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PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE (Text, Voice)EMAIL AVAILABLEAn experienced, detail-oriented process facilitator, catalyst, developer, administrator & organizer with strong holistic, cross-discipline & intersectional capabilities. A well-organized individual who utilizes a full palette of skills including excellent creative, analytic, database, internet, social media, communications & media experience to collaborate with individuals, groups, nonprofits, associations, institutions, businesses, governments & communities.Focused on inclusion, equity, multiculturalism, diversity, education, healthcare, empowerment & social action to create & sustain change that improves the economy & quality of life, produces local jobs & revitalizes all neighborhoods & communities through mutually organized, participatory, grassroots, democratic & cooperative social media & economic development within local, cooperative, green & other local investment & tax zones.WORK EXPERIENCESee COMMUNITY SERVICE, ADVOCACY, NETWORKING & VOLUNTEER WORK belowCompleted Continuing Education Classes for Michigan Social Work License Dec 2022-Nov 2023Washtenaw County Health Department Covid-19 Clinics, Ypsilanti & Chelsea, MI Feb 2021-Sep 2021Community Health Worker & Assistant Logistics CoordinatorLaid Off During Covid-19 Pandemic (company went out of business) Mar 2020-Feb 2021Returned to USA for Employment OpportunitiesComunidades Para Todxs, San Juan, PR 2014-2020Grassroots Organizer & Facilitator to Improve Quality of Life after Hurricanes Irma & MaraModa de Poda/Tree Care Corp., San Juan, PR 1995-2000Nonprofit Organizer, President & Federal Environmental Grants CoordinatorLatin Media House LLC (formerly Casiano Communications Inc.), San Juan Oct 1992-Sep 2020Caribbean Business newspaper, CaribbeanBusiness.PR & PuertoRicoWOW.comResearch & Database Center Director, Copy Editor, Assistant Internet Editor & Staff SupervisorSpectrum Center SOGIE Services, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI Dec 1990-Jul 1992Counseling & Advocacy for Faculty, Staff, Students & CommunityOffice Assistant II, Hotline, Calendar, Community Resource Center & Educational OutreachAttended Graduate School of Social Work, U-M Ann Arbor Sep 1989-Dec 1990Statistical Research Group, U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Ann Arbor Jul 1985-Sep 1989Nationwide Research on Fatal Accidents Involving Large TrucksResearch Associate II, Data Editor, Staff Supervisor & ResearcherAlternative Lifestyles, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, MI Sep 1982-Jul 1985Social Support Group for LGBTQIA+ Students & Community MembersOrganizer, Group Facilitator, Networking & OutreachEDUCATIONMaster of Social Work (MSW, LLMSW): Community Organization, Interpersonal Practice & School Social WorkGraduate School of Social Work, University of Michigan-Ann ArborGraduate-Course Organizer/ Teacher: Multicultural Dialogue Groups Placements: Countywide Organizing Project on Women, Alcohol & Other Drugs; Domestic Violence Project, SafeHouse; and Pioneer & Community high schoolsBachelor of Arts (BA): Double Major in Social Sciences & Psychology; Minor in Gender StudiesResidential College of the Literature, Science & the Arts College, U-M Ann ArborPlacements/ Course Examples: Feminist Law; Planned Social Change; Small-Group Processes, French & SpanishTechnology: Microsoft Windows operating system, Office 365, Access & Navicat databases, basic HTML tags, Adobe Acrobat, social media, basic MS Teams & ZoomMEMBERSHIPS & LICENSESPermanent restricted radiotelephone operator permit, US Federal Communications CommissionMichigan LLMSW License #6851117739Permanent Puerto Rico Social Worker, PR Board of Examiners, License #4549Member of the Colegio de Profesionales del Trabajo Social de Puerto RicoPast member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW)Past member of Sierra Club Puerto RicoKEYWORD SUMMARY: COMMUNITY SERVICE, ADVOCACY & VOLUNTEER WORKCommunity organizing, advocacy, social change, human rights, discrimination & equityVolunteering, nonprofits, foundations & neighborhood associationsArchitectural access, retrofits, housing