Savanna Torres, Mph Email & Phone Number

• Build and sustain strong member relations through attentive detail in handling member requests and volunteer interaction.• Provide administrative and project support to the client and staff team, including database maintenance and reporting.• Serve as staff liaison to client member committees.• Coordinate and maintain financial projects, monthly revenue allocations, membership dues, registration and AP/AR.• Write and produce content for association member e-newsletters and other electronic communications.• Maintain and update areas of the association website with current information, benefits, member programs, etc.• Assist with the preparation of conferences, board meetings and seminars.

Greater Chicago Area

• Participate in a year long internship and research project on women's access to reproductive healthcare. • Present research project at the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education Research Symposium and the UIC Minority Health Conference.

Chicago, Illinois

• Support the work of Community-QUIT, a program between the UIC Cancer Center (UICC), Mile Square Health Center, the American Lung Association (ALA) and the American Cancer Society (ACS). • Conduct assessments of community organizations serving the target population. This includes identifying, tracking, and building relationships with community organizations to facilitate services for tobacco users in need of services to promote lung health. • Participate in community events, observe clinic sessions, assist with data collection, and reporting of findings. • Edit questionnaires and surveys used to reach out to past and current participants, as well as community partners• Collect and report data on past Community-QUIT participants using developed surveys

Chicago, Illinois

• Analyze proposed legislation to determine whether it would be good for public health.• Identify effective policies in other cities that could be applied in Chicago; focusing on a specific practice and determining its feasibility in Chicago.• Assess how health could be integrated into the work of other departments. • Analyze CDPH programs to help determine whether policy change is needed. • Review databases, literature, and reports as a basis for drafting executive summaries, resolutions, press releases and other documents

Greater Chicago Area

• Ensure accurate processing of membership orders and data organization.

Chicago, Il

• Provide administrative support to undergraduate orientation program, including hiring and training orientation staff.• Assist in planning and executing 45 orientation programs for over 4,000 incoming UIC students.• Serve as a paraprofessional supervisor to a staff of 30+ undergraduate students.• Speak on behalf of UIC to over 100-300 attendees per program. • Generate content for the UIC Orientation Instagram.• Represented UIC at the Student Leadership Institute, at the 2017 National Orientation Director's Association (NODA) conference.

Chicago, Il

• Manage filing system.• Record information as needed.• Greet students and professional staff.• Update paperwork and maintain documents.• Help organize and maintain office common areas.• Balance end of day drawer total.• Input data into university system.

Chicago, Il

• Conduct Interviews of Millennials with the author of “Citizens but not Americans” Nilda Flores-Gonzalez in order to develop an understanding on how Latinx Millennials view the current political climate as it connects to their own intersectional identities. • Transcribe and code interviews in order to develop an understanding of patterns within responses.

• Provide information and guidance to incoming freshmen and transfer students of the university.• Lead groups of 12+ students over 1 day or 2 day overnight orientation programs.• Lead and facilitate discussions on intergroup dialogue and interpersonal violence.

Greater Chicago Area

• Organized files, offices, and desktops• Handled sensitive customer data• Provided excellent Customer Service• Used Word and Excel for documents• Provided general office support

Master Of Public Health - Mph Health Policy And Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Her Campus Web Content Writer, Chancellor's Committee on the Advancement of Women, Planned Parenthood Generation.

3.9

Activities and Societies: Honor roll / Theater

Psychology

Summer experience as part of the Noble Network program, Summer of a Lifetime. Class credit received.