Mya Cook

Cellular: 617-***-**** ad4ql3@r.postjobfree.com

Education

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Ma College: College of Arts and Sciences (NECHE) Accreditted Major: Bachelor of Arts- Psychology

Experience

Harvard 9 day program on Psychology and Neuroscience Yale 9 day program on Law and Advocacy

Campaigned with multiple local elections for state senators Shadowed a Baltimore City Solicitor

Employement

Family friend babysitter, Malden, Ma August 2018- Present

● Took care of people’s kids, cooked, cleaned and helped with homework Track 23, Saugus, Ma June 2019- July 2019

Retail

● Organized clothes, worked the cash register, placed the security tag on new shippments, along with the price tag and sticker

YMCA, Malden, Ma July 2019- Present

Welcome center

● Signed customers up for memberships, cancelled memberships, gave tours, signed customers up for classes, informed customers of activities available, printed out pamphlets, registered people in the system as guests YMCA, Malden, Ma July 2019- August

Kidzone 2019

● Watched members kids and played with them

UMASS Dartmouth career center, North Dartmouth, Ma October 2019- Present

● Organized career events, registered students for meetings Work out World. May 2021- present

● Informed customers of the different memberships we have.

● Signed customers up for memberships

● Put away weights and cleaned up the floor

● Gave members tours

● Set up the tanning beds

● Stocked the water

● Sold memberships

● Scheduled people to come back to work out world and become members again

● Completed an average of 80 return for collection calls

● Checked the difibulator daily

Clubs/Activities

Latin club

Newspaper club

Multicultural club

Spanish club

Yearbook club

Drama club at Malden Catholic

Drama festival

Cross country

Track

Black Girls Code

Community Service

● Spoke at the ADL youth congress as a student guest speaker, in front of 1200 students and teachers.

● Invited to speak at the Edwards Middle School about my experiences with a discriminatory dress code and how to stand up.

● Spoke at the LCCR 50th anniversary talking about what I was going through regarding my school and their hair policy.

● Changed a discriminatory hair policy at my school.

● Held 2 peaceful protests outside my school.

● Spoke on WBUR about how I was handling my schools hair policy.

● Did a mini documentary with Buzzfeed regarding the hair policy.

● Guest on 2 panels about dress codes and grooming at the ACLU summer advocacy institute.

● Inspired a case study at Harvard on dress codes.

● Inspired a lesson plan for Strong Women, Strong Girls.

● Spoke to Edwards Middle school charter ed class 2 years in a row.

● Postcard campaign

● Malden vote 16

● Participated in the womens march in D.C

● Participated in March for our lives in Boston.

● Harvard Pilgrim MLK scholarship recipient, and created a video with them. Skills

Animal: Pet care needs, Pet grooming

Communication: Team leadership, Strong verbal communication, Public speaking, Conflict resolution

Qualities: Organization ability, Self-motivated, Responsible, Compassionate

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