Sara Petty Email & Phone Number

Provide direct support to a caseload of talented students from low-income backgrounds on their path to top colleges & lead nationwide scaling efforts to reach more students.

- Develop content for UStrive’s I’m First! Guide to Colleges including articles on the college search and financial aid process as well as student worksheets.- Write articles on the college search process for Appily.- Compile data and prepare actionable data insights for Moore College Data.- Edit book manuscripts for readability and grammar, including the.

- Serve as a part-time college counselor, supporting a caseload of seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen with college list building, application strategy, essay writing and revision, course planning, activity planning, major exploration, and summer planning.- Provide content and grammatical edits on personal statements, supplemental essays, and.

An organization that connects high-performing students from underserved backgrounds to selective colleges and universities. EMERGE served four students in one high school in 2012 and now serves 700 students across 42 high schools.Accomplishments:- Devised first-ever strategic vision, values, goals, and performance evaluation rubric to guide our.

Houston, Texas Area

- Supported five Program Managers to ensure positive postsecondary student outcomes for a total of 87 seniors across 18 high schools; 82% of them matriculated to the nation’s most competitive institutions and 100% of them matriculated to four-year universities.- Identified counselors’ knowledge gaps in supporting high-achieving, low-income students apply.

Houston, Texas Area

- Provided individualized college and financial aid advising for 36 high performing seniors from low-income backgrounds across eight high schools; 100% of my students were accepted to the nation’s most competitive institutions and 94% of them matriculated to these institutions.- Implemented programming and curriculum for 53 juniors at seven school sites.

Houston, Texas Area

YES Prep is a public charter school that provides a comprehensive educational program that prepares low-income students for success in a four-year college.- Led the first Freshman Seminar class at Yes Prep West to develop students’ college-going identity through college and identity exploration, as well as academic readiness.- Received recognition from Yes.

Houston, Texas Area

Monitored global news events via Internet searches with a focus on events that affected security conditions abroad and disrupted transportation to, within, and from countries.Served as the primary customer/client interface during nighttime and weekend coverage.Wrote “Hot Spots” and “World Watch” events and provided analytical coverage for the Gulf of.

Houston, Texas Area

Taught Advanced Intermediate Grammar, Level II Reading, Beginning Writing, and Advanced Intermediate Reading to non-native English speakers.

Costa Rica

Worked with a team of 3-5 counselors, supervising groups of up to 35 high school students. Was responsible for budgeting, translating, planning activities and coordinating with homestay families.Gained valuable experience in budgeting, team building and maintaining positive coworker relations.

Prepared lesson plans for, and facilitated, an ESOL class for immigrants in the Providence area.Coordinated lesson plans with other facilitators and mentored new facilitators.Attended bi-weekly ESOL professional development workshops.

Playa Potrero, Costa Rica

Received $3500 in funding from my university to travel and work with Abriendo Mentes, an NGO in Costa Rica.Led the adult English program, and organized a comprehensive adult English curriculum.Founded a women’s empowerment group centered on creating financial possibilities for the local women.Translated documents from English to Spanish, and served as an.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Conducted literature reviews on topics around the subject of English Language Learners.

Mentored high school students and provided free SAT prep instruction.Provided college guidance – help writing college essays, identifying colleges, filling out college applications, etc.Recruited, coordinated, and trained Brown volunteer SAT tutors.Recruited high school students in the Providence area to participate in the program.

Houston, Texas Area

Prepared lesson plans for, and taught, a 9th grade English class, poetry elective and karaoke and drama.Was responsible for the 9th grade group, led the Mental Health committee and served on the 8th grade dance committee.Supervised field trips for the 9th graders to Houston-based colleges.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Assisted Professor Bridwell-Mitchell with her current research on schools as an organization and how schools make partnerships with other organizations.Managed, updated and created excel files with information on all public schools in New York City, including school information as well as community information.

Caguas, Puerto Rico

Worked in an only-Spanish office setting, assisting Pfizer employees from the Human Resources and Training Departments.Managed and updated employee files, as well as job descriptions.Performed general administrative tasks.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Tutored a 9-year old boy in 3rd grade mathematics at an after school program.

Bachelor'S Degree, Education And International Relations

Activities and Societies: BRYTE (Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment), BSAT (Brown SAT Prep), Club Tennis, EFA (English for.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Human Dimensions Of Organizations

Antropologia, Middlebury In Chile Study Abroad Program

Activities and Societies: Studied abroad at La Universidad Austral de Chile, and took classes on education and development in Chile.