résumé

Cochise Chess · Founding Executive Director

May 2022 to present · Cochise County, Arizona

• Identify community educational, social, and recreational needs through public data, partner relationships, and local feedback.
• Design bilingual, inclusive educational chess programs in collaboration with schools, libraries, museums, community organizations, and local businesses.
• Expanded programming from zero to seven locations, serving 800+ members across rural Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, with more than half of members from ethnic minority communities and more than 40% girls and women.
• Developed Chess in Schools, high school internship, tournament-preparation, Safe Play, and Binational Chess Championship initiatives.
• Lead outcome tracking and reporting for the Board of Directors, funders, and community partners.
• Oversee recruitment, training, performance support, and volunteer management for a 15-person team, including 13 volunteers.
• Serve as chief executive officer and advise the Board of Directors on policy, compliance, organizational growth, and community strategy.
• Lead budget planning, grant seeking, fundraising campaigns, donor relations, and partnerships.

Cascade Tutoring · Principal

November 2022 to present · Cochise County, Arizona

• Coordinate and train experienced tutors providing individualized instruction in mathematics, English, study skills, and test preparation.
• Co-create scaffolded student success plans with families and align instruction with measurable outcomes.
• Build relationships with local families and homeschool networks to support client retention and growth.

Arizona State University, CISA, Writers' Studio · Instructor

January 2022 to present · Online

• Teach accelerated First-Year Composition courses integrating multimodal and community-based learning projects.
• Supervise and mentor Writing Mentors, including four team members who advanced to senior roles under my guidance.
• Introduced formal project-management practices and streamlined internal communication.
• Co-wrote accessibility training resources and piloted peer-learning uses of Pinterest and InScribe that informed wider departmental adoption.

Previously Senior Writing Mentor and Writing Mentor, August 2019 to December 2021.