GOALS & OBJECTIVES Objective/goals What career, passions, = helping, admin, critical thinking and engagement with relevant research and issues,

As philosophy Honours graduate, with a BA in English (including editing, literature, grammar and TESOL) and Philosophy, awaiting final examination results for MA research thesis, one of my goals is to gain a Philosophy doctorate qualification.

My brief experience in tutoring philosophy for a semester (2016) and three weeks of teaching practical for Premier TEFL at Angloville language immersion camps in Poland (2018) inspire my career goals of teaching/training English and Philosophy with a view to doing some kind of work that leads to a focus in writing.

I have grown up in Pretoria, South Africa, as my father moved to from Ireland to pursue a career in the advancement of South African education. As my great role model, his influence encouraged further volunteering experience including a month at the Down Syndrome Association of SA’s holiday camp. This rewarding experience further developed my skills/passion for teaching, working with others (children), administration, and inclusive education. My goal to promote inclusive education for all stems from this experience.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Matric Certificate

St Mary’s DSG, Pretoria – 2013

Bachelor of Arts degree

University of Pretoria – 2016

Majoring in English and Philosophy

Philosophy Honours degree

University of Pretoria – 2017

Master’s degree in Critical Diversity Studies

University of the Witwatersrand 2019-2020 Course work and Thesis (awaiting result)

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: I am 25-year-old woman with minimal work experience, but my education has opened my mind to possibilities as I engaged with issues around diversity, difference and power relations. My MA thesis involved the limits of existential freedom (in the South African experience) from a de-colonial perspective. My leadership skills are reflected as class representative for the post graduate class for 2019. I presented a paper at the Critical Diversity Studies conference at Wits in 2019. I engage in dialogue without being dismissive, particularly with the intentions of learning and disempowering ignorance found in education, corporate environments and hierarchical relations.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

June/July 2018: Down Syndrome association holiday club volunteer

January/February 2018: Angloville English Language immersion volunteer

February-June 2016: Philosophy Tutor: ethics to Accounting students at University of Pretoria

December 2014-January 2015: National Research Foundation – holiday work doing archiving and stock taking

SKILLS:

Communication

Administration co-ordination

Teaching, training and facilitating

Critical thinking and engagement

Debate

Research & report writing

Data sorting

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Microsoft: Word, Excel and PowerPoint

KNOWLEDGE:

Philosophical ethics

Research methodologies

English Foreign Language teaching

LANGUAGE:

English – Excellent

Afrikaans – Weak

Spanish - Beginner

Knowledge obtained through university courses:

Undergrad: English (Literature, grammar, editing, TEFL, TESOL), 2nd year Psychology (basic, social and developmental psychology), 1st year History (Empires, Leaders, South African history, Slavery)

Undergrad Philosophy: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, History of Philosophy, Philosophy of history, political/identity philosophy, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of mind, African Hermeneutics and social philosophy.

Philosophy honours: Critical Theory (eg. Horkheimer, Honneth), African Philosophy (through The Invention of Africa (1941(1988)) by Mudimbe), Commodity Fetishism, Freud’s essays on sexuality, Genealogy and history, Classical Philosophy trough Plato’s Republic, and analytical formal logic.

Masters in CDS: Coursework: Research Methodologies with diversity in mind, Critical Diversity Literacy, the varying themes of Diversity and difference; Research: Existentialism, Freedom, Decoloniality, Diversity, Difference, epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, subjectivity, hierarchy of being, consciousness, the western subject, and issues of unfreedom.

Knowledge taught/presented on:

Philosophy tutor: Ethics for accountants and auditors, Justice (Sandel, 2009), dilemmas, behavioural studies such as the Lucifer Effect and the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Wits Centre for Diversity Studies conference presentation: South African Post-Apartheid Racialised Regulation through ‘Consumer Freedom’

REFERENCES:

1.MA research Supervisor: Dr William Mpofu – adi8w2@r.postjobfree.com

2.Premier TEFL – reference letter attached

3.Angloville coordinator: Kris Kosz - adi8w2@r.postjobfree.com

4.Angloville coordinator: Kathryn Murphy adi8w2@r.postjobfree.com

5.Lindo – colleague and peer

6.Anika – colleague and mentor

Lauren Maresa Hamilton

Critical thinking & Engagement/Data & Research/Communication and Training

Address: (Residential) 1545 Rio Lane, Waterkloof Ridge, Pretoria, 0181/ (Postal) P O Box 72680, Lynnwood ridge, 0040

Email : adi8w2@r.postjobfree.com

Telephone : +27-76-407-****

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