● Advise low-income referrals one-on-one weekly on academic, scholarship, and career issues, including emotional or social barriers; identify and creatively address common issues● Collaborate with case management team to discuss, track, and identify resources● Created a two-class series using Microsoft Office to improve common barriers like organizational skills, time management, and computer literacy; implement in small groups twice monthly● Wrote 14 resource documents about local apprenticeships and paid trainings, educational scholarships, and practical and emotional job search strategies; shared with 23 clients● Develop networks across campus with resume, hiring, and professional development specialists● Document and track progress, plans, and tasks for referrals; send weekly written reports to team

● Design and deliver instruction to formerly incarcerated cohorts on local job resources like University of the District of Columbia’s Workforce Development program● Worked with 10 schools and community organizations to secure devices for 38 students with goal of engaging students in relevant programming● Plan and implement annual check-in program, conducting interviews with staff to improve organizational functioning; write up issues and solution ideas for director

Dec 2022 – Present (part time)Sep 2020 – Dec 2022 (full time)● Assess expertise of, build relationships with, and book diverse group of guests, from academics to young organizers and activists to families of incarcerated people; build show schedules in Excel● On deadline, organize and produce multiple moving parts: pitch stories; write scripts, show packaging, and social media posts; research topics for multiple shows per week; manage show flow and prep guests● Train new staff in guest management and producing media● Maintain and update database of subscribers in Patreon● Plan, run tech for, and facilitate subscriber-only monthly Q&A Zoom webinars with show host; edit audio● Edit video in Adobe Premiere for show b-roll; design graphics in Adobe Illustrator or Canva● Led planning and creation of a successful podcast—with over 1,000 monthly paid subscribers—including developing content and structure, designing a release plan, and consulting experts in the field

● Cultivated relationships with and booked a wide variety of guests for a two-hour daily radio show● Learned, synthesized, and clearly explained complex topics on air with 1-2 hours notice● Coordinated with team; pitched stories; wrote scripts and show descriptions, and guest hosted

● Developed collaborative working relationships with state-appointed reform councils, made up of legislators, judges, state prison officials, and prison reform advocates, to work through year-long processes of determining reform policies in Maryland, Louisiana, and South Carolina● Interviewed dozens of judges, public defenders, probation agents and officials, formerly incarcerated people, and other stakeholders to understand systemic criminal justice problems● Worked closely with prison reform advocates in Louisiana and South Carolina, culminating in a 500-plus-person rally at the Louisiana State Capitol● Analyzed interview data, prison demographic data, and research-based practices on incarceration to guide councils through the development and implementation of new policies

● Spoke with people serving juvenile-life-without-parole sentences calling from prison about their cases and linked them with legal and informational resources● Matched supporter organizations’ capabilities with areas of need and advised them on opportunities to get involved● Collected data on the number of incarcerated people in specific states and researching the intricacies of state policies● Hired, managed, and developed 1-3 college interns per semester

● Edited polls, survey results, and reports for clarity, consistency, and messaging● Provided individual advising to polling analysts to improve polls and reports● Used creative problem solving to address frequent survey issues

● Managed the book research for stories of the life of Mississippi enslaved people and Freedmen during Reconstruction● Created and executed a research plan that primarily relied on source consultation at the Library of Congress and National Archives

Managed a swim team with swimmers aged 4-18, planned practices and swim meets, worked with parents, ran workouts, counseled swimmersSuccessfully developed leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills