Amber Gonzalez
San Antonio, Texas 78250
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SUMMARY
Creative professional with noted success in being responsible and solving conflicts.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2018-Present TAL Education Group
Teacher
Teaching English to Children in Beijing.
2017-2018 Demetrio Duarte, Jr. & Paralegal Associates
Filing, drafting letters and pleadings, using ProDoc, meeting with clients and preparing for hearings
2016-2017 The Law Office of Kate Soulsby
Paralegal
Filing, drafting letters and pleadings, using ProDoc, meeting with clients and preparing for hearings.
2015- 2016 Higdon, Hardy & Zuflacht
Legal Assistant
Filing, drafting letters, e-filing, ProDoc, managing the front desk, preparing for hearings.
2013-2015 Law Offices of Abel A. Dominguez
Legal Assistant
Drafting legal documents, meeting with clients, filing at the courthouse, and managing Outlook Calendars.
2010-2013 Al’s Formal Wear
Assistant Manager
Customer service, handling money, measuring for tuxedos, running the store.
EDUCATION
2015-2017 Our Lady of the Lake University M.A. in English
2011-2013 University of Texas at San Antonio B.A. in English/ Creative Writing
2009-2011 Northwest Vista College Associate of Arts
2005-2009 Sandra Day O’Connor High School H.S. Diploma
CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS
Up the River Albany Poets - 2017
Marginalized Voices, “On Larks, Love and Laundry” – Currently in publication
“Frontiers and Borders in American Literature”, “Anonymity, Violence and Genocide in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian”- 2016
“Live Oak Tree- How Writing Transforms a Community” – 2015
EXTRACURRICULAR
Assistant Managing editor of The Journal for Latina Critical Feminism 2016- Present
Fiction/ Nonfiction editor of The Thing Itself 2016
AWARDS
Dean’s List Fall 2015
Dean’s List Summer 2015
Honor Roll Fall 2012
Dean’s List Fall 2012
Dean’s List Spring2012
COMMUNITY SERVICE
St. Vincent de Paul Youth Choir 1997- 2010