Housing Coordinator

WORK EXPERIENCE

Housing Coordinator: Project Rebound CSUF Oct 2022- Present
- As part of one of CSUF's Project Rebound's transformative initiatives, I will be leading the Housing Coordinator position and contributing to supporting the successful reintegration of systems impacted students in Higher Education.

Professional Expert: Fullerton College Nov 21- Oct 22
- As part of the DSS department, facilitate a space on campus where we serve students who are on the autism spectrum.

VOLUNTEER WORK

 Sept 2020 ***
Cloth Drive: Collected cloth for the less fortunate and distributed them to shelters in the city of Santa Ana, California.

Oct 2019 ***
Advocacy: Promoted California Assembly Bill 1460 with assembly member Shirley Weber

Aug 2019 ***
Inner Club Council Representative for Rebound Scholar.  Attend weekly meetings. Represent the most visible and accessible avenue to student involvement.

July 2019 ***
Project Rebound: Project Rebound Outreach Team hosted a seminar on how to better serve the reentry community. Los Angeles City Library, Los Angeles CA.

July 2019 ***
Alianza ChicanX Graduate School Panel Conversations about strategies and first-hand experiences from graduate students. Preparing and creating a community with students who want to seek higher education.

May 2019 ***
Alianza ChicanX University Transfer Workshop Preparing community college transfer ready students to have successful transition into a four-year university.

April 2019 ***
Orange County Re-Entry Partnership Gathering of reentry agencies of Orange County. Anaheim, CA.

February 2019 ***
Youth helpline: Leadership and advocacy development workshop with at risk youth. Wittier, CA.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

“ Retired Industry Leaders Mentor Project Rebound Students. ” Titan Magazine of Cal State Fullerton. May 2020.

Titan Magazine features Project Rebound's mentorship program, created in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Project Rebound students like Ginny Oshiro and Sergio Torres receive mentorship from retired industry leaders and in turn provide mentors with meaning, purpose, perspective, and inspiration.

“Boundless Opportunity: Project Rebound Opens Doors for the Formerly Incarcerated.” Titan Magazine of Cal State Fullerton. May 2020.

Titan Magazine highlights my residence at CSUF Project Rebound's John Irwin House, the first transformative housing community for formerly incarcerated university students in the nation.

“Students Demand Ethnic Studies Requirement.” Daily Titan. November 2019.

The Daily Titan covered students support of California Assembly Bill 1460. I was features on the front page.

“Amid Challenges CSUF’s Project Rebound Keeps Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Students.” Orange County Register. September 2019.

The Orange County Register highlights how Project Rebound is overcoming the challenges of the global pandemic to continue and enhance its support of formerly incarcerated students and their families through the Project Rebound Food Justice Initiative, providing students with a community garden, horticultural training, a culinary curriculum, and food pantry.

“CSUF’s Project Rebound Helps Formerly Incarcerated Students Reinvent their Lives.” Daily Titan. Jan 2019.

Inspiring students and their stories. "Project Rebound is set up to help students break through the barriers of employment and housing.

GUEST LECTURES & KEYNOTE SPEAKER

“Becoming a Student Leader as a First Generation LatinX Student.” Latinx First Generation Student Panel. College of Humanities and Social Sciences, CSU Fullerton. October 2020.

 “Leveraging the University to Construct Reentry Ecosystems that Dismantle Systems of Oppression.” Keynote panel. Ninth Annual National Conference on Higher Education in Prisons. St. Louis, Missouri. November 2019.

“The Importance of Culture and Higher Education.” Alianza Chicanx High School Outreach. Valley High School, Santa Ana, CA. October 2019

“Introduction to Critical Race Theory.” Alianza ChicanX High School Outreach. Valley High School, Santa Ana, CA. September 2019.