Summary
Overview
Work History
Skills
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Certifications
Volunteer Experience
References
Accomplishments
Affiliations
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Ziara York

Ziara York

Omaha,NE

Summary

Dedicated and Passionate Community Organizer, Educator, and Program Manager with 4 years of experience empowering youth, women, and families at community and organizational levels. Well-versed in planning events, coordinating projects, and developing and implementing new and innovative programs aimed towards uplifting the youth. Strong interpersonal skills, adaptable team player, creative thinking, and attentive to detail.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Program Manager

Intertribal Medicine Collective
04.2023 - Current
  • Planning, executing, and overseeing successful implementation of community-based programming, managing budgets, allocating resources, coordinating with community volunteers, maintaining communication with stakeholders and partners, and monitoring progress to ensure programs success.

Executive Director/Community Educator and Doula

Natural Rhythms
07.2020 - Current
  • Improving infant and maternal health outcomes by providing personalized and holistic emotional, physical, and educational support throughout pregnancy and birthing process, including postpartum care. Facilitating group workshops for expecting parents covering topics such as childbirth education, coping strategies for labor pain, breastfeeding basics, and newborn care essentials.

Nanny

Ward Household
12.2021 - 05.2023
  • Enhancing child's emotional well-being by providing attentive care while ensuring safety and comfort, providing nutritious meals ensuring balanced diet for child's growth and developments, developing homeschool curriculum, fostering creativity and development of skills, and facilitating daily activities for learning and improved motor and speech skills, providing light household cleaning and sanitation, and updating parents on child's progress, needs, and achievements

Skills

  • Project Management
  • MS Office Applications
  • Budget Coordination
  • Group and Individual Instruction
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Attention to Detail
  • Strategic Planning
  • Adaptability
  • Process Improvement

Certifications

  • HeartSaver First Aid CPR AED
  • Child CPR AED
  • Infant CPR

Volunteer Experience

  • Decatur Urban Farm x NBDC, Volunteer Garden Coordinator, Since 2023
  • Intertribal Medicine Collective, Volunteer Community Herbalist, Since 2021
  • Omaha Girls Rock, Volunteer Band Facilitator, 2019

References

  • Felecia Welke, Current Employer/Executive Director of IMC, 402-802-2247
  • Bryonna Ward, Previous Employer/Manager of Ward Residence, 402-213-9263
  • Sarahn Henderson, Mentor/Primary Midwife of Birth In The Tradition, 770-997-7088

Accomplishments

Reaching Individuals in Underserved Communities

  • Developed, led, and facilitated four weekend-long wellness retreats, six workshops, and supported more than a dozen cultural gatherings reaching 600+ youth, women, and children in marginalized and underserved communities in 2023.

Creating Access to Support and Care Programming

  • Collaborated with local, regional, and national nonprofit organizations in the development and implementation of education, support, and healthcare programming for women and infants since 2020.

Supporting Grassroots Community Organizations

  • Established essential operational procedures, foundational standards and protocols for a community-based nonprofit organization's physical location and programming in 2023.

Affiliations

  • Charles Drew Health Center
  • No More Empty Pots
  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  • Nebraska Black Doula Collective
  • Clyde Malone Community Center
  • Intertribal Medicine Collective
  • I Be Black Girl
  • Healthy Blue Nebraska

Timeline

Program Manager

Intertribal Medicine Collective
04.2023 - Current

Nanny

Ward Household
12.2021 - 05.2023

Executive Director/Community Educator and Doula

Natural Rhythms
07.2020 - Current

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