Experience

One Circle Foundation

• United States
• Business Skills Training

• Executive Board Member at Large

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  • Provide ethical, legal, and financial oversight, including with annual budget and resource allocation, to ensure integrity in all levels of functioning.• Help build relationships as well as link OCF to business partners for sponsorships, in-kind resources, and other opportunities to fulfill OCF’s goals and vision.• Serving on the One Circle Foundation’s Public Relations Committee responsible for developing promotional plans that align messages, strategies, tools, timing and intended markets to community One Circle Foundations values, practices, training, curricula, and consultation services. • Offer feedback in the 360°Review process of the OCF Chief Executive Officer.



Manhattanville College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Changing Suburbs Institute - Advisory Committee Member

  • Apr 2017 - Present

  Advisory Member, Hispanic Parent Leadership Conference Committee • Assist in the brainstorming of potential themes for the Hispanic Leadership Conference held twice a year at Manhattanville College.• Public Speaking Moderation of the Hispanic Leadership Conference “Comadres y Compadres en Colaboración”. December 2, 2022. Manhattanville College.2/2017-2020 • Collaborate with the director of the Changing Suburbs Institute to examine and translate Spanish survey findings. • Explore themes and issues that the committee should address in organizing General Education and Special Education Annual Leadership Conferences for Latinx families in Westchester County, New York.



White Plains Public Schools

• Dual Language Educator

  • Sep 1993 - Present

  White Plains Public Schools. Dual Language Academy, English Language Zone Teacher• Cooperating teacher with Manhattanville College undergraduate/graduate student-teachers as well as graduate fellows from The School of Education.• District committee member of the Changing Suburbs Institute (CSI) Hispanic Parent Leadership Conference at Manhattanville College.• Former WPPS Staff Development Policy Advisory Board member for the White Plains Staff Development Center.• Organized site-based staff development workshops for staff.• Directed a professional development DVD Project “Illuminating Effective Differentiated Instruction Classroom Practices for Math Learning” with the White Plains Television Production Specialist.• Member of the district’s Undoing Racism Committee and contributor to the district newsletter.• Served as a case study research participant for the Education Development Center & Bank Street College in a “Math for All” video series—funded by the National Science Foundation and published byCorwin Publishers.• Co-launched the district’s first Dual Language Kindergarten Program and featured in the White Plains Public Schools March ‘08 Newsletter.• Offered mainstreamed inclusive education to hearing-impaired students from The New York School for the Deaf (White Plains, NY).• Taught grades K-5 with 29 years of service to White Plains Public Schools.

• K-5 District Math Instructional Specialist / Teacher Leader on Special Assignment

  • Sep 2001 - Jun 2004

  • Designed and implemented district-wide staff development opportunities for approximately 200 elementary school teachers within the district schools, Newcomer Center and Pre-Kindergarten Program.• Planned and developed a series of instructional training videos promoting district staff development for grades K-5.• Led demonstration math lessons and grade level instructional planning meetings within all elementary and program sites.• Organized a “Math Equity Conference” for K-5 administrators, math lead teachers and community partners (White Plains Youth Bureau).• Chaired a committee of 11 Math Lead Teachers in the district that contributed to the alignment of K-5 Math curriculum.• Steered a district A.I.S. (Academic Intervention Strategies) taskforce to develop K-5 Trimester Math Assessments.• Coordinated several 4th Grade Math Test Conferences for a 4th grade leadership cohortof teachers; Shared assessment statistics and research-based strategies for promotingsuccess on the 4th grade New York State Assessment.• Co-authored and supervised the team writing project of a Pre-K-5th Grade Summer School Math Curriculum.• Conducted and coordinated district-based professional development workshops with math consultants from the Bank Street Math Leadership Program.• Administered a math curriculum program evaluation with Dr. Dubitsky from the Math Leadership Program at Bank Street College.



Social Changers without Borders, Inc

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations

• Humanitarian Advocacy Researcher/ Program Evaluator

  • Oct 2010 - Jun 2015

  July 2014 Advocacy Research & Program Evaluation: Proyecto Mi Hogar, Inc.• Served as lead researcher conducting a comprehensive program evaluation of thegrassroots international non-profit organization Proyecto Mi Hogar.July 2013 ; February 2014. Advocacy Research in Morocco: Examining the Plight of Street Children Orphans• Principal researcher of an advocacy study of 100 study participants across 4different Moroccan urban centers (Sale, Rabat, Errachidia & Fez) in partnership with the Cross Cultural Solutions NGO in Rabat, Morocco.August 2012; August 2013; August 2014; August 2015. The Latina Project: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence. Bonao, Dominican Republic.July 2011-Jan 2012 Program Evaluator for Equality Now (UK Office & Nairobi Office)In Partnership with Social Changers without Borders, Inc.• Conducted a qualitative instrumental case study examining theorganizational structures and activities of a community-based organizationTasaru Ntomonok Initiative serving an indigenous Kenyan Maasai community. The goal was to develop a deeper understanding of the central phenomenon of female genital mutilation among Maasai girls in the Rift Valley. • Presented research findings that were used by Equality Now, Inc. to present at the United Nations Human Rights 2012 Children’s Conference.• Research project was featured in the Walden Alumni international magazine article “Self-Sustaining Social Change.August 2011 Project Researcher • Co-facilitated a community asset-mapping project for SCWB’s epidemiologicalcommunity well project in Abuja, Nigeria. Comparative data analysis was made within the urban renewal center in Lagos, Nigeria.• Partnered with an elementary school in Westchester, New York to organize a Penny Fundraiser wherein the students raised close to 1,000 dollars toward the Development of a water well project. Funds were matched by several Nigerian Dignitaries to support Dr. Ndubisi-Ukandu’s global project.

• Executive Board Member

  • 2010 - 2015