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New York, Ny, Us

Bronx, New York, United States

- Assist with the creation and establishment of an environment that responds to the needs of students and families while building a culture of high attendance and achievement.- Coordinate group services, programs, and resources surrounding career readiness activities.- Connect students to a range of prevention, early intervention, and intensive service programs that address the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development of each student.- Oversee the Internship Program at NDSS by coordinating related services and implementing career exploration/access efforts by facilitating workshops and events.- Work with the NDSS Support Team to ensure that students and their families have meaningful opportunities to participate in career exploration activities; ensure full implementation of a transformative career readiness initiative aligned with the Pathways to Success strategy.- Engage families and caregivers in understanding and supporting the education of their youth.- Develop strong relationships with teachers, parents, and students, especially through existing groups such as the school leadership team (SLT) and grade teams.- Support the Site Manager in leading and supervising the on-site Wediko at the Home staff and, in the Site Manager's absence, perform essential job functions.

Bronx, New York, United States

- Manage a work-based learning program with 67 students engaged in seminars, certification programs, internal and external job placements, and an accredited academic class. - Create new systems to streamline an application process by introducing new tiers of enrollment, staff/teacher recommendations, and integrating different ways of providing all students an opportunity to participate.- Cultivate new internship placements internally at the school and with outside employers.- Solicit vendors for OSHA 10 / 30, First Aid / CPR / AED, Food Protection, Child Care, and Security Guard certifications.- Maintain program data, including placements, certifications, enrollment, and payroll.- Teach daily high school classes on career exploration and job readiness with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and personal branding.- Ideate and develop lesson plans for daily classes, seminars, and workshops.- Oversee and conduct application, interview, and onboarding to parallel a real-world employment process.- Match students with internships appropriate to their interests, maturity, and skill level.- Provide guidance to students addressing performance issues and encouraging interns to self-advocate when needed.- Maintain and develop professional partnerships to provide internships that build skills within various employment fields.- Facilitate workshops on resume building, interview skills, and career readiness.- Assist with issues of school and internship nonattendance.- Provide crisis counseling, mediation, and social-emotional support as needed.- Participate in staff meetings and staff development opportunities.- Engage low-performing students with incentives to help them improve attendance and grades.- Support a caseload of students as a success mentor, providing accountability check-ins, parent conferences as needed, and emotional support.

Nyc/Nj

- Support creative professionals, service providers and mission-driven business with digital strategy, website design, brand development, and business planning services.- Lead workshops on topics such as entrepreneurship, email marketing, storytelling, and personal brand positioning.**Brand Strategy Expertise**- Guide entrepreneurial women through the brand cultivation process including but not limited to identifying brand values, solidifying brand positioning, and honing a cohesive brand voice.- Create a monetization strategy that aligns passion, purpose, and personality with profitability.- Devise a clear visual brand so your brand leaves a memorable impression.- Setup a digital presence that supports lead generation and facilitates conversion of potential customers.**Email Marketing Expertise**- Ghostwriting weekly newsletters and virtual program copy for lifestyle entrepreneurs.- Split test subject lines and delivery times.- Proficient in Mailchimp, Ontraport, Thinkific, Teachable, Kajabi, Podia, Flodesk, and ConvertKit.- Configure email sequences for sales funnels including but not limited to retargeting for sales conversion, tagging appropriate leads, and segmenting lists based on their subscriber activity.**Copywriting Expertise**- Write original copy for email newsletters, blog posts, articles, sales pages, email funnel sequences, podcast scripting, and social media content.- Published workbooks and guides on personal and professional development.

Bronx, New York, United States

- Developed and maintained partnerships that provided career opportunities.- Created curriculum and taught job readiness workshops including courses in customer service.- Organized and led job search skills workshops including interviewing and resume preparation.- Interviewed new students and identified potential limitations / barriers that may hinder success.- Provided vocational counseling and emotional support for students with psychiatric disabilities.

