Zoraleda Mendel
Anchorage,USA
Summary
Experienced with early childhood education, children's social services, and youth-based non-profits. My passion is to ensure a safe and engaging environment for the youth in my community. My interest in the field of law was sparked by the disparities I saw in the way juvenile defenders were treated throughout my work with Anchorage Youth Court.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Early Childhood Educator and Admin
Early Learning For Everyone
06.2020 - Current
- I work at Early Learning For Everyone as an administrator. My daily responsibilities here are looking after the children and helping them develop life and creative skills, managing staff, and ensuring our staff and facility are in compliance with licensing requirements. My responsibilities for managing staff are creating their schedules, providing personalized feedback and trainings based on performance, monitoring lesson plans for quality, and interviewing and reviewing prospective candidates. I left this position to move to part-time positions in my final two years of college, then returned to full-time shortly after graduating.
Social Services Associate
Office of Children’s Services
11.2024 - 11.2025
- At the Office of Children’s Services my responsibilities were to facilitate family contact, take detailed notes on parent-child interactions, support families in developing parenting skills, transport children to family contact, and update the ORCA system with all relevant information. I regularly attended on-going trainings that improved my social services skills, ability to identify child abuse, and strategies to best support families.
Youth Volunteer Coordinator and Office Assistant
Anchorage Youth Court
08.2023 - 08.2024
- I worked at Anchorage Youth Court as a volunteer coordinator for our Youth members and as the office assistant. My responsibilities are as follows: Participate in outreach to local youth and coordinate events for our youth members to further our goal of restorative justice, schedule members for all of the upcoming court cases and prepare all of the attorney’s and judge’s files, keep our social media updated, make and distribute flyers/pamphlets throughout the community to promote our organization, make registration forms for our upcoming classes and communicate with all parents/youth who register, maintain accurate demographic information about all of our youth members in our online database, maintain records of all donations received and deposit all checks to our accounts, send out weekly emails to community members, mail out donation requests, organize all incoming mail, answer all phone and email inquiries and direct them to the appropriate staff member if needed.
Spanish Language Tutor
University of Alaska Anchorage
01.2024 - 11.2024
- I worked at the University of Alaska Anchorage as a Spanish Language Tutor. My duties were to assist and guide Spanish language students with any grammar or vocabulary they may be struggling with and provide constructive feedback.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Languages
University of Alaska Anchorage
05-2025
High School Diploma -
Alaska Middle College School
05-2022
Skills
- Organizational and time management
- Technical and social media management
- Billing insurance
- Proficiency in Microsoft office products
- Caring for and teaching children
- Advanced level of Spanish
- Barista certified
- Trained and certified in food handling
- Interviewing and administrative skills
- Lesson planning
- Conflict resolution
- Curriculum planning
- Classroom organization
- Behavioral modeling
Certification
Spanish Language and Legal Internship, Nations Law Group February 2025 - May 2025
I interned with Nations Law Group as a Spanish-language intern. My responsibilities were to routinely check client's case status, translate legal documents from English to Spanish, communicate with Spanish-speaking clients about needed documents, interpret the meaning of legal documents written in English to Spanish-speaking clients, research current legal immigration issues and topics (in Spanish), document interactions with clients, communicate progress and status with lawyers, and research viable ways of immigration for non-citizens.
Model UN, University of Alaska Anchorage 2020-2025
I participated in various Model UN conferences across the country by researching global and local issues for my assigned country and debating these issues with peers.
Tom Case Leadership Fellows Academy, University of Alaska Anchorage 2021-2022
I was a member of the Leadership Fellows Academy and through this, I was able to meet local leaders in the community and learn about leadership skills. We work on organizing events, practicing leadership, facilitating discussions, writing business plans, and more.
LANGUAGES
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Social Services Associate
Office of Children’s Services
11.2024 - 11.2025
Spanish Language Tutor
University of Alaska Anchorage
01.2024 - 11.2024
Youth Volunteer Coordinator and Office Assistant
Anchorage Youth Court
08.2023 - 08.2024
Early Childhood Educator and Admin
Early Learning For Everyone
06.2020 - Current
Bachelor of Arts - Languages
University of Alaska Anchorage
High School Diploma -
Alaska Middle College School
Extracurriculars
Spanish Language and Legal Internship, Nations Law Group
February 2025 - May 2025
I interned with Nations Law Group as a Spanish-language intern. My responsibilities were to routinely check client's case status, translate legal documents from English to Spanish, communicate with Spanish-speaking clients about needed documents, interpret the meaning of legal documents written in English to Spanish-speaking clients, research current legal immigration issues and topics (in Spanish), document interactions with clients, communicate progress and status with lawyers, and research viable ways of immigration for non-citizens.
I participated in various Model UN conferences throughout the country, representing various countries in order to debate diverse global issues.
I was a member of the Leadership Fellows Academy and through this, I was able to meet local leaders in the community and learn about leadership skills. We worked on organizing events, practicing leadership, facilitating discussions, writing business plans, and more.
Student advisory board was my school’s form of student government. To participate in this, I went to the student advisory board meetings, took notes, reported to my advisory, presented votes on issues, drafted solutions for issues, etc.