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Baltimore, Maryland, United States

- Offers technical assistance to coalitions offering affordable and safe banking access programs (Bank On) in their cities.

Baltimore, Md

• Manage CASH Campaign outreach campaign on Maryland’s Save4College State contribution Program, which has reached over 11,000 individuals from around 75 outreach engagements in two years.• Support CASH’s financial education programming, resulting with over 600 hours of leading workshops.• Design new financial education content (i.e. cryptocurrency, fintech) and update existing content on the core topics of spending plans, money values, credit, debt, and banking.• Develop and improve data tracking processes for grant deliverables and outreach work that needs to be accumulated for annual reports.• Primary point of contact for the financial coaching and financial planning program for pro bono volunteers and clients accessing the services, this includes troubleshooting problems with accessing services.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

* Implemented a mental health intervention program that resulted with 70 research participants receiving peer-to-peer mental health coaching following a Harvard College 10-session curriculum. This intervention resulted with reduced symptoms of depression among research participants.• Supported the delivery of a mental health stigma campaign “Fortalece tu Bienestar” which resulted from 350+ surveys conducted, 10+ focus groups managed, and coordination of testimonial interviews.• Oversaw a team of 10 members on the 2020 Census outreach campaign to increase the Latinx count.• Motivated Latinx residents at community events to engage in community health services in Baltimore

Liverpool, New York

• Assist office manager with purchasing office supplies and necessary materials for one of janitorial contracts held by the company with the TSA at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport.• Support hiring efforts for the janitorial contract; including writing job descriptions and assisting with interviews• Organizing human resource documents for members on payroll and ensure that required documents are in each employee file• Update human resource documents and translate policies into Spanish.• Digitize over 20 contracts held by the company and ensure physical files also include all necessary paperwork.

Syracuse, New York Area

Non-competitive eligibility status will begin after VISTA service is completed on 9/11/18- Written 40 solicitation letters and grants, which has resulted with $45,000 in cash and in-kind donations to our key homeownership programs- Perform data entry of individual, group, and corporate donors into MoreThanData (MTD) Keystone database. Then, collect and export data into development plans, annual appeals, etc.- Enhanced the organization’s funders tracking list on Excel by adding over 100 new funders and having a more organize tracking process- Project manager of committee development, which has resulted with three new committees, each consisting of 5-10 members, who will eventually help to maximize financial and volunteer resources- Coordinator of committee meetings by scheduling meetings through email and phone- Writer of organization’s press releases, committee role descriptions, meeting agendas and minutes

Syracuse, New York

- Lead an executive board of seven Syracuse University student organizers on advocating for green, Anti-Nuclear weapon, anti-militarism, and peace-related bills - on the local, state, and national level- Conducted research and summarized peace and social justice resolutions to current events or human rights crises, which our organization would present to Senate and house representatives, in Syracuse, NY and Washington D.C. Because of this lobbying, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recently decided to co-sponsor a bill that proposed to end U.S. support to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.- Lead outreach campaigns that created discussion on our organization’s mission through participating in campus and community events- Attended State and national conferences on developing more sustainable grassroots campaigns.- Liaised collaboration with the Syracuse Peace Council, specifically their Nuclear Free World Committee, for creating stronger relationships between the students and the community- Participated in monthly phone conferences with the PANYS leadership and student organizers/interns around New York, where we exchanged policy campaign ideas, lobbying strategies, and advocacy and awareness resources. We also used this time to check-in on our goals, objectives, and challenges.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Selected one of six mentors/student leaders, to lead a group of around 40 Syracuse University students through an Alternative Spring Break, hunger and homelessness service trip, in Washington, D.C.- Lead and mentored a group of six Syracuse University students. Within my group, I facilitates reflection and dialogue sessions on our service sites, poverty issues in D.C., and ways to take action.- Communicated and Collaborated with the other student leaders and two Syracuse University staff, also on the trip, on conflict resolution strategies for issues that came up between mentees.

The Senator John H. Hughes State Office Building, Syracuse, New York

- Completed a month long clerical training, including answering calls, appointment scheduling, filing, andwebinars on the NYS Division of Human Rights process and laws- Assisted incoming callers or walk-ins with information on our discrimination complaint process. Then,assisted them in determining if their claim fell under our jurisdiction, one of the protected areas ofdiscrimination, and what documents or agency could help resolve their problem- Sat in two-party investigating fact-finding conferences- Typed conference notes from the fact-finding conferences into Microsoft Word- Assisted the leading Human Rights Specialist on analyzing and writing the Case Analyses and Final Investigation Reports- Organized and filed older and recently closed cases- Observant in final case rulings with the Human Rights Judge in our department

Syracuse University

- Gathered and read national and international Supreme Court cases (the United States, Costa Rica, andMexico) with freedom of Speech relevance for data keeping.- Used the LexisNexis database for domestic cases, but interlibrary loan services and other Latin databases(SCIJ), for the Latin American countries.- Summarized national and international Supreme Court case decisions into 1-page summaries into largeMicrosoft Word files.- Performed data entry and coding on the summarized Supreme Court cases, to ease finding data andsummaries in Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets.- Collaborated and exchanged findings with a team of research assistants and lead researcher/professor.- Conducted online research that included sorting countries and cases that were not pertinent to the largeresearch goals. I coded inadmissible cases separately.

Goldstein Student Center, Syracuse, Ny