-Lead all development efforts, including crowdfunding, grants, and sponsorships.-Build sustainable growth model for organization's expansion.-Create and manage >$150k budget, including accounting responsibilities.-Gain legal status as independent nonprofit organization, maintain good standing.-Interview, hire, train, support, and oversee all employees and volunteer teachers to facilitate pen pal program for 1650+ students annually.-Recruit, train, support 3000+ volunteer annually to participate as pen pals.-Manage website, email engagement, and social media platforms reaching 20,000+ monthly.-Create resources and curriculum for teachers to use to enhance the program in their classroom.-Develop new outreach initiatives to expand available volunteer opportunities for STEM professionals.

• Grade Level Lead - plan and facilitate weekly grade level meetings, manage deliverables, plan events such as family nights, build relationships with my team and foster a culture of feedback and high achievement.• Curriculum Team Member – develop and implement scope and sequences for Next Generation Science Standards, lead professional development for science teachers, and research and design assessment tools for use by all teachers.• Dynamic Mindfulness Implementation Team – Represent my school in network-wide group focused on implementing a yoga and meditation curriculum at the middle school with the goal of teaching students strategies to manage stress.

• Write, plan and teach new Next Generation Science Standards curriculum.• Design instructional focus on building student’s knowledge in three areas: the engineering design process, computer skills, and ability to ask and answer high level questions through labs and projects.• Create and implement innovative culture-building strategies including weekly grade-wide assemblies to highlight positive behavior, academic achievement and encourage team support.• Launched Transcendental Meditation involving twice daily meditation sessions with pilot group using trauma informed technique to build students's toolbox for managing stress and trauma.

• Direct and oversee all site-level operations for an after school program of 90 middle school students.• Interpret parent-teacher conferences from Spanish to English; communicate daily in both languages.• Align after school program with school day by writing lesson plans, attending staff meetings, and collaborating with administration to establish an intervention class for students with below a 2.0 GPA.• Create and revamp THINK Together curriculum to align with Common Core standards• Interview, coach, train, and evaluate four front line staff as well as weekly volunteers.

• Member of Teach For America, a highly selective national service corps who commit to teaching two years in an underresourced public school to bridge the educational achievement gap.• Finished in top third of district for student growth on 7th grade science NC Final Exam in 2012-13.• Wrote and edited Common Core curriculum, planned for, and taught 7th grade science at a Title I STEM middle school. Used electronic data-tracking to ensure data-driven, standards based instruction.• Founded, wrote the curriculum for, and lead a Leadership class for 20 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.• Created an individualized tutoring curriculum for 30 students struggling in math and language arts.• Established and coached the NMS Dance team. Recruited members, monitored academics, designed and taught dances, and held practices for performances.