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Food Science, Athletics, Product Development, Fundraising

Owner at The Black Leaf Tea & Culture Shop

• Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• Duration: 2019-04 to Present
• Description: Develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with diverse community stakeholders and partner businesses. Created the Young Black Professionals Mixer Series in response to a lack of diversity and network opportunities in the Greater Providence Metro area. Responsible for all coordination, and hosted each event monthly and implemented marketing plans to foster an environment for networking. Curated a discussion series called Tea Talk as a platform for the individuals to virtually discuss cultural and community topics openly. These topics have included Being Black in Academia, The Importance of Therapy and Breaking Down Traumas, and Racism in the Hospitality Industry. Participated in community panel discussions such as The Importance of Diversity in Commerce with Venture Cafe Providence, the Secretary of State’s Hobby to Business Summit, and presented to the EduLeaders of Color. Strategically plan, develop and implement all marketing campaigns, seasonal drives, virtual tea tastings for corporate organizations, as well as formulate and develop each loose leaf tea product. Organize bookkeeping of purchases and revenue. Conduct financial forecasting and projections.

Program Director of Market Mobile at Farm Fresh Rhode Island

• Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• Duration: 2022-07 to 2023-12
• Description:

COVID-19 Task Force, Student Follow Up Team Manager / Travel Manager & Financial Coordinator at Brown University

• Location: Providence, Rhode Island
• Duration: 2017-11 to 2021-12
• Description: COVID-19 Task Force, Student Follow Up Team Manager : Lead and supervise a team of 17 individuals to communicate with non-compliant students to ensure they complete their daily symptoms tracker and regular testing to ensure the safety of the campus and the surrounding community. Developed a communication system for mass dissemination to stakeholders and the student population. Present any recurring student trends and status changes daily to the Vice President of Student Life, Dean of Students, and the Department of Student Conduct and Community Standards of any recurring student trends and status changes. Use Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and Google Drive to create databases and analyze and record daily behavioral trends and activities for prevention purposes. This data is shared throughout the task force, and with campus and community stakeholders. Collaborate with Computing & Information Services to train the Student Follow Up Team on using private emails, health domain, and mass communication platforms. Travel Manager & Financial Manager: Oversees a portfolio of 38 programmatic budgets and logistics totaling $1.4 million. Cultivate, develop and maintain all relationships with partner companies and supplies. Developed and implemented a system of data collection daily in a timely and efficient manner. Communicates with the Senior Athletic Director of Finance weekly to discuss updates of logistics and budget. Maintain team travel spreadsheet throughout all sports seasons. Maintains weekly travel spreadsheets and shares with supervising staff weekly. Coordinate and maintain all division schedules and requests for services. Resolve invoices and create team expense reports and travel estimate spreadsheets for coaches and supervising staff.

Assistant Track and Field Coach at Homewood-Flossmoor High School

• Location:
• Duration: 2016-09 to 2017-11
• Description:

Assistant Operations Manager at XSport Fitness

• Location: Greater Chicago Area
• Duration: 2016-04 to 2016-09
• Description: I was responsible for the sales, logistics, and maintenance of the gym.