Work & Volunteer Experience:

Volunteer, Arthritis Foundation – Bellingham, WA from August 2014 to present

Duties: assist with overall Bone and Joint Expo logistics, including: coordinating workshops and educational programing; recruiting sponsors, volunteers, presenters, and vendors; creating community partnerships; and developing marketing and promotional materials.

Typing Assistant, Sandy Levey – Bellingham, WA in September 2014

Duties: composed emails and assisted Ms. Levey in navigation of social media for promotion of her business.

Volunteer, Centre for Social Action – Bangalore, India in July 2013

Duties: participated in advocacy and awareness programs, mostly the organization of street plays throughout the slums to raise awareness for a variety of topics, including: child labor, global warming and female infanticide.

Tutor, Self-Employed – Bellingham, WA from May 2012 to June 2013

Duties: running weekly tutoring sessions on science and math subjects.

Research Assistant, Office of Institutional Research at Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA from May 2013 to September 2014

Duties: analyzing data and creation of well-organized reports, utilizing SPSS and BI Query User to find data, use Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook daily for office communication and development of reports, answering phones, conducting small technical repairs, file organization and other general office duties.

Cashier, Grocery Outlet – Bremerton, WA from May 2011 to September 2011 and June 2012 to September 2012

Duties: providing excellent customer service, cash-handling, unloading merchandise deliveries, setting up displays, stocking the shelves with new items and supervising and training new employees on the registers.

Dance Instructor, Dancing For Joy – Bellingham, WA from September 2012 to June 2012

Duties: teaching beginning ballet and musical theatre, creating class lesson plans, maintaining the classroom, disciplining misbehaving children, choreographing for the yearly recital.

Dance Instructor and Choreographer, Bremerton Dance Center – Bremerton, WA from June 2008 to May 2013

Duties: teaching ballet and modern dance for a variety of student levels, maintaining the proper class atmosphere through good leadership and discipline, preparation of teaching rubrics, assisting artistic directors with auditions, choreographed for national festivals on the dance company. 

Education:

Western Washington University – Bellingham, WA from September 2011 to present

       Degree in progress: Bachelor of Science in Biology, minor in Sociology

       Anticipated Graduation: June 13^th, 2015

Olympic College – Bremerton, WA from March 2011 to August 2012

       Running Start Program