About

CAREER SUMMARY

• Contract Consultant
• Online Career Coach – CollegeRecruiter.com
• Columnist – Career and Recruiting, Suite101.com
• Recruiting Researcher; Operations Manager – Contreras-Sweet Company
• Freelance Journalist/Reporter/Writer
• Conciliation Forums of Oakland – Mediator, Intake Analyst, Process Coach
• Project Read – Literacy Tutor
• City/County of San Francisco Attorney – Subrogation Division Legal Intern
• Broadcast Services for the Blind, Resnick Lighthouse for the Blind – News Reader;
•    Producer/Host of “Legally Speaking”
• Disability Accommodations Provider
• Hills Newspaper – Freelance Journalist; Legal Filings Clerk
• Huss, Acker & Bailey – Paralegal
• AQMD – Hearing Board Hearing Scribe
• Jones Day – Transactional, Complex Litigation Paralegal
• Pacht Ross
• Kadison Pfaelzer
• Cotkin Collins
• Gibson Dunn

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• Conciliation Forums of Oakland – Mediator, Intake Analyst, Process Coach
• Project Read – Literacy Tutor
• University of San Francisco School of Law – Law Student
• B.S. Business Administration – Pre-law, Finance
• ABA Paralegal Certificate – General/Corporate Law
• ABA Paralegal Certificate – Litigation

SPECIALTIES

• Ethics
• Communication
• Abuse / Harassment
• Diversity
• Advancing women into management
• Disability accommodations

ORGANIZATIONS

• Advisory Board – CSULA Paralegal Program
• Legal Domestic Violence Advocate – Los Angeles Commission Against Assaults on Women
• Domestic Violence Advocate – Center for Pacific Asian Families
• Editorial Advisory Board – SmartPros
• Los Angeles County Commission on Women – Education and Domestic Violence Committees
• Member at Large – Bay Area Disabilities Coalition
• Board of Directors – Legal Services for Children
• Executive Board – NAACP
• Board of Directors – South Pasadena Chamber of Commerce:
  Publicity Chair
  Bylaws Revision Committee Chair

• Publicity Chair – Business & Professional Women’s Organization
• Recording Secretary – Beverly Hills Legal Secretary’s Association

BLOGS AND WEBSITES

• Career and Executive Recruiting Advice
• The Desk
• Consultant’s Desk
• The Pundit
• Looking at the Issues
• Health in the 21^st Century
• HR.com
• Clio’s Children
• Yahoo! Voices

• Entrances (employment 360 review discussions and networking group)
• Entrances Bulletins
• Ethics in Recruiting

AVAILABILITY

• Workshops
• Trainings
• Inspirational and motivational speeches
• Editorial services
• Consulting on organizational and systems issues