Geraldine Ramirez, Ms Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida Area

As a certified life coach, I provide individual life coaching sessions as well as motivational workshops for conferences, businesses, churches, and schools. These sessions and workshops provide the motivation and strategies adolescents and women need to design the lives of their dreams! To learn more or to schedule your first complimentary session, http://projectsos.com/project-sos-services/life-coaching/.

Jacksonville, Florida

At Project Strengthening our Society (SOS) in Jacksonville, Florida, I have the privilege of “Educating, Equipping and Empowering” middle and high school youth to make healthy life choices. Through leading engaging presentations and "edutaining" life skills courses on goal setting, establishing boundaries, overcoming peer pressure and more, I passionately motivate over 13,000 youth throughout various counties in Jacksonville and the surrounding areas. Administratively, I have the privilege of leading curriculum development projects, I complete a variety of youth programming design, implementation and grant writing task, and lead varying professional development sessions for youth development professionals and educators in Jacksonville, Florida and throughout the state of Florida via online education.

Jacksonville, Florida

As a teacher for Duval County Public Schools, I mentored and motivated students to understand the connection between education and life outcomes.I also worked on a special project and led a team of teachers and nonprofit Youth Development Specialists in the creation of a NEW positive youth development life skills transition course for sixth and ninth grade students in 23 Title I Duval County Public Schools (11 MS and 12 HS)I relentlessly worked to use youth development research, frameworks and curriculum to design course standards, benchmarks, course content, lessons and assessments for the new semester course and I prepared and presented training and professional development sessions for all middle and high school transition course teachers to effectively implement the new course.

North Charleston, South Carolina

Worked with the Program Director of the Children's Leadership Development Program to successfully design, organize and implement program activities and curriculum to ensure that students were developing essential character traits and leadership skills Successfully led a classroom and a collective group of program children in building essential leadership skills and engaging in community development projectsResponsible for organizing, managing and leading/co-leading monthly and weekly professional development and staff planning meetings

Master’S Degree, Youth Development Leadership

Professional Contributions to Youth Development Leadership Award Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor’S Degree, Sociology, Youth Ministry, Psychology (Minor)

Activities and Societies: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated; Alpha Chi (Sociology Honors Society), Psi Chi (Psychology Honors.