May 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 11 mos

• I teach UX Designers with 5+ years of experience how to land $200K+ UX jobs through my 16-Week UX Career Accelerator. I give them the system 500+ clients have used to land offers at Amazon, American Express, Fidelity Investments, Oracle, Zoom and venture-backed startups. Average salary increase $28K.

May 2020 – Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Living the best lives we possibly can is a tremendous gift and an opportunity. I care about working at an impact-driven organization, and at Springboard I get to do that.
• I help students ages 20-50+ land their dream roles, in which they get to be more creative, more autonomous, and earn salary increases of $20K - $70K, plus being on the path of further financial growth on their next roles.
• I do this through one-on-one coaching in which I understand a student's needs and craft a job search strategy that is tailored to them, and that helps them be successful one action step at a time. And through group coaching, through which I share career-defining insights that have helped me stand out from over 400 applicants and get roles without ever submitting an application.
• Springboard offers online, part-time tech bootcamps that get students job-ready in 6-9 months with a job guarantee.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr · St Louis, MO

• B2B Marketing Expert | Helping businesses generate consistent sales opportunities
• We help B2B companies get their message in front of thousands of targeted prospects, consistently and efficiently. We help our client’s position themselves as leading experts in their space, and increase their sales. We do this using a variety of online tools, including LinkedIn, Facebook, email, and webinars.
• At LinkedSelling we:
• Help companies design marketing campaigns that keep their brand and message in front of highly targeted prospects, on an extremely consistent basis.
• Cultivate and grow valuable, long-term databases of prospects.
• Build and execute customized drip marketing systems to maintain top-of-mind awareness with potential clients.
• Design, build and grow highly-targeted, branded online communities.
• Integration of online marketing efforts including content, email, web, etc.
• Teach business professionals how to leverage online tools, such as LinkedIn and Facebook, to establish authority, get in front of more prospects and increase sales.

Jun 2018 – Mar 2019 · 9 mos

• Started the Talent Placement department at this fast-growing startup (chosen by the IFC and the World Bank as one of the 50 startups changing Latin America).
• My biggest accomplishments: growing our hiring partner database 10X, and developing a job-readiness curriculum to help developers land their first job in tech.
• An immersive 5-month software engineering bootcamp that fosters social mobility through accessing high-demand jobs in tech sector for youth (serving young women & men returning voluntarily/involuntarily from US to Mexico).
• We are powered by Hack Reactor, the best coding bootcamp from the US. Their curriculum is successfully operating since 2012 in San Francisco, plus our people-centred approach & career-oriented programme, we support every step of the path so that our students access a decent job in tech. Tuition is based on success (job in tech/tech related).

Feb 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Selected among 400+ applicants, as Portfolio Manager, I was responsible for risk assessment and business development in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
• Kiva (www.kiva.org) is a mission driven technology company. We run a global marketplace platform for crowd-funded micro-loans to serve the financially excluded. Kiva combines the culture and approach of an internet start-up with a mission to alleviate poverty. We aim to drive social impact and enable opportunity while providing a borrower-to-lender connection: “Loans that change lives."​
• In just 10 years, Kiva has raised over $920 million in loan capital for more than 1.9 million borrowers in 84 countries. Kiva’s lenders fund over $10 million in loans every month. Kiva is poised to take its initial success to a whole new level - targeting $1 billion in loans by 2017 and continuing our expansion into new areas such as local lending in the US, student loans, water, clean energy. Headquartered in San Francisco, Kiva's team has 100+ employees and 450+ volunteers worldwide.

Jun 2015 – Mar 2016 · 9 mos

• The entrepreneurship academy for high school students who are passionate about startups & building the future.
• http://www.youngentrepreneursummit.com/

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos

• Wait what?! A school has an R&D Department!?! I don't even think Columbia University had one of those!
• Yes, they do, and it's leading the way in innovation in schools.
• Check out their book that helps schools start, grow, & sustain innovation for relevant learning: http://goo.gl/jWySqp
• Their blog is also pretty fantastic & a great insight into how schools can innovate day-to-day: http://blogs.asbindia.org/findings/
• ASB's Research & Development Department is an innovation think-tank and studio which studies, prototypes, researches, and scales new teaching and learning approaches, practices & systems for relevant learning in the 21st century.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs

• I built a socially conscious education business and ran it full-time for 3 years.
• As a trainer, I worked with over 1700 students and educators in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia on 21st century leadership skills, including public speaking, research, debate, and negotiation.
• My work promoting the the United Nations and human rights led me to be named a Human Rights Youth Advocate Awardee by the United Nations Foundation (2011). Two of my proudest Model UN moments include serving as the Secretary General of the largest middle school conference in the world held at UN Headquarters—the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA- USA) Middle School Conference (http://www.unausa.org/), and of Columbia University’s Collegiate Model UN Conference (http://www.cmunny.org/).
• www.projectmodelun.com

Jun 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Mahindra is one of India’s fastest-growing industrial houses ($16.2 billion group). As part of the Group Strategy Office, I worked on strategic brand-building initiatives so that the Mahindra Group could reach its aspiration of becoming one of the world’s 50 most admired brands.
• In this role, I managed an award winning, multi-million dollar, group-wide digital campaign for positioning the Mahindra brand--Spark the Rise (www.sparktherise.com): a platform to propel innovation, entrepreneurship and positive change in India. My main responsibly consisted of building strategic partnerships for the platform, including funding partners (VCs, angel investors, development agencies), knowledge partners, incubation partners, and media partners.Through this experience, I was able to engage with the social impact space through a corporate lens.
• Over a period of two years, we gave out nearly USD 1 million to 100 social entrepreneurs and innovators solving India’s most pressing problems: from a courier company in Mumbai that employs low-income deaf adults to an energy company that crushes pine needles to generate electricity that powers villages in Uttarakhand.

Jun 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr

• One of seven graduates of Ivy League universities selected annually for a two-year management trainee program with Mahindra & Mahindra under their Global Recruit Program.
• Core member of the Corporate Brand Council (CBC), which oversees, develops, and implements strategy for Mahindra's "Rise" rebranding campaign.
• Played a key strategic role in launching “Spark the Rise” (http://www.sparktherise.com), a Mahindra-backed online platform through which entrepreneurs around the world can collaborate, share ideas, and compete for grants.
• Co-manager and co-editor of the Mahindra Rise blog (http://rise.mahindra.com), a website dedicated to showcasing exceptional examples of social entrepreneurship around the world.

Oct 2010 – Jun 2011 · 8 mos

• As part of the inaugural class of Undergraduate Scholars (International Development and Globalization Track), I traveled to Kenya to conduct research that combines academic values with real-world priorities. I worked with the non-profit Maria’s Libraries, whose mission is to build a network of libraries in Kenya. To help with their goals, I authored 20pg. chapter “Civic participation, social capital & libraries” for the development of community libraries in rural Kenya. As part of this project, I co-developed & co-implemented focus group questionnaires about libraries in Kenya to a cross-section of Busia population.

Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 · 9 mos

• Directed strategy & execution of Columbia’s annual collegiate 400+ person Model United Nations Conference by leading a 10-person Secretariat and 30+ staff members.
• Designed & delivered training for 30+ staff members serving as Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson
• Reviewed applications for committees, and conducted staff interviews to ensure high quality debate
• Ran weekly hour-long staff meetings and delegate debriefings

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos · Singapore

• Co-authored a Social Enterprise Evaluation presentation with structural & operational recommendations in order to meet organization’s mission of empowering the elderly & financial sustainability
• Co-authored a Business Analysis presentation, which included market research analysis for current products & new product recommendations; both presentations were given & distributed to the enterprise’s General Management Team

Mar 2010 – Apr 2010 · 1 mo · New York City

• Supervised & recruited 50+ staff members for UNA-USA’s flagship middle school conference—the largest middle school Model UN conference in the world at UN Headquarters NY with 2,500 participants
• Trained 50+ staff members on Rules of Procedure & how to run an effective committee

Feb 2010 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York City

• Supervised & recruited 50+ staff members for UNA-USA’s flagship middle school conference—the largest middle school Model UN conference in the world at UN Headquarters NY with 2,500 participants
• Trained 50+ staff members on Rules of Procedure & how to run an effective committee

Jan 2010 – Apr 2010 · 3 mos · New York City

• Published 20 pg. report on political persecution in Venezuela available on www.thehrf.org & researched news reports of civil & political rights violations in Latin America.

Jun 2009 – Jul 2009 · 1 mo · New York City

• Helped 12 students reach their academic learning goals by assistant teaching “The Media and Politics Class”. Created a sense of community among students by developing & executing social programming in New York City.

Aug 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr

• With the goal of continuing to explore social entrepreneurship in Latin America, I served as a communications intern for Community Enterprise Solutions, where I researched & translated income-generation projects to be used in microfinance trainings for local entrepreneurs. Additionally, I edited, proofread & formatted a business report for a local wildlife-tours company.

Jul 2008 – Aug 2008 · 1 mo

• With the goal of exploring social entrepreneurship in Latin America, I served as an intern and field officer for Social Entrepreneur Corps. There, I generated a report to improve the efficiency of sales & education campaigns in rural communities in Guatemala to provide critical health products such as water filters and reading glasses.