Experience

United Way of Greater Charlotte

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

• Director of Housing Solutions

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Leading the implementation of the strategies identified in the A Home for All Implementation Plan. These strategies are designed to work toward the vision of ensuring that homelessness is rare, brief and nonrecurring, and every person has access to permanent, affordable housing and the resources to sustain it. Leading the implementation of the strategies identified in the A Home for All Implementation Plan. These strategies are designed to work toward the vision of ensuring that homelessness is rare, brief and nonrecurring, and every person has access to permanent, affordable housing and the resources to sustain it.



Legal Aid of North Carolina

• Law Practice
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Housing Project Director

  • Sep 2021 - May 2023

  Managed a team of 15-19 people, including supervisors, attorneys, and paralegals, while handling a caseload, to provide services to those seeking legal assistance and to meet funder goals.

• Supervising Attorney

  • Jul 2020 - Sep 2021

• Staff Attorney

  • Jan 2016 - Jun 2020



Guardian ad Litem

• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Child Advocate

  • Jan 2014 - Nov 2017

  Advocated for the needs and best interest of local children who have been placed in the custody of the Department of Social Services due to dependency, neglect, or abuse. The child advocate visits the children in their home, whether it is with a family member or foster parent, to assess their needs, wants, and to ensure a healthy and safe living environment. The child advocate meets with teachers, principals, and school counselor to ensure that the children are making sufficient progress during the school year. The child advocate meets and discusses with department of social services workers, therapists for the children, and attorney advocates. The child advocate submits a report to the court on the children with a recommendation on the goal for the outcome of the case, current placement, visitation, therapy, tutoring, and any other particular needs of the children. The advocacy continues until the goal is met. Show less



Mecklenburg County Self-Serve Center

• Student Volunteer

  • Mar 2014 - May 2014

  Assisted pro se litigants who were initiating a proceeding in Mecklenburg County. The Self-Serve Center gives litigants the opportunity to have equal access to justice and the courts by offering a variety of services including legal clinics, educational videos, and community and legal referrals. Volunteers answer questions pertaining to instructional form packets that initiate or answer legal claims, the process and timeline of a proceeding, and promote and teach legal clinics were litigants can get more information and one-on-one help for child custody, child support, and divorce proceedings. Show less