Yevheniia Bazaliy

12 years of experience in Education and Social Work, Arts and STEM. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Constant focus on details and ability to carry out work exactly as ordered. Strong work ethics, integrity toward the job. Passion for helping people.

Member on the South Carolina Arts Directory #430 

Licensed Master Social Worker (SC License Number 15732)

employment

Interpreter 08/2022-present

Lutheran Services Carolinas (Columbia SC)

- Translating from English into Ukrainian or Russian at presentations, workshops, and one-to-one conversations

• Helping with terminology in medical, legal, and technical areas
• Providing guidance on available social and medical services for refugees from Ukraine
• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team

Observatory Educator 01/2019-2021 South Carolina State Museum (Columbia SC)

• Providing education tours for children and adults in an observatory
• Developing new astronomy STEM program for K-12 students, overnight group sessions, and public engagement initiatives
• Operation of the biggest telescope in SCSM and providing technical support
• Assisting during teachers’ workshops
• Taking picture of the Sun and editing them in Photoshop

Reading Intervention Teacher 10/2016-06/2017

Imagine Columbia Leadership Academy

Columbia, SC

• Providing targeted reading intervention for struggling readers in grades 2-4 - Strengthening reading skills of students reading below grade level - Covering classrooms as needed - Teaching vocabulary and sentence structure - Collecting data at weekly intervals to monitor student’s progress and make informed decisions about student’s goals and needs

Case manager 2009-2011 NGO “Romaska” – helping children with cancer

Kharkiv, Ukraine

• Communicating with families and navigating their path through the medical system
• Creating new content for the website
• Managing on-line fundraising challenges
• Collaborating with IT specialists.

Hospital social worker 2010-2011

Children mental hospital (Kharkiv)

- Providing regular individualized therapy or one-time visit to patients in crisis

- Helping patients and families with ethical and spiritual issues

• Conducting mental health assessments for long-term hospital patients
• Collaborating with a multidisciplinary team

Education

MS Degree in Social Work 2006-2011

Academy of Culture

Kharkiv, Ukraine

Other Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of WordPress.  Able to manage and implement Social Media campaigns. Able to translate complex text into easily readable material. Community Folk Artist (Pysanka) in South Carolina

Languages: English, Ukrainian, Russian