Experience

Women's Justice Initiative

• Guatemala
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Impact and Development Officer

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Arizona State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Instructor

  • Aug 2017 - Aug 2021

• Graduate Teaching Associate

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  As a graduate teaching associate, she helped manage student emails, Blackboard course development and setup, graded student work, and has helped integrate the Yellowdig platform into the courses of ASB 100: Intro to Global Health (twice). She taught the ASB 300: Food and Culture course four times, and ASB 410: Poverty, Social Justice, and Global Health. She also helped manage two ASU Study Abroad field school for medical anthropology in Acatenango, Chimaltenango, Guatemala for five weeks in 2015 and 2019.

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - May 2015

  She worked on the Global Dental Phenomics project during the spring semester of 2015. She took photos of dental casts taken from many different families by a Harvard anthropology research group in the 1960s. The results of these photographs will be a 3D imaging library of dental casts for use and study by the public. She used a Canon digital camera and lighting tools to take the photos, as well as creating the family genealogies that you can see on the website (http://dentalphenomics.org/collection/solomon-islands/). The project she worked on received funds from the National Science Foundation.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2014

  She was a teaching assistant the fall semester of 2014 for Traditional Healing and Medicine, an medical anthropology/global health course. As a graduate teaching assistant, she answered the emails of students and held office hours each week to help them progress in the course. She also came up with half of the material that went into the students' biweekly quizzes. In that fall semester, she gave a class lecture on the religious influences on health outcomes among evangelical Guatemalans.



The University of Texas at Austin

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Accounting Assistant

  • May 2013 - Jul 2014

  In the Office of Accounting, she received the morning checks that come around 8am, and organized them according to where they need to go. For example, checks over $50,000 which the university pays, must have two signatures - so she looked to see which of the 300 or so checks need signatures, and went to supervisors or other staff within the office who were allowed to sign said checks. She attached different types of paperwork to checks and mark them to be sent. Additionally, she contacted the intended recipients of returned mail, helping them get paid for their vendor services, reimbursements from the university, or scholarships. She handled many checks with large sums daily, making sure they did not get sent to the wrong place or picked up in the office by the wrong person. When searching for the intended recipients of returned checks, she gained experience in skip tracing and internet research. In the summer of 2014, she began to work over 25 hours per week and created an employee handbook to be utilized by Administration staff.



Granite Properties

• United States
• Leasing Non-residential Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Office Assistant

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  At Granite Properties of Texas, she answered phones, assisted tenants and vendors at the front desk, sorted mail, and kept the front desk area clean and organized. At Granite Properties of Texas, she answered phones, assisted tenants and vendors at the front desk, sorted mail, and kept the front desk area clean and organized.



University Realty, Inc.

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Office Assistant

  • May 2012 - Feb 2013

  At University Realty, she worked 10-15 hours per week after classes during the school year and worked 25-30 hours per week during the summer (2012). She invoiced tenants for utility bills, late fees, and maintenance done on the rental apartments or houses, used a multi-line telephone to answer questions from current tenants, prospective tenants, and vendors we use to do maintenance on our units, sometimes speaking in Spanish with the company's Hispanic tenants, and answered questions of prospective tenants via email. She also managed the files and information about the tenants, owners, and vendors and interacted with realtors by managing the key system so they could show properties to prospective tenants.



Blanton Museum of Art : University of Texas at Austin

• Development Intern

  • May 2012 - Feb 2013

  Interning at the Blanton, she learned the ins and outs of working at a non-profit organization. Mary Catherine generally worked about 15 hours per week during my initial internship in the summer of 2012, and was asked to stay on during the fall semester contributing 8 volunteer hours per week. Her normal duties included hand addressing mail to donors, researching potential donors based upon their involvement in the art community, helping to organize regional Gala events, adding members into the museum’s database, and making preparations for the 50th Anniversary Gala in February 2013.



Longhorn Aquatics

• United States
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Swim Coach

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2012

  At Longhorn Aquatics, she was a swim coach for the youngest group, including kids from age 5 to age 12. She generally coached for an hour every night, sometimes with 3-day long swim meets on the weekends which required coordinating the kids’ races, pepping them up to race well, and giving encouragement and important feedback for how to improve their times. At Longhorn Aquatics, she was a swim coach for the youngest group, including kids from age 5 to age 12. She generally coached for an hour every night, sometimes with 3-day long swim meets on the weekends which required coordinating the kids’ races, pepping them up to race well, and giving encouragement and important feedback for how to improve their times.



YMCA of Central Texas

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Lifeguard and Swim Instructor

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2011

  Mary Catherine worked at the YMCA for several years. During the school year, she worked only on Sundays, both lifeguarding and teaching swim lessons to kids with disabilities, usually autism. When school let out and she had the summers off, she would work up to 35 hours per week both lifeguarding and teaching swim lessons to children and adults of all ages. Mary Catherine worked at the YMCA for several years. During the school year, she worked only on Sundays, both lifeguarding and teaching swim lessons to kids with disabilities, usually autism. When school let out and she had the summers off, she would work up to 35 hours per week both lifeguarding and teaching swim lessons to children and adults of all ages.