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SCARSDALE VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Fox Meadow Elementary School 2015 – Present

Co-Chair of the Multicultural Committee

  • Together with co-chairs and with input from the principal, we organize multiple annual events for parents, teachers, and students. My main contribution to the group has been to help move the annual Multicultural Fair from an afterschool event to a school day event integrated into the school curriculum in order to expose all students to the rich diversity of ethnic and national backgrounds at Fox Meadow. Have led the committee to now expand countries represented at the Fair to over 20 countries. I actively recruit parents from different countries to vary the countries that participate every year. In the last five years we have included countries such as Albania, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey, and Ukraine to the group of more typically represented countries like Brazil, China, Japan, Korea, and India.
  • Represent Mexico at the annual Multicultural Fair
  • Meet multiple times with school principal and teachers to discuss how to integrate topics of multicultural inclusion into the curriculum
  • Help create posters of different countries and holidays to decorate school walls

Other Fox Meadow School Activities

Periodically read in my children’s classes and help with field trips, participated in Abilities Awareness Presentation to first graders, presented in Spanish to a second-grade class during Spanish class about Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebration, delivered a presentation about Russia to my son’s third grade class, and helped with several Makerspace session

Young Writers Workshop Fall 2017 and 2019

  • Led workshop in the Scarsdale Middle School for Scarsdale 3-5th graders which I designed, “What are the World’s Biggest Problems?”
  • Helped facilitate amongst students to help them come up with what they thought were the biggest problems and potential solutions and assisted them in structuring an introductory paragraph

Scarsdale Cub Scout Pack 440 2017 to present

Assistant

  • Assist with setting-up and cleaning up after events.
  • Help once a month in writing social media posts to invite Scarsdale residents to cub scout events.
  • Take pictures at events

Old Scarsdale Neighborhood Association 2016 – present

Secretary and Communications

  • Write newsletters and distribute to residents to keep them informed about school and Village meetings and events
  • Organize events of interest to the residents
    • Library renovation meeting with president of the library and library board (2016)
    • Safety meeting with Scarsdale Chief of Police (2017)
  • Created database to assemble emails of residents in the OSNA neighborhood association

Scarsdale Forum (100-year old Scarsdale only civic organization) 2015 – 2018

Member of the Education Committee 2015 – Present

Co-Chair of the Education Committee, 2 terms May 2016 – 2018

The Education Committee is the largest of the Forum’s fourteen committees.  Members are from all five Scarsdale neighborhoods, ranging in age from 30s to 80s, represent different local and national political parties and come from a variety of civic and professional backgrounds.

  • Lead or Co-Lead researcher and writer for reports on:
  • Lead Survey Designer and Analyst
    • Worked with Education Committee to create, distribute, analyze, and report upon a school topics survey on residents’ educational priorities for Scarsdale schools
    • Led design of community educational priorities survey for Live Poll Event at Village Hall and wrote report analyzing results
  • Organize Events
    • Together with members of the Education Committee, we organized
      • A live poll event held at Village Hall at which Scarsdale residents at Village Hall or remotely answered questions and discussed what educational, fiscal, and facilities objectives we have for our schools, September 2017
      • A school bond presentation open to all Scarsdale residents at which the School Administration and School Board presented and answered a wide array of questions from residents who had different views about the bond
  • Spokesperson for the Education Committee
      • Spoke regularly at Board of Education and Board of Trustees meetings to inform the community and board members about our committee’s research and writing

Forum Board of Directors, 2 terms 2016-2018

  • Discuss, opine and vote on reports produced by all committees of the Forum
  • Generate ideas on community events of interest to Scarsdale residents

Executive Committee 2016-2017

  • Collaborated with this committee to provide advice and support for the Forum president in her decisions about events and Forum reports
  • Read every Forum report and voted on whether a report met established Forum research standards

Forum Nominating Committee 2016-2017

Worked on choosing Vice President and Board Directors for 2017-2018

Active Member of Communication, Membership, Municipal Services, 2017 – 2018

Downtown Revitalization, and Assessment Committees

  • Co-led design, distribution, and analysis of Traffic Study to identify challenges in walking, driving, and cycling in Scarsdale; co-wrote report about the results of 706 respondents
  • Co-led design, distribution, and analysis of Downtown Revitalization Survey to determine how to stem retail in Scarsdale; the survey garnered over 1,000 responses and with my husband, we recently submitted eighty pages of analysis so that this committee is presently writing a report
  • Contributed numerous edits to proposed assessment report presently being rewritten in the Assessment Committee, especially in the areas of valuation, model governance, controls, and validation
  • Worked with Forum Vice President in drafting and editing press releases; actively work on local social media to promote all Forum reports and events
  • Assisted Membership Committee two years in a row to recruit new members to the Forum at Sports Jamboree and at annual Halloween Parade

Member of County Fiscal Affairs, Scarsdale Fiscal Affairs, and 2017 – 2018

Scarsdale Election Procedures Committee

  • Assisted in editing reports

Scarsdale Non-Partisan Procedure Committee 2018-2019

  • Appointed by former Scarsdale Forum President to be in this group. I contributed suggestions on how to improve the non-partisan resolution for how trustees and mayors are chosen. My suggestion that the Scarsdale Forum should be separate from the Citizens Nominating Committee was accepted and passed a vote recently. As of next year, the CNC will run like the SBNC.

Voters Choice Party Spring 2017 and 2020

Campaign Chair

  • Designed and helped implement community outreach plan throughout Scarsdale
  • Organized ‘Meet the Candidates’ events

Alcott Montessori 2012 – 2015

Read to pre-school classes in English and Spanish

ALUMNI VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Harvard Alumni Association 2013 -Present

  • Interview applicants to Harvard College who live in Edgemont, Yonkers, Bronxville, Eastchester, Hartsdale, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and New Rochelle

Westchester Harvard-Radcliffe Club 2015 – Present

  • Motivational speaker annually in April in Harvard-Yonkers Early College Awareness program to encourage eighth graders to start thinking about how to prepare for college attendance while they are in high school.
  • Work with student panels to facilitate discussions about what students need to prepare for college

Harvard College Reunion Committee 2018

  • Together with two other alumni, we organized panels on career transitions, media in the age of ‘fake news,’ volunteerism and civic activism, and personal stories from alumni in ‘Glimpses’ panel for 600 alumni who attended the reunion

The Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania 2013-2014

Board member responsible for organizing educational, social, and networking events for alumni of this MBA/MA Wharton program

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