Isabel Vega Toro

In this role, I facilitate afterschool program clubs for middle-school students. I host clubs consistent with enrichment activities such as arts, crafts, STEM, sports, homework assistance, among many others. I also support the overall team by providing students with the opportunity to participate in activities that they enjoy that differ from core club activities. Total program size varies from 70-170 students on any given day, with personal classroom sizes ranging between 5-25 students daily.

• Classroom management
• Incident/accident reporting
• Behavioral mitigation/ reporting
• Enrichment-based teaching

In this role, I joined the firm’s school planning team and I prepared environmental regulatory requirement documents related to school and city planning, as well as reviewed environmental reports used for CEQA-mandated documents in order to provide regulatory compliance assessments for school and city plans. In this role, I prepared documents consistent with CEQA standards, including:

• Geological and Environmental Hazards Assessments (GEHA)(which include Appendices related to utilities outreach, waterline assessments, pipeline assessment, and railroad studies)
• Environmental Site Assessments (Phase 1)
• General Plan EIR, FEIR, SEIR/ Addendums/ Updates sections (with main focus on Geology and Soils; Hazards and Hazardous Materials)
• IS/MNDs
• Preparing school-related paperwork such as Notice of Intent (NOI), Notice of Completion (NOC) and Notice of Declaration (NOD)
• In this role, I frequently reviewed and interpreted environmental/ supplemental reports to incorporate into the above-mentioned documents, including:
• Phase 1 and Phase 2 Environmental Site Assessments
• Biological Resources Reports
• Paleontological Resources Reports
• Geotechnical Assessments
• Cultural Reports
• General Plans
• CA regulations
• In this role I also performed many out of office duties such as:
• Filing reports/ notices with their respective counties
• Performed school site assessments in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego Counties
• Assisted the noise team with noise data collection for noise studies (using instruments such as Piccolo and Larson Davis sound meters).

In this role I was a valuable member of a 16 person team who actively assessed, documented, and relayed pertinent information to team leads on the current statuses of agricultural field sites. In this role I routinely took samples of common agricultural pests (such as larvae) and diseases using equipment, along with documentation of field characteristics and potential concerns on site. During off seasons, I worked with a smaller team of 10 focused on sampling almonds, cotton, and pistachios, looking for trends in overall pest control effectiveness in organic and inorganic agricultural sites, through physical sampling methods and photo documentation.

• Obtained experience in sample collection and developed an attention to detail on projects and given duties.
• Obtained beneficial agricultural knowledge through the use of hands-on field data and sampling.
• Pest and plant disease scouting in various produce: grapes, almonds, persimmons, cherries, pistachios.

As a Honeycode teacher, I was assigned to five different schools throughout the semester to instruct elementary-aged students consisting of computer literacy and coding principals. Using a program called SCRATCH, developed by MIT, I taught pre-designed lesson plans to teach students using the simple coding program. In this role I also routinely performed computer and system troubleshooting, parent outreach, and led hour-long lessons to students, often prioritizing time management.

• Obtained physical computer-based experience teaching coding to elementary school students through a program called SCRATCH, developed by M.I.T.
• Managed classroom sizes of 15-20 students in any given day and for multiple sessions, on a consistent weekly basis.

In this role I was one of 6 active interns for a non-profit organization aimed at providing nutrition education to elementary-aged students in underrepresented communities in the Sacramento area. I routinely led program operations alongside other interns and the program supervisor where we worked in small groups to teach children about healthy nutritional habits and safe cooking principals. Other routine duties included preparation of program session materials weekly, filing student paperwork to use in data calculations, and emailing sponsors and organization subscribers newsletters. In this role I also created an inventory tracking sheet for materials found in the organization’s newly constructed teaching/cooking space.

• Obtained experience teaching and guiding elementary school students.
• Related topics taught: food culture, healthy recipes, grains, sugars, etc.
• Over 150 hours of direct instruction to students, and over 180 total hours working with leads to perform necessary tasks.
• Aiding volunteers in assisting during and in preparation for lessons.

• Assisted in sales of clothes and merchandise; Retail.
• Customer service assisting 20-30 customers daily.

• Obtained the ability to swiftly cook, clean, and helping customers when help was needed.
• Customer service helping 20-30 people in any given shift.