Prep for Prep

Manhattan Country School

Concordia University-Portland

Wesleyan University

The Packer Collegiate Institute

Professional Problem Solver at McMaster-Carr

McMaster-Carr

Professional Problem Solver

Train and supervise 30-50 teachers and teachers aides, including but not limited to lesson planning and implementation, classroom management, and positive behavior intervention. Ensure compliance with all ORR and New York State education requirements, including curriculum aligned to the Common Core, and ESL.

Cayuga Centers

Education Director, UC TFC Learning Center

Leadership and oversight of planning, implementation, and evaluation of Cool Culture's intensive community collaborations between early childhood centers and cultural institution partners.
Achieve outcomes for family engagement, parent leadership, and educational outcomes for children, while identifying best practices for replication and expansion.

Cool Culture

Intensive Community Collaborations Director

Founding member of a highly collaborative School Management Team, directly responsible for developing practices to increase capacity for effective family engagement.
Provided guidance and direct support to Learning Coaches in efforts to foster positive partnerships with families, while encouraging families to act with agency and urgency in support of their children's learning goals.
Developed and executed student recruitment strategy, and elevated brand visibility through media relations and engagement of influential community partners.
Performed duties as interim acting Director School Operations, managing student enrollment, building security, and front office projects.

Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School

Associate Director of Family and Community Engagement

Working to strategically develop best practices in Family Engagement to support student achievement goals, objectives, and outcomes in a K-8 Charter school focused on rigor.
Designing and facilitating workshops focused on issues of self-efficacy, health and wellness, socio-economics, creating a culture of achievement, and fostering a sense of shared responsibility for student well-being within the BSNBCS parent/family community.
Building the capacity for parent leadership through encouragement, robust engagement strategy, and holding all community members accountable for results.

Parent Liaison/Family Engagement Specialist

Facilitative Leader of the first cohort of Emerging Leaders in Newark Public Schools.
Thought partner to the Managing Director of Newark Programs.
Assess and evaluate Emerging Leader performance and progress toward leadership goals.
Develop and execute recruitment strategy to ensure steady expansion of candidate pipeline.

New Leaders

Director, Emerging Leaders Program, Newark

- Manage the expansion of the CookShop program, including but not limited to recruitment of new schools, principals, teachers, and interns/volunteers;
-  Develop and execute recruitment strategy for CookShop Classroom and CookShop for Families
-  Attend external events relevant to successful recruitment of CookShop schools and sites;
-  Develop and facilitate strong working relationships with school administration and collaborative partners;
-  Manage the refinement and implementation of best practices across all components as it pertains to recruitment, enrollment, and retention to support program goals and enhance program impact

Food Bank For New York City

CookShop Recruitment Manager

Manager of a Nutrition Education program currently in its 17th year of implementation.

Creating and driving a comprehensive recruitment strategy based on demographic analysis and research on New York City communities. Aligning and tailoring outreach process with the primary objective of the CookShop program, which is to provide nutrition education to highest need, low income students and families through hands-on exploration and learning in the school setting.

Training and supporting NYC Public School teachers to provide a sensory-based learning experience for Pre-K-2 students as they explore and prepare nutritious foods representing all parts of the plant life cycle.

Engaging in strategic planning, program design, recipe/curriculum development.

CookShop Classroom Manager

Early elementary education teacher at a progressive Independent school in New York City.

School wide emphasis on growing children into self-aware, socially responsible individuals.

Kindergarten curricular focus on food, nutrition, food sourcing and composting/farming.

5-6s (Kindergarten) Teacher

Before and After school program Director for nationally recognized service based non-profit organization.

Provide safe space for children to engage in enrichment activities outside of regular school day

Offer academic and social support to students in collaboration with classroom teachers through administration of 21st Century Learning Centers Grant.

Design programming to keep students engaged, reinforce academic expectations, cultivate and showcase student talents

Middlesex County YMCA

Site Director, Kids' Korner at Macdonough Elementary School

Worked on Direct Marketing campaigns for several popular fast food chain restaurants and local sports teams

Achieved sales bonus twice for upselling and surpassing quota set by Senior Management team

Selected to travel to Annual Conference in Atlantic City for networking and growth