Program Coordinator

• Designed, scheduled, and facilitated cohort meetings that focus on internship preparation, skill development, and community building through incentives and interactive sessions.
• Developed a comprehensive curriculum incorporating communication skills, resume writing, interview preparation, and job exploration to prepare students for professional success.
• Created and managed a Canvas course for streamlined communication, resources, and career path quizzes, ensuring continuous student engagement and skill augmentation.
• Organized and oversaw student internships, including position creation, matchmaking, goal setting, and supervisor evaluations, leading to a 100% completion rate.
• Fostered interdisciplinary partnerships with faculty, departments, and external institutions to incorporate career development and high-impact practices into course offerings.
• Developed and maintained strong collaborative relationships with program stakeholders, including alumni, the Humanities Collaborative, and State University.
• Actively engaged in professional development and learning communities, attending conferences and workshops on experiential learning, AI in education, and DEI initiatives.

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Program Associate Director

Support strategic and daily operations for three teams: campus-wide Writing Center, English Department, and literary publication within fast-paced community college. Leverage strengths in learning and development, program/project management, and customer service to seamlessly transition among strategic planning, advocacy, mentoring/advising, and administrative roles.

• Drive career growth while ensuring adjuncts and high school instructors meet performance management standards and expectations by meeting with them regularly to train on technology, tools, assessment, and assignment development.
• Leveraged communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills to support needs/escalations among 2K students yearly.
• Spearhead training, evaluation, and coaching of adult learners in classroom and one-on-one coaching/mentoring formats.
• Prepared Writing Center, English, Career Services, and other campus departments to meet learner goals by collaborating cross-functionally to manage curriculum and assessment development projects.
• Enabled Writing Center to support diverse learners, instructors, and situations by designing multi-session, hour-long, and 15-minute presentations and exercises for in-house and on-the-road delivery.
• Sparked increased technology implementation by designing self-training resources for netiquette and database research at instructors’ requests.
• Revived previously vibrant campus publication that lay dormant after advisor retired by advocating first for revival and later for student engagement by creating communication effective for both faculty and students.
• Prepared Writing Center to achieve goals by consulting with decision-makers on management and learning/development.
• Established streamlined publication process by creating policies and procedures, schedule, and communication strategy from ground up. Drove efficiency by ensuring staff compliance with policies and processes.
• Marketed publication by designing website and hosting launch party.

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Founding English Faculty

Collaborated to found an academically rigorous institution by project managing design and development of curriculum and mentoring other educators in best practices. Planned and managed communication for admissions events, including developing creative flyers and programs. Harnessed public speaking, administrative leadership, and training strengths to teach English and Philosophy classes.

• Strengthened founding initiatives by serving on the accreditation team, curriculum committee, admissions committee, faculty research committee, and the Institutional Research Review Board.
• Created English program from the bottom up, including collaborating with research director to develop individualized authentic research program.

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Additional 9 years of higher and secondary education experience