to re-develop as a better version of myself as an educator.

Berkeley, California, United States

After about 3 years working in undergraduate offices and spearheading student initiatives and campaigns, I am now exploring other avenues of leadership to expand and re-develop my understanding of organizing and community/cultural engagement. This position, much like my previous term in 2019-2020 with the undergraduate External Affairs Office for Vice President, will allow myself to be in proximity to spaces and opportunities for growth as I exercise and build upon my knowledge and skill of being a community liaison and bridging gaps of access, among additional responsibilities through carefully curated community projects and events.

Berkeley, California, United States

Through the summer of 2020 and into the Fall 2020-2021 school year, I fulfilled my role as a full-time student organizer for social justice, seeking to redefine what it means and looks like to achieve equity in the state of CA, and undo the long 24 years of systemic racism and discrimination many people of color and women struggled under the current legislation, Proposition 209, which banned Affirmative Action in 1996 under the guise of being a civil rights initiative, but has since barred many minorities from obtaining equal opportunity and has thus affected their socio-economic mobility altogether as a result of it's colorblind and gender blind policy and rhetoric. I was 1 of the 4 original leading student organizers who were responsible for the becoming of Proposition 16 and the Yes on 16 Movement and additionally served as the Regional Lead/Field Organizer for Northern CA/Bay Area. The fight for 16 was hard fought and remarkable of an experience, as it was close to being a constitutional amendment that would have repealed Proposition 209 and restore Affirmative Action in the state of CA.

Berkeley

I work heavily on UCSA’s Racial Justice now campaign, a campaign about Police accountability, K-12 Reform and Higher Education accessibility, and ultimately works towards demolishing the school to-prison-pipeline. This year I was elected as the Racial Justice Now Campaign Vice Chair, and have been honored with the annual mission to lay the groundwork in repealing prop 209.

Berkeley, Ca

Worked as a community liason, bridging the gap of communication or lack thereof from student government and campus communities to improve student life on campus and facilitate and cultivate a positive and/or productive relationship communities of color have with UC campus administration with regards to how they experience and move through the institution. Through this role I intentionally worked with minority student groups and campus leaders of color, both on UC Berkeley's and across UC campuses to organize and implement insitutional, multi-generational liberties for the wider collective. Some of my most notable or impactful experiences have been working with members of our community's undocumented students program and student group, RISE (Rising Immigrant Scholars in Education), for COVID-19 relief aids at the start of March 2020 through May 2020.

Berkeley, Ca

Racial Justice Now is a UC Student Association (UCSA) campaign aimed towards fighting for collective liberation and acknowledgement of our differences as students grow together as one society. For the 2018-2019 school year, this campaign is focused on increasing funding for recruitment and retention centers across the UC system.

Berkeley, California, United States

Serving as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for a PhD graduate student of the African American Studies Department, in a course focused on Black Feminist Artistry and Healing. The course was offered to both undergraduate students and Black high school girls from the local/general Bay Area region, as they were participants in the Trio Upward Bound program, hosted under or in collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley EOP/CE3 programs. My role as a Teaching Assistant consisted of creating weekly learning plans, reading and working through the material and creating digestible information for our high school students (as the course readings and theories/vocabulary were at the college level), and extending myself as an approachable figure to individual students; providing a safe and accommodating, intentional learning environment that inspired, encouraged, and nurtured vulnerability, community, sisterhood, and personal growth and development.

Berkeley, California, United States

Summer Bridge is traditionally a six-eight week intensive summer residental program for incoming first-year students upon their acceptance and admission into the University of California, Berkeley. The Bridge program assists with helping students make the Golden Bear leap to success; preparing and arming them with the tools essentsial to their becoming at the institution. The Bridge program has served a variety of students from an array of backgrounds and realties for over 30 years, creating a fruitful, deeply challenging, remarkable, and tranformative experience for newly admitted students. After participating in the program as a student of the 2017 Cohort, I have since dedicated 2 years of my undergraduate experience providing service to students from all walks of life, helping them make the life changing decision of where see themselves (as far as the schools they were considering attending) and if Berkeley was one of those places. I held the responsibility and honor of connecting with them and their families through phone conversations (or any other accessible form of media) and occassionally traveling to in-person yield events to provide resources on the program and institution with the goal of empowering students to take ownership over their education.

Student Learning Center

Serving as a resource for newly admitted students of color, by offering my story and lived reality and experience as a Black student in higher education, to help them make the right decision in deciding where they want to attend college.

Berkeley, Ca

The Black Recruitment and Retention Center (BRRC) is one of the seven student-run, multicultural organizations on campus, that focuses on increasing diversity within the institution. This past semester I interned for BRRC and assisted in planning and organizing programs for high school students. I specifically interned for the K-12 recruitment coordinator, and was trained to develop and lead college application workshops, chaperone Bay Area College Tours, and mentor students from the local area, and ultimately be a resource to those applying for college.

Berkeley, Ca

The RJ Center’s mission is to collaborate with partners across the UC campus and Bay Area to provide education, research, trainings and services in Restorative Justice and Restorative Practice. Through these efforts, we are building a sustainable network of RJ leaders, practitioners and supporters to increase capacity in the RJ field, build intentional communities of care, and facilitate restorative responses to conflict and harm caused by social justice inequities.

Ingelwood, Ca

This past year, I worked as a student intern for the Mayor of Lawndale, Mayor Robert Pullins-Miles, at Assemblywoman Autumn Burke's office in Inglewood, CA. I've learned much about the legislative procedures at a local and state level, worked with database organization, and have had much practice in conducting and performing speeches, data analysis and performing in the work space as an assistant.

Certificate, Legal Assistant/Paralegal

Admitted into the highly competitive ABA approved Paralegal training program at the University of California, Los Angeles where I studied.

Bachelor'S Degree, African-American/Black Studies

Activities and Societies: Extracurricular Activities: Community Grass-roots organizer, leader, and politician. Peter E. Haas Public.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Black Student Union (2015-2018): Secretary (2016-2017) President (2017-2018)