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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

To secure employment with a reputable company, where I can utilize my skills in customer service, legal research and writing and compliance law.

SKILLS

• Information Gathering • Auditing Processes • Compliance Oversight

• Internal Controls • Risk Management

EXPERIENCE

Permit Compliance Specialist September 2022 - Current Planet Aid, Inc. Elkridge, Maryland

• Catalog, monitor and analyze local government regulations that may affect Planet Aid's collection sites

• Navigate local governments to identify, obtain, and renew the appropriate permits for collection bin placements

• Serve as Planet Aid's expert on land use, zoning, and permitting matters

• Identify local government regulations pertaining to collection bins and respond to urgent permitting issues

• Engage local code or law enforcement officials where fair practice oversite is needed

• Develop strategies and digital tools to monitor and facilitate bin permitting across the organization

• Train and assist Planet Aid staff in zoning and regulatory matters

• Audit Planet Aid's business units to ensure that permits are in place and current

• Prepare reports and track data to demonstrate the status of permitting across all business units Plan and carry out activities to raise Planet Aid's profile with state and local lawmakers in collaboration with Planet Aid's communication office

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• Make presentations about Planet Aid to legislators and stakeholders

• Travel to individual business units for governmental networking, auditing, and training purposes. Constituent Services Representative September 2021 - February 2022 House of U.S. Representatives: Congressman Kweisi Mfume Baltimore, MD

• Worked as a staff member for Representative Kweisi Mfume Managed a full portfolio of constituent cases regarding federal scholarship access, education, service academy applications, and veteran and military inquiries

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• Handled scholarship guide and maintained our scholarship and grant database offered to our district

• Recommended and scheduled new events for Representative Mfume Researched local issues and prepared briefs on local concerns for the Congressman by interviewing constituents and analyzing data.

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Community Organizer January 2021 - May 2021

Access Art Baltimore, MD

• Educated Morrell Park community about the Neighbors United Initiative, sponsored by The United Way Taught individuals about key initiatives that would lead to an ongoing implementation model, timeline, and strategies to improve the community.

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Gathered, interpreted, and shared community resources with community leaders to create a lasting effect on the community.

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• Came up with common goals while gaining feedback from the community along the way.

• Assisted Community leaders with fundraising activities.

• Provided basic resources during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Law Clerk November 2020 - May 2021

Greenberg Law Offices Baltimore, MD

• Researched and Summarized case law into memorandums

• Drafted various cases in different areas of law, pleadings, discovery, and correspondences Attended depositions and draft summaries of the deposition transcripts for us in trial preparation and settlement negotiation

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• Conducted reach in various areas of law

• Drafted status reports for clients in order to give them updates throughout the phases of litigation. Paralegal June 2019 - August 2019

Law Offices of Sally B. Gold Baltimore, Maryland

• Authored, organized, and submitted professionally written legal correspondence, affidavits, and contracts. Helped prepare case materials by reviewing documents and records produced by clients, opposing counsel, and other sources.

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• Coordinated expert disclosures, including monitoring deadlines and preparing records.

• Researched statutory and case laws and summarized results to assist attorneys. Noted missing documents, conflicting statements and deficiencies in case materials and requested further, corrective investigation.

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Law Clerk June 2018 - January 2019

Stouffer Legal Towson, Maryland

• • Prepared affidavits, legal correspondence, and organized and maintained documents in electronic filing system.

• Analyzed statutory and case law to prepare detailed reports for senior legal staff. Interviewed, created and filed all Veterans Pension Benefits in the firm. Helped over 50 veterans attempt to receive pension benefits.

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Gathered and analyzed research data, such as statutes, decisions, and legal articles, codes, and documents.

• Managed 3-4 paralegals on a daily basis and attended weekly firm management meetings.

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Law Clerk May 2017 - January 2018

Gardner Law Firm Knoxville, Tennessee

Reviewed complaints, petitions, motions, or pleadings that have been filed to determine issues involved or basis for relief.

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Interacted with clients to allocate resources and supporting documents for individual cases, addressed concerns and maintained positive client relations.

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• Researched immigration and government regulations, case law and procedures to support client cases. Prepared business immigration visas (H-IB's, H-3's, 1-112's, E-1/E-2s, J-1, (PERM), employment-based immigration visas, family immigration visas (1-130, K-1,1-485) and naturalization petitions.

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EDUCATION

December 2024

May 2018

May 2014

LLM - Compliance and Risk Management

Loyola Chicago University, Chicago, IL

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Lincoln Memorial University, Knoxville, TN

Mock Trial Winner, Vice President of Black Student Law Association, Clerk of Phi Alpha Delta Fraternity Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Varsity Women's Track and Field Athlete – Captain

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