Leslie Mejia

Document Runner Team: Collaborated with various DHS teams to provide in person support to clients, ensuing documents handling with utmost care for those lacking resources to complete or submit paperwork.

Trainer Assistant: Conduct classroom and on-the job training for employees, developed training curriculum and materials, and evaluated program effectiveness.

• Review and collect information needed to validate pickup or drop off document(s)
  needed to apply or maintain State and or Federal benefits and or County services
  administered by DDHS.
• Provides direct services by dropping off or picking up documents at family’s
  residence (Applications, Child Support Forms, Verification)
• Maintaining and tracking test results
• Maintaining incoming training requisitions for training team
• Being proficient and comfortable completing multiple office type duties

Scholars Unlimited: Nonprofit providing K -5th after school and summer programs focused on literacy, social-emotional learning, and enrichment.

• Oversee operations, and ensure program quality at three to six of Scholars Unlimited site-based comprehensive out-of-school-time programs at assigned public elementary schools
• Be on-site every day during after-school programming (typically 2 - 6 pm)
• Repeatedly requested as substitute teacher by teachers based on excellent past referrals and trusted performance.
• Gathered, reviewed and input attendance reports each day using Procare software.
• Regular assessments: Conducting regular assessments to measure a child's progress in literacy is crucial.
• Observed staff to verify compliance with educational, safety and interpersonal guidelines.
• Developed, coordinated and administered After School programs.
• Main support in organization and distribution of program supplies
• Reduced costs and improved operational performance without sacrificing quality by developing and implementing diverse approaches.
• Developed and deepened productive community relationships to assist with defining requirements, executing plans and strengthening leadership.
• Incorporated understanding of multiple learning modalities and leveraged assessments to develop personalized enrichment curricula.

Young American: nonprofit offering school year and summer financial literacy programs for 2nd- 7th grade students

• Led groups of children from 25-120 in lessons and exercises in financial literacy. This included classroom
  settings and education lab setting.
• Experienced data collector with a focus on kid's surveys in financial literacy.
• Coordination and delivery of certain aspect of entrepreneurship programming and events
• Taught personal finances, how flow of money goes, investing, budgeting, and savings.
• Maintain 8-hour supervision of groups of 80.
• Update databases of young entrepreneurs past and present for promotion of activities, application and classes
• Actively solicit, process, and manage variety of youth applications for programming and events such as YouthBiz Programming, YouthBiz Marketplace, On the Road,
• Assist with marketing of all programs by Young Americans to educator, parents, volunteers, and other individual
• Continue to foster and develop mentor relationships with young entrepreneurs to help in growing their business
• Trained new employees, onboarding, and interviews.

Journey Through Our Heritage (JTOH): A multicultural educational program by Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU), pairing college peers with middle and high school student for after-school studies in African, Native American, and Chicano cultures.

• Build strong relationships between M.S.U Denver’s J.T.O.H students and K-12 student state wide
• Educate and support youth through rigorous, interdisciplinary academic competition designed to challenge and inspire young minds
• Led and taught 3-25 high school students in cultural studies.
• Embrace and promote diversity by extending high school teachers’ ability to teach more culturally inclusive curriculum, facilitate infusion of cultural and historical contributions of Latina/o/x and other ethnicities
• Collected and analyzed data on correlation between free and reduced lunch programs and low-income students.
• Be on-site every day during after-school programming (typically 2 - 5pm)
• Providing avenues for success of all student in order to increase achievement by engaging in culturally relevant activities
• Engaging and collaborating with communities by building relationships with program administrators, community organizations, schools, and potential partners
• Leadership roles in local, regional, national, and international community-based organizations