Skills & Abilities

• Developing curriculum and teaching art to adolescent students, using inquiry-based pedagogies

• Fluency in Spanish and French

• Building relationships with students

• Extensive experience in teaching English as a second language

• MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point), Adobe Photoshop

• Technical skills in photography, drawing, painting, stencil-making, Photoshop, sculpture, ceramics, and performance art

• Teaching and writing art criticism and theory

Education & Training

Mills College Single Subject Credential in Art, certification 2018; Masters Candidate, expected graduation 2020

University of California Santa Cruz Bachelors of Studio Art, June 2011; Focus in photography, sculpture, conceptual art, and art criticism; Suma Cum Laude

EBC International TEFL/TESL Certification, Buenos Aires, June 2011; 160 hours of classroom training in pedagogy and curriculum design, 12 hours practicum

Higher Fire Ceramics Studio student and member, 2013-2015; 5-15 hours per week studio and class time

Teaching Experience

'17-'18:  Student Teacher of Visual Art at East Bay Arts in Hayward, CA; 20 hours/week planning and instructing 90 high school art students; co-created and co-taught Street Art unit with social justice focus; designed and taught sculpture unit, focus on collaboration and research

'15-'17: TEFL teacher in Warsaw, Poland; and Ukraine; Traveled to students’ homes for private lessons, designed student and group-specific curriculum, and facilitated informal play sessions with kids ages one to twelve, using naturalization teaching techniques

'13-'14: Traveling Docent with San Jose Museum of Art; Training in Visual Thinking Strategy for Lets Look At Art (K-8) and Art In The Dark (8-12) programs; Fifty classroom hours annually fostering conversations about art among students ages 5 to 17; Specialization in bilingual Spanish-English classrooms, facilitating bilingual conversations about artwork

'11-'12: Traveling TEFL teacher in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with Anglo School, American Forum, and English for Business; created custom multimedia English courses (beginner to advanced)

'08: Teaching Assistant for Public Art II at UC Santa Cruz; Created art history lesson plans; managed 30 art students working on a monument made of recycled bicycle parts; assisted professor with evaluations and class management

'07-'08:  Writing tutor at University of California Santa Cruz; Tutored below-standard first-year college students in essay writing

Spanish language, Reading, Gardening, Innovative Pedagogies, Dance, Swimming, Fashion, Travel, Psychology, Learning new art forms, Dogs, Spending time with family