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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Offer academic and SEL support to a caseload of approximately 60-70 high achieving low-income 3PC (Public, Parochial, Pilot, and Charter School) 7th-9th scholars in English and Haitian Kreyol, through individualized.
• Oversee and assist approximately 20-30 8th grade scholars/families annually with their 9th grade Boston Public or Independent School placement process through weekly SSAT prep courses, essay workshops, and financial.
• Administer comprehensive and holistic advisory lessons during Saturday Programming to Middle School Success Scholars

University Of Chicago, Chicago IL

• Assisted USC Associate Professor of Writing, Carlos Delgado, facilitate 5 weeks of writing intensive courses for 31 high achieving low-income BIPOC rising college freshman attending summer academy at the University of.
• Nurtured student critical thinking and research skills through class workshops, timely feedback, and weekly office hours.
• Organized field trip to the Barbie Film for 100 scholars and 12 adult staff members to highlight the importance of film and media in cultural production and spaces of higher learning.

• Selected as one of 120 students nationally for 6-year college access, college success and professional development program for high achieving, underrepresented first-generation talent.
• Participate in a four-year comprehensive Career Development Program that includes professional Career Coaching, case studies, and projects to hone analytical, quantitative, and communication skills.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

• Research queerness in the African Diaspora, closely analyzing and pooling sources together to create a comprehensive bibliography dating from the 1990’s to present. Research conducted will be implemented in Professor.
• Manage bibliographic data through Zotero—an open-source reference management software used research materials—to curate over 200 literary sources created by Black queer artists.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

• Created and co-facilitated 2023 “Language Justice” workshop for over 50 members of the Bates College Community, addressing multilingualism, racial injustice, and techniques increase access to non-native/ non-standard.
• Organize panels with alumni, facilitate student engagement, and public speaking on behalf of Bates College. Workshops are created to examine contemporary social issues through the lens of justice, liberation, and.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

• Provide writing, speech, and rhetorical analysis support for students at all stages of the writing process.
• Conduct one-on-one tutoring sessions for first-year students in “Arts and Spirituality” with Chaplain Brittany Longsdorf.
• Worked closely with “Visualizing Identities” first-year seminar to facilitate writing support, peer review workshops and Zine editing for 15 students for 2020 and 2021 incoming freshmen classes respectively.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

• Selected as one of 10 Freshman for 4-year civic engagement, community volunteering and advocacy, and community building for the Lewiston community.
• Aided Maine Initiatives, a local nonprofit organization, develop and organize a racial justice toolkit for the greater L/A community as well as an anti-racist practices.
• Participated in one-on-one mentoring with Freshman at Lewiston High School as well as the Montello Elementary school, providing homework support, emotional support, as well as aiding students in advocacy.

Lewiston, Maine, United States

• Facilitated and co-lead class discussion for Rewriting Lovecraft Country taught by Professor Sue Houchins of the Africana department at Bates.
• Encouraged students to share research and findings on race, gender, and white supremacy in 1950’s America and Korea.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Selected as 1 of 2 interns to organize and assist summer programming for Boston youth ages 13-18 through GrubStreet’s Teen Writing Fellowship, Summer Weeklong Courses, as well as BPL (Boston Public Library) partnerships.
• Responsible for registration tracking, expense reports, course updates for 20 classes, instructor coordinating, in addition to the primary role of advocating for youth/community building through critical frameworks of.
• Provided support for Travon Godette (Senior Coordinator of Youth Programming) and Effie Kong (Senior Manager of Youth Programs) throughout summer programming and GrubStreet’s Annual Teen Fellow Showcase in Seaport.
• Maintained community resources through bi-weekly distribution of GrubStreet's Remote Creative Writing kit and monthly distribution of the Teen Newsletter.

• Selected as 1 of 3 students to work ten hours per week during a four-week period on a racial justice toolkit designed to build capacity for community-engaged work by future Bates College students.
• Curated a “racial equity in local community-engaged work” toolkit (readings, videos, blogs, etc.) designed to help students recognize, understand, and dismantle racism as they encounter it in their community-engaged.
• Defined and contextualism racism, anti-racism, white supremacy and other terms central to understanding racial justice

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

• Partnered with Somerville High School Dean of Students, Cynthia Massillon, alongside Somerville High School Equity Specialist, Amber Jackson, Somerville High School History Department Head, Alicia Kersten, and student.
• Co-created and led "Foundations of Equity Workshop" delivered between June 17th & June 18th, 2019 to more than 30 Somerville Public School educators. Participants were taught the significance of racial identity.

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

• Organized and facilitated discussions revolving around mental wellness, race, equity, liberation, restorative justice in the city of Somerville.
• Partnered with community organizers such as Groundworks Somerville, Teen Connection to initiate events designed to implement youth organized change in the Greater Boston area.

Bachelor'S Degree, African-American/Black Studies, Gpa: 3.93/4.0

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude, Key Club Inductee, Africana Research Assistant (Winter 2021- May 2023), BSU Present (Fall.

African Studies

High School Diploma, Gpa: 4.12/4.0

Activities and Societies: SHS Black Student Union President and Founder (Fall 2018- Spring 2019), National Honor Society President (Fall.