Intern

• Mar 2021 - Present

Community Health Researcher & Project Coordinator

• Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

Health Education Researcher & Case Manager

• Jul 2020 - Sep 2020

+ Counselling chronically ill patients that struggle with mental health and socioeconomic issues. + Assisting community health workers with community outreach and support of patients.+ Collaborating with nurses and doctors around patient management and treatment. + Developing content for training workshops for community health workers and nurses around the determinants of health such as various behavioural and socioeconomic risk factors such as lifestyle, education, employment, living conditions, mental health and governance. + Facilitating the training workshops for the community health workers and nurses at the clinic.

Research Associate

• Mar 2020 - Aug 2020

+ Conducting research around women’s empowerment, specifically in the areas of civic engagement, health, education, and employment. + Developing program content to strengthen the capacity of civic society organizations, especially regarding ethics and women’s involvement in civic engagement at all levels. + Assisted with grant proposal writing for the various civic society initiatives that the organization would be spearheading.

Educator & Program Facilitator

• Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

+ Educating young girls and women in various educational and vocational programs.o Supporting with after-school programs for elementary/secondary school girls.o Supporting university level students with English based assignments.o Assisting with training for young women and mothers – training includes educational materials that deal with reproductive health, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDS, health of the mother and child, financial literacy and basic job skills. + Liaison between Lidar and other local and international organizations in order to receive grants, funding, material resources, and/or volunteers.

Child, Youth & Adult Program Coordinator for Eastern Ontario

• Oct 2015 - Sep 2017

+ Accompanied city level Child, Youth & Adult Program Coordinators to think about the quality of the programs and to develop strategies for growth within their respective cities. + The areas of focus included Toronto, York Region, Durham Region, Simcoe and Peterborough.+ Outreached for prospective youth and adults interested in becoming mentors and program leaders for children and youth. + Provided training to new and existing mentors.Supported all mentors by conducting visits to their classes; lesson planning; and with consultations. + Planned and held seminars for city level Child, Youth & Adult Program Coordinators to reflect on the program in their respective cities and to make subsequent plans for support and growth. + Worked with a team of other Regional Program Coordinators in order to create coherent plans amongst all the programs, initiatives and lines of action for each city.+ The Regional Team of Coordinators would write extensive bi-annual reports on the progress of the programs in each city.

Children’s Program Coordinator for Toronto, ON

• Mar 2014 - Oct 2015

+ Worked with teachers across Toronto that held classes for children aged 5-10 years old.+ Worked to support existing teachers and to train new ones.+ Support of teachers included visiting their classes, assisting with lesson planning, and creating spaces for reflection of the strengths and challenges they experienced in the classroom. + Trained and organized trainings for new and existing teachers through the teacher curriculum. + Worked with a team of helpers that assisted with supporting and extending the reach of the program throughout the city. + Doubled the number of classes in the city within one year.

Youth Coordinator for Scarborough, ON

• Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

+ Worked with youth in various priority neighbourhoods in Scarborough by engaging them in a conversation about how they can be mentors in their communities. holding training sessions with materials centred around working with children and younger youth. + Organized training sessions for youth that opened up a dialogue about the purpose of being a mentor and working with children and youth younger than themselves. + Youth were trained to form their own after-school classes for children and young youth.+ Created spaces for open dialogue of youth mentorship and engagement for their families and community members in order to stimulate more community action.