Greater New York City Area

- Produced a podcast discussing brand strategy, interviews with women entrepreneurs, and cosmic insights to help provide meditation support.- Wrote and distributed a weekly newsletter with strategies and tips for managing a digital brand.- Provided 1:1 expert consultations to multi-passionate entrepreneurs addressing their branding issues and providing tech logistic support for managing their website.- Facilitated small groups and lead workshops on topics that include but are not limited to personal branding, self-publishing, storytelling, email marketing, and brand positioning.

Greater New York City Area

- Created and implement a comprehensive social media strategy that increased visibility, engagement and traffic for agency clients.- Oversaw small team of social community managers.- Created pitch decks for new clients and campaigns.- Developed content to support creative team with digital integration of campaigns.- Set benchmark for recommended social media programs.- Reviewed monthly analytics and reporting to clients measuring campaign reach and ROI.- Provided best practices expertise for social media engagement, email marketing and blogger outreach efforts.- Strategized with internal teams on how to incorporate relevant social media techniques into the agency’s corporate culture.

Tribeca / Noho - Nyc

Left Right Brain Media provides web strategy, design, development and marketing solutions that show small businesses how to leverage the Internet to build their brands.

Nyc

- Produced weekly podcast.- Researched topics and scheduled recording sessions.- Led conversations on entertainment, tech and lifestyle topics, with 2 other industry experts.

- Managed entire website content for vmetv.com.- Coordinate with design agency and webmasters to ensure all show content are up to date.- Led initiative to create a national conversation during a live special on the controversial immigration bill SB1070.

- Identified opportunities to increase site traffic and profile membership.- Liaison with local businesses and individuals to utilize Flugpo.com as a social network community for classified services such as job search, selling items, listing employment, among others.- Coordinated extensive list building initiative & distributed weekly campaigns to attract new signups for social network community. Email volume per week was between 500k and 2 million.

Greater New York City Area

- Produced live events across the Tri-State New York area.- Led team of production cast and crew members including but not limited to videographers, choreographers, makeup artists, writers, directors, photographers and stylists.- Cultivated relationships with performance venues throughout the New York City area.- Coordinated all public relations efforts.- Held auditions and casted for various comedic roles.- Developed marketing materials including but not limited to press kits, sponsorship proposals, website, flyers, business cards, etc.

- Identified link development opportunities on websites covering sports, fashion, news, television, film and gossip.- Built relationships with content editors, bloggers, forum moderators and fansites to promote all NBCU properties which include NBC.com, CNBC.com, MSNBC.com, SciFi.com, SciFiUK.com, USANetworks.com, BravoTV.com, NBCSports.com, AccessHollywood.com and affiliate news stations for NYC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Diego.- Assisted with viral marketing campaigns for several Primetime network television series.- Monitored buzz and organized statistical information for post-campaign reports.- Ensured all efforts were SEO-friendly to maximize search engine popularity.

- Produced live events.- Led team of production cast and crew members.- Cultivated relationships with performance venues.- Coordinated all public relations efforts.- Held auditions and casted for various comedic roles.- Developed marketing materials including but not limited to press kits, sponsorship proposals, website, flyers, business cards, etc.

- Produced live events.- Led team of production cast and crew members.- Oversaw logistics for scripted and unscripted performances.- Held auditions and casted for various comedic roles.- Developed marketing materials including but not limited to press kits, sponsorship proposals, website, flyers, business cards, etc.

Greater New York City Area

- Created treatment plans for participants in a job readiness training program.- Ran workshops on time management, stress management and resume writing.- Ensured participants were interview ready, emotionally prepared for employment.- Coordinated services with treatment providers including but not limited to case managers, psychiatrists, internship supervisors and psychologists.

Greater New York City Area

- Outreached local communities to identify displaced workers from the September 11th attacks.- Provided counseling, legal, financial and housing referrals.- Managed caseload of approximately 120 consumers throughout program's lifespan.- Developed marketing strategies to generate job leads.- Compiled monthly stats analyzing outreach efforts.- Led team of outreach specialists, job developers & administrative staff to meet target goals.- Developed press kit and distributed marketing materials to potential employers.

Master Of Science - Ms, Education

Specialization: Instructional Design and Educational Technology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology

Activities and Societies: C.L.A.S.S. (Caribbean & Latin American Student Society)