Digital Storyteller, Pasadena Educational Foundation | Pasadena, CA | December 2019-November 2022
Wrote, researched, and conducted interviews for online content and stories for the Pasadena Educational Foundation. Worked under the Marketing Director, Monica Bosserman Lopez.
Stories and areas worked on included:
- the Center for Student and Family Services,
- Teacher Grants,
- PEF Arts programs like My Masterpieces and Open Stage,
- PEF Academic and Art Scholarships,
- PEF Summer,
- Volunteer Spotlights, and
- Spotlights on the PUSD Community.
The June 2020 Scholarship story on the Manwani Family Scholarships inspired the creation of a new scholarship, the Hopes and Dreams Scholarship, within the same month.
A September 28, 2021 story featuring Willard Elementary’s garden was republished and shared by local newspaper, Colorado Boulevard, on September 30, 2021.
A November 10, 2021 update on PUSD’s Farm to School program was republished and shared by local Newspaper, Pasadena Now, on November 11, 2021.
University of St Andrews Students’ Association | St Andrews, Fife, Scotland | April 2016-June 2018
Treasurer, St Andrews Voluntary Service, April 2016-June 2018
Treasurer for registered Scottish charity, St Andrews Voluntary Service, which is run entirely by students. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:
– Book-keeping
– Budget management over all projects (maintaining a surplus of funds over both years of treasurership)
– Writing and authorising checks to reimburse volunteers
– Occasionally helping make graphics for the SVS Facebook page and event pages
Member for Gender Equality, Students’ Representative Council, March 2017-April 2018
Representative role with flexible remit, sitting on both the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) and the Equal Opportunities Committee (Equal Ops).
Accomplishments:
– Created a Sexual Health and Safety Guide collating the university’s sexual misconduct policy with other information from sources like the Fife Rape and Sexual Assault Centre, which was completed in August 2017, ready for Freshers Week 2017 (see link below).
– Wrote the accommodation and health sections for a Wellbeing/Support portal for the Your Union website, which launched as the Help Hub in May 2018, and wrote the drug information of the personal safety section. Sections for physical health and personal safety were heavily edited, but the accommodation section strongly reflects the work that I wrote in September 2017.
– Helped advertise and create media for a new sexual defence program organised by the University of St Andrews Jiu Jitsu Club.
– As part of the Equal Ops Committee, helped organise events in collaboration with student societies for Pangea, a festival and project celebrating the cultural diversity within St Andrews.
– Worked in collaboration with the following societies: Women for Women International, Feminist Society of St Andrews, For Her, Her Choice, Sexpression, and HeforSheSt Andrews, on an International Women’s Day drop-in speaker, performance, and mood cafe event. The cover photo, event page designs, and program I made for the event are attached below. Arranged for our current principal, Professor Sally Mapstone, Emily Yates, from Enhance the UK, and Dr. Katie Garner, the Equality Representative for the School of English to speak at the event, along with students from various societies, committees, and groups to perform and speak at the event on topics they are passionate about!
Post-term, the International Women’s Day event I organised was recognised in the 3 April 2018 edition of the Your Union Newsletter as making the Equal Opportunities Committee the society/subcommittee of the month.
Elections Officer, February-March 2018
Elections Officer responsibilities included:
– Responding to emails and inquiries to the salect@ account
– Reviewing and approving nominated candidates’ statements
– Upkeeping candidates’ budgets spreadsheets
– Announcing nominations and withdrawals on official @saelect Facebook and Twitter accounts
– Monitoring Facebook and Twitter for campaigning violations
– Monitoring Facebook campaign groups
– Attending and monitoring some of the official hustings, question hours, and other official events
– Remaining neutral throughout the elections process
Member without Portfolio, Accommodation Subcommittee, October 2016-April 2017
All committee members shared general duties, but this role had a focus on working with individuals and their concerns. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:
– Researched letting agencies, wrote and added text, and edited How to Rent Guide 2016 edition
– Helped write content for ‘How to Rent’ presentation as well as presenting the ‘How to Rent’ talk with three other committee members
– Held drop-in sessions with committee members on accommodation process and answered students’ concerns
– Wrote majority of Accommodation Matchmaking online form
Secretary and Events Coordinator, Alumni Committee, April 2016-April 2017
Responsibilities and accomplishments included:
– Taking and distributing minutes
– Monitoring and responding to inquiries to the Alumni email account
– Arranging events such as socials but also alumni panel events (such as a job panel featuring alumni working in the Green sector), involving: contacting alumni, arranging schedules, booking rooms, publicity on social media
– Created a transparent version of the Alumni Festival logo to watermark photos
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