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Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, WA

Sharing my spiritual journey through writing. Helping others find their way through writing and meditation. I have written and self-published four books (Write Your Life, 28 Days of Love, 28 Days of Kindness and 28 Days of Stillness). I am currently leading two meditation groups via Meetup: a women's meditation circle and a Violet Flame Meditation group.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Taught one section of Targeted Language Arts (which follows a similar, but modified, Language Arts curriculum for students eligible for Special Education services), and two sections of Strategies for School Success (which focuses on the social/emotional and study skills students need to be successful in school), all virtual using Microsoft TEAMS. Served as.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Taught 6th and 7th Grade Language Arts. Planned and implemented culturally responsive lessons, collaborated with building and district colleagues around curriculum development, attended IEP and 504 meetings and implemented student 504/IEP plans in the classroom, built positive relationships with students and families. This assignment started shortly after.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Taught 6th Grade Language Arts and Advanced Language Arts. Planned and implemented culturally responsive lessons, collaborated with building and district colleagues around curriculum development, attended IEP and 504 meetings and implemented student 504/IEP plans in the classroom, built positive relationships with students and families. Taught students in.

Bellevue, WA

Collaborated with mentor teacher and a fellow intern to design culturally-responsive curriculum for an argumentative essay unit; Taught four periods of 7th grade English Language Arts for nine weeks; Served as a Peer Study Group facilitator and assistant teacher for 8th grade AVID; Co-taught four periods of 7th grade Language Arts once a week using a.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Was hired as the fundraising database manager and shortly thereafter promoted to Director of Development. In this role I coordinated all fundraising activities for this multi-million dollar non-profit organization, including a multi-million dollar capital campaign to build a new facility. (Now the headquarters of the Bastyr Clinic on Stone Way in.

Bremerton, Washington, United States

Was hired by the Assistant Director of the Foundation to clean-up and reconfigure a fundraising database which had been neglected and underutilized. The job included cleaning up the database (eliminating duplicate donors as well as duplicate gifts), re-coding the entire donor system and converting the database to the new system. Once the system was.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Was hired as the Fundraising Coordinator and worked my way up to Fundraising Database Manager, assisting the organization through a conversion from a DOS-based fundraising management system to a Windows-based system (the Raiser's Edge). My role included assisting with the conversion process, creating a new donation coding and donation recording process.

Spokane, Washington, United States

Was hired as a book department associate at Hastings after spending a few months in Europe as an au pair after graduation. Within a few months was promoted to Book Department Manager and later was selected to oversee the opening of the book department in new stores in Coeur d'Alene, ID and Helena, MT. Was hired as the permanent Book Department Manager in.

Master In Teaching, Secondary Education And Teaching, 5-12

Ba, English, With Honors And Great Distinction

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Phi Alpha (German Language Honor Society)

Junior Year Abroad, English Literature And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Basketball, World Travel