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Portland, Oregon, United States

Oregon, United States

Eugene, Or

• Delivered individualized technical assistance to national and international community-based organizations to support them in areas of program design, implementation, evaluation, and scale. • Coordinated projects in the areas of client interactions, task management and coordination, project documentation, time management, and coordination with a variety of stakeholders including community members and funders.• Supervised a team of 15 student volunteers and employees. • Coordinated and conducted 38 empathy interviews with a variety of community members to ensure program and evaluation design met the needs of the community.• Coordinated social media and marketing efforts, including planning marketing events, creating social media strategies, and overseeing social media content on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.• Coordinated anti-racism efforts by finding professional staff trainings and educational content, facilitating group discussions, and modifying practices and materials to strive towards becoming an explicitly anti-racist organization.• Received multiple awards for providing outstanding consulting services.• Tracked, forecasted, and planned spending for grant funded projects.• Assisted with EC PRISM model development including by creating tools to measure staff competencies as well as automated budgeting tools.• Assisted in the creation of a centralized, regularly updated web-based measures repository and search engine for early childhood measures by creating databases, conducting needs assessments, and coordinating with stakeholders. Access the tool here: https://impact.ecprism.com

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Member of a direct care team at a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Home serving five individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses under the jurisdiction of the Psychiatric Review Board.• Delivered interventions aimed at developing healthy life skills and coping strategies in accordance to individuals’ mental health service plans.• Led residents in community outings to facilitate community integration, compliance with mental health service plans, and overall well-being.• Created mental health service notes for billing purposes.• Participated in trainings on topics such as Verbal and Physical Interventions (VPI), Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), crisis de-escalation, trauma informed care, and culturally adapted therapeutic care.• Designed and lead therapeutic 13-week courses.• Received Qualified Mental Health Professional credentials from the state of Oregon.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Supported Latinx high school students through the Advocating for Latina/o Achievement in School program to support student's academic achievement by enhancing Latinx cultural pride, encouraging self-advocacy, and building critical consciousness.• Evaluated the efficacy of the intervention on academic performance and adolescent well-being.

Eugene, Or

• Led multimethod assessments on parents and children ages 3-7 involved in DHS in order to examine the effects of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) on self-regulation and behavior.• Assessed neural activation, physiology, and executive functioning through EEG/ERP, ECG, behavioral indicators, and self-report measures.• Assessed intelligence, behavioral self-regulation, language development, working memory, attention, and inhibitory control.• Expertise acquiring and processing ECG (HRV and PEP) and EEG data.• Delivered evidence-based attachment and attunement based skills to children while providing sibling support to facilitate engagement and retention for family completion of weekly Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) sessions.• Led weekly undergraduate meetings and mentor undergraduate students.• Trained new assessors to complete assessments and process data.• Coded behavior using the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System.

Eugene, Oregon Area

Transcribed audio recordings in Spanish, English, and indigenous languages in order to facilitate Dr. Lynn Stephen’s efforts to provide expert testimony on behalf of individuals and families seeking asylum in the United States.

Toledo, Oregon

• Delivered programmed emotional and behavioral support to at-risk adolescents in an outdoor therapy program in accordance to their mental health service plans.• Facilitated specialized activities such as surf groups for youth with autism.• Worked with guardians to better understand the goals of the program and build rapport with their child and nuclear family in a fun, healthy manner.

Master Of Education - Med, Prevention Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Thesis: Intergenerational Trauma and Child Parasympathetic Functioning; faculty advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Skowron.

Bachelor’S Degree, Psychology; Spanish Language And Literature, 4.01 Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Thesis: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parasympathetic Response during Social Engagement in At-Risk Children.

High School, 4.0 Valedictorian

Activities and Societies: Valedictorian; Head Editor, Design Editor, Yearbook; Senior Class President; President, Interact; Activities.