Experience

The Clyde Fitch Report

• Think Tanks
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor and Columnist

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  --Write monthly pieces for my online column, Against the Current. --Prepare content for publication and optimize articles for SEO. --Edit pieces for clarity, flow, content and grammar. --Write monthly pieces for my online column, Against the Current. --Prepare content for publication and optimize articles for SEO. --Edit pieces for clarity, flow, content and grammar.



The Land of the Living Publishing

• Writer/Copy Editor

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  --Facilitate all stages of manuscript preparation and book production --Review and edit written work for grammar, tone, voice and creative quality --Develop copy and concepts for packaging, digital storytelling, social media advertising, create and implement marketing strategies, and events and promotions --Created multifunctional website, produced video trailers, and currently, write blog posts to engage target audience --Utilized research and fact-checking skills to produce exemplary products --Conducted survey with target population, analyzed findings and initiated necessary changes to improve connection with novel’s target audience. --Built relationships with industry professionals --Format novel interior and work with collaborators to bring vision into reality. Show less



University of Chicago

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

  --Initiated country wide interviews with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals providers, developed survey for services and compiled rate of DACA applicants, which is used in now Harvard Professor Roberto Gonzales’ research. Evaluated and analyzed the mediating social, economic, and mental health factors that encourage or deter immigrant youth from applying for DACA. --Planned and co-wrote a mental health survey, mental health tool assessment, and questionnaire. --Initiated country wide interviews with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals providers, developed survey for services and compiled rate of DACA applicants, which is used in now Harvard Professor Roberto Gonzales’ research. Evaluated and analyzed the mediating social, economic, and mental health factors that encourage or deter immigrant youth from applying for DACA. --Planned and co-wrote a mental health survey, mental health tool assessment, and questionnaire.



International Organization for Adolescents (IOFA)

• Greater Chicago Area

• Task Force Intern

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

  •--Co-led and oversaw logistics of the Victim Services Subcommittee which streamlined housing aid for human trafficking victims. --Strengthened and centralized a comprehensive functioning housing network for victims, which entailed reaching out to housing organizations and organizing their information. --Researched, wrote, and provided action plan for the LGBTQ action subcommittee. --Planned quarterly blogs on the intersections between immigration and human trafficking in America, maintained social media sights including, Facebook, Twitter, and IOFA’s Blog. --Co-facilitated the Human Trafficking is Our Problem Campaign, which recruited general population in raising awareness of local trafficking issues. --Set goals for personal projects and optimized office functioning by overseeing organization’s communication outlets and arranged applicants information. Show less



PUKAR

• India
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Study Abroad Program Intern

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012

  •--Co-wrote proposal for identifying partner Non-governmental organizations, analyzed methods for increasing funds for organizational support, provided potential avenues for research fellows to further their endeavors through fellowship opportunities, and presented research to faculty. --Collaborated with underserved populations living in Mumbai slums, discussed ways to combat lack of access to resources such as water, due to corrupt government officials. --Expanded personal understanding of depth of marginalization experienced by transgender, religious, and gender marginalized populations living in Mumbai by engaging in dynamic cross-cultural dialogue. Show less



JCUA

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Immigration Reform Program Intern

  • 2011 - 2012

  --Conducted a power-analysis of Crete Village and its representatives concerning construction of an immigrant detention center, presented findings at organized house meeting, which resulted in mobilization of Crete community members. --Assisted in coordinating town meetings, assembling local residents, developed rapport with local media which covered the Crete Movement. Enhanced public awareness of Crete community members, built consensus, helped to guide early community organizing of members for activism. --Met with State Representatives, verbalized human rights infractions of privately run detention centers by Corrections Corporations of America (CCA), and the need for Senate Bill 1064, which would have prohibited private civil detention in the state of Illinois. --Integrated new members within Crete Community to extend reach of the movement, prepared reports, briefings, and contributed high-quality research for inter-organizational meetings used for next steps. --Authored several news-oriented blogs for organization’s field work in Crete, engaged community. --In June of 2012, due to the collaboration and collective work of varied groups and organizations the village administrators chose not to build the center. Show less



New Moms, Inc.

• Greater Chicago Area

• New Moms

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

  --Facilitated Rising Star career readiness class and taught health, wellness, job and life skills to inner-city youth without a high school diploma. --Prepared young women to seek out job opportunities and be successful and confident in their new positions. --Conducted screening calls and face-to-face interviews for prospective program clients. --Facilitated Rising Star career readiness class and taught health, wellness, job and life skills to inner-city youth without a high school diploma. --Prepared young women to seek out job opportunities and be successful and confident in their new positions. --Conducted screening calls and face-to-face interviews for prospective program clients.



Rochester Preschool

• Rochester HIll, MI

• Assistant Teacher

  • Jan 2007 - May 2010

  •--Provided child care services in an encouraging and constructive learning environment •--Assisted with child development through kinesthetic, tactile and auditory modes of learning •--Maintained the highest level of reliability and responsibility --Completed tasks in an efficient and timely manner •--Provided child care services in an encouraging and constructive learning environment •--Assisted with child development through kinesthetic, tactile and auditory modes of learning •--Maintained the highest level of reliability and responsibility --Completed tasks in an efficient and timely manner



Rochester University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  --Assisted with a comprehensive medical health fair, implementation of a library addition and aided in day-to-day operations of the volunteer service program --Gained understanding of the challenges and benefits of working in multicultural terrain, in addition to, approaches to working in a culturally diverse setting and being mindful of cultural sensitivity. --Experienced invaluable exposure to global poverty and the need for available and sustainable resources to the world’s impoverished communities. Show less