coops; infrastructure & renewable energyEnvironment, gardens, trees, land trusts, urban forestry & green zonesSelf-help, prevention, physical & mental health insurance; social services, detox aftercare & work therapyPolice, courts, prisons, trafficking, hate crimes; antiviolence; domestic violence & trauma survivorsLegislative, participatory democracy & empowermentMulticulturalism, inclusion, intersectional; women &/or marginalized communities; identity theftEducation, tutoring, academia & public schoolsResearch & grant writing; knowledge & data sharing; directories; quality-of-life & social-progress indicesCultural workers, mob actions; communications, media, internet access; sign language & multilingualSpiritual retreats, rituals & celebrationsBiking, rideshares, public transportation & trains; two-way electric-charging stationsFood, housing & finance coops; small business; economic democracy, sliding scale & barteringJobs, HR, management; wages, benefits, equity; corporate social responsibility; undocumented workersCOMMUNITY SERVICE, ADVOCACY, NETWORKING & VOLUNTEER WORKComunidades Para Todxs (Comunidades Figueroa, Santurce, PR); community and quality-of-life improvement efforts; neighborhood organizingFoundation for Puerto Rico, Somos/ Imagine Santurce; Map/ Parking Committees; bike lanes, municipal train & green cars; community gardens; cultural & community organizingCentro Para Puerto Rico and La Fundacin Sila M. Caldern; comunidades, business & real-estate development; women, poor people & familiesEl Departamento de la Comida; community gardens; Green Zones; recycling, trash dumpsters & composting; Coalicin Restauracin Ecosistemas Santurcinos; environmental work & street clean-ups; nature preserves; Pet/ Dog Zones; animal rescue, sterilization & vaccinesPaz Para Todxs; Casa Protegida Julia de Burgos/ Proyecto Matria womens shelter; domestic violence, hate crimes & bullyingRejuvenation Station; community services & kiosk centerTechos, Refugios y Hogares Para Todxs; abandoned properties; architects, Realtors & construction contractors; Reality Realty; Fondita de Jess homeless peoples shelterSalud Para Todxs; Iniciativa Comunitaria de Investigacin Inc. (ICI); substance users, harm reduction & clean needles; legalization, decriminalization; drug treatment & community-work programs; Centros de Diagnostico y Tratamiento (CDTs) & public-health work; HIV/ AIDS, STDs, hepatitis; alcohol, tobacco & other drogas; prevention & vaccines; sex workersInfrastructura/ Aceras Para Todxs; sidewalks, drinking water, storm sewers; LED lighting, renewable-energy retrofits, solar panels & turbines; electric grid; underground cablingArte Para Todxs; artist co-ops, cultural workers; transform urban blight & graffitiEntretenimiento Para Todxs; inclusive community entertainment centers & nightlife; Zonas Libres: Adult Entertainment & Recreational Drug Zones; sex work & strip clubs; drug dispensaries, bars & coffeehousesTrabajos & Negocios Para Todxs; sustainable community, volunteer, municipal & paid jobs; inclusive merchants; small & midsize enterprises (SMEs); women, LGBTQIA+, Dominicans & other minority-owned business networks; B Corporations & corporate social responsibilityInversiones Para Todxs Investors Network; Acts 20/22 (60, tax-free) investors; community-controlled investments & trust fundsInternet/ Smartphones Para Todxs; broadband access, wifi hot zones, directories & maps; Santurce Online; ptico Fiber by Critical Hub NetworksGobierno por Todxs; grassroots political representation; block, barrio & municipal district councilsModa de Poda tree-pruning program to involve community & maintain trees on public land. Won prize for Caribbean region; worked with International Arborists AssociationJustice/ Family departments consultation for transgender youth kicked out of school & arrested for sex work (used to pay for her hormone treatment & gender-affirming surgery)Networked with COPS (Community-Oriented Policing Services), Comunidades al Da & Special Communities programs; participated in various neighborhood-organizing efforts to address street crime, vehicle robberies, homelessness, sex work, hate crimes, etc.Cared for kittens, puppies through animal-rescue & -adoption program Amigos de los AnimalesOrganized LGBTQIA+ social-workers network in Colegio de Profesionales del Trabajo Social de PR (CPTSPR)Advocated for community job-training programs (tree pruning, recycling & neighborhood clean-ups) to empower & put people to work who use drugs &/or are homeless; encouraged programming for drug treatment & prevention with Administracin de Servicios de Salud Mental y Contra la Adiccin (Assmca) and Iniciativa ComunitariaProvided support & advocacy for transgender woman who attempted suicide & was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, but left treatment when told she had to wear mens clothing. Attended workshop on drug-overdose interventionAdvocate for program to link substance users with job training & health improvement, as well as support from community foundations (Fondos Unidos)Evaluated PR Education Departments sex abstinence program relevant to gender, race/ ethnicity, socioeconomic class & sexual orientation; inclusion advocate on issues related to rape, sexual abuse & incest; use of contraceptives & condoms to prevent pregnancy & transmission of STDs; & effects of abstinence programs on LGBTQIA+ people, whose marriages werent legally recognizedAdvocated for Social Support Groups & Educational Speakers Forum for out LGBTQIA+ students, faculty & staff at Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR); attended International Community Psychology Conference (UPR-Ro Piedras) and workshops for LGBTQIA+ people (UPR-Mayagez) & employee health benefits; supported efforts to teach LGBTQIA+ issues at UPR Law SchoolAdvocate for inclusion of LGBTQIA+ survivors in PR Domestic Violence Act 54, as well as creation of programs to assist hate-crime victims & survivors through local police, justice & health-insurance programs (Triple-S Inc.). Encouraged referrals to service providers who are women, openly LGBTQIA+ &/or from other marginalized communities with experience with social & institutional discrimination, domestic violence as well as the Justice Departments Victims of Crime & local health-insurance programsAdvocate for inclusion of data on healthcare providers backgrounds, specializations & population experiences via online health-insurance directories so survivors of violence, including LGBTQIA+, Dominican, Women &/or People Living with HIV/ AIDS (PLWA) can locate culturally & medically supportive services; reached out to federal AIDS program coordinator to encourage culturally relevant healthcare services, especially for Women, Minorities of Color, LGBTQIA+ folks &/or PLWAAttended classes through the Traumatology Institute for first responders & folxs collaborating with survivors of trauma & other forms of violence; attended workshops on domestic violence at IGEA (Instituto del Gnero y la Educacin de Avanzada/ Proyecto Matria) and human trafficking, institutional discrimination & bullyingNetworked with various communities of faith, including Cristo Sanador, an open door LGBTQIA+ church, & other groups (Fundacin Derechos Humanos; PR Justice Department; Comit Dominicano de los Derechos Humanos; Comisin de Derechos Civiles; Transexuales y Transgeneros en Marcha; La Alianza Ciudadana en Pro de la Salud Lesbiana, Gay, Bisexual, Transgnero, Transexual, Queer y sus Aliados [ACPS-LGBTQA]; Human Rights Watch; & Amnista Internacional) to respond to police violence against LGBTQIA+ folxs, the Dominican community, homeless people, drug addicts & youthNetworked with Saliendo del Closet community-radio program, Conexin G newspaper & workshops at Teatro Coribantes Festival del Tercer Amor to encourage inclusion, equity, community-building, multiculturalism & social change within the LGBTQIA+ communitiesAttended various congresses & workshops to network & advocate with folks working to counter all discrimination: racism, sexism, heterosexism, cissexism, binarism, ageism, classism & ableism within LGBTQIA+ and Other intersecting communitiesParticipant with Iniciativa Comunitaria, Ach (H)/ Coa (gay & bi men) & Tanam (transpeople) social support groups for HIV/ AIDS prevention & treatment ; encouraged workshops on heterosexism, cissexism, sexism, racism, classism, ageism & ableismEncouraged creation of