Ph.D. student in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning. Researching the intersection between disaster recovery, nonprofits, and affordable housing

hazard resilience, affordable housing, urban planning, nonprofit management, program evaluation

Diversity & Inclusion in higher education

The summer internships includes working with a team of content strategists, editors and community engagement experts to create a style guide for inclusive content for Metro, the regional government in Portland, Oregon. The objective of this project is to help ensure that the words on Metro’s family of websites, social media channels, materials, ads and signs are welcoming to all people – particularly communities of color and other historically marginalized groups.

•Teaching and managing up to 25 students in high school classrooms• Developing and teaching lesson plans for classroom curriculum•Representing Elevate Oregon in building relationships with: teachers, counselors, and advisors at our partner schools• Establishing mentoring relationships with all students in the program to produce positive influence in their lives•Developing and implementing engaging activities for youth 1:1 and in small groups

-dedicated to providing excellent customer service-conducts sales and marketing calls to further expand our clientele-able to work with insurance companies-assisting in operations and finances to increase profit-in charge of daily operations at a satellite branch