María J. Durán Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Chapel Hill, Nc

Unc-Chapel Hill

• Serve as a primary contact for the program, while maintaining confidentiality and directing staff, students, and faculty, as necessary, to program director or other departments • Provide administrative support to program director, assisting with program events preparation and logistics, and budget breakdowns • Design all promotional material for program including the culture(s) speaker series flyers and posters• Oversee paperwork for visiting speakers and guests to ensure timely travel and lodging coordination• Manage guest transportation and scheduled on-campus speaking engagement logistics• Completely redesigned program website, creating a user-friendly and technically efficient web presence in Summer 2015 • Create, develop, and manage all program website content and regularly update events calendar• Track site usage statistics and monitor performance• Manage program listserv and forward emails of interest to listserv members• Maintain records of all program events and co-sponsorships; keep documentation of students who have declared Latina/o Studies as academic minor

Unc-Chapel Hill

ENGL 144: Futurisms in Popular Genres (Spring 2019)WGST 233: Introduction to Latina Literature (Spring 2018 & 2017)ENGL 364: Introduction to Latinx Studies (Fall 2017)ENGL 105i: Business Writing (Fall 2016)ENGL 129: Literature & Culture Diversity: Chicana/o Literature & Social Transformation (Spring 2016)ENGL 105: Writing in the Disciplines

University Of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

• Supported logistics and execution of weekly professional academic development workshops for a cohort of about 20 underrepresented minority students• Selected appropriate topics for workshops and recruited interdisciplinary and minority faculty to serve on panels• Administered weekly surveys to communicate evaluation impacts to program director • Provided weekly one-on-one writing instruction to support students’ writing and research progress• Provided supplementary writing instruction in one-on-one meetings to evaluate students’ writing and academic research progress• Oversaw students’ dorm experience and oriented students with regard to UNC research facilities and program requirements• Planned off-campus social activities for students and coordinated transportation• Assist with the event execution of the MURAP conference • Developed strong working relationships with faculty and staff• Composed an annual final report about professionalization workshops for institutional funders’ evaluation

Unc Academic Support Program For Student Athletes

• Developed purposeful and appropriate one-on-one instruction that employed a variety of effective teaching strategies and maximized time on writing assignments, ensuring instruction aligned with NCAA standards• Set specific academic and behavior goals for change in tandem with the students in every weekly session• Created an achievement-oriented and structured learning environment for student-athlete success• Collaborated with colleagues and the instructional leadership team to regularly evaluate and improve curricular maps• Participated in training and leadership development that focused on student motivation and building a strong tutor-student relationship

North Carolina State University

• Assisted Program Director compose training manual and co-facilitated Juntos Academy’s full one day training for 25 college student leaders and support staff• Co-managed logistics for Academy week’s activities and academic classes, ensuring effective and cohesive operation on a day-to-day basis • Organized and led staff meetings to support leadership, provide mentorship, discuss student concerns, and evaluate the daily successes of Academy• Provided targeted writing instruction to Academy students according to school grade level, ranging from rising freshmen to rising seniors• Proactively identified and worked to resolve student or staff concerns during Academy • Designed a Qualtrics survey for Academy 2015 and administered survey to 128 students• Composed and submitted a final report detailing results of Academy student survey with quantitative and qualitative analysis; made recommendations for future Juntos summer programming• Compiled current data about Juntos NC programs and conducted grant prospect research• Facilitated research, development, review, and editing of letter of inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation according to guidelines, persuasively communicating Juntos’ mission and proposed evaluation project

Phd, English (Latinx Studies)

Activities and Societies: Literature of the America's working group Research interests: Latinx Studies (cultural productions); US.

Ma, English; 20Th Century Literature

Ba, English

Activities and Societies: School of Embodied Leadership, L-Team, LeaderShape