Experience

Open School NW

• School Success Advocate

  • Aug 2017 - Present

  I facilitate an after-school success program for high school freshmen who face multiple institutional barriers to academic success, and provide academic and social-emotional support and facilitate goal-setting. My work includes building trusting, supportive relationships with students and families and collaborating with families and the school to ensure student success. I deescalate conflicts among students and advocate for students to teachers, counselors and administrators from a strengths-based lens. I also tutor students, particularly in science, math, and English. Show less



Street Roots

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Reporter

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  Street Roots is Portland's own street newspaper that acts as both a social change agent and an income opportunity for those experiencing poverty and homelessness in the city. I write mainly features articles about change-makers, social innovators and programs combating social problems in the Portland community. Street Roots is Portland's own street newspaper that acts as both a social change agent and an income opportunity for those experiencing poverty and homelessness in the city. I write mainly features articles about change-makers, social innovators and programs combating social problems in the Portland community.



Friends of the Children

• Non-profit Organizations

• College & Career Readiness Coordinator

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  I developed organization-wide programming structure for postsecondary readiness for ~200 adolescents facing multiple barriers to success. I developed and facilitated student leadership curriculum, coordinated youth programming, planned and managed events, advised students one-on-one, and obtained and maintained organizational partnerships. I developed organization-wide programming structure for postsecondary readiness for ~200 adolescents facing multiple barriers to success. I developed and facilitated student leadership curriculum, coordinated youth programming, planned and managed events, advised students one-on-one, and obtained and maintained organizational partnerships.



Catlin Gabel School

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Alumni Relations Intern

  • May 2015 - Aug 2015

  I designed marketing materials to engage alumni in Catlin Gabel's network and in events, assisted the Alumni Program Director in event planning, and launched Catlin Gabel Alumni's Instagram account. I designed marketing materials to engage alumni in Catlin Gabel's network and in events, assisted the Alumni Program Director in event planning, and launched Catlin Gabel Alumni's Instagram account.



University of Portland - The Beacon

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• News Editor

  • May 2013 - May 2014

  I mentored and coordinated a team of about 15 reporters and photographers, assigning stories and making design and content decisions for the news section of the newspaper and website. I helped launch a new digital-first, iterative reporting strategy, and a new online method for story editing.Our newspaper won multiple awards under my direct management, including first place for a news series, second place for a news section, and third place for a news story, in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association (ONPA) Collegiate Contest, as well as first place for general news reporting in the Society of Professional Journalist's (SPJ) Mark of Excellence contest for small colleges. During my time as news editor, we also won the College Media Association's Pinnacle Award for “Four-Year Weekly College Newspaper of the Year" and first place in SPJ's Mark of Excellence contest for small colleges. Show less

• Opinions Editor

  • Jan 2013 - May 2013

  I solicited, managed and edited guest submissions and wrote editorials based on a collaborative editorial board opinion.



Earth Advantage

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

• Journalism and Social Media Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  I interfaced with co-workers, partnering organizations and high-profile sources across the country to write web content, press releases, and marketing materials. I interfaced with co-workers, partnering organizations and high-profile sources across the country to write web content, press releases, and marketing materials.

• Reporter

  • Sep 2010 - May 2012

  As primarily a news reporter, I formulated story ideas, interviewed sources - from students to administrators, faculty and community members to the president of the University - and wrote and edited articles on a strict deadline. As primarily a news reporter, I formulated story ideas, interviewed sources - from students to administrators, faculty and community members to the president of the University - and wrote and edited articles on a strict deadline.