Makana Brooks Email & Phone Number

Palestinian Territories

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Research assistant in the University of Virginia's Humanitarian Collaborative, an initiative housed under the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. My particular research focus was on early childhood development in areas of humanitarian crisis, with a few focus regions including Syria, Bangladesh, and the U.S.-Mexico border. My research has a thematic emphasis on providing our youngest citizens with the resources needed to tell their own stories. In this role, I regularly assisted a university professor in compiling resources necessary for academic and practical work. Additionally, I engage in exploratory research concerning how certain humanitarian crises -- such as the Syrian civil war and the COVID-19 pandemic -- affect early childhood development and resources for development. I also attended and made record of meetings and summits concerning global early childhood development and early childhood education.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

In this temporary AmeriCorps position, I served as a classroom leader for students from sixth to eighth grade at a summer enrichment program in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. Our curriculum covered communication arts, financial literacy, physical education, nutrition and gardening. I also helped facilitate program-wide activities serving students from Kindergarten to eighth grade.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

In my first year of university, I worked as a virtual and in-person tutor through the America Reads initiative, a national program sponsored by the Federal Work Study program. In this position, I tutored students from ages four to twelve in a wide variety of subjects, including basic literacy, comprehension, basic numeracy, and fluency in reading. I worked in various capacities: I served as a classroom assistant in a virtual second grade classroom, I worked as a private tutor for students identified by the local public school system as needing extra support, and I worked in-person in a COVID-19 learning pod designated for refugee and asylum-seeking students in Charlottesville, Virginia, an International Rescue Committee city.

New York, United States

Prior to enrolling in college, I participated in the AmeriCorps program City Year, working at a middle school in Queens, New York primarily serving first and second generation immigrant children and English as a New Language (ENL) learners. I served as a class assistant in two eighth grade classrooms, facilitated literacy intervention groups with students identified as needing extra support, and facilitated after school enrichment programming. In addition to this work, I also routinely participated in physical projects, such as painting murals and building school infrastructure, in K-12 schools throughout the five boroughs of New York City.

B.S.Ed With High Honors, History, Youth And Social Innovation, 3.8

Activities and Societies: 2023-2024 Lawn Resident, Student Council, University Guides Service, Humanitarian Collaborative, University.

Arabic Language And Literature, A

I studied Arabic language and communication at the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco, an immersion school, in order to further.

Education record