Tylyn K. J. Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

My work in this role evolved to include: • Jumpstarting the fiduciary onboarding process for new clients • Coordinating the marshaling process to ensure that the resources, assets, and incomes of our clients are used to their benefit • Standardizing investigation and discovery efforts in the marshaling process, particularly for when initial client information is limited• Developing relationships with professionals across fields to meet clients needs as effectively as possible• Working with banks, retirement companies, and other agencies to coordinate CARE's appropriate access and liquidation of our clients' assets, as needed• Conducting property visits, processing documents to gauge the financial background of clients• Preparing inventories to provide the Marion County courts with CARE's findings as it relates to each client's asset picture • Interviewing the families/friends of clients to provide CARE's team with greater knowledge of clients' areas of support and concern • Keeping families updated about the efforts of CARE's fiduciary team so that they can keep CARE accountable to their people • Providing support and resources to help family members become decision-makers for their incapacitated loved ones • Notifying CARE's team, and other parties where necessary, of concerns of evidence of exploitation against our clients having taken place• Obtaining documentation to ensure that our clients maintain their public benefits as well as can be admitted to care facilities that can serve their needs • Electronically filing requests with the Marion County court system to allow CARE to open trusts, take certain actions with client properties, and request guardianship fees for our clients • Notifying the agencies of a client's death and working to smooth the fiduciary case-closing process • Prepared and coordinated the inaugural Celebration of Life event to allow CARE advocates to honor the lives of clients who they labored to ensure passed with dignity

As part of my senior practicum at UIndy, I interned at INRC in order to support their Public Allies Indianapolis program (an Americorps apprenticeship program). My work in this role has included: • Coaching 7 Public Allies in being accountable to their goals, action steps, and development (personal and professional) • Researching and connecting the Allies I'm coaching with information, resources, and INRC staff for their goals • Strategizing with the PA Indy team to address needs and concerns with Allies and/or the program as they come up • Collecting, and making legible, survey feedback data provided by the Allies in response to their weekly trainings

A shift from my work as an Interfaith Scholar at UIndy. My work in this role involved: • Leading and supporting the Interfaith Scholars with programming, particularly with creating opportunities for the Scholars to collaborate with other campus groups to create programming • Developing and leading a multi-faith community group that meets on a weekly basis to host dialogue around art • Providing support for the office operations of the EIP office, especially during the transition period occurring during my tenure

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

As the inaugural Honors DEI Student Fellow, I accomplished the following: • Worked with faculty and staff to review representation in Honors and consider various lenses and strategies for recruiting and maintaining Honors students of color (with a particular focus on access and equity, rather than just "diversity data") • Made recommendations to the Honors College Executive Director in order to make Honors more accessible from an admissions standpoint • Supported and led outreach efforts with marginalized prospective and current students ◦ Acted as student panelist in outreach efforts to highschool students from underrepresented backgrounds ◦ Designed and performed outreach to minority student organizations to engage marginalized 1st- and 2nd-year UIndy students with the possibilities in Honors • Laid the foundation for an Honors peer mentor program • Pushed for textbook material access through the proposal of a student-made Honors Textbook Library • Presented on some of my Fellowship work at the NCHC 2021 Conference • Advocated with Honors Faculty Fellows in order to reduce the costs of course materials in their classes (through the use of Open Education Resources, existing public and university library materials, online resources, and other means) • Developed proposals for other projects to widen resource access for Honors students

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

This position allowed me the opportunity to: • Work with a team of students of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds to cultivate conversations on spirituality and religion around campus through events • Support efforts to plan, advertise, and execute peace vigil events • Coordinate a promotional activity to engage students with an edutainment event where students learned something about a variety of belief systems and helped host over 80 attendees • Help coordinate a peace service in honor of a historical figure of justice, and share poetry at the event • Increase the size of the program's email list (for people interested in our events) by 79% • (During the pandemic) Work with team to implement online and socially-distanced dialogue events to promote interfaith communication among students

