Rachel Kline

Highlights and Accomplishments:

• Trip Experience: Cultivated relationships with hundreds of Chicagoland Jewish and multi-heritage couples during the HMI application process. Oversaw the selection process for trip experiences. Planned and implemented pre and post trip community building opportunities. Created and implemented initiatives to increase a sense of welcoming and comfort during 10 day trip experience.
• Experiential Education: Remade four educational opportunities during the HMI trip to increase Jewish learning and implement theory to practice activities through Kolb's Theory of Experiential Learning. Create and implemented various environmental and programmatic opportunities during the trip experience and in post trip engagements. Created various crisis management responses.
• Local Post-Trip Engagement: Deepened and maintained relationships with trip alumni and participants to assist them in engaging with each other and the broader Chicago Jewish community. Built trust and developed deep relationships with tour educators, Rabbis and Jewish Educators, and community partners to increase the participant experience and increase the inclusion of Jewish values and education in programming. Utilized post trip analysis data to increase alumni engagement directly influenced future initiatives.

Highlights and Accomplishments:

• Granting Centralization and Delivery Processes: . Developed outreach, application, acceptance, and grant process for multiple and overlapping grant initiatives. Set clear benchmarks and processes to ensure outgoing grants were delivered on time. Utilized best practices for racial equity throughout the process. Ensured that grant recipients were aligned with mission and vision by providing key resources and training. Built and maintained relationships with grant recipients. Designed and implemented a centralized granting process to streamline administrative tasks, systematize racial equity best practices, and prioritize relationship development.
• Emerging Leaders Mentorship Program: Created a mentorship program to best onboard new members into the network. Developed outreach, training, and implementation.

Highlights and Accomplishments:

• Residential Curriculum Implementation: Oversaw the campus wide development, implementation and evaluation of Residential Curriculum model which focused on personal growth and community development. Amended the model for upcoming years based on assessment and feedback. Supervised community staff members, provided education and feedback so student and professional staff could best impact the community. Increased religious and identity based awareness which positively impacted participant engagement. Created programmatic, environmental, and conversational opportunities for people to develop their own sense of identity and find a community in which they are equipped to have difficult conversations across difference in order to thrive.
• Logistical Support: Created and maintained building processes to ensure health and safety of the students residing in the building. Tasks included: Updating move in processes for move in and move out for 800 students and families, conducting health and safety inspections, ensuring safe practices for storing spare keys, and maintaining overall building safety.
• Professional Training Development Committee: Created, implemented, and assessed the training for full time staff members aligned with the mission and vision to ensure success in the upcoming year.
• Crisis Response: Navigated various acute and chronic student and staff crisis scenarios. These included logistical crises (i.e. fires and floods) and socio-emotional crises (inter and intrapersonal). Responded to emergencies in a professional manner and completed follow up and continued relationship building as needed.

• Residential Educational Initiatives: Created and oversaw the implementation of educational programming specific to research conducted on specific student population.
• Supervision: Supervised Resident Assistants, Desk Assistants and Professional staff members. Completed training and on-going development so that the staff could meet the needs of their students.
• Social Justice and Diversity Work: Worked on the Inclusion committee to increase feelings of belonging within residential communities. Hosted Students of Color retreat and provided logistical support.