20+ Teaching Experience 20+ Professional Actor Organizational Leader & Trainer Opened Cafe Aorta in Chicago and has since provided catering and event planning services Pursuing an advanced degree in organizational leadership and will be a student in the doctoral program in education Advanced Reading Grammar for all levels Writing Skills for Business Test Prep Art Appreciation Digital & Social Media Idioms and Colloquialisms ESL TOEFL IELTS Organizational Leadership Communication Skills Public Speaking Higher Education Research Prefessional Teaching Artist Versatile performer and organizer involved with a diverse group of Chicago's premiere theater companies. Research Mentor UROP Research Mentors are faculty and post-doc researchers who provide undergraduate student researchers an opportunity to engage in research activities that help them learn about the pursuit of knowledge within an academic discipline. This early exposure to research fosters a valuable academic experience for students. Through this collaboration, students gain research skills and mentorship that lead to academic retention, a more positive undergraduate experience and paths to graduate school. Teacher Trainer VIPTeach was launched in 2018 with the goal of empowering educators to shape the future of teaching and learning. In fact, VIPTeach partners with VIPKid REP to empower educators and increase access to quality education. This innovative partnership was recognized in 2020 by Fast Company as a World Changing Idea in Education. https://vipteach.org/ https://vipteach.org/fellowship/?fbclid=IwAR0c3yaOMQmqV- uG4POdKK6yEaXET43md6VqpTOX_M8MfQ_ysT0JJMOq-S4 University of the Potomac Adjunct Professor specializing in creative lesson planning for ESL students. VIPKid Teacher and Coach ESL teacher for an E-learning company, presenting one-on-one instruction for children ages 5 to 12. Dinner Detective An actor for an interactive dinner theatre show in Chicago and Schaumburg. Classroom Specialist Drama based literacy program implemented In-School with CPS students in grades K through 8th. Program Manager Developed programming for childcare program serving children 3 months old to 13 years of age. Spearheaded a following and format for Parent Night Out events. Managed childcare staff and administration for the Kids Club Program in Lincoln Park. Ensured safety and positive engagement for staff, children, and families. Delivering outstanding results with Improvement, Safety, Friendliness, Superior Service, and Integrity. Recruits, trains, and coaches team members in Kids Club, FitBar, and Front Desk. Director of childcare programming and enhances community outreach in Lincoln Park. Committed to serving the needs of all our members. FFC Mission: to build, own, and operate great clubs and deliver outstanding RESULTS! Director of Programs at the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation (DKEF) focused on delivering America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus experience to young children throughout the Chicagoland area. With the goal of enhancing children’s learning through the support of exemplary teaching, the Dolores Kohl Education Foundation was launched in 1972 as a private, not-for-profit international operating foundation, which creates and directs its own programs. A catalyst for excellence in education, the Foundation has developed numerous education and arts programs in the United States and abroad. The Foundation currently directs early childhood teaching awards and an urban early literacy program that includes a traveling children’s museum- on-wheels. The Foundation is located at 1770 First Street, Suite 500, in Highland Park, Illinois. About It's 37 feet of literacy fun! Seventeen thousand pounds of early childhood development! It's a children's museum on wheels that visits classrooms in Chicago's low-income neighborhoods to get pre-k and kindergarten students excited about books! Mission America's Children's Museum on Wheels: StoryBus builds better teachers and better students. The program empowers preschool and kindergarten teachers by encouraging them to develop their own curriculum, teaching to the whole child, utilizing a single classic story. It enables young students to have collaborative literary experiences that bring stories to life, so that they better understand the stories. As a result, the children will develop a lifelong love of reading. Company Overview StoryBus shows teachers how to develop a curriculum that addresses all of the Illinois Early Learning Standards through a single story; gives those teachers 15 hours of professional development from the Erikson Institute, a sample curriculum guide, five multicultural versions of the year's story, and a DVD featuring a recorded storytelling; sends a professional storyteller to the school to perform a live telling of the year's story; and brings to the school the StoryBus, a children's museum on wheels that features interactive exhibits that reflect the setting of the year's story. The StoryBus stays for the whole school day, and 45 minutes beyond, as part of a family literacy workshop for the students' parents.