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• Write and edit both long and short form content in English and Spanish • Deliver emergency deadline, same-day, edits• Assist on general audience, academic, and technical projects • Provide pro-bono support on written projects for non-profit and small business (37 as of August 2022) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TL;DR: Say things, lots of things (sometimes for free and sometimes not, I don’t like starving as much as I thought), some people care about about those things; resident smokestack and gasbag ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Managed caseloads of 100+ individuals • Lead a team of 15 contact tracers, acted as a liaison for program directors • Disseminated guidance on disease prevention in a large metropolitan area (more than 3.3 million people) • Translated complex technical information into easily understandable, general audience-friendly, messages • Created and maintained records and data logs of critical health and personal information _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________TL;DR: Did things above my paygrade, kept people’s secrets and got yelled at a lot, did lots of numbers things for people saving lives, forklifts are dangerous, don’t trust me with forklifts, Jonny did, we don’t talk about Jonny _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Costa Mesa, California, United States

• Taught K-12 students to conduct water quality analyses and to critically think about local water issues • Identified stakeholders and oversaw outreach/engagement efforts • Trained interns to collect field data and co-managed the prioritization of environmental impact sites • Conducted academic and applied research on copper-based biocidal paints and heavy metal leachates ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________TL:DR: Did intern-y things with water pollution, said things to kids, told people the world is ending, did research, did not grab coffee for my boss ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Drafted marketing materials for the launch of a smartphone compatible application • As a member of the acquisition steering committee, assessed marketing objectives and team benchmarks • Employed user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design in preliminary application development • Provided feedback on experimental technology and interface formatting to enhance ease-of-use and user accessibility • Worked alongside an international group to create effective, culturally competent, educational materials________________________________________________________________________________________________________________TL;DR: Helped build an app, make things pretty, and sell it to a number, or maybe it was a search engine, Google knows all, I don’t (or maybe I do). ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• Awarded Excellence in Educational Communication and Innovation with over 50 featured articles • Increased the section’s unique viewership by at least 75% year over year• Acted alongside an avid group of public health enthusiasts to provide public health education to a lay audience • Responded to student inquiries with an educational emphasis on the environmental science of natural disasters, their mitigation, and fallout • Played an active role in the recruitment of founders and group members • Read by more than 2.5 million individuals prior to August 2018 (based on unique hits) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________TL;DR: Wrote cool stuff, mostly science-y stuff, got read a lot, worked with cool people ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

San Diego, California, United States

• Founded the university chapter; created a board of chapter executives and initiated Point Loma-APHA relations • Attended Quarterly Regional Teleconferences and discussed chapter-specific updates • Served as the campus point-of-contact for APHA-related affairs • Disseminated information pertinent to Public Health and career opportunities there within ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TL;DR: Founded the chapter, talked to lots of people about a lot of health stuff, anthropomorphic punching bag when things didn’t work, polluted campus with my filers and social media posts ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

San Diego, California, United States | Tajuana, Baja Del Norte, Mexico

• Partook in the procurement and international transport of mission-critical supplies • Supported the on-site allocation and distribution of supplies and provided assistance for the creation of basic infrastructure • Coordinated with team members, assisted with field inquiries, and addressed need-based burdens • Aided in the advancement of community engagement through English/Spanish translations and community member interactions ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TL;DR: Moved things from the US to Mexico, spoke to people in Spanish a lot, told people what to do, built things, ate tacos, lots of tacos, so many tacos ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Master Of Science - Ms, Communication Management

On hiatus like Oasis (for Fall 2022).

Master Of Public Health - Mph

Yay health!

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Applied Health Science

Ate too many cookies and too much pizza. Got tormented by parrots, became the parrot whisperer, I am one with the parrot.