Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Master of Science (Msc)

Thesis: Mandated vs. Altruistic Volunteers Learning Outcome Comparisons

Eastern Illinois University Charleston, IL

AWARDS

  • 2025 University of Southern Maine Staff Senate Award for Achievement (Nominee)
  • 2025 Natural Helpers Fellowship
  • 2022 Diane Long Friend of Women and Gender Studies Award (Winner)
  • 2018 Pace University Lifetime Achievement Award: Student Advisor of the Year (Winner)
  • 2018 Outstanding Undergraduate/Faculty Research Pair (Winner)
    • Subject: On-Campus Housing Options For Student Policy
  • 2017 Outstanding Undergraduate/Faculty Research Pair (Winner)
    • Subject: Millennial and Gen Z Attitudes Towards Civic Engagement

WORK EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SPECIALIST

JUNE 2019 – CURRENT

  • Administer Maine Campus Compact Service-Learning Awards for the University of Southern Maine from 2019 - 2021 and 2024 - Current by overseeing nomination process, collecting University Presidential signature collection, and submitting award nomination submissions to Campus Compact
  • Manage strategic planning for MEIF funds in Honor’s program to convert 11 student volunteer positions into $18 per hour paid student internship positions at non-profit organizations
  • Direct communication for University with 125 community organizations, 15 internal departments, and the student body on 3 separate campuses for volunteer requests
  • Supervise, design programming, establish selection committee, and manage $35,000 combined budget for ChrisAlice and Honor’s Leadership Development Service Scholarship for 6 Scholarship Awards
  • Create new and foster existing relationships between 75 University faculty, community experts off-campus, and committees through email, meetings, 1-on-1’s, scheduling support, and resource requests to advise on service-learning curriculum
  • Curate 28 separate curriculum development trainings for faculty and students online, in-person, and in hybrid module formats
  • Produce a symposium event with community organization “Preble Street Homeless Shelter” to create a speaker series on how to engage public advocacy, activism, and organizing for economic/housing justice
  • Track and report assessment of service-learning and volunteer activities provided in 2018  - 2021 Office of Service-Learning and Volunteering Annual Reports and the 2022-2024 Career and Employment Hub Annual Reports
  • Secure, track, and report multiple grants from Maine Campus Compact and National Campus Compact
  • Research, write, edit, and  secure a grant to print, and design the ‘USM Service-Learning Professional Development Workbook’ for faculty and staff teaching service-learning courses for a printed workbook on service-learning best practices

PACE UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION & RESEARCH

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

SEPTEMBER 2015 – MAY 2019

  • Created mobile food pantry program with campus catering company, Dean of Students, Food Bank For Westchester, and Student Government
  • Administer and compile documentation and assessment within University to collect relevant information for Carnegie Classification renewal for Pace University 
  • Directed weekly staff meetings, managed time sheets, conducted individual 1-on-1’s, and provided performance appraisals with student staff members and volunteers each semester
  • Oversaw University Vote Everywhere Campaign with over 25 faculty and community experts to create 24 voter education events  and register 700 new voters
  • Supervised a $33,000 annual budget, student recruitment of 16 students on two separate campuses, book community service work and create civics curriculum for 4 local immersion Alternative Spring Break with 15 participants to Rockaway Beach, New York for Hurricane Sandy with local New York disaster relief organization
  • Ran an organizational structure by conducting recruitment, interviews, training, and mentoring for 14 work-study staff members and 50 student volunteer staff members over 4.5 years
  • Established Andrew Goodman Fellows annual paid grant partnership to expand paid student labor for  civic engagement on-campus
  • Built out the Center’s capacity for immersive social justice, equity, and power programming by conspiring with 25 non-profit community organizations and on-campus departments to create 50 events over 4 years
  • Arranged 8 annual, 300 volunteer ‘Days of Service’ called Make A Difference Day and Setter’s Day of Service  to increase volunteer programming capacity
  • Facilitated dialogue and programming on social justice, equity, and power such as ‘Social Justice & Social Media’, ‘Tunnel of Oppression’, ‘Defining Social Justice’, and ‘Women’s Solidarity Week: Smashing Patriarchy and Pumpkins”
  • Collaborated with 100 community organizations, colations, and the national organization Project Pericles to create events for students, staff, and faculty
  • Tracked and reported no-strings attached grant funding for $4000 for existing civic engagement programming in 2018 from the “All In” organization
  • Advocated with the LGBTQA Affairs Office professional staff for $20,000 fund for hotel and registration funds from student government to take 10 students to the ‘Women’s March Convention’ in Detroit
  • Assembled training and facilitated workshop on qualitative and quantitative research methods for undergraduate student  research program
  • Created report on “Student Volunteerism” for Center’s Annual Reports from 2016 - 2020
  • Evaluated and contributed to “Volunteerism in Westchester County” public policy document with local organization Volunteer! New York

EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY 

OFFICE OF VOLUNTEERING

GRADUATE ASSISTANT

JANUARY 2014 - MAY 2015

  • Developed and facilitated the following community engagement programs: A weekly trail-building project with the City of Charleston, a weekly visit to a land trust to sort seeds, and management of a community garden site in a public park
  • Developed database of resources for University exploratory committee on obtaining Carnegie Classification
  • Consulted with students on creating volunteer programs and plugging into in the existing community opportunities
  • Created an institutional relationship between Student Government and the City Government of Charleston

TEACHING

FALL 2023

  • Honors Living-Learning Community Lab: Race, Reflection & Reality
  • Honors Living-Learning Community Lab: Sexuality in US History

SPRING 2022

  • Honors 311 Community Service: Destructive or Empowering

FALL 2022

  • Honors Living Learning Community Lab: Race, Reflection & Reality
  • Honors Living Learning Community Lab: Sexuality in US History