Shawn Stein Email and Phone Number

TOP SKILLSLeadership | Mentoring | Community Engagement | Intercultural Communication 🗣LANGUAGESSpanish (near-native) Portuguese (near-native)English (native language)Proven track record of innovative collaboration, learning, engagement & impact HIGHLIGHTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Director, The Positive Youth Sports, Fitness and Beyond Project (2024)Awarded $62,000 grant funding through the City of Littleton (Colorado) to work with Littleton High School students on sports and fitness-focused leadership development & youth-led community programming for Littleton Public SchoolsBoard of Directors President, BalónUSA (2022)Led board efforts of local Colorado nonprofit in immense expansion to provide ​100% subsidized developmental co-ed soccer to over 800 under-resourced & ​newcomer youth at Title I elementary schools in Adams & Jefferson CountiesTeam Lead, Central Pennsylvania Consortium Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Soccer & Social Justice I & II (2016 & 2018)Conceptualized & led end-to-end event development at Dickinson College, including cross-institutional planning, fundraising ($3,000 in 2016 & $10,000 in 2018), marketing & execution; resulted in day-long events that brought dynamic intercultural exchange about soccer’s powerful platform for social change to a local community with 19.2% minority population Founder and Project Manager, Día de Fútbol (2007-2015)Created, built & managed this youth-focused non-profit organization focused on soccer, literacy, bilingual language exchange & campus-community partnerships at Washington College that continues to offer an immeasurable impact on improving the lives of hundreds of immigrant families and dozens of student volunteers every year in a rural community with 4.2% Hispanic populationCampus Film Series Director (2010-2013)Increased average attendance (by a factor of ten) as director at Washington College through a revamped approach to marketing, outreach, & designTenured Professor -Delivered 38 public talks in Spanish, Portuguese & English at venues around the world -Published books of Latin American football (soccer) stories & author interviews, Idols and Underdogs: An Anthology of Latin American Football Fiction (English edition) & Por amor a la pelota: Once cracks de la ficción futbolera (Spanish edition) & 7 research articles in internationally renowned peer-reviewed journalsRecruitment Served in key administrative roles in hiring & onboarding dozens of colleagues & hundreds of student workers & volunteers