Overview
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Anna Lignelli

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Summer Associate for Youth Empowerment Programs

AmeriCorps VISTA
06.2023 - Current
  • Facilitated conversations with multiple groups of 25 students each from ages 9-17 regarding local systemic racial, gender, LGBTQ+, and class inequalities through a social justice lens
  • Worked to ensure a comfortable and safe environment through meaningful interaction between educators, counselors, and campers
  • Researched and planned daily lesson plans and activities to ease the organizational flow of program activities and improve educator understanding of relevant program topics

Treat Team Shift Lead

Rita's Italian Ice
06.2022 - 06.2023
  • Resolved high-stress customer conflicts while leading a team of four workers per shift, navigating work relations and conflicts, and multitasking to make sure business ran smoothly
  • Interacted with the Chester County Board of Health for impromptu health inspections of the store
  • Earned a promotion two months into work, changing job titles and increasing pay, and earning another pay raise after one year

Head Prefect

Hill School Head Prefect Council
08.2021 - 05.2022
  • Directed peer mediation for ten girls in a dormitory, oversaw and managed pre-semester move-in, orientation, class struggles, social interactions, basic physical and mental health concerns, homesickness, and general counseling
  • Managed an additional four dormitories in a similar section of campus, working with forty underclassmen and seven prefects to communicate needs to student life administration
  • Elected into position in first weeks of school from other prefects in surrounding dormitories

Young Women and Gender Representative

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion At The Hill School
08.2021 - 05.2022
  • Delivered oratory to high school on negative psychological effects of body image dysmorphia and eating disorder
    culture, drew from personal experience to connect with students, initiated larger conversations towards a culture
    change

• Created and disseminated intersectional, gender-based awareness campaigns targeted toward a student body of

500+ of previously all-male school

Writing Fellow

Hill School Writing Center
05.2021 - 05.2022
  • Studied and executed new ways to help students hone their writing craft in academic and otherwise oriented bodies of work
  • Monitored the writing progress of 8 students per month to identify weaknesses and provide recommendations for improvement

Financial and Office Management Intern

Pottstown Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
11.2022 - 12.2022
  • Studied complexities and hidden demands of jobs in dental industries through careful field observation and reporting, observed over 40 consultations and operations
  • Organizing and recorded patient medical insurance information, contacted insurance companies about benefits, entered post-op information to 50+ patient databases, and issued refund checks for patients overcharged for services
  • Steered planning of holiday office events, closely assisting office manager in coordinating office of 30+ members to cooperate with event planning

Fundraising Event Coordinator

Hobart's Run Student Leadership Committee
08.2020 - 11.2020
  • Brainstormed and coordinated an event where 40+ students participated in a teacher-sponsored basket raffle and BINGO fundraiser for a historic cemetery struggling to meet maintenance bills
  • Raised nearly $1,000 in a single school-wide activity, gifted it directly to volunteers and loved ones keeping the cemetery dignified and preserving its historical landmark status

Committee Secretary

Hobart's Run Leadership Committee
08.2018 - 05.2022
  • Conceptualized and spearheaded events providing services to the larger community, such as food drives, clothing drives, holiday party planning, and allocating funds to local organizations
  • Organized teams of eight to twelve students before and during a pandemic to turn focuses outward to all demographics of community members

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Human Services And Social Justice

The George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
05.2026

Diploma -

The Hill School
Pottstown, PA
05.2022

Skills

  • Hardworking
  • Highly Organized and Plan-Oriented
  • Leadership
  • Interpersonal and Listening
  • Strong Writing Ability
  • Large- and Small-Scale Communication

Accomplishments

    Awards: Junior Rising Star of the Pottstown YWCA (Summer 2022) Honors: Hill School Dean's List Spring 2022 with a GPA of 4.816 out of 5.416, George Washington University Dean's List Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Member

Timeline

Summer Associate for Youth Empowerment Programs

AmeriCorps VISTA
06.2023 - Current

Financial and Office Management Intern

Pottstown Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
11.2022 - 12.2022

Treat Team Shift Lead

Rita's Italian Ice
06.2022 - 06.2023

Head Prefect

Hill School Head Prefect Council
08.2021 - 05.2022

Young Women and Gender Representative

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion At The Hill School
08.2021 - 05.2022

Writing Fellow

Hill School Writing Center
05.2021 - 05.2022

Fundraising Event Coordinator

Hobart's Run Student Leadership Committee
08.2020 - 11.2020

Committee Secretary

Hobart's Run Leadership Committee
08.2018 - 05.2022

Bachelor of Arts - Human Services And Social Justice

The George Washington University

Diploma -

The Hill School
Anna Lignelli