Strategic communications and community engagement professional skilled in journalism, public relations, and digital media. Develops impactful content and manages social media to advance mission-driven initiatives. Coordinates outreach and fosters relationships with diverse stakeholders. Recognized by the Missouri Press Association for excellence in multimedia reporting.
Overview
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Educator | Program Implementation & Performance Improvement
North Kansas City Schools
06.2026 - Current
Developed and implemented data-driven improvement strategies, leveraging performance metrics to identify needs and adjust implementation for better outcomes.
Collaborated with leadership and multidisciplinary teams to coordinate resources and implement individualized support plans addressing operational challenges.
Managed competing priorities and facilitated communication to support continuous improvement initiatives in a fast-paced organizational environment.
Supported educational initiatives at Gracemor Elementary
Adult Learning & Development Instructor
Johnson County Community College
01.2026 - 05.2026
Designed and facilitated accessible learning programs tailored to diverse participant needs, enhancing learner engagement.
Collaborated with program personnel to enhance participant engagement and skill development for successful program delivery.
Evaluated program effectiveness through assessments and feedback, informing targeted improvements for future sessions.
Developed CLEAR program framework
Educator | Assessment & Program Development
Brookside Charter School
08.2025 - 06.2026
Achieved 105% median progress toward annual reading-growth goals through data-informed strategies and continuous improvement.
Analyzed performance data to identify improvement opportunities and develop targeted interventions, resulting in more effective program outcomes.
Led staff training and coordinated implementation of standardized assessment and reporting framework, enhancing instructional team consistency and effectiveness.
Designed and implemented organization-wide assessment and performance-monitoring system impacting over 60 students' learning outcomes.
Project Management Coordinator
University of Missouri–Kansas City
08.2024 - 05.2025
Coordinated university-wide programs and initiatives, managing project timelines, event logistics, and stakeholder communication to ensure successful implementation.
Collaborated with university departments and community partners to align organizational objectives, coordinate resources, and deliver accessible programming.
Facilitated project meetings, delegated team responsibilities, and monitored deliverables to support timely execution.
Developed communication and outreach materials to enhance accessibility and engagement, promoting organizational inclusion.
Supported Disability Alliance initiatives by facilitating collaboration among members to strengthen partnerships and resource sharing.
Education & Family Support
Operation Breakthrough
05.2024 - 10.2024
Coordinated individualized support services and resource referrals with families and multidisciplinary teams to enhance support for diverse needs.
Applied inclusive, relationship-centered strategies to boost participant engagement and facilitate access to essential resources.
Supported program delivery and stakeholder communication while fostering community engagement for underserved populations to strengthen program impact.
Peer Academic Leader | First Gen Roo Mentor | Summer Bridge Mentor
University of Missouri–Kansas City
01.2023 - 08.2024
Facilitated workshops on skill development, accessibility, self-advocacy, and institutional transitions to empower participants.
Collaborated with university departments to coordinate referrals and strengthen support services, advancing engagement and retention initiatives.
Managed caseload of 25–30 participants, delivering individualized mentoring and coordinating resources to enhance participant engagement.
Project Ambassador
University of Missouri–Kansas City
08.2021 - 01.2023
Coordinated volunteer programs and community engagement initiatives to enhance community involvement.
Collaborated with corporate partners, community organizations, and stakeholders to execute programs.
Supported project planning and volunteer engagement to facilitate successful program implementation.
Managed budget tracking and monitored expenses to ensure effective resource allocation.
Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Community Engagement Specialist
Northeast News
Kansas City, MO
01.2021 - 01.2025
Advanced from Journalism Intern to Community Engagement Specialist, supporting local journalism, community outreach, and public engagement initiatives.
Built relationships with residents, community organizations, and local leaders to strengthen engagement and amplify underrepresented voices.
Coordinated community-focused projects and multimedia storytelling initiatives, enhancing public awareness and engagement with local issues.
Researched, wrote, and produced stories that addressed neighborhood issues and showcased local government and community perspectives, fostering informed public discourse.
Received recognition from the Missouri Press Association in 2024 and 2025 for excellence in multimedia reporting and special section journalism, underscoring commitment to quality storytelling.
Education
Master of Science - Education Leadership and Administration
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
01-2027
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science & Communications
University of Missouri–Kansas City
KCMO
05-2025
Skills
Program development
Project management
Program evaluation
Data analysis
Stakeholder engagement
Program Accessibility
Strategic leadership
Certification
Project Management Foundations | LinkedIn Learning | October 2026: Completed foundational training in project management (4 hours). PMI Registered Education Provider course; 3.25 professional development units (PDUs).
Missouri Teaching Certificate – Elementary Education (Grades 1–6) | Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: State-issued teaching certification for elementary education, grades 1–6.
Accomplishments
Missouri Press Association, 2025 – Second Place, Best Special Section: Northeast Narratives, Northeast News
Missouri Press Association, 2024 – Third Place, Best Multimedia Reporting: City Council Candidate Interviews, Northeast News
Timeline
Educator | Program Implementation & Performance Improvement
North Kansas City Schools
06.2026 - Current
Adult Learning & Development Instructor
Johnson County Community College
01.2026 - 05.2026
Educator | Assessment & Program Development
Brookside Charter School
08.2025 - 06.2026
Project Management Coordinator
University of Missouri–Kansas City
08.2024 - 05.2025
Education & Family Support
Operation Breakthrough
05.2024 - 10.2024
Peer Academic Leader | First Gen Roo Mentor | Summer Bridge Mentor
University of Missouri–Kansas City
01.2023 - 08.2024
Project Ambassador
University of Missouri–Kansas City
08.2021 - 01.2023
Community Engagement Specialist
Northeast News
01.2021 - 01.2025
Master of Science - Education Leadership and Administration
Kansas State University
Bachelor of Arts - Political Science & Communications
<ul><li>Design and develop impactful training materials to enhance sales performance and leadership capabilities across the Sales L&D Department.</li><li>Lead the redesign of the Best in Call Onboarding 90-Day Program to improve knowledge retention and reduce turnover—introducing a blended learning model with digital simulations, gamified assessments, and diverse practice methods (eLearning, roleplay, hot seats).</li><li>Develop simulations using Symtrain and design user training for performance coaching tools including Observe.AI and Salesforce Omni Supervisor as part of a new Leadership Development Program for Team Supervisors.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with department leaders to inform training strategy and gather feedback for continuous improvement.</li><li>Create and manage a departmental newsletter to promote L&D initiatives, training opportunities, and team achievements.</li><li>Strengthen interdepartmental collaboration to unify training deliverables and reinforce a cohesive L&D voice.</li></ul> at National Debt Relief<ul><li>Design and develop impactful training materials to enhance sales performance and leadership capabilities across the Sales L&D Department.</li><li>Lead the redesign of the Best in Call Onboarding 90-Day Program to improve knowledge retention and reduce turnover—introducing a blended learning model with digital simulations, gamified assessments, and diverse practice methods (eLearning, roleplay, hot seats).</li><li>Develop simulations using Symtrain and design user training for performance coaching tools including Observe.AI and Salesforce Omni Supervisor as part of a new Leadership Development Program for Team Supervisors.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with department leaders to inform training strategy and gather feedback for continuous improvement.</li><li>Create and manage a departmental newsletter to promote L&D initiatives, training opportunities, and team achievements.</li><li>Strengthen interdepartmental collaboration to unify training deliverables and reinforce a cohesive L&D voice.</li></ul> at National Debt Relief
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform