Provided excellent customer service by engaging with customers and ensuring satisfaction.
Maintained store cleanliness, organization, and recovery standards.
Followed safety guidelines and company policies to support a secure environment.
Supported a positive team culture through professionalism and respect.
Assisted with merchandising and upheld visual standards.
Accurately handled transactions, including purchases, returns, and cash.
Collections Research Student Assistant - Part Time
Carolyn Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum CSU Long Beach
Long Beach
02.2024 - 12.2024
Assisting the chief curator and contributing original content to the collection database.
The specific task is to locate descriptions of artworks in the collections that already exist in the previously published catalogs, update, and upload them into the collections database.
Internship: Anthropology Ethnographic Curation
CSU Long Beach
Long Beach
06.2024 - 08.2024
Obtained hands-on, real world experience working with anthropologists in ethnographic collections collected from California, the United States and around the world by CSULB.
Learned about Native Americans Graves Protection Act (NAGPRA) and Californians NAGPRA (CalNAGPRA) and how these laws affect CSULB’s ethnographic collections.
Learned history of the collections, inventory, curated, analyzed, and photographed the collections.
Federal Work Study - Part Time Special Project Assistant
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum CSU Long Beach
Long Beach
08.2023 - 12.2023
Assisted specific staff members in a supportive role to complete important tasks to help prepare the museum for re-opening to the public.
Completed important tasks related to unique museum projects involving exhibitions, membership, and the museum business.
Duties include organizing non-confidential/non-sensitive paperwork, and conducting research.
Specified workflows to process data or archival material, preparing materials for and assisting in Art Education programs, helping cleaning outdoor sculpture to standard, cataloging art, scanning documents, and other duties as assigned.
Education
Bachelors - Liberal Arts Anthropology
California State Long Beach University
Long Beach
12-2024
Associates in Arts - Anthropology
East Los Angeles College
Los Angeles, CA
06-2022
Associates in Arts - Art History
East Los Angeles College
Los Angeles, CA
06-2022
Skills
Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe Office Suite (Adobe Connect, Paint, Reader), and Zoom
Retail experience
Store organization
Restocking processes
Team collaboration
Problem-solving
Critical thinking
Clear communication
AWARDS
Dean List - East Los Angeles College, Dean List Fall Semester CSULB, Transfer Recognition
Timeline
Merchandise Associate - Part Time
Homegoods Store Whittier
11.2025 - Current
Internship: Anthropology Ethnographic Curation
CSU Long Beach
06.2024 - 08.2024
Collections Research Student Assistant - Part Time
Carolyn Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum CSU Long Beach
02.2024 - 12.2024
Federal Work Study - Part Time Special Project Assistant
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum CSU Long Beach