Experience

Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Housing Team Coordinator

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Work closely with people experiencing homelessness at the intersection of high ED-use, mental illness, and substance use disorder. Supervise a team of housing navigators and Peer Support Specialists, consult on housing cases throughout the larger program, and maintain relationships with partner housing agencies throughout the city and state. Manage BHCHP's Women's Health Peer Housing grant and BACO Housing Flex Services grant. My panel consists of patients who stay outside/unsheltered, and who have serious medical and social concerns. I also lead trainings for case managers and medical staff, coordinate program-wide housing efforts, and am an active member of the Equity and Social Justice Committee and the Immigrant Health Committee.

• Housing Specialist

  • Jun 2020 - Dec 2021

  Work closely with people experiencing homelessness at the intersection of high ED-use, mental illness, and substance use disorder. Supervise an Americorps fellow, consult on housing cases throughout the larger program, and maintain relationships with partner housing agencies throughout the city and state. My panel consists of patients who stay outside/unsheltered, and who often have life-threatening medical and social concerns. I also lead trainings for case managers and medical staff to enhance BHCHP's housing navigation capacity, and am an active member of the Equity and Social Justice Committee and the Immigrant Health Committee.

• COVID-19 Patient Coordinator

  • Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

  Worked as a case manager and patient coordinator at Boston Hope, a makeshift 1000-bed facility for people experiencing homelessness who tested positive for COVID-19. I also worked in the Boston Public Health Commission isolation tents, which served as makeshift isolation spaces for folks in shelters who experienced COVID-19 symptoms. I ran community activities, coordinated intakes and discharges, and helped patients with all of their case management needs. I worked in both English and Spanish, and worked both days and overnights

• Clinic and Outreach Case Manager

  • Apr 2019 - Jun 2020

  Help homeless patients navigate their social needs such as housing access, financial support, legal concerns, substance use treatment, and other needs. Provide both clinic-based and outreach support. I'm also an active member of the BHCHP Equity and Diversity Committee and the Immigrant Health Committee. My day-to-day experiences are diverse - I'm helping one patient (a patient who speaks no english, has no income, and has no passport) find a way to get to Cameroon to visit a sick relative; other patients I help are working towards permanent housing, employment, and financial stability; and many patients need help accessing food, clothing, and substance use treatment. I work with patients in both English and Spanish



Boston University School of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Outreach Van Project Case Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Provide case management services for families of East Boston who face housing, employment, and food insecurity. Teach medical students about homelessness, housing, and immigration. The van consists of a physician, a case manager, and medical students. I work with clients primarily in Spanish. Provide case management services for families of East Boston who face housing, employment, and food insecurity. Teach medical students about homelessness, housing, and immigration. The van consists of a physician, a case manager, and medical students. I work with clients primarily in Spanish.



Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Coordinator

  • Aug 2017 - Jul 2019

  Ran all aspects of the Human Connectome Project, an NIH project investigating trajectories in typical adolescent development, under the direction of Dr. Leah Somerville. Led testing, recruitment, data logging, finances, and public outreach/education. Trained in self-harm risk assessments. Co-author on multiple scientific abstracts published in 2018 and 2019, presented a poster on our work at the 2018 Flux Satellite Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was co-first author on an article about the limitations of developmental computational psychiatry published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry in 2019.



Dartmouth College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth Program (SEAD) Staff and Mentor

  • Jun 2017 - Jul 2017

  Full-time teaching assistant, residential advisor, and mentor in a college access program for low-income high school students. Collaborated with team members to plan events, teach classes, cultivate cultural competency, and create positive student learning environments. I worked one-on-one with students to help them succeed academically and I provided support for them as they navigated their traumas, social challenges, and identities

• Call to Action Workshop Organizer

  • Dec 2016 - Jun 2017

  Created and facilitated a 3-part series of workshops about oppression, intersectionality, and white allyship in movements for social justice. Workshops involved group discussions, games, and problem-solving activities to encourage reflection about oppression, privilege, and the history of social justice movements. With help from the Dartmouth Office of Pluralism and Leadership, these workshops enrolled over one hundred students

• Department of Spanish and Portuguese "Drill” Instructor

  • Sep 2016 - Jun 2017

  Led weekly classes for Spanish levels 1 & 2 using the “Rassias” immersion-based teaching method. Assisted multiple professors in the Spanish department by teaching, mentoring, and grading students in their classes.

• Neuroscience Student

  • Aug 2013 - Jun 2017

  An analysis of the practices of non-human animal research with considerations of history and ethics. Attempted to answer the question, "Is medical and basic-science research on animals justified?" through lenses of neuroscience and cognitive psychology. This was a combination of my main focuses as an undergraduate: neuroscience, psychology, and sociology.



Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Clinics

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Space Medicine Lab Research Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

  - Ran studies in a NASA-funded lab that focused on mental well-being, virtual reality, and vision-loss in space - Second author on a paper about virtual reality and mental health published in the journal of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance in 2017 - Ran studies in a NASA-funded lab that focused on mental well-being, virtual reality, and vision-loss in space - Second author on a paper about virtual reality and mental health published in the journal of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance in 2017