PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Peer Patient Navigator, October 2022 - September 2023 (1.0 FTE)

We Care Daily Clinics, Auburn, WA

●Provided a range of human services directly to individuals and families living through opioid addiction in English and Spanish

Substitute Teacher, November 2021 - October 2022 (1.0 FTE)

Seattle Public Schools, Seattle, WA

●Provided substitute instruction at elementary, middle and high schools throughout Seattle in English and Spanish

Bilingual Case Investigator, December 2021 - March 2022 (.75 FTE)

Tacoma Pierce County Health Department, Seattle, WA

●Conducted remote COVID-19 case investigations on behalf of Steilacoom Historical School District No. 1 in English and Spanish

●Additionally provided outreach around COVID-19 vaccination services

Bilingual Community Care Specialist, July 2021- August 2021 (1.0 FTE)

Public Health Institute, Seattle, WA

●Provided community outreach to Stanislaus Co., CA residents on COVID-19 vaccination and disease prevention in English and Spanish

Community Outreach Specialist, April-July 2021 (1.0 FTE)

Public Health Institute, Seattle, WA

●Planned and organized events dedicated to workforce development opportunities for over 600 employees

●Initiated and maintained ongoing relationships with internal and external vendors in creation of virtual job fairs

●Promoted to ‘Bilingual Community Care Specialist’

Bilingual Case Investigator, November 2020 - April 2021 (1.0 FTE)

Public Health Institute, Seattle, WA

●Conducted case investigations, daily monitoring and case closing in English and Spanish for individuals infected with COVID-19, trained all new hires

●Provided English-Spanish translation of health information, responsible for content management system

●Promoted to ‘Community Outreach Specialist’

Office Manager (gap year), September 2018-January, 2019 (1.0 FTE)

The Ripple Effect, Inc., Chel, Quiché, Guatemala

●Lived with, worked amongst, and served the Ixil indigenous peoples of the Chajul Valley

●Coordinated all organizational accounts, budgets, communications, and projects

●Generated work plan integrating tasks, goals, time frames and accountable personnel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

Study Coordinator, May-October, 2018 (.37 FTE)

University of North Carolina/Gillings Global School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC

●Conducted dietary recall phone interviews with Latino/Hispanic families in Spanish

Data Collector (time-sensitive), March, 2017-October, 2018 (.50 FTE)

University of North Carolina/School of Nursing/LiTTle Me, Chapel Hill, NC

●Conducted in-home data collections of 80 families, capturing biological data of infants aged 4-12 months for a study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

●Taught parents and infants American Sign Language to enhance hunger/satiety cues

Spanish/ESL Instructor, May-Aug., 2017 and May-July, 2018 (.25 FTE)

Global-LT, Inc. Language and Training, Durham, NC

●Taught English and Spanish to professionals working in the Research Triangle, NC

Digital Inclusion Coordinator, April, 2017-May, 2018 (1.0 FTE)

AmeriCorps VISTA/Durham Housing Authority, Durham, NC

●Realized grant funding for a ten week digital literacy program for middle school girls

●Secured free computers, digital literacy, high-speed Internet for public housing residents

●Collaborated/coordinated with Google fiber, North Carolina Central University (HBCU), City of Durham, and North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

Community Organizer, February-October, 2016 (1.0 FTE)

AmeriCorps VISTA/Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Brooklyn, NY

●Organized, scheduled, conducted, supported campaigns, workshops, programs to build tenants’ organizational capacity and empowerment around housing rights

●Served over 400 Latino/Hispanic/Caribbean families in over 40 Project-Based Section 8 buildings

Catalog/Metadata Library, June, 2013-January, 2014 (1.0 FTE)

St. Leo University, St. Leo, FL

●Cataloged and provided metadata discovery for a host of library items

●Taught Information Science sessions to undergraduate students

EDUCATION

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Master of Library and Information Sciences, August, 2012

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Master of Arts, Spanish (Hispanic Linguistics), May, 2007

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

TESL/TEFL Certification (Graduate Specialist Title)

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Master of Education (Foreign Language Teaching), August, 2000

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, May, 1997

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