Experience

St. Tammany Parish Public School System

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teacher

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  3rd grade Math, Science and Social Studies Teacher, science curriculum facilitator, Project Leadthe Way Site Coordinator & Grant Manager, School Garden Manager, Earth &Science Day Chair, Student Events Committee, 3rd Grade Teacher Rep to PTA

• Substitute Teacher

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2019



Kid Power, Inc.

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Veggie Time Director

  • Oct 2006 - Jul 2016

  As Director of the Veggie Time extracurricular program, I write and organize curriculum; teach students lessons across a variety of subjects from art to math and science to literature; maintain 55 organic edible garden beds at 12 different school sites; write grants for funding to support programming; and organize farmers' market visits at 3 sites and outreach and advocacy events with students.

• Director of Operations

  • Oct 2009 - Sep 2010

  As DIrector of Operations, I kept the organization running through volunteer management, student database management, ensuring grant compliance, grant writing, staff recruitment and training, program implementation, curriculum development, and occasional teaching in the classroom.

• Assistant Program Director

  • Oct 2006 - Oct 2009

  As Assistant Program Director, I was instrumental in implementing new programming and addressing various immediate needs to successfully grow the program from 4 school sites to 10. In addition, I regularly taught in the classroom, both during the school day and after school, managed and led the summer camp program, and assisted with student attendance reporting, student performance data collection, and other grant compliance activities.



The National Institutes of Health

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Jul 2004 - Jul 2006

  As a Research Fellow in the Post Baccalaureate Pre Doctoral Internship program, I worked in Dr. John Brady's retrovirology laboratory, attempting to expose the process by which retroviruses such as HTLV-I, HTLV-II, and HIV alter cell signaling in infected cells. In my research, I performed a variety of assays and cloning experiments specifically targeted at the NFkB and MAPP Kinase intercellular signaling pathways. As a Research Fellow in the Post Baccalaureate Pre Doctoral Internship program, I worked in Dr. John Brady's retrovirology laboratory, attempting to expose the process by which retroviruses such as HTLV-I, HTLV-II, and HIV alter cell signaling in infected cells. In my research, I performed a variety of assays and cloning experiments specifically targeted at the NFkB and MAPP Kinase intercellular signaling pathways.