Restructured office positions into an Assistant Director of Career Services and Associate Director of Employer Relations. Transformed work-study positions to peer career assistants and internships with a focus on career competencies students develop as student employees. Create and foster relationships with local, regional, and national employers interested in recruiting students. Coordinate the implementation and data collection for the annual first destination survey. Increased response rate from 39% to 70% during my first academic year. Build and maintain relationships with department chairs, faculty, staff, and alumni. Organize, implement, and provide oversight of career programs, events, and services. During the first academic year, worked with staff to develop and deliver 90+ workshops on career-related topics for students and presentations about career services for on and off-campus partners. Hire, onboard, and provide ongoing training for office professional staff, peer career assistants, and interns. Supervise four professional staff and seven student employees. Manage office budget and external funding sources. Provide career advising for undergraduate/graduate students and alumni. Represent Career Services at orientation events, director's meetings, and conferences. Work with the Director of Financial Aid to provide oversight of the state university internship incentive program funding. Provide support for students interested in applying to The Washington Center (TWC) Academic internship program. Partner with department chairs, faculty, and alumni relations to host alumni panels. Collaborate with the Advancement Office to develop new internship funding opportunities. Partner with athletics to offer life skills workshops. Manage the Career Closet. Developed a semesterly marketing plan for the office to promote programs, events, internships/jobs. Serve on the Financial Sustainability Task Force phase 2 committee, First Year Experience Advisory Board.

Supervised professional staff and work study students. Created new job description and oversaw hiring of Associate Director position. Oversaw and managed departmental budget. Worked collaboratively with school deans and faculty to provide career and academic advising to students. Connected with employers for internship, job and programming opportunities. Co-lead initiative focused on connecting core competencies course curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences and revamping academic/career advising. Applied for and received grant from Davis Educational Foundation. Worked collaboratively with Alumni Office to connect students with alumni and to coordinate events. Transitioned institution from previous career management platform to Handshake. Planned and implemented campus wide career related programming and initiatives. Worked closely with Institutional Research Office to develop survey and collect first destination data for recent graduates. Organized bi-weekly discussions centered on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Advised the Latin American Student Organization. Helped manage social media account. Oversaw transition of work study student role to Peer Career Assistants student leadership model. Served on multiple committees including: Strategic Plan Sub-Committee, Corporate and Community Engagement team, Student Success Task Force, National Latinx/a/o Heritage Month Committee (2020), NECHE Review Committee, Leading for Change- Teaching and Curriculum Subcommittee, Crocker Center Committee. Oversaw two search committees for career center positions and served on search committee for Director of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and Director of Alumni and Family Relations.

Defined strategies and led efforts to engage first-year and sophomore students, and students from underrepresented populations. Provided supervision and leadership to paraprofessional student staff. Created processes to connect students from underrepresented identities with internship and job opportunities. Provided career counseling and advising to students and young alumni via individual advising and workshops. Served as Industry Advisor for the Education, Non-Profit, Human Services and Government, Law & International Affairs career communities. Helped recruit students for and coordinate the annual Non-Profit Careers Conference. Searched for opportunities and built connections with employers who are committed to hiring students from marginalized identities. Planned and implemented the Future 2021 "College to Career Conference".

Worked with students and alumni on career development through individual counseling, workshops, programs, and online resources. Assisted students in process of career exploration by teaching job search/networking skills and strategies. Provided resume, cover letter and personal statement critiques. Facilitated the Alumni Job Shadowing Program including recruiting alumni hosts and student participants, preparing hosts and students for visits and evaluating the program. Managed the ALANA Mentoring Program by recruiting students and alumni participants, matching students with alums, providing prompts for communication and evaluating the program. Served as the liaison for the Liberal Arts Career Network and a committee member of the Spotlight on Careers Committee within LACN. Maintained public school education industry on the Spotlight on Careers website. Serve as a Deputy Title IX Coordinator and notetaker for Title IX cases. Advised the Government, International Relations, Law and the Education, Non-Profit and Human Services Career Communities. Served on the Community Engagement Committee and assist with planning of annual Non-Profit Career Conference. Planned programs, workshops and events including Annual Career Week, ALANA Networking Events, State Department Information Session and Race in the Workplace ALANA Alumni Panel.

Served as the Program Coordinator for the Passport Program and the Odyssey Program. Coordinated housing, staff training, program development for both programs and planned yearly Passport retreat. Co-directed The Mentor Program for ALANA, International and Passport students. Planned weekly mentor meetings, recruited, trained and supervised sixteen Peer Mentors and one Peer Mentor Assistant. Served as the staff adviser for the Latin American Student Organization and the Bishop Healy Committee (BHC). Planned annual Bishop Healy luncheon and the ALANA Baccalaureate Banquet for over 250 attendees. Oversaw the operational and emergency fund budgets for BHC. Served as secretary and co-chair of the Sister to Sister Collaborative and represented the Office of Multicultural Education on various campus committee. Planned and executed multiple programs as Co-coordinator of the Professional Development Committee for NASPA Region 1 Latino/a Knowledge Community.

Oversaw multiple buildings on campus including 1 sophomore building, 2 first year buildings and 1 upperclassmen apartment building throughout the duration of three years. Supervised 1 graduate assistant and over 25 Resident Assistants throughout the three years as Area Coordinator. Co-Chaired the Recognition Committee and served on the Resident Assistant Selection, Resident Assistant Training, Area Coordinator Selection and Martin Luther King Jr. committees. Coordinated the Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math living and learning community. Administered the implementation of educational, social and community building programs. Managed administrative tasks and budgets for each residence hall. Adjudicated student code of conduct cases as a judicial officer for the Dean of Students Office and served as primary contact in crisis/emergency situations on a 24 hour duty rotation for entire campus. Coordinated summer camps and conferences through organization of meals and housing. Co-Coordinated the Cura Personalis Mentoring Program including selection, training and supervision of peer mentors and training of faculty/staff mentors. Co-advised the S.A.L.S.A executive board and advised the Residential Community Council. Served as a First Year Experience Instructor where I taught a class of thirty first year students on the topic of jesuit education and mission at Fairfield Unviersity. Co-founded/advised an all-women’s group for women of color on campus and served as staff leader for two international trips to Ecuador and Nicaragua.

Supervised 11 Resident Assistants within a residence hall of 320 first year students. Administered the implementation of educational, social and community building programs and managed administrative tasks pertaining to the daily functioning of a residence hall. Managed building budget conducted health & safety inspections, submitted work orders and facilitated room changes. Assisted with recruitment, selection, training and evaluation of Resident Assistants. Co-Advised Resident Assistant Council Board. Served as primary contact during on-call duty rotation for entire campus. Served as Multicultural Affairs Summer Graduate Assistant and adviser to the Mentoring Program. Created and coordinated Student of Color Mentoring Program including matching, training of mentors and mentor meetings. As the College Access Fellow, conducted research in the Springfield community related to college access initiatives. Presented findings of research at NASPA Region 1 2007- "Can't get there from here: A Look at College Access".