Nathan Payne Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Provide 1:1 mentorship and advising to a caseload of 140 low-income and first-generation college students in closing the degree divide.
• Holistically support students with course planning, major exploration, financial aid renewals, resource connection, campus involvement, personal crisis, and beyond.
• Create and send out monthly newsletters using Mailchimp highlighting scholarships, events, and reminding students of important deadlines and resources available to them.
• Engage in frequent professional development trainings on topics ranging from student support, accessibility, DEI, and beyond.
• Leverage Salesforce to track quantitative (e.g., financial aid completion) and qualitative (e.g., student interactions) data and to stay organized as students are supported by a network of past, present, and future.
• Serve on our Foundry10 (community partner) Scholarship Committee to decide how to distribute $30,000, create a low-barrier application and rubric, promote/advertise the opportunity, and systematically decide on final.

Tacoma, Washington, United States

• Worked with K-12 students of diverse backgrounds across multiple schools, including Special Education and English Language Learners (ELL).
• Learned to adapt to a wide variety of curriculum, classroom procedures, demographics, and even language barriers.
• Supported “High School and Beyond Plan” development and shared resources with students.
• Proctored PSAT.

Bellingham, Washington, United States

• Supported “Identity Pathways Project” (funded by $254,280 National Science Foundation [NSF] grant) longitudinal study on college student narrative identity development lead by Dr. Kate C. McLean (website linked).
• Confidentially organized and managed database containing hundreds of multi-campus college student narratives.
• Inductively developed thematic coding systems and applied mixed-methods analyses to data.
• Conducted literature reviews and contributed 50+ relevant publications to project’s reference management software (Zotero).
• Coauthored on APA journal manuscript published to Qualitative Psychology (see publications).
• Presented findings at a global academic conference hosted by the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA).

Federal Way, Washington, United States

• Maternity leave replacement at Todd Beamer High School.
• Taught College & Career Preparation (CCP) and Physical Education (PE) to six classes or ~180 students.
• Facilitated exploration of post-secondary pathways and broader self-discovery through interactive lessons and engaging discourse.
• Formed strong partnerships with Counseling Office and Career Center and connected students to these resources, often times personally walking students to them.
• Engaged in creative curriculum development and planned and enacted dynamic, student-centered lessons.
• Managed Canvas course pages and evaluated student work submissions.

Maple Falls, Washington, United States

• Developed and operated a summer engagement program for 22 youth in East Whatcom County—a rural, under-resourced community.
• Program emphasis on mitigating “summer learning loss” and providing social-emotional connection.
• Fostered partnerships by reaching out and successfully recruiting the support of 14 community organizations that provided free educational activities, materials, and meals for our underserved youth.
• Recruited and managed 5 program volunteers for additional support.
• Created weekly schedules and tracked $10,000 budget.
• Facilitated daily set-up/tear-down—ensuring safe drop-off and pick-up of youth—and kept the days’ activities running smoothly.

Federal Way, Washington, United States

• Supported hybrid learning environments while schools made the challenging transition back to in-person instruction.
• Worked one-on-one with students in person and on Zoom.