Emma Stoney

**** ******’s Pond Lane Herndon, VA *0171 USA

phone: +1-703-***-**** email: adcgvk@r.postjobfree.com

Experience

Peace Corps Zambia Kazungula Resettlement Village, Zambia

Rural Education Volunteer September 2018-March 2020

Primary Project:

•Teaching English (grammar, communication, listening, speaking, & writing skills) to students in grade 5, 6, and 8. Taught 25 hours per week for 18 months/ 4 terms (total of 1,200 hours of classroom instruction). Classroom size ranged from 60 to 80 students.

•Emphasizing capacity building with teachers to demonstrate how to teach literacy effectively

•Focusing on equalizing genders by empowering women and girls and providing them with life skills and the education needed to achieve economic independence and freedom

•Working with other teachers and community members to meet the needs of the community outside of education

•HIV education and training

Secondary Project:

●Teaching a Women’s Adult Education class at the school, twice a week, 4 hours each week for a total of 192 hours. Taught an average of 15 women a combination of English (grammar, communication, listening, speaking, and writing skills) and Mathematics (grades 7-9 math).

●Identifying and developing independent projects related to linking income, food security, and the environment

●Training other volunteers on independent projects and gender work and writing manuals for these projects for future volunteers

Skills

●Organizing and coordinating community efforts to develop skills related to education, hygiene, finance, and sustainability

●Lesson planning for school age and adult education

●Research, grant writing and fundraising

Fairfax County’s Supervised Visitation & Exchange Program Fairfax, VA

Intern May-August 2017

•Supervised parents and their children during court-mandated visits

•Worked on issues facing families in crisis, including the impact of domestic violence, divorce, drug abuse

and economic stress on family dynamics, and educated parents on tools needed for success

•Implemented a trauma-informed approach to foster healthy and productive client interactions

•Motivated clients to repair dysfunctional habits through nonjudgmental and positive encouragement

Skills

●Training on trauma-informed responses to individual needs

●Received 50 hours of Family Dynamics Training

Fair Oaks INOVA Hospital Fair Lakes, VA

Intern, Personal Assistant to Chief Interim Nurse May-August 2016

•Reported directly to the Chief Interim Nurse

•Attended all staff and nursing meetings, created nursing schedules, and prepared critical path flow charts

to assist physicians with differential diagnosis analysis

•Assisted with inter-departmental communications vital to the complex workings of a major hospital

Inova Projects:

•Devoted 150+ hours to studying the needs of Alzheimer’s patients and learning how to formulate nursing algorithms

•Completed a nursing algorithm for spinal pain to serve as a diagnostic tool for doctors and nurses

•Created sensory boxes for patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia

Skills

●Basic understanding and utilization of Inova Software

Degree

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Degree Received May 2018

B.S in Human Development, concentration in Developmental Psychology, Major GPA: 3.4

Foreign Languages

Citonga-Local Language in Southern Province Zambia

•Received three months of intensive local language training before starting the Peace Corps Volunteer position

•Limited working proficiency

Spanish

•Studied formally from 2008-2014, continued Spanish education through Duolingo 2019-2020. Elementary proficiency.

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