Kenneth Wells

As a Senior Intern at the Senator’s district office, I was tasked with constituent management and served as first contact for constituents reaching out to our office.

My role required strong communication skills as we addressed a wide array of contacts. We answered inquiries regarding state issues and policies , facilitated communication between constituents and caseworkers, and addressed political comments and concerns. I assured constituents that their thoughts on bills and policies were valued and strived to be a faithful representative of our office.

Our office is committed to responding to every constituent who contacts us in a timely manner. Serving as initial contact to our office, I would relay important and time sensitive details to our casework manager, document and draft responses to constituent concerns, and help with community outreach. I assisted in creating certificates of recognition to honor people and businesses in our local community.

This position included both collaborative work with other interns and independent work. As a Senior Intern, I helped with training new recruits in how to preform certain tasks.

Additionally, this position greatly taught me more technical skills with office applications such as Word and Excel.

Trailhead is a Summer program hosted by the Gaede Institute and is part of Westmont College. This program invites high school students to live on campus and engage with a variety of academic, social, and faith issues to develop a greater understanding of complex and difficult topics.

Mentors needed to effectively discuss and lead students to engage with difficult subjects such as homelessness, immigration, and race in a manner that produces fruitful discussion.

This job often involved developing and effectively executing plans while adapting to unexpected and challenging circumstances. As a mentor I worked closely alongside a collaborative team with both fellow mentors and our organization’s leaders.

As a student housing worker, I am tasked with maintaining, repairing, and managing school housing-related assets for both dorm rooms and common spaces. This job has strengthened my problem solving skills as most of the job is learned through trial and error. As I have done this job longer than all other student housing workers, I often teach new coworkers how to complete niche or unexpected tasks that arise. I am held to a high standard of trust as I am often required to enter student rooms. This job has cultivated skills such as organization, problem solving, effective communication with our department manager, collaboration with other departments, following deadlines, and hard work.

At Monterey Mobile Lodge, I preformed landscaping and other manual labor tasks to maintain the grounds. I worked this job over the last several summers because of the flexible hours. This job had me reporting to the property owner and manager where I was given a set of assignments to independently complete. This job taught me about hard work even in difficult circumstances such as extreme heat or physically demanding tasks.