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Greater New York City Area

Restorative Justice TrainingSocial Justice EducationWorkshop Facilitation and DesignClassroom Management TrainingTransformative Leadership CoachingBlackBoyRise Trainings and RetreatsOrganizational Management TrainingSocial Impact, Equity and Justice ConsultingKeynote SpeakingPersonal Development Coaching

Center for Strategic Solutions (CSS) provides tactical support, applied research, and collaborative problem-solving to schools in the United States and abroad as well as agencies outside education. The central focus of our work is helping organizations to implement strategies that close equity gaps and lead to the improvement of student outcomes. CSS works.

The Center for Racial Justice in Education’s’ mission is to train and empower educators to dismantle patterns of racism and injustice in our schools and communities. At the Center for Racial Justice in Education, we envision a world where all young people learn and thrive in racially equitable, liberating, and empowering educational spaces.

Greater New York City Area

BlackBoyRise(BBR) is a love intervention intended to counter the devastating forces of racism and other forms of oppression. It is a healing space for self-identified boys and men of color. Through BlackBoyRIse(BBR) boys and men of color identify and unpack internalizedracial oppression and social injustices, identify tools to address them and belong to.

Train and coach educators and youth-service professionals to gain the practical tools they need to foster positive behavior and promote success for their young people. Help youth professionals learn to be positive leaders and role models, create caring and structured environments where healthy relationships develop, and take action to de-escalate.

United States

Responsible for partnership building, program management, developing immersion logistics staff and program development.

Greater New York City Area

Served on the school administrative cabinet as an advisor to the principal, SLT and Community School Team (CST), and provided leadership for coordinating the work of different partners within the school, while aligning the work of partners with school faculty.Served as a point person for agencies and programs interested in partnering with the school, and.

• Established goals and objectives for the center and effectively oversaw all personnel, programs and facility operations.
• Coordinated volunteer services and its related activities.
• Assisted in the creation of fundraising and development plans as well as their implementation.
• Assisted in the timely submission of updates, end-of-year reports, and requests for renewals to foundations and donors.
• Built, and managed relationships with public, private, corporate and individual… Show more
• Built, and managed relationships with public, private, corporate and individual donors.

• Planned, coordinated and oversaw daily after-school, evening and summer camp program activities with supervisory responsibility over all assigned staff, volunteers.
• Worked closely with the office manager, resources coordinator, maintenance staff, and program specialists to provide a safe and structured learning environment.
• Modeled and upheld all Agency rules. Provided direction to and supervised assigned program staff, and evaluated same as scheduled. In conjunction with… Show more
• Modeled and upheld all Agency rules. Provided direction to and supervised assigned program staff, and evaluated same as scheduled. In conjunction with the Center Director, planned, organized and managed special events.
• Assisted in the oversight of building maintenance.
• Established daily communication with maintenance and program staff to ensure that facility is safe, clean and fully functional. Over-saw the Youth Employment Program in a manner that supports the supervisor of the.

Washington Heights

Give.Be.Grow (GBG)Give.Be.Grow rests on the premise that young people are a respectable, concerned, powerful, yet under- utilized force in their community. The project views young people as assets to be developed (not problems who need fixing), who have the time, ideas, creativity, connections in the community, and willingness to work hard in order to help.

Bronx, NY

New Heights’ core program, College Bound, offers comprehensive middle school and high school educational programming and support services to approximately 200 students annually and takes place daily during after-school and Saturday hours and throughout the day during the summer.Responsible for the daily administration of school-based program and charged.

• Urban Dove is dedicated to enriching the lives of New York City’s at-risk youth by creating and managing sports-based recreational activities in a supportive, positive environment where kids can develop the confidence.
• Inspired, motivated and taught life skills to alleged Juvenile Delinquents (JDs) and Juvenile Offenders (JOs) with cases pending, and post-adjudicated juveniles awaiting transfer to state… Show more Urban Dove is.
• Inspired, motivated and taught life skills to alleged Juvenile Delinquents (JDs) and Juvenile Offenders (JOs) with cases pending, and post-adjudicated juveniles awaiting transfer to state custody.
• Served as workshop facilitator for secure and non-secure juvenile justice facilities.
• Hosted workshops at Crossroads Juvenile Center, Horizon Juvenile Center, and BRIDGES Juvenile Center, as well as serving over 15 other non-secure facilities. (Abbot House, Beach Avenue, Boys Town, Episcopal Social.
• Responsible for devising, implementing and facilitating innovative workshops, planning and supervising sports activities, serving as a mentor to incarcerated teens, acting as liaison between Urban Dove and.

Since its inception in 1982, La Unidad Latina has remained on the vanguard of political and community empowerment by developing influential leaders that strive to exert knowledge and power into its peers in order to attain mutual success. We commit ourselves to academic excellence, leadership development and cultural enlightenment, enhanced by a diverse.

Countee Cullen Community Center

Countee Cullen Community Center is A Program Of Harlem Children's Zone, Inc. We are a multifaceted community center serving children and families in Central Harlem. We offer day camp, after school recreation and tutoring, an upward bound program, and college prep for juniors and seniors as well as other community events.Assisted Coordinator in developing.

Trail Blazers is an award-winning youth development organization that, for 125 years, has touched the lives of thousands of young people from New York and New Jersey. Through outdoor experiential education and adventure programs, Trail Blazers helps people of all ages build the values and life skills essential for productive citizenship.

505 W 171st Street

FYI is a non-profit, community-based organization. Established in 1993 to develop the leadership and competency of at-risk youth and their families through self-designed volunteer community service projects. www.freshyouth.org

Realized the Martin Luther King Jr. Project (MLK), a program aimed at producing a well-rounded socially aware individual. Adapting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s teachings of a “Beloved Community,” The MLK Project plans to develop a nurturing community where members of the community unite collectively and have the ability to directly affect their community.

Bridge-USA is a non-profit organization that works to reduce risk factors and increase opportunities for youth. They organization hosts school-based mentoring programs, authentic career opportunities and community connection workshops that help to motivate youth towards higher achievement and living positive and healthy lifestyles

Bridges serves over 400 middle school students through academic, personal and cultural enrichment as well as two specialized programs: the Healing Our Problems Early Program (HOPE), which focuses on sexual literacy and personal development, and our year-round Middle School College Preparation Program designed to help students in East Harlem’s middle.

Education record

Leadership Team 141 #Allthewayup, Transformation

Activities and Societies: Leadership Team 141 #ALLTHEWAYUP Momentum Education is an organization dedicated to providing all people with.

Emerging Leader In Nonprofit Management, Nonprofit Management

A comprehensive, twelve-session nonprofit management course which provides training to future executive leaders in NYC’s afterschool.

Political Economy

Examined the principles by which wealth is produced and distributed, paying careful attention to a few key concepts and used this.

Bachelor'S Degree, Human Services, Business Management