I teach machine sewing techniques and skills, including how to make and use a pattern, using a commercial pattern, sewing machine operation and maintenance, and standard construction techniques.

Through a partnership between Abeille and Boston Children's Hospital, I visited Children's Hospital once per month and taught jewelry making techniques to parents and caretakers of patients.

I taught individual and group sewing classes to teens, from beginners to advanced. Class topics included basic hand sewing, sewing machine operation, constructing pillows and stuffed toys, following a commercial pattern, garment construction techniques, fashion design, and pattern making.

As part of the Claremont School of Theater Arts (CSTA) summer program, I designed and taught a 5 week costume design course for 50 students ages 8-13. I taught students about the principles of costume design, as well as hand sewing, pattern drafting, and the safe and correct use of sewing machines and industrial irons.

I volunteered and later worked at Church Street School's Summer Arts Preschool program for children ages 3-5. I attended many programs at Church Street School myself as a child, and I greatly enjoyed assisting the art teachers as a volunteer and intern.

My roles in this position incuded retail sales, customer service in person and via phone, visual merchandising, inventory management, restocking, and maintaining a social media presence.

As the manager of a small gallery and marketplace featuring the work of local artists, my roles included retail sales, customer service, visual merchandising, artist recruiter and liaison, web content development, social media management, event coordinator, and intern supervisor.

As a retail sales associate I primarily worked in customer service, visual merchandising, and inventory management. The store also offered crafts classes and events, for which I taught sewing and jewelry lessons, and coordinated creative birthday parties and events for children and adults.

As a wardrobe and costume assistant for the Taiwanese film Black & White: The Dawn of Justice, I swatched and bought fabrics, assisted in making clothing samples, finished and distressed garments, performed online and library research, maintained accounting spreadsheets of all expenses, and communicated with suppliers.

I worked as a costume shop assistant during my sophomore, junior, and senior years at Pomona College. I worked in all aspects of wardrobe and costume construction, including working from commercial and handmade patterns, making patterns, dyeing, hand finishing, assisting in costume fittings, and using home and industrial sewing machines, irons, blind hemmers, and overlock machines. 

As an costume design assistant, I aided in research, selection and organization of wardrobe elements (including rentals and custom orders,) creation of costume plots and wardrobe checklists, costume fittings, tech rehearsals, and design team meetings.

As a costume shopper and assistant for Roundabout Theater's production of Bye Bye Birdie, I swatched and purchased fabrics, coordinated with costume shops, assisted with costume fittings, and organized and maintained design bibles.

Following my internship, I was hired as a temporary worker for the summers from 2007 to 2009. I continued to work on cutting and hand-finishing, but also worked on stitching, beading, embellishment, and crafts.

As part of my high school's internship program, I worked as a costume intern at Tricorne, Inc. (one of the primary costume shops for Broadway productions.) As an intern, I mainly worked on cutting and hand-finishing elements of costumes for productions such as the musical versions of Wicked, Shrek, and Legally Blonde.