Experience

Crisis Center for South Suburbia

• United States
• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Therapist

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Provide trauma-informed and trauma-specific empowerment-based therapy for adult and childsurvivors and witnesses of domestic violence in community-based and emergency shelter settings. Facilitate psychoeducational and expressive arts therapy groups for adult and child survivors. Complete legal documentation, progress notes, and KPI assessments as required. Facilitate 40-hour domestic violence training sessions on topics including cultural humility and working with children impacted by domestic violence. Show less

• Crisis Hotline Volunteer

  • Jul 2019 - Mar 2022

  Use a trauma-informed approach to provide crisis support to callers and screen for domestic violence. Collaborate with hotline staff to determine eligibility for services and provide referrals as needed. Complete all associated screening and call log documentation as required. Review client rights and responsibilities as related to eligible services. Support hotline shift leader and shelter staff with front office and shelter logistics.



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Consultant - Program Evaluation and Applied Research

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  Provide end-to-end consultation on program evaluation and applied research projects, including project management, hiring, research methodology and design, quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, survey and interview guide design, data management, analysis, visualization, reporting, and presentation. Spanish language services include translation of research documents, outreach for participant recruitment, quantitative survey administration, and qualitative interviewing. Provide end-to-end consultation on program evaluation and applied research projects, including project management, hiring, research methodology and design, quantitative and qualitative data collection methods, survey and interview guide design, data management, analysis, visualization, reporting, and presentation. Spanish language services include translation of research documents, outreach for participant recruitment, quantitative survey administration, and qualitative interviewing.



Healthy Kids Running Series

• United States
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Coordinator

  • Jun 2019 - Jun 2023

  Engage 200-250 children ages 2-14 in positive, youth development activities and age-appropriate reflection to foster well-being and sense of community during spring and fall 5-week race series. Collaborate with children to identify and track progress toward achievement of personal fitness goals. Facilitate weekly self-reflection for high school volunteers on personal and professional development related to series involvement. Develop and maintain partnerships with local businesses to ensure low cost provision of programming for participating families. Maintain social media presence to share program mission, increase visibility of partner services, and increase program participation. Coordinate and manage race day logistics and all associated pre-race events. Show less



Lewis University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Curriculum Development Advisor, Office of Community Engaged Learning

  • Aug 2019 - Jul 2021

  Collaborated with faculty, staff, administrators, and students to develop, implement, and assess community-engaged learning experiences for undergraduate students. Assessed for community-engaged learning faculty needs by gathering and analyzing focus group, individual interview, and survey data and by creating comprehensive program logic model. Co-facilitated meetings and professional development sessions for faculty, staff, and community members.

• Assistant Professor, Social Work

  • Aug 2017 - Jul 2021

  Facilitated weekly in-person and online class meetings and critical reflection for undergraduate and graduate level social work student groups using interactive, discussion-focused, and didactic methods. Developed and delivered social work course content focused on human behavior, social policy, direct practice, non-profit management and leadership, evaluation research, and cultural humility in social work. Mentored undergraduate and graduate students to set and track academic goals, create course completion plans, and assess for academic and support service needs and make appropriate referrals. Show less



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Consultant

  • 2014 - 2017

  -Designed research protocol, analyzed data, and created reports for an evaluation of a community-based domestic violence workshop for Spanish-speaking community members and service providers.-Led evaluation of community-based violence prevention program for at-risk youth including individual interview and focus group facilitation, survey data collection, and camp observations.-Used a trauma-informed approach to interview Spanish-speaking survivors of domestic violence about their experiences with abuse, mental health, quality of life, financial well-being, access to resources, and client needs for program evaluation projects in emergency shelter, permanent, supportive housing, and agency settings and made recommendations for program improvement.-Prepared Spanish translations of surveys, interview guides, and informed consent materials.-Development of project deliverables, peer-reviewed publications, and peer-reviewed presentations-Developed interactive content for online training on domestic violence in the child welfare field. Show less

• Part-Time Lecturer

  • 2014 - 2017

  Taught graduate course work on social policy and behavioral theory related to violence and abuse in an asynchronous, online format.

• Research Assistant

  • 2011 - 2014

  Qualitative and quantitative data analysis; Program evaluation design and implementation; Preparation of ethics review materials; Development of project deliverables, peer-reviewed publications and presentations



Humility of Mary

• United States

• International Social Work Volunteer - Santiago, Chile

  • 2009 - 2011

  Worked with community-based social workers to facilitate trauma-informed psychosocial support and empowerment groups in Spanish for survivors of domestic violence. Collaborated with public health and community-based social workers to facilitate preventative health and domestic violence education workshops in Spanish for professionals and community members. Conducted trauma-informed art and play workshops in Spanish for children and adolescents affected by domestic violence in an emergency shelter setting. Show less