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Throughout my work in this role, I engaged in the following activities: • Received visitors in the office and supported faculty/staff in welcoming manner • Provided administrative assistance in the operations of the Honors office • Designed an artistic bulletin board to celebrate the chilly season and add to the positive atmosphere of the Honors College • Completed a variety of data entry and analysis projects, including creating documents for the use of the Honors College Executive Director • Surveyed student file resources and recommended changes to the resource directory to optimize efficiency for Honors student use • Collaborated in designing and publishing a number of informational and aesthetic updates to the public webpages of the Strain Honors College - implemented via Cascade Content Management System ◦ Gathered perspectives of Honors faculty and students to add to the website ◦ Researched internal Honors College files in order to provide up-to-date information for the public webpages as well as connected information from other areas of UIndy/Honors life to the webpages

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

In this position, I had the opportunity to: • Help prepare materials for the launch event of this new campus office • Help kickstart and update the office's social media • Design promotional content to raise awareness of social issues for the office's social media

In this role, I engaged in a variety of efforts to support the IYG case management team's work in the Project Prism rapid rehousing program. I also came into the role as a 2021 Journey Student Fellow. My work here included:• File management and reconciliation for expenditures related to Project Prism • Performing outreach via call, text, and email to connect referrals with Project Prism and/or other resources - with 6 referrals of 8 successfully enrolled • Supporting the intake process; prepping client profiles, writing up forms, drafting follow-up recommendations, shadowing intake interviews, and even conducting an intake interview to enroll a client in Project Prism • Interviewing housed clients to evaluate progress and assess case management services - 8 clients total • Working with case managers to find resources to to support clients (both from IYG's stock of resources and through community referrals/recommendations) • Working with another intern in order to reorganize and expand the resource drive used by case management staff - researching and adding resources, designing summary visuals for clients/staff, presenting the reorganized drive for all of IYG staff's use

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

In this role, I worked with my (junior) practicum supervisor in order not only reflect on my learning, but to also put it into practice in a meaningful manner. As a practicum intern, I accomplished the following: • Researched the history, practices, and theoretical frameworks of child welfare, with a focus on foster care and adoption • Interviewed a number of people about their first-hand experiences with adoption and foster care, including professionals, parents, and youths • Worked with my supervisor as well as UIndy's communications team in order to raise awareness about needs in foster care and adoption during National Adoption Month at UIndy • Hosted a campus presentation-and-dialogue table space where I spoke with students about the complexities of foster care and adoption and shared resources for learning more• Published numerous articles that addressed the subject of adoption and foster care from various lens

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

In this role, I engaged in my work at two sites; Westminster Neighborhood Services and St. Florian Center. My work as a Teaching Intern in IWC's "Build a Rainbow" program involved the following: • Working with roughly 80 K-8 students to write stories from their lives, and around 10 high school students in crafting spoken word poetry (which would go into an anthology) ◦ Sitting with a group of students, and occasionally checking in with multiple groups of students ◦ Offering advice to older students to overcome writers' block, acting as a soundboard for their stories before they wrote, or even asking questions to prompt further detail ◦ Supporting younger students who struggle with reading/writing by having them tell their story to me while I transcribe it for them, and prompting for details as needed • Helping set up and clean up writing materials and space for the students• Checking students’ writing for information that might need to be reported (mental health concerns, stressful family situations, etc.) • Taking photos of programming to support the PR team, with some of the books going into the published anthology • Transcribing student work for the editing team to deliberate for publication in the anthology (finding the best piece for each student) • Writing example stories and/or poetry for upcoming prompts • Working with the high school poetry teaching team to reflect and plan lessons • Drafting materials for use with empowering high school students in their poetry-writing, such as editing or performance tips

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

In this position, I did the following: • Stocked and neatened store shelves using merchandise from the warehouse • Made use of a warehouse inventory system for locating needed merchandise • Provided setup and cleanup support for the occasional sales event

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

In this position, I was able to: • Improve customers' store experience by providing them assistance in a pleasant manner• Work with people who have various levels of fluency in English and improve my cross-cultural communication abilities • Become well-regarded by regulars for my politeness, integrity, and patience • Stock and reorganize merchandise in an efficient manner for customer satisfaction • Clean up efficiently at closing to support team members who opened the store in the morning

Bsw, Social Work, 3.967

Activities and Societies: Student Leader in the Inclusive Leadership Institute (Fall 2020 - Spring 2021). Staff Member of Etchings.

Academic Honors High School Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma, 4.3881

Activities and Societies: Youth Media Institute (Indiana Black Expo), Social Justice League, Student-Leadership Teams, National Honor.