AMBERLEE CASTILLO
Newark,NJ
Summary
A current college student that possesses work study, volunteering, and study-abroad experience, eager to learn and adapt to new environments while being a good leader and teammate. A high school student leader who provided guidance to over 50 lower division students and who continues to look for new challenges. Drawn to the outdoors and served as a backpacking team captain in high school and a “fireboss” and first aid assistant on a backpacking trip in college. Adventurous and eager for new opportunities, which is what prompted a solo trip to Costa Rica to improve Spanish speaking. Presently exploring a path as a full-time student and a spiritual follower, while looking to demonstrate sacrificial leadership, humility, and capability.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Farm Crew Member
Palmer’s Farms
06.2025 - Current
- Transplant vegetables
- Standing and walking for most hours of the day, moving around items needed for irrigation, harvesting, and overall crop care.
- Harvesting crops
- Pruning, landscaping, staking and stringing
- Crop inspection, soil preparation, planting, and minimal pest control
- Selling crops at a farmers-market-style stand.
Maintenance/Landscaper
St. Benedict’s Prep
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Work directly with maintenance team, school staff, and students
- Carry boxes, shipments, and office equipment around school grounds
- Help set up different locations within the school, such as office, tent, gym and classroom space
- Perform landscaping tasks around school grounds including trimming and shaping plants
- Clean up school grounds
- Presently my seasonal job
Work study
Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve
09.2024 - Current
- Provide food, clean water, and monitor exercise for animals
- Restock and keep track of items for the barn
- Preparing activities for future field trips intended for youth
- Front desk work
- Create social media posts that are related to recent events
- During school year
Dog sitter
Doggie Paradise
06.2024 - 08.2024
- Clean up after daycare and boarding dogs
- Watch, interact, and play with daycare and boarding dogs
- Give bath and deshedding services
- Remain attentive to all activity amongst the dogs, including illness, aggressiveness, and high levels of anxiety/stress
- Deep clean different areas of the building where dogs stay
- Check in/out new and frequent customers
- Create relevant social media posts
- Presently my seasonal job
Medical Affairs work-study student
Holy Name Hospital
09.2019 - 03.2020
- Learned to become comfortable with computer work, such as analyzing, editing, and understanding data
- Inputted information from computer to paper and vise versa
- Edited doctor’s profile by inputting and outputting data
- Delivered checks and packages
- Recorded faculty survey responses
- Kept work spaces clean and tidy, organizing office decor and furniture
Internship
StoryZ Studios
01.2025 - 06.2025
- Helped to create digital designs such as an EPK, donor spreadsheet, and show advertisements
- Created short videos and slideshows that were intended to capture an intended audience for our musical show, Labor’s Martyr: The Story of Joe Hill
- Created a social media presence on platforms such as instagram and TikTok, and helped to curate others such as Youtube and Facebook
- Attended rehearsals to obtain video and photo content, and also helped the actors prepare for the performance.
- Helped to greet, hand out programs, seat guests, and clean up after the nights of the show
Crew Member
Chipotle Mexican Grill
01.2024 - 06.2024
- Greet and Welcome Guests
- Provide fast and efficient food service
- Keep track of item stock
- Train new employees and provide an excellent demonstration of expectations
- Maintain safe and sanitary work environments
- Prep food items in a fast and efficient manner
- Close store by cleaning, organizing, and preparing for the next day
Education
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, Pennsylvania12.2025
Non-Matriculating
NJIT
Newark, NJ05.2024
High School -
St Benedict’s Prep High School
Newark, NJ06.2023
Dual-enrollment
NJIT
Newark, NJ12.2022
Dual-enrollment
Rutgers
Newark, NJ05.2022
Skills
- Cleaning experience
- Animal Care
- Customer support
- Strong leadership
- Quick decision making and adaptability
- Communication
- Basic computer troubleshooting
- Basic web design
- Basic photography and videography experience
- Basic photo editing and video editing experience
- Basic farming and cultivation knowledge
- Backpacking and Hiking experience
- Crop management
- Organic farming
Accomplishments
- High school “Regina Blackwell” Group Leader
- 55-mile Appalachian trail five day “Backpacking” program
- NJIT dual-enrollment
- Rutgers dual-enrollment
- Wyoming environmental exchange trip
- Recipient of the Headmaster’s Memorial Award for General Achievement
- Benedictine Leadership Studies Honors Program participant
- Varsity Athlete: Volleyball, Crossfit, Rugby, Weightlifting
- “Black Section” Leader
- High school backpacking trail group captain
- College backpacking “fire boss” and first aid assistant
- National Honors Society Secretary
- Chief administrator of 55-mile Appalachian trail five day “Backpacking” program
- Costa Rica intensive language immersion classes
- Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society and 2025-2026 officer
Languages
English
Spanish
Timeline
Farm Crew Member
Palmer’s Farms
06.2025 - Current
Internship
StoryZ Studios
01.2025 - 06.2025
Work study
Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve
09.2024 - Current
Dog sitter
Doggie Paradise
06.2024 - 08.2024
Maintenance/Landscaper
St. Benedict’s Prep
05.2024 - 08.2024
Crew Member
Chipotle Mexican Grill
01.2024 - 06.2024
Medical Affairs work-study student
Holy Name Hospital
09.2019 - 03.2020
Non-Matriculating
NJIT
Saint Vincent College
High School -
St Benedict’s Prep High School
Dual-enrollment
NJIT
Dual-enrollment
Rutgers