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Columbus, OH, US

Columbus, OH

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Created over 80 hours of interactive onboarding and professional development content for adult learning. Topics included: curriculum implementation, behavior management, operational policies
• Responsible for recruiting, hiring, and facilitating 3-week orientation and onboarding for over 100 new employees across Ohio, both virtually and in-person
• Utilize LMS to develop instructional videos and user guides for policies such as timekeeping, attendance tracking, and incident reporting
• Creatively apply adult learning strategies in onboarding by surveying staff on professional development needs; analyze findings
• Directly oversee and mentor all college interns; provide weekly supervision meetings to discuss competency-based growth opportunities
• Work cross-functionally with the development team on grant proposals, collaboratively securing over $1 million in grant funding

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Curate and source responsive and engaging curriculum and products for students based on data analysis from quarterly evaluations
• Observe staff monthly in-classroom and provide coaching on effective strategies for management and engagement
• Oversee hourly staff time and labor documentation to ensure grant compliance and proper budgeting
• Establish rapport and collaborate with third party providers and grant evaluators to develop and maintain community partnerships

Columbus, Ohio, United States

• Crafted region-specific and environmentally relevant online learning modules for elementary social studies via learning management system
• Composed assessment questions that aligned with Depth of Knowledge evaluation levels; wrote learning objectives for alignment
• Lesson content included: indigenous history and culture, colonization and appropriation (past and present)

Gallup, New Mexico

• Cultivated robust daily lesson plans that adhered to long-term curricular goals, as well as district and state standards
• Originated culturally responsive, accessible lessons with differentiated content to ensure student growth at all levels
• Infused technology via eLearning in the classroom to enhance multiple pathways for mastery, growing and sustaining literacy and numeracy scores by over 100%
• Independently developed socially conscious social studies and English curriculum for entire grade (50 students)After-School Broadcast Journalism Advisor
• Designed, pitched, and implemented project-based after-school broadcast program for third, fourth, and fifth grade students, which put out virtual weekly broadcasts to a 300 student population5th Grade Girls Basketball.
• Coached the girl’s basketball team through two winning seasons—promoting values of diligence, teamwork, and sportsmanship in student athletes

New Mexico

• Participated in 6-week long intensive teacher training with sessions including: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Engagement Strategies
• Facilitated summer school programming for 20 rising fifth grade students, lessening the summer brain drain gap
• Attended public policy and school board meetings in Gallup, engaged with local, state and federal legislators including Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland
• Presented classroom engagement strategies to 50+ corps members at annual TFANM conference

• Developed leadership, communication, and management skills while giving tours of campus
• Convey information concisely and accurately to groups of strangers, while being flexible to sudden changes and situations (all while walking backwards for 90 minutes straight)

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Design, market, and execute unique promotional events for each Paramount Pictures film release
• Communicate with publicists to market, schedule, and attend advanced screenings of movies
• Compose detailed reports on said screenings and promotional events to report to supervisors
• Develop relationships with critics and publicists in order to effectively report on screenings while upholding professional demeanor

Columbus, Ohio

• Develop community programs to help at-risk Columbus youth (14-24) with leadership development, self-efficacy, and soft skills
• Partnered with the Boys and Girls Club of Columbus to assist with the Achieve Summer Work Program, placing 200 Columbus youth ages 14-17 into area jobs and teach them about career exploration and opportunities
• Cultured and delivered leadership development curriculum for approximately 25 youth in juvenile detention
• Created video, graphic design, and other marketing content as fundraising initiatives for the organization

• Advertised museum art classes and events through online graphic design and social media
• Interacted with museum guests and led activity-interactive tours for school groups
• Dedicated 20 hours/week to all aspects of the planning process for the museum’s Annual Island Party, which hosted over 2,000 guests as a fundraiser for the museum

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Public Management, Leadership & Policy

Activities and Societies: Mount Leadership Society Scholars, TEDxOhioStateUniversity, First Year Leadership Initiative

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Strategic Communication