LGBTQIA+ support group for Quisqueyanxs/ Dominicanxs in Puerto Rico through Partido de la Liberacin Dominicana as well as the San Juan mayors officeAdvocate for creation of social groups for rural &/or senior LGBTQIA+ folxs; searched for support services through AARP, homecare services & gerontology departments so individuals could receive care assistance & to promote diversity, inclusion & consciousness of all LGBTQIA+, senior, &/or Other people living in rural areasEncouraged Asociacin Mdica de Puerto Rico (AMPR) to openly support its LGBTQIA+ members & patientsAdvocate for prevention of hate crimes (Pink/ Grey Panthers); barrier-free access & other programs for social inclusion & justice for walkers, people of all abilities, homeless people, drug addicts, sex workers, senior residents, children, families & street workers (kiosk & newspaper stands); & sliding-scale fees for all activities & public programs; encouraged resident participation in Cantera Peninsula community & barrier-free, human-scale designs for San Juans sidewalks, bike lanes & roadwaysFacilitator & co-coordinator of University of Michigan School of Social Work Dialogue Groups (courses on diversity communities); co-organizer of Student Orientation Program on Multiculturalism & Diversity for incoming U-M Social Work StudentsSocial Work Intern with Coordinating Project on Women, Alcohol & Other Drugs (services in Washtenaw County [MI] for women who are substance users &/or survivors of assault, abuse &/or other forms of violence); and Ann Arbor Public Schools Pioneer and Community high schools (addiction/ prevention programs for alcohol, tobacco & other drugs)Attended courses in American Sign Language ; participant in Take Back the Night Mens Rally (rape prevention & antiviolence group) & Ann Arbors Antiviolence & Discrimination Task Force (a coalition of LGBTQIA+, Faerie, African-American, women & survivors of domestic violence); co-organizer of support group for male survivors of violence (sexual assault, harassment & abuse); Diversity educator for U-M Lesbian/ Gay Male Programs Office (LGMPO, now Spectrum Center) & Minority Affairs Office (now Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs [MESA])Networked with various HIV/ AIDS organizations, including ACT UP A2 (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Ann Arbor)Organizer, engineer & host of Closets R 4 Clothes Community-Affairs Radio Program for LGBTQIA+ & Other Sexual Minorities on WCBN-FM 88.3 Ann Arbor; helped establish & engineered Stares & Stairs Community-Affairs Radio Program for People of All Abilities on WCBN-FM; & LGBTQIA+ Hotline worker for LGMPOOrganizer & participant with Men Against Rape Culture (MARC); helped establish First Annual Mens Rally during Womens Take Back the Night March and educational workshops on mens issues at U-M; received training for Wellness Network HIV Hotline; regularly attended City of Ann Arbors Human Rights Commission meetingsCounselor, crisis-hotline worker, shift coordinator & member of independent-living program, community outreach, social services & personnel collectives at Ozone House youth shelter; hosted Male-Adjustments Community-Affairs Radio Program for men against sexism on WCBN-FMCo-created Lavender House residence cooperative & neighborhood gardenCandidate for Rochester Hills (MI) City Council; taught Peace & Conflict Resolution skills at church summer youth peace camp; lobbied & recruited for Michigan Organization for Human Rights (MOHR), a statewide LGBTQIA+ civil rights organizationOrganized & facilitated Alternative Lifestyles personal & social support group for college students & community members working on LGBTQIA+ identity issues at Oakland University (Rochester Hills, MI); networked with HAVEN (Help Against Violent Encounters) domestic-violence shelter, North Oakland County (MI) Chapter of National Organization for Women, Senior Residents organizations & other groups; participant in university Coffee House poetry seriesCandidate for Rochester (MI) Community Schools Board of Education; co-organized cooperatively run newspaper Perceiver at Auburn Hills (MI) Campus of Oakland Community College; taught radio at Auburn Hills High School on WAHS-FM 89.5 |
