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Embedded Career Specialist
WorkSource Career Services
South Seattle Community College * Partner with faculty to prepare students for employment through internships, job search coaching, resume reviews, and workshops on interviewing, networking, etc. for approximately 130 students across a variety of Professional-Technical and Academic programs * Build and maintain industry-focused employer and recruiter relationships - developing articulation agreements, supporting technical advisory boards, and coordinating panels, job fairs, and classroom presentations * Develop and deliver career focused curriculum that addresses differences in professional industries * Support prof-tech advisors through development of End Next Quarter (ENQ) workshops and targeted SMS surveying and reporting to ensure all students receive multiple contact points * Program assessment and evaluation, including tracking and reporting student and alumni engagement * Building infrastructure to support Service-Learning through partnerships with faculty and local community organizations to best address both student learning and community needs * Proposed and executed redesign of Career Services website and Online Student Job Database (SeattleCollegesCareerHUB.com - launching July 2014) * Arranged a new student career support program for the AANAPISI program (Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution).
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Region V Technology Knowledge Community Representative
NASPA Student Affairs Administrators
in Higher Education (Nationwide/Region V includes UT, AK, ID, OR, NV, MT, WA, Alberta, & British Columbia) * Lead the Region V Student Affairs Knowledge Community by communicating technology trends and best practices, supporting new research and exploration, coordinating collaborative presentations and partnerships, facilitating discussion, and authoring quarterly blog updates.
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Student Engagement Coordinator
Carlson Leadership and Public Service Center
Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity, University of Washington (Seattle, WA) * Service-Learning Support: Advised students regarding service placements and planning assisted with developing campus-community partnerships around King County supported service-learning course faculty and instructors perform class presentations aid with tracking and reporting. * Program Supervision and Development for Civic Fellowships: Designed and implemented curriculum, coordinated student-community partnerships, planned student leadership development activities, and oversaw endowment disbursements. * Grant Administration for Students in Service AmeriCorps Program: Designed administrative tracking systems, outreach, orientation, advising, data collection, compliance checks, grant reporting, and evaluation for over 100 graduate and undergraduate student members each year. * Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Event Coordination: Planned the largest MLK Day of Service in King County in collaboration with the United Way of King County with over 1,500 volunteers in over 60 service projects hosted by local nonprofit organizations each year. Responsible for coordinating communication, event marketing, project leader training, kick-off event planning, budgeting, and event assessment. * Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership Event Coordination: Collaborated in the planning of this annual recognition event, arranging workshops, feedback teams, catering, application review, designing publications, and public speaking preparation for student speakers. * Program Administration for Campus-wide GENST350 Internships: Supported students seeking to integrate an internship experience with their academic study outside of an established major requirement. * Community Engaged Leaders Program Mentoring: Co-created this mentoring and leadership development program linking community-engagement...
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Director of Residential Life Summer Programs Housing and Activities
Cornish College of the Arts
(Seattle, WA) * High-School Residential Program Management: Provided leadership for 5 staff supervising approximately 60 high-school students in a new residential summer arts program, responsibilities included establishing program advising guidelines and handbook, developing administrative and reporting systems, record-keeping, budgeting, and evaluation. * Educational and Cultural Activity Development: Planned and implemented daily activities aimed at experiencing the arts in Seattle, coordinated transportation, managed risk and budget compliance, and partnered with faculty to tie in- and outside-course activities together.
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Learning Services Coordinator (One-year assignment)
Center
Learning, Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA) * Learning Strategies Advising: One-on-one and small group academic success counseling supervision of student staff and peer tutoring advising topics included strategies for self-regulation, test-taking, note-taking, academic reading and writing, stress management, time management and other effective learning practices. * Washington Achievers Scholarship Program Coordination: Provided advising, mentoring and academic support for low-income, underrepresented, first-generation students, including arrangement of student-faculty mentoring relationships and quarterly reporting to the Washington Education Foundation.
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Academic and Career Adviser (Graduate Assistant)
Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle University (Seattle, WA) * Academic Advising: Provided advising for undergraduate business curriculum, including scheduling and graduation audits. * Career Placement Center Advising: Provided advising regarding internship and career opportunities, reviewed student resumes and cover letters, coordinated career preparation workshops, performed mock interviews, maintained eRecruiting website, and assisted with planning the Internship & Networking Fair and Senior Celebration.
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Interactive and Print Design and Media Services for the Tech Industry
The Creative Group (Grand Rapids MI) * Interactive, web, and print design clients included Ernst & Young LLC, Zondervan Publishing, Family Christian Stores, and Kendall College of Art & Design.
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Experiential Learning Facilitator (Seasonal Contracts)
American Youth Foundation
Shelby, MI
Summer Camp and High School Outreach Experiential Learning Facilitator: Planned and implemented over 50 experiential education programs including team-building activities, ropes course facilitation, risk-management, structured reflections, leadership coaching, and resource development. * Kent School District Conflict Resolution Programming: Planned and implemented experiential education programs targeting conflict resolution in collaboration with other instructor objectives for Kent District High School students.
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Student Radio Station General Manager (WIDR-89.1FM)
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
Staff Leadership: Supervised 60+ student volunteers and 6 student administration members for the WMU radio station, including training, scheduling, conflict management, event planning, budget reconciliation with university accountants, grant procurement, pledge drive, FCC compliance, equipment purchasing (during a $30k station renovation), and maintaining WMU policies and regulations.
