• Planning, designing, coordinating, and evaluating family services and family/community engagement programming• Collaboratively working with the management team, staff, and parents to develop policies and procedures, forms, activities, trainings, and Parent Committees according to the Head Start Performance Standards and current best practices• Writing and securing grants for advanced family engagement activities and programming.• Supervising and coaching Family Advocates in their family case management, and monitoring case progress and success

•Analyzed, developed, and recommended agency practices and policies in the Strategic Planning areas of Diversity & Inclusion, Race Equity, and Community Engagement for an agency with ~500 employees•Researched and designed a resident engagement toolkit for the Vista Partnership community development project in Southwest Detroit•Wrote agency's quarterly Community Engagement Newsletter (Apr-Jun, Jul-Sept, Oct-Dec)•Designed a 'Community Engagement' manual for the executive leadership team regarding best practices in community engagement, incorporating experiences of key neighborhood stakeholders•Assisted in the planning and implementation of community meetings (including outreach, facilitation, note-taking, and asset-building activities)

•Collaborated with 60 local organizations, non-profits, and governmental entities (including neighborhood organizations, ethnic associations, places of worship, businesses, arts centers, etc.) and engaged more than 2,000 residents in 50+ events, presentations, and dialogues•Organized a 30+ member city-wide steering committee and three Indianapolis neighborhood welcoming committees (Near West, Near Eastside, and Lafayette Square), each with 15+ partners from both native-born and foreign-born communities•Planned and facilitated monthly committee meetings and neighborhood meetings•Facilitated neighborhood and city-wide discussions regarding immigrant integration•Developed presentations, tools, and trainings fostering dialogue, cultural competency, cross-cultural networking, and learning. •Secured $22,000 in grant funding for implementation of programmimgSpecific events I coordinated include: -Welcoming Week 2013: Coordinated partnership with 22 organizations and 11 immigrant-owned restaurants to host 28 events/activities, including: International Picnic and Party, Program Launch, Refugee Speaker Panel, and 5 Lunch and Learn events, amongst others-Welcoming the Stranger: What's at Risk?: An event part of the 2013 Spirit and Place Festival taking place at the First Baptist Church, a place of worship that has welcomed a large population of Burmese refugees. Over 100 participants attended and took part in the Immigrant Simulation and received Welcoming Toolkits. -Tasting Success: Stories from Restaurant Entrepreneurs of the Lafayette Square Area: Partnered with six local immigrant-owned restaurants to tell their stories and celebrate their restaurants through an art exhibit. Planned a celebration with food from each restaurant, invited owners to meet local residents, and shared their photos and stories.

-Connected organizations and agencies to CORUS (Community Research Utilities and Support), a platform for finding and sharing tools for community engaged research (CEnR)-Researched and conducted outreach to local and national entities engaged in CEnR-Compiled database of national resources and best practices practicing CEnR, particularly related to Community Data and Measurement

-Monitored more than fifty research participants and collected data in one-on-one lab sessions, ensuring correct procedure in data acquisition for a social psychology research project looking at effects of confrontation self-efficacy and perceived confrontation outcomes on prejudice confrontation-Coded data received to retrieve results on prejudice self-efficacy and confrontation -Presented research findings at research conferences

•Supported social service staff in promoting fulfillment of behavior plans and encouraging sustainable life choices•Administered needs surveys and conducted interviews one-on-one with more than 60 consumers, ensuring plans of action were appropriate for promoting self-sufficiency •Accompanied program specialists in meetings with clients, their legal guardians, and case workers to develop behavior plans, thereby gaining skills in direct social work case work

-Offered affordable tutoring for children aged 5-11 who were reading, spelling, or doing math below their grade levels during summer break-Researched and created weekly teaching curriculum in math, reading, and spelling

• Developed educational programming and events and identified expert, student, and community panels in order to encourage positive student discussion on religion and societal issues• Arranged and conducted club meetings, which included writing and submitting budgets and developing event goals• Engaged over 400 community members, students, and faculty during nine events at IUPUI, including: Misconceptions About Islam, Can Religions Go Green?, Eating Ethically in a McDonald's World, Bhutan: Taking the Middle Path to Happiness, Is God Green?

-Tutored children ages 4-18 in the Kumon program, an after-school math and reading program in Valparaiso, Indiana