Experience

Collaborative Center for Justice

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

• Congregational Organizer

  • Sep 2022 - Present

  I work as a congregational organizer at the Collaborative Center for Justice. This is a catholic faith-based nonprofit organization that advocates for systemic change and educates individuals about social justice issues that affect communities of color. As an organizer, I create advocacy toolkits for lay people, make outreach calls to catholic and non-catholic organizations, conduct extensive research on issues that CCFJ advocates for, and more. For the 2023 Connecticut legislative session, CCFJ advocated for no-cost meals for school kids in CT, a potential remediation plan for the trash-to-energy plant in Hartford, a thorough implementation plan for early voting and the passing of the Connecticut Voting Rights Act. Show less



University of Connecticut

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Political Science Research Assistant

  • Mar 2020 - Jun 2023

  I was an Undergraduate Research Assistant for Professor Beth Ginsburg in the Political Science Department. In this role, I researched the roles and behaviors of modern women in American politics, Feminism and Black feminism in the American politic realm, and intersectional politics.

• African American Cultural Center

  • Sep 2019 - May 2022

  Currently, I work part-time at the African-American Cultural Center as an administrative assistant. My duties there include front desk operations such as operating the main phone line and conducting AACC tours to prospective or new students. My duties also include helping to set up events that the center hosts and participating in different fast paced projects.

• UCONN Graduate Writing Tutor

  • Feb 2018 - May 2022

  As a Writing Tutor for the UCONN main and regional campuses, my duties included working one on one with undergraduate and graduate students through their different writing pieces. As a tutor, I also got the opportunity to conduct different projects around the center. These projects included creating posters and flyers in order to help advertise the Writing Center, participating in open house events, helping to plan and coordinate the First Year Writing Experience Program for freshmen and transfer students. I have also helped to facilitate career building workshops for undergraduate UCONN Students through the help of the Writing Center. Show less

• Undergraduate Student Researcher (Cool Pose Culture Project.)

  • Jan 2020 - May 2020

  In the Spring of 2020 as an undergrad, I developed an independent study that focused on the impact of cool pose culture on young Black males. Cool pose culture is a theory developed by the social psychologist Richard Majors and Janet Mancini Billson in their book, The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America (1993.) This theory argues that to ignore a generation’s past that has been filled with images of racial violence, weakness, and racial degradation; young African-American males participate in violence to try and erase this past. Simultaneously, they use this culture to gain a sense of power. To portray to society that the oppressive experiences of an African American male’s ancestors will not emotionally affect a Black male; males feel the need to portray behaviors of ‘carelessness’ towards their surroundings and people. This behavior then helps to create violent conduct between males. Throughout this course, I developed a thesis on how violence stemming from cool pose has increased youth involvement in Black on Black crime as well as violence against Black LGBTQ individuals. Show less



COMPASS Youth Collaborative

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

• Graduate Intern

  • May 2021 - May 2022

  As a student intern at COMPASS Youth Collaborative, I got the opportunity to experience the different functions and leadership roles of a nonprofit organization. To give more insight, COMPASS is an organization aimed to prevent young adults from engaging in community violence through adult mentorship as well as social and emotional development opportunities. As a student intern, I was engaged in a variety of different projects. For example, during Black History Month I developed a race and ethnicity professional development project in order to emphasize the importance in terms of data. This was also important in order to cultivate a work atmosphere that is culturally aware. As a student intern I also developed a research project that portrayed how significant community violence is in Hartford today and some theories that have lead to the push of violence. As a student intern at COMPASS, I have also gotten the opportunity to observe staff meetings, engage in meaningful conversations and activities with the adult mentors, participate in staff development activities, and learn more the process of executing COMPASS’s mission of preventing youth violence in Hartford. Show less



Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity (LCD)

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Law Intern

  • May 2020 - Aug 2020

  As an intern at the Lawyers Collaborative Diversity in Hartford I got the opportunity to connect with different attorneys and lawyers about their careers and their credentials. I also got the opportunity to learn more about the legal field such as professionalism, different facets of law, and other career paths to maneuver with a law degree. As an intern at the Lawyers Collaborative Diversity in Hartford I got the opportunity to connect with different attorneys and lawyers about their careers and their credentials. I also got the opportunity to learn more about the legal field such as professionalism, different facets of law, and other career paths to maneuver with a law degree.



Domus Kids

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

• Hartford Juvenile Detention Center Intern

  • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

  Through this internship, I conducted various student intakes; which record why an individual was sent to the detention center, what goals or outcomes the student hopes to achieve, and the ways that they can achieve these goals. These intakes are then usually documented, filed, and updated on a computer to help track student progress. Also, based on the information given at the intake, interns then have to discuss and analyze intake data as well as other information such as hometown grade reports, mental health history, and criminal history. This is used to predict what factors might have caused the individual to end up in the center and the resources that might be used to proceed with the student’s success plan. Through this internship, I also got to sit down and observe different classrooms; keeping a lookout and noting down the possible complications of classroom management and student behavior. Show less