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Alexandra Carelli
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University: San Francisco State University
Regions of interest: Latin America
Skills: women's empowerment, teaching, photography/documentary, marketing/strategy, fundraising, environmental issues / alternative energy, economic development, business consulting
Volunteer Activity:
Abriendo Mentes April 01, 2011
Abriendo Mentes March 28, 2012 - June 28, 2012
Check out my blog to see what I am currently working on:
www.adaptar.tumblr.com
I am currently living in working at Abriendo Mentes in Playa Potrero, Costa Rica. We are building a community garden, starting a Women's Empowerment Group, teaching lots of English, and helping develop and educate the community around us. I adopted an amazing Costa Rican street puppy, Rio, who loves to lay on the beach with me in our sparse spare hours.
Skills
My skills are quite diverse from teaching to administration, program implementation to streamlining business practices and vision, gardening to web development. I like to get my hands dirty in every and all aspects of an organization, and no, I don't like to sleep much.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
2011
Organized a small clothing drop to provide warm clothes to needy families in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.
Taught English to children at a Village school in Tierra Colorada, Guatemala.
Worked on an Organic Permaculture Project at Finca Bona Fide in Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua.
Taught English to children at Abriendo Mentes in Playa Potrero, Costa Rica.
2010
Built an art installation in the garden at the Lowcountry Children's Museum in Charleston, SC.
Photography & Journalism at the Florence Crittenton Sugar & Spice Soiree in Mt. Pleasant, SC.
2008
Organized a fundraiser to sponsor a football team at Defremary Recreation Center in Oakland, CA.