Malia Ellis

As soon as I got my driver’s license, I began babysitting for various families, and I still do to this day. I work with various aged children ranging from 6 months to 12 years. Additionally, I have worked with individuals with both physical and mental disabilities.

As a Registered Behavior Technician, my job was to support clients using principles of applied behavior analysis. Additionally, I kept accurate records by documenting progress and adhering to prescribed behavior plan.

As the Assistant Office Manager, I created and updated physical records and digital files to maintain current, accurate, and compliant documentation. In addition, I recorded expenses and maintained accounting records, optimized office schedule to balance team workloads, group productivity and financial targets, and also transferred and directed phone calls, guests, and mail to correct staff members.

Every year on a weekend in June, I volunteered at a camp that is for children coping with cancer

Here, I serve breakfast to the kids, and once that is over, I can go outside and interact with these children to provide a memorable experience.

It was my job to bring clients back to the gym and get them started with their exercises, clean and set-up evaluation rooms, update patient charts, teach patients how to perform certain exercises, perform ultrasounds and electrical stimulation on patients, do laundry, and clean equipment. This job has helped me further develop my knowledge of the human body, as well as how to communicate with others.

I volunteered through a program called CCS in Costa Rica for two weeks. I worked at an elementary school and a nursing home. Here I worked on my Spanish skills, as well as learning to work with other people that I had never met before and helping the elderly work on their fine motor skills.