Art Teacher

• Jun 2022 - Present

Teaching beginning, intermediate and AP art. Art club sponsor.

English Teacher

• Jan 2022 - Jun 2022

MYP English Department Coordinator ~ DP English A/MYP Language and Literature Teacher

• Oct 2016 - Jun 2021

Taught English Language and Literature for MYP year 4 and 5, and DP year 1. Supervised the English department for the MYP. Oversaw curriculum development and implementation. Analyzed achievement levels and statistics. Updated MYP English curriculum through an annual horizontal and vertical review of texts, text types, genres, and writing styles.

MYP English Language and Literature & Language Acquisition Teacher

• Oct 2016 - Jan 2019

Taught English Language and Literature for MYP years 1, 3, 4, and 5. Taught English language acquisition for MYP year 1 and 2. Experience in unit planning, curriculum planning, and compiling and editing the school’s biannual student writing journal, Voices in Ink using Adobe InDesign. Staged an eighth-grade poetry event called “Emotion in Motion” to benefit the S.O.S. Children’s Villages.

Instructor

• Feb 2014 - Oct 2016

Taught "America and the Arabs," covering the historical interactions of the United States and the Arab world from 1945 - present, with an emphasis on foreign policy analysis. Taught "America and the Arabs," covering the historical interactions of the United States and the Arab world from 1945 - present, with an emphasis on foreign policy analysis.

Instructor

• Sep 2011 - Oct 2016

Taught “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” covering topics such as the historical interactions of the United States in the Middle East from 1945 – present, and "History of the Arab World." I have developed curricula for courses on the Middle East, Southeast Asia, U.S. history, Southwest Asia, and for middle school level social studies classes. Taught “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East,” covering topics such as the historical interactions of the United States in the Middle East from 1945 – present, and "History of the Arab World." I have developed curricula for courses on the Middle East, Southeast Asia, U.S. history, Southwest Asia, and for middle school level social studies classes.

Marketing & Communications Coordinator

• Nov 2008 - Jul 2013

Responsible for all marketing and public relations activities, from inception to completion. Experienced corporate writer. Wrote 179 and edited 27 blog posts for www.shukr.co.uk/blog and blog.hijabgirl.com. Also wrote all corporate press releases, all website copy, all text editing, and most advertising slogans. Innovative graphic designer. Designed over 15 web and email campaigns, as well as the corporate blog design, social media account graphics, advertising banners, web page graphics, animated gifs, advertising brochures, YouTube advertising videos, and style guides. Social media analyst and community manager. Founded and maintained corporate social media accounts such as the company blog, Facebook page, Twitter account, YouTube account, LinkedIn account, Google+ account, and Pinterest account. Moderated and maintained a professional image on all accounts, continually writing and updating them with fresh content. For the Facebook page alone, my activities resulted in a gain of over 20,000 followers. Marketing strategist. Devised and executed daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedule of marketing and social media activities, including advertising campaigns, Facebook contests, Facebook advertising, Facebook app development coordination, content creation, and branding activities, which resulted in the exponential growth of the corporate social media presence. Advertising coordinator. Contracted and coordinated all advertising campaigns, including paid and unpaid channels. Insured completion of all contracted materials, and followed-up at all stages of the process, including pursuing legal redress in cases of non-completion of contracts. Marketing researcher. Conducted research, developed and administrated surveys, conducted informal polling, and developed innovative ways of aggregating customer feedback through social media channels. Show less

Project Assistant

• Jan 2008 - Jul 2008

Iraq Team, MENA Division. Public speaker: moderated staff meetings, and represented the NDI Iraq Program at meetings and events in the Washington, D.C. area. Researcher. Kept abreast of all news and developments happening in Iraq from January - July of 2008. Submitted daily and monthly reports summarizing and contextualizing all political and security events for program staff. Program assistant. Performed a variety of programmatic activities such as travel arrangements, event planning, kept meeting minutes, and other administrative activities as assigned. Show less