Educational Advocacy Experience

2023 - 2023

Youth Advocate Assistant Intern

Teens Take Charge - NYC

Helped a cohort of 8 students find organizations related to their chosen social issues and drafted emails for local partnerships to build student’s organizational and advocacy skills.

Located scholarly and literary works on students’ chosen social issues to have them develop foundational knowledge that guides their problem-solving propositions.

Led interactive presentations for high school students on NYC’s anti-discrimination laws to strengthen their knowledge of legal protections.

Guided students in executing an ethical and intersectional service-based project by leveraging knowledge of feminist methodology.

2020 - 2022

Youth Organier

Teens Take Charge - NYC

Collaborated with peers on ‘Project 1424’ with ExpandED Schools and Here to Here to identify gaps within the NYC DYCD Summer Youth Employment Program.

Advocated for open-access data transparency and collection for NYC DYCD that would help them to strengthen their target demographics for work-based learning.

Proposed that the public dissemination of work-based learning resources would help low-income families and students access work-based learning opportunities.