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100% College Prep Institute, is a college preparatory organization for middle school, high school, andcollege youth. 100% seeks to provide low-income students of color who do not see college as an option with academic and leadership skills and support that prepares them to enter and complete post-secondary educational opportunities. We employ a holistic approach that teams our staff with students, teachers,counselors, and parents in order to set and achieve academic goals, and a plan for college.The Program Manager plans, supervises, and coordinates comprehensive extended day programming and services for students at 100% College Prep.

Greater Detroit Area

Independent consultant specializing in strategic planning; program design; staff development; processfacilitation; and program evaluation of after-school, youth development, college access, careerreadiness, and gender specific social emotional intelligence programs.

Work as a member of the school culture and climate team, to facilitate positive behavior interventions and provide social emotional support to 793 scholars in grades K-8.Duties include but are not limited to:Leading and assisting in the day to day operations of the school’s culture and climate teamWorking with scholars and families to establish a connection and system of support within the school and at home.Working with instructional staff to support learning by conducting push in and pull out behavioral interventions.Leading restorative circles to reduce harm and help scholars develop coping and leadership skills.Co-facilitate a culture and climate professional learning community, that builds practices and supports student learning and engagement, by gathering the base of knowledge and nurturing the collective space to align resources, best practices and promising approaches to support scholar success .

Greater Detroit Area

The Program Director is responsible for the administrative oversight and overall direction of the AmeriCorps Academic All-Stars Student Success Mentor Initiative which partnered with the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) to provide full time school-based mentors to support chronically absent youth in 7 DPSCD schools.Achievements include:Successfully managing grants and assets through the dismantling and closure of one fiduciary sponsor to another.Successfully restructuring inherited misaligned grant activities to meet grant requirements and report grant outcomes that had previously been untracked and not reported.Successfully sun setting a federally funded program.Responsibilities included but were not limited to:Recruiting, hiring, training and administrative oversight of all AmeriCorps service volunteersGrant reporting, performance and compliance monitoring.Program model design and implementation.Working cross-sector with community partners, school site and district officials to heal broken relationships and sunset the grant program.

Greater Detroit Area

Youth Development Commission –Detroit, MIThe Program Manager for School and Community Engagement oversees the development andimplementation of community and school relationships, which includes:• The My Brother’s Keeper Success Mentor Initiative which partnered with the Detroit PublicSchools Community District to provide mentors and academic case managers to supportchronically absent youth.• YDC’s Professional Mentoring Program, which matches adult volunteer mentors withstudents• Academic All-Stars, which provides school-based academic enrichment and college/careerreadiness services for high school students

San Francisco Bay Area

Bayview Association for Youth- 100% College Prep Institute, San Francisco, CAResponsible for providing senior level management and administrative oversight to a small community-based nonprofit, who operates a college and career resource center that provides academic and socialemotional support, college and career advising, and exposure to rewarding post-secondary careeropportunities for low income and first-generation youth in the 6th – 12 grades.Achievements:• Successful facilitated multi-stakeholder collaborations that increased our program impactand participation by 400%.• Successful wrote and secured $80,000 worth of grant funding to support and increaseprogram capacity.• Developed several processes, manuals and system protocols that have been standardizedand are now being trained to other organizations to duplicate our program model.Responsibilities:• Hiring, training, supervision and administrative oversight of program staff, participants andvolunteers.• Development and implementation of core programming and curriculum.• Staff evaluations and professional development• Development of strategic partnerships and leveraged opportunities for collaboration toincrease program impact and participation

San Francisco Bay Area

Tenderloin Community School, San Francisco, CACoordinated an extended day learning program that provided positive behavior supports and alternativelearning interventions for 372 elementary students and their families.Achievements:• Wrote for and secured $ 45,000 worth of private grant foundation funding for expansion ofprogramming.• Created and implemented cultural relevant rite of passage programs to assist strugglingstudents and families.Responsibilities:• Supervision and administrative oversight of program staff, participants and volunteers.• Development and implementation of core programming.• Staff evaluations and professional development

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Responsible for the delivery of Kaplan produced NCLB (No Child Left behind Act of 2001) sanctionedsupplemental mathematics and language arts curriculum in partnership with Buffalo Public Schoolsdesigned to prepare students (grades 6-12) for New York State proficiency exams.Exams Taught:• New York State Regents Exam Mathematics A• New York State Regents English Exam• SAT I Reasoning Test Skill

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

AmeriCorps- Boy Scouts of America- Cheektowaga, New YorkResponsible for assisting in the start-up, implementation, and maintenance of the Scout Reach initiative(an Urban based outreach of the Boy Scouts of America aimed at increasing minority and urbaninvolvement in scouting), as well as, serving as a community service advocate for the Urban Corpdivision of AmeriCorps National Community Service Organization.Responsibilities:• Monitoring and training adult volunteers on basic BSA protocol and procedures• Conducting recruitment campaigns throughout the Buffalo Public Schools, as well as, atvarious local community• Creating and implementing a supplementary education curriculum for a 10-week hands oneducational summer program for youth ages 7-16• Providing man-hours and service to local food pantries and food banks

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Community Based Education

Bachelor'S Of Arts, Special Studies: Urban Issues In Education

Activities and Societies: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. NAACP

High School Diploma, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Football, NSBE , Science Fair