Staff Occupational Therapist at Somerville Public Schools (2025-08 – Present)
- Providing services to children ages 3–5 in preschool and childcare programs across Somerville, MA in partnership with Somerville Public Schools through the Somerville Partnership for Young Children.
- Working at nine different preschool and childcare programs, primarily conducting screenings and providing short-term interventions through a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS). In addition, evaluating children to determine eligibility for special education services and providing those services as needed.
Staff Occupational Therapist contractor at Boston Public Schools (2025-06 – 2025-08)
- Provided school based services to elementary and middle school students filling in for the end of the school year and for the extended school year.
- Worked to address gross and fine motor needs, emotional regulation deficits, visual motor skills, handwriting, social skills, activities of daily living, and executive functioning needs.
Staff Occupational Therapist at Knospe-Lerncenter (2024-04 – 2025-04)
- Provided outpatient services in person and via telehealth to American military associated Tricare clients of all ages in Bavaria, Germany. Served a wide range of clients, around 70% pediatric 30% adults.
- Worked with pediatric clients to address gross and fine motor delays, emotional regulation challenges, sensory processing differences, feeding difficulties, toileting and dressing skills, handwriting, social skills, and executive functioning. With adult clients primarily providing orthopedic hand therapy services.
- Managed a three-clinic caseload independently, and treated and scheduled clients at additional clinics via telehealth until service gaps were filled.
Doctoral Capstone at Boston University (2023-06 – 2023-08)
- Conducted pilot research assessing the feasibility of a novel dynamometry protocol for measuring finger extensor strength.
Level II Fieldwork at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (2023-01 – 2023-03)
- Delivered services including evaluations and treatments in an adult inpatient acute setting on general medicine, oncology, bone marrow transplant, neurology and neurosurgery floors.
- Participated in discharge planning assessing patient safety by assessing functional mobility, providing cognitive screenings, and giving and providing training in use of durable medical equipment. Presented a case study on acute Psoriatic Arthritis.
Level II Fieldwork at Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (2022-09 – 2022-11)
- Led therapy groups at inpatient psychiatry unit, 2 South. Groups included stretch/ exercise, life/ relationship skills, sensory coping, and art groups. Participated in multidisciplinary rounds.
- Led winter clothing drive to promote outdoor space accessibility during psychiatric hospitalization.
Level I Fieldwork at Newton Public Schools (2022-02 – 2022-04)
- Co-facilitated a group for targeted kindergarten and first grade students to promote self-regulation skills through physical movement, circle games, and peer-based problem-solving.
Contact Tracer at Boston University (2020-09 – 2021-08)
- Part time Telehealth position during graduate school. Contacted positive COVID-19 cases and their contacts to educate on and support them with isolation and quarantine procedures.
Volunteer EMT at Virginia Tech Rescue Squad (2017-05 – 2019-05)
- Provided prehospital patient care as a part time volunteer emergency medical technician by taking patient vitals, performing assessments, transferring patients, and taking patient histories. Served as Financial Officer.
