Advocate for underserved students in collaboration with social worker and school counselors through a Social Justice project. Responsible for providing students with individual and group counseling, while engaging in crisis management, prevention, and response. Collaborate with school counselors on individual graduation plans for students, while ensuring students with IEP/504 plans have appropriate accommodations.

Responsible for providing counseling, mentoring, and tutoring services with a middle school student for two hours a week. Created and delivered virtual self-care presentation for parents and students involved in the program, which is partnered with the New Zion Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Responsible for planning an interactive virtual presentation for weekly sessions with high school students based on key topics and identified student needs. Tasked with providing students with the resources and support needed to become college and career ready. Engage in weekly icebreaker activities with students to build rapport and develop effective counseling relationships.

Responsible for conducting interviews for the faculty spotlight section of the CSI Newsletter for the William & Mary Counseling program. Communicate needs of online students and bridge the gap between them and the on-campus community. Launched and co-facilitate the Student Ambassador program for online students, while also serving as a Student Ambassador. Engage in advocacy efforts for social justice issues on local, state, and federal level.

Ensuring underserved youth do not fall behind academically, socially, or emotionally over summer. Help provide underserved youth with lunch, books, and other school supplies. Responsible for helping set up tents and chairs in order to create a shaded area where the children participate in a daily planned activity. Tasked with keeping an eye on the children, while ensuring they are listening, following directions, and being respectful to other children and volunteers. Constantly interacting with and listening to the children, practicing reading with an individual child, and playing sports or another activity with a group of children. Responsible for providing children with snacks, lunch, and drinks brought by a local pastor, and ensuring they clean up after themselves.

Responsible for operating the video camera for The Drive’s broadcast. Tasked with producing replays in a timely manner and creating highlight clips for The Drive’s database. Responsible for keeping stats for both teams, while ensuring that the scoreboard is always updated as fast as possible.

Responsible for creating and presenting numerous core curriculum classroom instruction lessons each week. Member of the on-track team to ensure underserved students are not falling through cracks and getting left behind socially, emotionally, or academically. Responsible for managing caseload of individual students and crisis management, prevention, and response.

Engaged in individual and group counseling, both in-person and virtual. Created and delivered virtual classroom instruction lessons based on core curriculum and student needs. Observed and participated in IEP and 504 meetings, while also attending faculty meetings and district-wide middle school counselor meetings.

Responsible for creating a curriculum for each week, including physical activities, crafts, CATCH games, homework help, reading time, and team-building activities to enhance social skills. Tasked with modeling proper behavior, acting as a role model, engaging with students, managing behavior, setting clear expectations, building interpersonal skills, developing listening skills, helping with homework, and ensuring students follow directions and adhere to the YMCA core values. Charged with ensuring the students are safe, learning, having fun, and always respecting their fellow campers, while dealing with any issues that arise in a calm, professional, responsible, and appropriate manner. Provide students with healthy snacks, which are separated into healthy serving sizes to ensure proper nutrition. Planned, organized and led weekly field trips, while driving YMCA bus during summer camp and to pick up students from various middle and elementary schools in Greenville.

Responsible for providing underprivileged children with a safe place to work on social skills, practice reading and math to prepare for the upcoming school year, and get exercise by participating in fun activities. Provide children with breakfast and lunch, while encouraging them to serve themselves, display proper table manners, and not be wasteful. Tasked with ensuring the children behave appropriately, follow directions, and listen to volunteers and fellow campers.

Volunteer to come into Hughes Academy middle school a few times a week to eat lunch with my mentee and provide him with encouragement and advice as he dealt with a heavy workload. Discuss mentee’s future goals and the steps to take in order to accomplish them, including participating in extra-curricular activities during high school to start building a resume. Responsible for looking over a weekly report to ensure mentee was maintaining satisfactory grades and attending all classes as he completed both seventh and eighth grade in one school year.

Recapped and previewed sporting events, including baseball, tennis, softball and golf, for LanderBearcats.com and sent out press releases to local media outlets. Tasked with keeping official statistics via presto sports and updating social media platforms on an interim basis while the Asst. AD was out on paternity leave.