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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Support our client, Remitly, on its continued customer growth by fostering relationships between the company and immigrant communities in North America.Lead and execute media efforts for Central America, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.

Remote

Greater Seattle Area

Spearheaded Remitly’s outreach and community engagement program. Worked in partnership with the Director of Multicultural Marketing and the Product Marketing team to build Remitly’s community presence across North America.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Provided bi-lingual solid waste education and support to multi-use buildings in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities. Through site visits, presentations, meetings, and staff trainings I supported Waste Management's commitment to sustainability and the City of Seattle's diversion goal.

Greater Seattle Area

Created a formative program evaluation on the new Seattle Building Tune Ups Policy for the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and the Environment. Provided recommendations for its implementation based on interviews, literature review, and data analysis. Prepared the tools and groundwork for a future impact evaluation of the policy to be conducted.

Greater Seattle Area

Full time role in the Vegetation Management department for Seattle City Light. My primary responsibilities were to help develop a new distribution line clearance policy, and compile a matrix of all franchise city tree codes and franchise agreement’s tree requirements, in order to make recommendations for more uniform requirements.Participated in the design.

Seattle

Introduction to International Relations teacher assistant. Held two discussion sections with 30 to 20 students twice a week for the Introduction to International Relations course. Maintained weekly office hours to assist students in their learning and understanding of the material.Developed weekly lesson plans, sustained professional correspondence with.

Asunción, Paraguay

Sylvis Forestry Company is an enterprise created in 2009 for the development and management of high-end technological forestry solutions. The company introduces practices of silvo-pastoral and agroforestry systems within its management model. As the Executive Assistant I supported the company’s President in project management and administrate duties..

Asunción, Paraguay

Acted as a liaison between American and Paraguayan institutions. Organized events to promote higher education in the United States. Facilitated one-on-one or group counseling sessions. Worked on social media, publicity efforts, and other office work duties.

Hamden, Connecticut

First Year Residential Experience:Provided additional support for students during the critical first 6 weeks of the semester. Served as a mediator for situations of conflict within students in the residence halls. Developed a program plan that connected students to their freshman year, focusing on building and fostering responsible citizenship, social.

San Lorenzo, Paraguay

NutriHuevos is a Las Tacuaras S.A. egg production brand located in Paraguay. It is the only company certified with the ISO 22000 and ISO 9001 in the country's poultry industry. - Assisted the Corporate Social Responsibility Department Director of Paraguay’s largest egg production brand in quality management, project systematization, and undertaking actions.

Arlington, VA

Assisted in the Natural Infrastructure and Climate Risk and Resilience strategies of the Department of External Affairs. Performed research on natural solutions and their long and short-term effects on livelihoods. Presented preliminary research on parametric insurance, adaptation investment, and sustainable insurance. Worked with the Climate Risk and.

Member of the coordination team for the 4th Latin American Conference for Community Water Management held in Paraguay, which connected more than 400 water management leaders from around LAC - July 2013.- Managed international logistics and coordinated with international speakers.- Assisted in achieving fundraising goals and managed the budget and finances.

Coordinated the Youth Leadership Program. Developed the program's core curriculum and helped manage logistics. The YLP was composed of 4 modules: Personal Development, Paraguayan History, Development & Democracy, and Social Entrepreneurship.

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Environmental Policy

Activities and Societies: Graduate Fellow in the Center for Environmental Politics at the University of Washington - Evans School.

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha (ΠΣΑ or PSA), the National Political Science Honor Society, Quinnipiac University Honors Program.

External Affairs, 4.0

Participated in the External Affairs program in which I took an intensive course on U.S. Foreign Policy and was part of a public policy.

High School

Activities and Societies: Member of the National Honors Society, varsity soccer and basketball teams.