Continuous Improvement & College Access Coach

• May 2022 - Present

Program Manager

• Apr 2020 - May 2022

Virtual Adviser

• Jul 2019 - Apr 2020

With the goal of increasing the number of high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students who apply to, matriculate, and graduate from high graduation rate colleges and universities, I leverage technology and comprehensive data tracking and analysis to advise ~180 students and their families from across the country.By March of my first year, I exceeded the program benchmark goals for student engagement (exceeded by 24%), parent engagement (exceeded by 5%), financial aid document completion (exceeded by 14%), and informed college application behaviors (exceeded by 6%).Selected to participate in University of Chicago's Counselor Fly-in Program. Created, presented, and recorded a webinar with colleagues about the Chicago institutions we visited in order to preserve the information for future advisers and students to pull information from. Since July, I have visited 9 campuses to learn about the environment and specific resources they provide to underrepresented student populations.Member of the eResources committee working to develop a website compiled of best practices surrounding each of the four core curriculum meetings. The website development and content involves an ongoing process of collaboration among other committees, conducting focus groups, and regular meetings with members of leadership in order to create a sustainable final product to inform adviser onboarding and practices moving forward. Developed a working document to track effective text messages. As the document becomes more comprehensive, I envision integrating an expectation that all advisers track any mass messaging in order to create a more representative document that will allow team members to analyze and make conclusions about the factors that lead to effective outreach.Facilitating virtual meetings with 1) college students and prospective students who are unable to visit given campus closures and, 2) in-school advisers who are learning to serve their communities virtually. Show less

Unit Director

• Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

Due to a fire, the Boys & Girls Club was conducting daily operations in three locations. After onboarding months after the fire, I directed and managed overall daily operations at each location. Primarily focused on staff development and empowerment, how to strategically structure programming under the new circumstances, and high-quality program development and implementation. Along with a clear focus on program outcomes and services, supervision and training of staff, facilities management, membership development, and program outcomes. Developing a vision for the Club involved daily relationship building with staff, youth members, school staff, and community stakeholders in order to fully understand the community context, history, and priorities. Additionally, I worked to raise a sense of ownership and autonomy among the 12 Youth Development Staff I managed. This involved goal setting, and regular opportunities for staff to build and showcase their strengths and have their voices amplified. Utilized personal guidance, leadership skills, and progressive disciplinary practices as necessary and appropriate with members, staff and volunteers to ensure safety for all parties. Ensure compliance with all organizational policies and procedures. Show less

Bid Proposal Assistant

• Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

-Support the sales and project management teams within a woman-owned, small business machine tools specialty dealer. Conduct daily check-in across teams to confirm work is on schedule and to prioritize activities accordingly. -Navigate the Federal contracting processes to ensure efficient, responsive, and compliant responses to proposals, contract management, and deliverables. -Manage the company website and market materials. -Cultivate relationship with community by overseeing internship program partnership with local high school and organizing community service initiatives for the company. -Ongoing administrative and organizational tasks to improve company productivity and success. Show less

Independent Contractor

• Sep 2018 - Jan 2019

Teach English as a Second Language and build ongoing relationships with Chinese students aged 4 to 13 via video chat. Teach English as a Second Language and build ongoing relationships with Chinese students aged 4 to 13 via video chat.

Project Coordinator

• Jan 2017 - Apr 2018

-Manage the creation, implementation, and evaluation of multiple large-scale research projects focused on education and criminal justice. Serve as the liaison between internal and external partners and support senior research team in project administration and execution. -Assist with identification and coordination of work between internal and external partners and ensure approved timelines and deliverables are met. Work often involves recruiting, training, and supervising teams of undergraduate students including regular meetings and status reports. -Responsible for partnership management with a diverse group of stakeholders ranging from higher education institutional staff and faculty to incarcerated individuals. -Manage budget and execution of internal office affairs often including service delivery and facility management. Assist in the creation of project management templates in order to create uniformity across projects as the lab expands. Show less

Intern: Virtual Adviser

• Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

-Implement education intervention: Engage with high school seniors, college students, college graduates, educators and counselors by sending tips and reminders via text message in order to increase college application and graduation rates. Monitor message inbox for campaign to ensure participants receive appropriate texts. Troubleshoot text software and intern response protocols. Promotion through personal social media outlets. -Research for voting intervention: Increase voter turnout among young voters. Research voting laws and regulations by state and translate into <160 character, text message form. Translate text content into Signal Vine formatting across control and treatment groups. Create custom bit.lys. Show less

Intern

• Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

-Researcher for Chief Academic Officer. -Collect data for a national educational researcher database. Collaborate to build database criteria. Analyze the collected data to propose an updated taxonomy to the American Educational Research Association’s taxonomy. -Conduct market analysis of school professional development. Use analysis to inform a SWOT analysis of JEA customer. -Researcher for Chief Academic Officer. -Collect data for a national educational researcher database. Collaborate to build database criteria. Analyze the collected data to propose an updated taxonomy to the American Educational Research Association’s taxonomy. -Conduct market analysis of school professional development. Use analysis to inform a SWOT analysis of JEA customer.

Consultant

• Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

-Implement survey outreach and participation encouragement to past Bottom Line participants and families. -Track outreach modes, quantity of attempts, and student responses while preserving student anonymity. -Implement survey outreach and participation encouragement to past Bottom Line participants and families. -Track outreach modes, quantity of attempts, and student responses while preserving student anonymity.

Intern

• Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

-Urban Education Leadership Internship Program (UELIP). Intern in the Office of Contracts & Acquisitions (OCA) in the Office of the Chief Operating Officer -Create surveys and interview protocols to gauge OCA customer experience. Conduct interviews at district schools in order to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Analyze data and present results to OCA office. Also perform day-to-day procurement tasks / projects. -Urban Education Leadership Internship Program (UELIP). Intern in the Office of Contracts & Acquisitions (OCA) in the Office of the Chief Operating Officer -Create surveys and interview protocols to gauge OCA customer experience. Conduct interviews at district schools in order to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Analyze data and present results to OCA office. Also perform day-to-day procurement tasks / projects.