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Brooklyn, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

Brooklyn, New York

Greater New York City Area

• Directly supervise, mentor, and train 4 consecutive volunteer cohorts in acquiring expertise in community outreach, social impact, and program development.• Provide weekly staff team check-ins and quarterly programming meetings to support volunteers in achieving workshop goals.

Greater New York City Area

• Designed and implemented a 7-month leadership program for homeless youth at Nelson Family Shelter to foster social awareness & responsibility.• Directed and managed weekly staff meetings to incorporate professional and personal development topics.• Mentored underserved emerging artists and secured scholarships for art courses at leading NYC cultural institutions.• Conducted needs assessment and program impact evaluations on Art Start's Youth Offender Outreach Program and Homeless Youth Outreach Program.

• Infused anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices and principles into an 18-session curriculum for elementary and middle school girls and gender non-conforming youth at Children of Promise, NYC.• Mobilized youth organizers in interrupting cycles of state violence, poverty, and oppression through a community-based project focused on leadership, healing, social justice, and the arts.

• Provide strengths-based, trauma-informed individual and group counseling and supportive services to youth in high school who survive, witness, and perpetrate intimate partner violence.• Develop and teach workshops on healthy relationships, violence and the law, intimate partner violence, and consent and coercion to youth, caregivers, and school-based professionals.• Organize and co-coordinate the paid RAPP Summer Peer Leadership Institute, supervising, training, and engaging youth in the development and delivery of dating violence prevention programming.• Complete HRA contract related programming duties including managing RAPP site budget, tracking quarterly program deliverables, and writing timely service notes in HRA database.

525 W 50Th St, New York, Ny 10019

Facilitated individual and group counseling sessions, focused on topics pertainingto power, identity, and oppression among young women and men of color.Spearheaded school-wide initiatives intended to bring awareness to social issuesaffecting members of marginalized and oppressed communities.

Princeton, New Jersey

Responsible for working alongside mental health professionals inorder to provide quality service to the Supporting Adolescent GirlsEmotionally (SAGE) program community. Interacted with patientsin milieu to provide support, encouragement, and redirection. Performed clerical duties to support unit activities.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Responsible for fostering and inspiring a strong, inclusive communityin a first-year women’s residence hall on Douglass Campus.Encouraged and supported students in their academic, social andpersonal growth; helped students develop skills to succeed in adiverse, global society; and promoted the appreciation of diversity.

Plainsboro, New Brunswick

Responsible for working alongside Mental Health Associates inorder to provide quality service to the Center for Eating DisordersCare community. Interacted with patients in milieu to providesupport, encouragement, and redirection. Performed clerical dutiesto support unit activities.

Princeton, New Jersey

Responsible for assisting the Director of Arts and ArtsEducation Program Associate with all aspects pertaining to themanagement of the Emerging Artists Creativity Hub (EACH)Program. Assisted with administrative program support,program assessment, and social media. Served as a mentor tostudents involved with the EACH program.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Engaged economically disadvantaged Latino and African-American youth in the creative process and allowed them tomaster multidisciplinary art skills, increase understanding ofrespective cultures, strengthen critical thinking skills and fosterproficiency in performance through team-building, discussionsand art-making.

Master'S Of Science, Social Work

Activities and Societies: Columbia School of Social Work Black Caucus, KIPP Star Charter School Glow to Grow Mentoring Program

Certificate In Women'S Leadership, Women'S And Gender Studies

Activities and Societies: Institute for Women's Leadership Leadership Scholars Program, Girls Realizing their Opportunities in the World.

Bachelor'S Degree/ Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology And Visual Art, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Ronald E. McNair Post-Bachaleaurate Achievement Program, Advanced Research Assistant in Psychology and Women's.