Full CV
Education
University of Florida 2008 | B.S. in Journalism with a minor in English
University of California-Berkeley Expected 2017 | MSW-Community Mental Health
Work Experience
Students of Underrepresented Races, Cultures, & Ethnicities at University of California Berkeley | Executive Board Member | February 2016-March 2017
- Write and edit SOURCE's first constitution.
- Coordinate signatories and board member responsibilities.
- Organize and plan for student meetings with up to 30 attendees.
San Mateo North County Youth Team | Intern | August 2016-May 2017
- Lead in the assessment, execution and evaluation of an Integrated Behavioral Health improvement project.
- Provide therapy to ages 8 to 18 in individual, group and family modalities, utilizing SFBT, Narrative, and CBT.
- Assess progress in communication with schools, families, and other service providers.
- Bill consistently and accurately for Medi-Cal through Avatar, within 2 days of service.
- Lead in the execution and creation of Comic Book Club, an expressive arts group and Hero Kids, a therapeutic play group.
- Perform intakes with families, Youth Case Management and referring agencies.
NextStepsEDU | College Counselor Contractor | October 2016-March 2017
- Communicate college options with displaced ITT Tech students.
- Work with GrooveHQ to track responses and requests for assistance.
- Develop a resource guide for displaced students throughout the country.
International Megadigital | Content Producer | August 2012-Present
- Write, rewrite, approve and edit content for regular web comic including a diverse cast of characters that satirize gendered tropes in media.
- Develop show ideas and characters that are mindful about the voices underrepresented in media including people of color and women
- Cast and direct voice actors for upcoming puppet show.
- Coordinate a crowd-funding campaign and press push to satirize lazy, reductive jokes.
- Work with a diverse population that includes immigrants, ESL children and parents, homeless families and survivors of abuse.
- Lead in the execution and creation of a comic book club that develops social and emotional skills.
- Design and implement a pre- and post- test that measures the impact of groups on social and emotional skills through Likert scales.
- Participate in the creation of an outcome-focused Playroom program to track and target specific social and emotional skills.
- Lead in the creation of a Playroom manual for staff, volunteers and potential donors that breaks down methodology of Playroom work and how the Playroom functions within the agency.
- Represent Playroom work and stories to clinical staff to help make meaning of the family and child.
- Coordinate with parents on tactics to adjust and manage negative behaviors.
- Perform SDQ and ASQ:SE parents with parents and teachers to assess the progress of clients.
- Collaborate with clinical supervisor to create play plans that serve the clients developmental goals including mirroring, reflecting and mentalizing.
- Utilize ETO to input assessments, track client sessions and generate reports to measure progress.
- Assist Development department in the creation of the 2012 Annual Report
- Create content for Development's Twitter account
- Come in as needed to work on filing duties
- Proof documents, both internal and external
- Manage and create accounts in Salesforce
- Work extensively in Excel to update spreadsheets to be shared among several individuals
- Worked remotely under Assistant Director Shaun Spaulding
- Coordinate interviews between prominent video game developers and New Media Rights staff
- Update Google Docs spreadsheet to reflect relevant data on the project
- Research relevant personnel for interviews
- Solicit manufacturers for product donations
- Volunteer weekly for at least 4 hours per week
- Provide child care in the playroom and communication with parents
- Also offered regular paid shifts in both the center and outreach programs
- Lead development of after school programs for both on site programs and extention programs
- Examine and increase enrollments in areas where registrations don't meet minimums
- Train employees on use of registration system and how to answer the phone
- Coordinate with school districts, city employees and staff on distributing flyers in schools around class locations
- Launch and maintain an entirely new web site for the company
- Develop, troubleshoot and debug the new web site
- Manage 20 teachers and two head instructors to ensure program quality and consistency across after school class and camp programming.
- Teach classes and all day camps to children aged 6-14, in groups as large as 14.
- Expand programming to cities in East Bay, South Bay and the Peninsula to generate a total of $500,000 in revenue.
- Edit columns for AP style, content and grammar for Comics Bulletin
- Upload columns and relevant media through Comics Bulletin's custom CMS
- Decide on publication dates for irregular columns
- Develop and write for a new weekly news featurette "T.T.S."
- Lead team in developing a proposal and working through the vetting process for the City of San Jose
- Assist in presenting to City of San Jose staff throughout the process
- Comanage a team of 20 teachers for the summer camp, including coordinating schedules and helping with curriculum
- Continued growth in school districts by gaining a program in one of the schools at the San Jose Unified School District and Sacred Heart School in Saratoga
- Lead the implementation and selection of a new registration system provided by ActiveNetworks
- Oversee a team of 6 regular teachers to ensure they arrive at their school sites and that the programs are executed correctly
- Lead team in acquiring contracts with school districts, city departments and private schools
- Teach seven classes during the school year, often requested by name from parents
- Edit and manage company web site
- Handle registration involving Excel, email and Paypal
- Hire a web developer to work on web site
- Sunday tutor, working with several students regularly
- Tutor in math, reading and chemistry
- Fact check articles and create content for the San Francisco Panorama
- Help design, research and fact check a page on lunches
- Work with other staff on larger research projects including money spent in Iraq and 25 Things Still Made in America
- Lead classes ranging from 3 to 8 students
- Teach students from ages 6 to 13
- Create lesson plans for own classes ranging from story writing to playwriting
- Tutor individual students on reading strategies
- Put in charge of advancing students a level
- Lead an SEO campaign for a San Diego locksmith company
- Edit HTML and several letters from the owners of the company
- Enter voter registrations into proprietary database, reaching an average of 120 entries per day
- Worked 12 hour days for 35 days straight with no weekends to complete tasks
- Answer phones and help find services for callers
- Operate a copier
- Greet people visiting the facility
- Supervise a staff of two reporters with various freelance reporters
- Oversee coverage on homeless issues, a new power plant for the city, and the development stall of a prominent property
- Regularly write stories for the paper ranging from student deaths to a ride along with a tow truck driver
- Offered promotion to Managing Editor but turned it down to focus on schoolwork
- Work on long term stories about underage drinking and property manager neglect
- Edit the metro section for two weeks
- Write stories for the metro section of the newspaper in addition to fact finding and database creation
- Also assist in story idea generation for the paper
- Cover wide range of topics from police stories to tropical storm coverage
- Edit stories directly with the editor
- Interview artist Ted Leo for feature for an upcoming Gainesville Festival
- Cover candidates running for City Commission and countywide program to end homelessness
- Organize produce back room
- Close section and prepare it for the next morning
- Customer service regarding complaints about produce and confusion about items in the store
- Stock and grade fruits and vegetables
- Successfully acquire contract with City of San Jose and oversee the process from presentation to individual centers to contract negotiation
- Build a new web site from the ground up that matches the director's specifications
- Put in charge of covering Alternative Press Expo for Comics Bulletin, turning out 3 articles in 48 hours
- Establish a creative writing enrichment program at Willow Glen Elementary
- Identify registration problems and provide a solution two months after the summer camps finish
- Continue expansion of summer camp program into the peninsula, east bay and marin county
- Double number of classes within the first 4 months as Head Instructor at Lekha School of Creative Writing
- Double number of students in the after school program through word of mouth about my classes