Pick up, clean, and sort donations for Materials Center. Support Education Coordinator with organizing workshops for teachers in private and public schools. Lead play based loose parts and found materials activities with children ages 3 and up.

Plan and execute activities for children to explore food, flavors, and strengthen motor and sensory skills. Facilitate inquiry-based activities that explore scientific processes and critical thinking.

Assisted lead teachers with classroom management. Guided prescribed activities in the classroom.

Lead cooking and tasting classes with children ages 18 months to 8 years.Design cooking and sensory lessons based on seasonality, culture, and taste.Place orders with food and equipment vendors, and maintained inventory.

Developed and led cooking classes in person and virtually for students ages 7 to 17 years.Corresponded weekly with parents about lesson details, class sign-ups, and upcoming events.Curated social media profile highlighting student experiences, weekly recipes, and ingredient facts.

Translated interview footage from Italian to English for documentary about Sophia Loren.Created subtitles for the post production phase with assistant editor.

Conducted garden and hydroponic greenhouse tours for New York City's public school classes.Assisted with tastings of vegetables directly grown in the community garden.

Coordinated logistics for shipments from Italian food producers to warehouse in New York.Forecasted inventory needs, and communicated with producers to place orders.Corresponded weekly with producers about the harvesting and manufacturing of food products.Curated blog entries about producers, and the historical, cultural, environmental background of food products.

Independently created lesson plans for bi-weekly interactive Italian culture and language classes.Conducted evening adult language classes with an average of 10 students per class.Crafted and lead personalized private lessons for adults with different Italian language skills.

Facilitated storytelling classes for Springfield high school students in the Media Lab program.Organized workshops and debriefings on race, culture, and human rights.Fostered team-building with students through writing, producing, and editing radio stories.Coordinated interviews for Words in Transit podcast producers.

Translated cultural food documentary from Italian to English.Edited selected footage, created transcriptions, and built subtitles.

Produced a video story of personal experience abroad to share with the IFSA Butler community.Organized and facilitated study abroad outreach events.Appointed as the spokesperson and reference for IFSA Butler on the Mount Holyoke College campus.

Researched on location field reports for undergraduate thesis film about truffle hunters in Northern Italy.Directed, scheduled and set up interviews with participants and interpreted from Italian to English onsite. Translated cultural food documentary film content from Italian to English.Created subtitles for the post production phase with the editor from Italian to English.

Crafted lesson plans and independently conducted weekly interactive conversational classes on the Italian language, culture, and history.Conducted grammatical and vocabulary review sessions for students.Coordinated weekly meetings with faculty. Designed and conducted activities for weekly extracurricular language events, and larger department events, such as Gracious Dinner and Cultural Museum Night.

Built cooking curriculum in line with the school's Reggio Emilia-inspired philosophy.Taught elementary school-age cooking classes in Spanish about the local food systems of Yucatán.Conducted preschool-age cooking classes about fruit taste, texture, and sensory exploration.

Researched the relationship between schools and exchange students for department project.Composed blog entries on intercultural dialogue topics.Assisted with organization and preparation of office meetings.

Provided homework help and academic enrichment activities for elementary school-aged children.Planned and executed themed art, cooking, and cultural activities.

Analyzed and researched newspaper microfilms from 1910’s Il Corriere della Sera.Assisted professor Erica Moretti in gathering research for book about Annie Chartres Vivanti.