Kylah Cain-Ward
Student Intern At Johns Hopkins University's Gender And Sexuality Resource Office
Baltimore,MD
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Angela Y. Davis
Summary
Passionate student, eager to apply knowledge of intersectional struggles for freedom and social justice to foster diverse, equitable, and safe spaces both within and outside the workplace.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work History
Student Intern
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
08.2022 - Current
- Create a more equitable and supportive Hopkins community for s women, femme, trans, and queer communities
- Program/Event Planning and assisting
- Tabling Events
- Budget Assisting
- T-shirt and Flier design
- Errands/Miscellaneous tasks
- Editing LGBTQ+ resources and informational posts
- My Project Idea: Working towards launching a Queer, Trans, Student of Color organization on Campus
Cohort Member
Envisioning Safety On Our Campuses
Baltimore City, United States
08.2022 - 12.2022
- building infrastructure for intercampus student organizing and providing political education rooted in the Black Radical Tradition
- Political Education
- Intensive learning experience on self-determination, transformative justice, abolition, Black Feminism and Womanism
- Mobilization and Organizational Education and Work
- conversation and discussion amongst student leaders and organizers with political and community activists and organizers
- creating spaces on our own campuses across Maryland and DC to address safety and protection
- Learning of and producing alternatives to our university's practices of the school-to-prison pipeline
Youth Advisor Board Member
JHU School Of Nursing- THREADS Research Lab
Baltimore, MD
01.2021 - Current
- Pre-requisite: Participated in the W.I.N.G.S Research Project as a subject
- support research of Black women's relationship and sexual health through active participation in developing communication strategies, analyzing data, and engaging with communities about the study.
- Community building
- providing insight and clarity on the rationale of interviewee's responses and our own
- vocalize our experiences with relationship and sexual health, safety, violence
- Providing insight on social media analytics
Summer Camp Program Coordinator
Boys And Girls Clubs Of Harford And Cecil Counties
Joppa, MD
06.2022 - 08.2022
- Supported senior leadership by planning, scheduling, cancelling, and adjusting, weekly themes, and daily camp activities in accordance with those themes
- Evaluated existing programs, planning, and activities to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Supervised the performance of Camp Counselors as safe, friendly, and active role models for the campers
- Provided one-on-two care, activities, and accommodations for two campers, both brothers, one Autistic (7), and the other Pre-Kindergarten (5)
Tutor
Johns Hopkins University Center For Social Concern
Baltimore City, United States
09.2021 - 12.2021
- Twice a week, one-on-one tutoring
- My Tutee was a 8 year old girl with first grade level math skills and Kindergarten reading skills
- Developed lesson plans each week to achieve money counting skills, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers, identifying and pronouncing phonics, and learning site words
- By the end of the semester should could count change up to a dollar, add and subtract from two digit numbers, and read at a first grade level
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Africana Studies
08.2021 - Current
Skills
Project support
undefinedAffiliations
- JHU Black Student Union
- JHU Knotty by Nature
- JHU Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU)
- Boys and Girls Clubs of America Alumna
Timeline
Student Intern - Johns Hopkins University
08.2022 - Current
Cohort Member - Envisioning Safety On Our Campuses
08.2022 - 12.2022
Summer Camp Program Coordinator - Boys And Girls Clubs Of Harford And Cecil Counties
06.2022 - 08.2022
Tutor - Johns Hopkins University Center For Social Concern
09.2021 - 12.2021
Johns Hopkins University - Bachelor of Arts, Africana Studies
08.2021 - Current
Youth Advisor Board Member - JHU School Of Nursing- THREADS Research Lab
01.2021 - Current
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