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Service-Learning Coordinator (Interim Position)
Grand Rapids Community College (Grand Rapids MI) * Service-Learning Course and Site
Development: Assisted Director of Service-Learning in establishing and maintaining faculty and community partnerships, developed record-keeping and student placement tracking tools, delivered course presentations, coordinated reflection workshops. * Alternative Spring Break trip coordination: Developed site partnerships, recruited students, facilitated trainings, and fundraised for trips to New York City with AIDS relief Hershey, PN with Disabilities Therapy Berea, KY with Habitat for Humanity, and local "Community Splash" events.
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GEN ST 344
University of Washington
Developing an Experiential Learning Portfolio (RQ'13) This course guides students through the process of building an online e-portfolio. The e-portfolio development process will helps students to identify deep connections between learning, experience, and life-goals. Students engage in hands-on activities exploring personal strengths organize and document their accomplishments and highlight evidence of learning in creative and visual ways that showcase skills and knowledge. * GEN ST 349: Exploring Global Citizenship through Digital Storytelling (SQ'13) Taught for the International Exchange Programs office, this 26-student course was split evenly between exchange students from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, and students involved in service projects or fellowships at the University of Washington. Utilizing a digital storytelling methodology that partnered students into intercultural teams consisting of members from each university. Students explored the complex definition of Global Citizenship, including the examination of social issues in a local and global context and the ways individuals can make an impact through their values, actions, and advocacy. Students concluded the course with a public presentation in the campus theater of the digital stories they created to represent active global citizenship. * GEN ST 349: Digital Storytelling & Community Leadership Focused on partnering with local community organizations to critically examine a social issue being addressed by the organization and the enactment of community-based leadership through an Asset-Based Community Development lens. Additional objectives included team-building, project planning, story telling, digital media production, and methods for giving and receiving feedback. * GEN ST 348: Critical Perspectives on Community-based Leadership
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GEN ST 197
A service-learning course exploring the roots of civic engagement asking students to critically examine their motivation and experiences through the lens of several partnership principles readings and leadership theories in addition to participation in intergroup dialogue and power-privilege-difference activities. How can I help* An Introduction to Service and Community in Seattle
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National Association
of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) *Currently serving as Region V Technology Knowledge Community Representative.
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Washington Campus Compact (WCC)
National Society of Experiential Education (NSEE)
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National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)
Washington Campus Compact (WCC)
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National Career Development Association (NCDA)
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Experiential Education (AEE)
Association
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Michigan Campus Compact
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Campus Outreach Opportunities League (COOL)
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The Devil's Highway (Immigration)
A service-learning course aiding students in the discovery of local service opportunities and the establishment of a personal definition of service. Students investigated the needs and assets in the local community through visiting local non-profit organizations focused on a variety of social issues including youth homelessness poverty health care environmental sustainability and political activism. Students participated in a service role to address a community-identified need while also completing readings reflections and exploring personal interests motivations and vocational calling in peer-facilitated dialogue groups. *Courses have also aligned with past "common book" designations for reading by the entering freshman class including Mountains Beyond Mountains (Health Care), and Dreams From My Father (Race and Privilege). * CHID 496: LGBTQ Student Leadership Development
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ANTH 120
Seattle University
Assisted instructor Anthony Papini with incorporating Service-Learning, facilitating a series of leadership and reflection activities and developing a section on theories of service and leadership targeting LGBTQ identifying students. Cultural Anthropology Winter 2006 Course assistant for this Office of Multicultural Affairs / Service-Learning Center / Anthropology course collaboration with the Muckleshoot Tribal School, Chinook Elementary, in Auburn, WA. Responsibilities included coordinating weekly site visits and facilitating course reflections on the topics of service-learning, anthropology and cultural diversity. TECHNICAL SKILLS * Web: Ability to design, publish, and maintain website content using a variety of web-based tools, including CMS Systems (Wordpress), HTML, CSS, Adobe Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and Photoshop, JavaScript (beginner level competency), and the Fundamentals of Programming Theory. * Print: Competent with design theory and tools, including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. * Office Tools: Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Publisher, Powerpoint). * Digital Storytelling: Trained in storytelling/narrative construction and coaching others to identify and articulate purposeful and engaging stories, from basic photo-narratives to more complex oral histories and mini-documentaries. * Audio-Video: iMovie, Windows Live Movie Maker, Final Cut, and Adobe Premier. * Social Media: Effective with utilizing social media tools to tell stories and build audiences, including management of risk and legal considerations, and utilizing contemporary online formats such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Blogger, etc.
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Dependable Strengths Certified Facilitator
PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Led several successful Dependable Strength workshops of varying length and depth with students since being certified in 2008. * "Beyond Service-Learning: Taking Programs and Mentoring to the Next Level for Deeply Engaged Students" (April 2013): A presentation delivered at the Continuums of Service Conference (Portland, OR) to Higher Education staff and faculty regarding the 2012 National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement report entitled A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy's Future that calls on higher education to reclaim its civic mission. This presentation highlighted the importance of applying student development theory when designing the sort of transformational educational curriculum being called for in this report. * "Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations-Chapter 21: Community Development" (edited in 2011 by Kathy Agaard and printed by SAGE Publishing): Co-author of the Community Development Chapter with Forrest Clift and Claudia Sowa for this two-volume reference book collecting a variety of professional contributions on issues and leadership topics important to those seeking to learn more about the Nonprofit sector. * "Civic Fellows: An Experiential Learning Model for Developing Civic Leadership and Deepening Partnerships" (April 2008): A presentation delivered at the Continuums of Service Conference focused on the Carlson Civic Fellowship model for engaging the next generation of student leaders in experiential civic learning with a focus on reciprocity. Program design, principles of partnership, funding, educational objectives, and methods for reflection were shared through interactive discussion. * "Brokering Authentic Partnerships: The Role of Public Service Centers in Deepening Learning" (November 2007): A presentation reviewing the central themes of literature on service-learning and civic engagement methodology toward ...