Tabitha Underwood, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Directing community engagement strategy and institutionalization within a large health care system. Ensuring the completion of the Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Benefit reporting. Providing support, resources, and relationship-building for the system in order to engage with the community to address community health needs.

Jeffersonville, IN

Communities In Schools of Clark County surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. To realize this mission, the organization provides resources and supports through partnerships with 18 Clark County schools. My Role and Accomplishments:Successfully navigated the organization through school.

Louisville, Kentucky

New Directions creates and maintains affordable housing for over 1000 low-income families in the Louisville Metro area.The Resident Services department works with these families to help them meet their self-identified goals. To that end, my position entailed: Creating programming and services that assists residents in finding success meeting their goals..

Springfield, MO

• Promote civic engagement within higher education institutions across the State of Missouri.
• Manage membership of college/university presidents and chancellors
• Prepare professional development trainings/workshops on engagement for member campuses.
• Work with Executive Committee and Advisory Committee on organizational development and programming.
• Connect to stakeholder groups within the community engagement field.
• Develop and manage statewide programming.

Raleigh, NC

• Advise student organizations including service, event planning, and SGA branches
• Coordinate student organization leadership and capacity building
• Collaborate with community partners to develop one-time service opportunities to meet community needs
• Direct students and campus organizations in planning service projects and volunteer opportunities
• Plan events on and off campus including service projects, fairs, entertainment, speakers, and panels
• Develop leadership programming based on social change model of leadership

Cary, NC

• Conducted three comprehensive community assessments of neighborhoods to inform community involvement and revitalization initiatives
• Developed neighborhood service programs based on community needs
• Facilitated neighborhood meetings to discuss community needs, assets, and opportunities for engagement, which resulted in the establishment of an informal neighborhood association and various neighborhood events

• Coordinated internship partnerships for students and assisted undergraduates in obtaining opportunities
• Developed partnerships with area government, nonprofits, and corporations for the purposes of providing undergraduate internship opportunities
• Facilitated informational panels for students and guest-lectured for psychology courses

• Coordinated interviews and focus groups and recorded field notes for feasibility study
• Researched neighborhood characteristics and indicators for proposed community center
• Assisted with curriculum development of Undergraduate Nonprofit Minor
• Participated in the development of the service-learning thread throughout Nonprofit Minor
• Coordinated nonprofit advocacy and lobbying workshop

• Developed/managed budgets and wrote social service grant for state block grant funding
• Developed by-laws, financial policies, and organizational policies

• Scheduled and supervised museum floor and outreach volunteers
• Coordinated science museum outreach events and activities for elementary school children

Ph.D., Community Psychology

Certificate, Environmental, Social, Governance Strategy

Ms, Community Psychology

Bs, Psychology

Majored in Psychology with a minor in both Philosophy and Latin.