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Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Co-teaching the 4-credit course A314: Collaborative Action for Children:Redesigning Education for Equity with Professor Paul Reville during the Fall 2022 term.Course Description: Eighty percent of children’s waking hours and all the rest of their lives are spent outside of school, yet society expects schools, alone, to level the playing field and create.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Head Teaching Fellow for HGSE Course Led by Professor Paul Reville Course Description: Eighty percent of children’s waking hours and all the rest of their lives are spent outside of school, yet society expects schools, alone, to level the playing field and create equal opportunity for all. It hasn’t worked. Urban and rural communities are coming together.

The PLS program brings together bold and principled leaders from across the U.S. who are committed to addressing critical issues both domestically and around the world. During the six-month program, scholars learn about leadership through the lens of the presidential experiences of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B..

Partnered with the Mayor of the City of Poughkeepsie, the Poughkeepsie City School District Superintendent of Schools and community stakeholders to create the city’s first-ever children’s cabinet. The cabinet is a collective impact organization that convenes leaders and executives from the faith-based community, philanthropy/business, City & County.

Spearheaded a partnership with Lead for America to launch a new citywide AmeriCorps-sponsored Fellowship program that attracts recent college graduates and young professionals from the Poughkeepsie and Hudson Valley region to one-year full-time public service placements to work on issues of community development with local social impact.

New York, NY, US

Strategic management and support to the IOP’s 16 student programs that engage 1,000+ Harvard College undergraduates. Development of civic and political engagement programming to inspire students to careers in politics, public service and social impact.Staff lead for the development of a Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging framework across all IOP student.

Coordinator of the Harvard Votes Challenge (HVC), a non-partisan, university-wide effort challenging each of Harvard’s 12 degree-granting schools to increase voter registration and participation among eligible students on their respective campuses. Developing a strategic plan for institutionalizing voter engagement and culture across Harvard schools in.

Boston, MA, US

The Social Impact Studio provides strategy and innovation consulting to strengthen the performance and impact of organizations creating value in the social space. We help ambitious leaders build high-performing organizations by bringing leading-edge insight and design to bear to solve complex challenges. Most often, we collaborate with clients to reimagine.

Co-designed an advocacy campaign plan and policy deliverables for the Foundation for Louisiana around cash bail, fines and fees reform in Baton Rouge, Louisiana through the Harvard Kennedy School "Creating Justice In Real Time: Vision, Strategies and Campaigns" course affiliated with the William Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at the Center for.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Spearheading the inventory of public service, civic engagement and engaged scholarship centers, initiatives and activities across Harvard College; analyzing gaps and opportunities for a robust inter-school civic engagement agenda; developing alternative models for organizing pathways to public service and civic engagement careers for Harvard undergraduate.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Medford, Massachusetts, US

Spearheaded the design process of The Tufts Civic Semester program that allows incoming Tufts undergraduates in the School of Arts & Sciences to spend a transformative first term abroad, combining for-credit academic coursework with a part-time internship at a community organization to create a unique experiential learning opportunity and a global.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Medford, Massachusetts, US

Designed an evaluation framework to measure civic identity, civic leadership and civic agency outcomes across undergraduate student programming.

Asunción, Distrito Capital, PY

Co-founded civil society organization forming part of the Global Teach For All network in 40+ countries originally founded by Teach for America and Teach First; spearheading efforts in fundraising and public-private partnerships for the 2017 launch of the organization, recruitment and selection of Teach for Paraguay Corps Members.

Stanford, CA, US

Boston, MA, US

Asunción, Capital, PY

Co-founder of the Paraguayan Government's first National Youth Service (NYS) Program, AROVIA Paraguay. The program places professional volunteers in 6 departments and 30 districts in prioritized extreme poverty regions to build capacity in local governments and community-based organizations.Senior Advisor to Paraguayan National Poverty Reduction.

Asuncion, PY

Co-designed national civil society network for sustainables cities in 12 paraguayan municipalities.Co-organized the first Paraguayan International Sustainable Cities Conference.Established strategic partnerships with government institutions (Secretary of Culture, Ministry of Interior, Secretary of Tourism, Secretary of Planning), civil society.

Washington, DC, US

Drafted a case study on the best practices of the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, in harnessing nightlife and the concept of 24-hour cities as strategies to revitalize historic city centers and public spaces.

Member of the organization team for the Latin American Street Art Festival, “Latido Americano” implemented for the first time in Paraguay with 40 international/local artists from Latin America and the USA to paint public murals in the historic downtown of Asunción. Fundraised ~525K USD for event in monetary and in-kind donations.

Led the organization of Paraguay’s second ever TEDx Conference for the first time in the historic downtown of Asunción with 8 local and international speakers on themes related to public spaces, community revitalization, violence prevention, public education, youth development and nightlife as a driver of urban transformation. Fundraised ~40K USD in.

Co-design of Paraguayan National Service Program "Arovia Paraguay" for university students and young professionals in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Seretary of Youth, Secretary of Culture, Secretary of Planning and Secretary of Tourism along with support from the United Nations, Peace Corps, Servicio País Chile and several other.

US

Co-founded AVINA Foundation Sponsored Encarnación Sustainable Cities Network "Encarnación Sustentable" (Sustainable Encarnación). The network forms part of the Latin American Network of Just and Sustainable Cities made up of 70+ cities in ten Latin American countries. Co-published the first report on quality of urban life indicators for the city of.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Co-founded Paraguay’s first volunteer networks, “Somos Voluntarios por un Paraguay Mejor” and the “Red Encarnacena de Voluntariado,” in the capital of Asunción and the city of Encarnación.Co-organized the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Paraguayan national volunteerism conferences for development. Co-founded the “Costanera Viva” initiative, a monthly open-air fair that.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Used Harvard Public Service Fellowship to promote and investigate sports and the arts as tools to empower low-income youth from the slums of the Santa Teresa neighborhood around issues related to public health, civic participation and community building.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Counseled, mentored, and taught 6-8th grade male students from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Developed curriculum on mathematics, literacy, political advocacy, leadership, social justice, and debate skills. Generated weekly lesson plans and supervised camp-wide field trips.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

10 hours/week conducting studies (as a confederate and computer operator), data entry, data analysis, and recruiting participants for studies.Worked with impedance cardiography, electrocardiography, electromyography, peripheral measures, and electrogastrography.Co-executed studies in areas related to discrimination, stigmatization and the experience of.

Balvanera, Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, AR

• Investigated government spending and public policies aimed at maximizing equity and growth in the country’s economy.
• Examined the 2008 global food crisis, its impact on the Argentinian and Latin American economies as well as economic policies developing countries throughout the world were using to combat it.
• Researched and presented reports on social protection programs in Latin America, best practices, and opportunities for the Argentinian context.

Mid-Career Master'S In Public Administration

Ed.M, Education Policy And Management

A.B., Psychology; Secondary Field In Economics; Spanish Language Citation

Postgraduate Diploma, Poverty, Development & Territory

Fellow, Summer Institute Of Civic Studies

Ciee Summer Study Abroad Program, Spanish Language And Culture

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