Rachel Alter Email and Phone Number

● Spearhead development and drive continuous improvement of project planning resources to optimize planning processes for multiple internal teams● Increase number and diversity of community stakeholders through continuous one-on-one conversations, presentations, and invitations to collaborate● Oversee budgets for projects, outline workflows, assess resources and track timelines● Communicate and present to senior leaders and key stakeholders on key milestones● Oversee and plan forward-facing events bringing together over 200 individuals by collaborating with multiple internal teams and external vendors● Increase diversity of committee and cohort members year over year● Develop creative opportunities for teen professional development to assist in preparing teens from diverse Chicagoland neighborhoods to talk about and use skill sets gained from teen experiences after high school ● Manage an intern by providing opportunities to network, gain institutional knowledge, and tailor workload and tasks to personal interests and future career goals

• Assist internal program team with providing low-income youth with an application designed to improve their educational skills • Develop time-sensitive program and event schedules; work independently and as part of a team to meet tight program deadlines • Enter confidential information into electronic database systems to track program progress and results• Communicate written and verbal program updates and progress reports to internal and external teams• Recruit more than 100 elementary and middle schools in Illinois and Indiana to participate in the program• Coordinate internal staff schedules to arrange administration of events within schools• Work with 500+ school-age youth and adults to administer developmental and anxiety-related assessments/surveys • Serve as liaison between the internal staff, teachers, youth within schools and their parents• Contact parents by email, phone and mail to arrange events and manage RSVP lists• Measure program results; collaborate with internal team to investigate ways in which developmental skills of youth can be improved

• Handled two independent data management projects examining video footage from diagnostic assessments done in the lab• Involved with the coding reliability process that ensures the integrity of the manually coded data• Collaborated with speech-language pathologists, psychologists, researchers, graduate students, and research assistants to discuss topics related to child development and Autism Spectrum Disorder • Engaged in activities with young individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Plan and facilitate a daily program of care and activities for a classroom of preschool-aged children according to best practices in early childhood education and developmentally appropriate practice • Utilized an inclusive and developmental play-based curriculum in order to help both the typically developing children and the nearly thirty-three percent of children in the program with special needs to develop respect and understanding of one another

• Assisted in conducting five research studies with families in the community to explore the relationship between childrens’ early life experiences and future child psychopathology• Collaborated with a graduate student to create and conduct a research study in the lab to investigate the ways in which maltreated children view facial expressions

• Score neuropsychological tests from mental health clients in order to classify patient’s mental abilities• Scan client neuropsychological test scores into database system in order to ensure patient records are stored and easily accessible for the clinic staff• Developed a new client database to house information for 350 clients• Assist in preparing presentations for psychology workshops

• Encouraged partners/spouses of incarcerated adults to enlist in research studies that examined how various resources aid families’ ability to cope with incarceration by going to the local jail • Conducted home visits with the caregiver and children of the incarcerated parent to acquire information about the children and their home environment• Classified and entered data into an SPSS database in order to organize data from the studies• Coded children’s family drawing to better understand the stability and healthiness of the families

• Engaged with children between the ages of 8-16• Collaborated with staff members to develop age-appropriate programming for 100+ children • Encouraged campers to develop independence, communication and teamwork skills• Partook in safety, emergency, and health trainings in order to ensure the most positive experience for the campers and staff