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Pia Colon is a seasoned higher education professional with expertise in residence life, student affairs, and community outreach. She has over 8 years of experience in overseeing residence halls, facilitating leadership activities, and providing support to students. Pia holds a Master of Education (M.Ed.) from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark.

Experience

  • Brown University
    • Providence, Rhode Island
    • Residence Director
      • May 2016 - Present
      • Providence, Rhode Island

      Responsible for overseeing 3 Residence Halls on the Pembroke Campus of Brown University along with 16 Resident Assistants. I also presented on community engagement for RA Training in addition to facilitating leadership activities. In addition to presenting for training I have the opportunity to conduct weekly Professional Development workshops for the 19 other Summer@Brown Graduate Students. Participate in an on-call duty rotation for 350 - 1,700 Summer@Brown students

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Graduate Intern
      • Jan 2016 - May 2016

      During this time I worked closely with the Dean of Students on the Cook/Douglass Campus to help students problem solve and get through serious issues. Interactions with students ranged from dealing with crisis situations to steering them in the right direction for career choices and classes.

    • Assistant Residence Life Coordinator
      • Aug 2015 - May 2016

      As the Assistant Residence Life Coordinator I was responsible for co-supervising a staff of 14 undergraduate Apartment Assistants and 1 Graduate Apartment Assistant in an area of 1,200 students. Some of my responsibilities consisted of monthly large scale programming which corresponded with the residents needs, semester welcome week events, maintaining the staff committees which consisted of Public Relations, Large scale programming as well as staff bonding and overseeing the hall RHA (Resident Hall Association). Along with 1:1's with each staff member I completed 1:1's with the President, Co-President and Vice President of RHA to help them improve on their individual leadership skills as well as personal development. Crisis Rotation: As a graduate assistant in Residence Life I participated on a campus duty rotation for the Cook/Douglass campus which is home to 3,500 students and lasted a week. I responded to intoxication calls as well as general issues that may be called in by the Resident Assistant on Duty.

    • Training and Personnel Committee Member
      • Oct 2015 - Jan 2016

      On this Committee I worked with Professional Staff members within Residence Life to create a winter training schedule for about 30 Professional staff members, 25 Graduate staff members, as well as around 300 Undergraduate staff members. I was responsible for assisting with the educational breakout sessions for the undergraduate students as well as providing input for the overall logistics for the day. On the day the undergraduate training I was responsible for assisting with the break out session setups by making sure each room had an audience and directing the flow of staff members.

  • Union County College
    • Plainfield, New Jersey
    • Student Services Assistant
      • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
      • Plainfield, New Jersey

      Assisting the Registrar with Admission applications, registering students for classes as well as light office work.

    • Student Activities Assistant
      • Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
      • Paterson, NJ

      Some responsibilities include Advising the Student Programming Board and assisting them to create activities for the students. I also process club event requests as well as serve as the liaison between the clubs, club advisers and the Office professional staff. During my time here I also assisted in creating an Emerging Leaders Summit where incoming student leaders are exposed to the three major groups on campus (Student Government, the Programming Committee and Visions Newspaper).

    • Student Assistant
      • May 2014 - Aug 2014
      • Newark, NJ

      Assisting with program planning for summer events by calling numerous establishments for group rate tickets, creating flyers and promoting them on the Office of Student Life and Leadership Facebook Page. I also provide great customer service to students looking for summer activities and information about the events we will be having.

    • Receptionist
      • Feb 2011 - May 2014
      • Newark, NJ

      Answer over 10 phone calls a day in a high volume office which provides room setups and customer service for over 20 student organizations, 10 on and off campus departments, and 10 outside clients looking to rent space. During my time here I developed a Training manual along with workshops for new employees.

  • Rutgers University
    • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    • Peer Advisor
      • Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
      • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

      Familiarized over 100 incoming freshman and transfer students with Degree Navigator and WebReg for class registration. During the semester, I assisted current students with deciding what courses they should take and helped them stay on track with their studies.

  • Au Bon Pain
    • Millburn, NJ
    • Cashier
      • May 2012 - Jul 2012
      • Millburn, NJ

      My first money handling job where I greeted customers and rang up their meals.

Education

  • 2015 - 2017
    Rutgers University-New Brunswick
    Master of Education (M.Ed.), College Student Affairs
  • 2010 - 2014
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Newark
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Neuroscience

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