Experience

Shelburne Farms

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Farm Yard Educator

  • Apr 2015 - Present

  Educating the public on Shelburne Farms mission, farming practices, and getting people excited about sustainable living and farm animals! Educating the public on Shelburne Farms mission, farming practices, and getting people excited about sustainable living and farm animals!



Essex Junction Recreation and Parks

• Village Kids Hiawatha Kindergarten Director

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Engaging with Kindergarteners in a meaningful, educational way that exposes them to new activities in arts, athletics, and other. We try to come up with cognitively appropriate, challenging, and fun activities daily that cater to their intellectual, emotional, physical, and social/moral growth. We also encourage them to use their imagination as frequently as possible :-) Engaging with Kindergarteners in a meaningful, educational way that exposes them to new activities in arts, athletics, and other. We try to come up with cognitively appropriate, challenging, and fun activities daily that cater to their intellectual, emotional, physical, and social/moral growth. We also encourage them to use their imagination as frequently as possible :-)



Outreach for Earth Stewardship

• Camp Counselor

  • Mar 2013 - Present

  Bird on hand with raptors; creating age appropriate lesson plans; maintaining a fun and energetic environment while teaching ecological responsibility; leading nature walks, BOH presentations, demonstrations; wildlife education. Bird on hand with raptors; creating age appropriate lesson plans; maintaining a fun and energetic environment while teaching ecological responsibility; leading nature walks, BOH presentations, demonstrations; wildlife education.



Vermont Institute of Natural Science

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Nature Camp Counselor

  • May 2014 - Sep 2014

  Getting children excited about conservation by giving them a variety of positive, educational, hands on nature experiences! Getting children excited about conservation by giving them a variety of positive, educational, hands on nature experiences!



University of New England

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Biology Lab Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - May 2013

  I became proficient in working with a team to prepare weekly labs for freshman ecology and molecular biology, as well as caring for the lab animals. My responsibilities included: feeding, watering, cleaning, administering medicine, and all other tasks necessary for the care of the lab animals; assisting with lab preparation work; assisting the lab instructor by answering students questions on labs and concepts, and helping with take down at the end of each week; altering labs for subsequent years; creating answer keys for labs.

• Research Assistant

  • May 2011 - Aug 2011

  I became proficient in research methods, in particular field techniques applicable to songbird research, including: setting up mist nets; removing birds from mist nets; bird identification; banding; tracking nestling progress; nest searching; banding fledglings; drawing blood; sufficient binocular usage; band identification by sight.



Mary Johnson's Children Center

• Recreational Assistant

  • Sep 2008 - Aug 2012

  maintaining a fun, safe environment for mixed age groups;preparing and serving meals; administering first aid if necessary; CPR certification; organizing work space; interacting with children and their parents; maintaining a creative and energetic persona. maintaining a fun, safe environment for mixed age groups;preparing and serving meals; administering first aid if necessary; CPR certification; organizing work space; interacting with children and their parents; maintaining a creative and energetic persona.