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