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- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Yejin Cha resume.pdf
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Communications Humanities Education Social sciences
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Curriculum Designer
Positions available: 5 Curriculum Designer We regularly receive requests for anti-racism training and workshops. This project is to develop educational and training resources focused on both youth and adults. To respond to broad public demand for education focused on anti-racism. The focus of this project is to create relevant, updated and timely workshops on anti-racism. The students will develop a half-day workshop with an option to add module(s) tailored to specific interest(s). Such as Microaggressions, Allyship, Dinner Table Talk, Anti-Oppression. These workshops are intended to address understanding systemic racism, emotional impact, social relationships, diversity training and bias. The goal is to develop capacity for equity, offering a safe space for discussion and conversation about equity, race, and human rights, while simultaneously helping participants navigate differences, diversity, power relationships and conflict. This curriculum will be designed for an experiential learning environment. The project will include to create; participant materials including pre-workshop reading, in-workshop materials post workshop resources. Workshop Format workshop to be designed for a one half-day (4 hours) duration. 1. Small group format (up to 15 individuals) 2. Virtual delivery 5. Toolkit and resources Outline of the Workshop Modules Create an outline of the four modules in the workshop curriculum, Anti-Racism in a Canadian Context: 1. Critical Thinking βIce-Breakersβ (20 minutes) 2. Understanding Race (40 minutes) 3. Understanding Racism (40 minutes) 4. History of Racism in Canada (90 minutes) Colonization-Impact on Indigenous Peoples Japanese internment camps Anti-Black Racism Anti-Semitism Islamophobia (15 minutes) White Privilege (15 minutes) 5. Combatting Racism - Strategies (45 minutes) Allyship Microaggressions Anti-Oppression
Human Creativity & Neuroscience Research Project (2)
Number of individual positions available: up to 5 We are a business and personal performance consulting and coaching firm that works with CEO's, executives, entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals. This project will entail researching the scientific and psychological elements of getting creativity. This is a state of optimal thinking, creativity, innovation and problem solving. Essentially, it's the ability for the average person to have amazing insight and intuition. Going from average to Einstein like thinking. We are able to take on up to 5 students. Students will be researching and compiling strategies for individuals to have optimal thinking and creativity levels using sounds scientific and psychological principles. They'll also be answering questions such as: how does a person get into this state? How long can a person stay in the state? What elements are required to optimize the state? The research must be sound and from credible sources. The end product is a "how to" guide for getting into a state of creativity. The purpose is to provide managers and individuals with a guide to optimize personal performance in the workplace, personal hobbies and for problem solving. The students will surely learn how to optimize their own performance along the way.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Career Posting
DEI Career Posting: this individual scans for open DEI positions across the internet, and categorizes the positions by industry, location and by level. This individual must also confirm that each position is an active and open position, along with culling old and closed positions posted. This is on-going internship with weekly updates required. Specific intern actions: 1. Intern will login on a weekly basis to the inclusion allies coalition careers page. 2. Intern will search for diversity, equity, and inclusion open job announcements for collection and curation into the inclusion allies coalition career page. 3. Intern will review existing job postings and remove expired job announcements 4. Intern duties will end on 31 March 2022.
User Research Project
The Teacher App aims to create a virtual one-stop-hub for all teachers and their needs. We want teachers to access the mental health services and resources they need at any given time so that they feel supported enough to be there for their students. The main goal of the project is to accumulate data on what features are being used the most, which programs and resources that we offer are needed and appreciated, and where we need to focus our attention going forward.
Work experience
Direct support worker
DASCH
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
May 2021 - Current
Provide direct support work (personal hygiene, meal preparations, activity planning, companionship, etc.) to individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Ambassador
Fortwhyte Alive
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
June 2019 - March 2020
Education
Bachelor of Arts, psychology, Faculty of Arts
University of Manitoba
September 2019 - Current
Personal projects
Royal Canadian Air Cadets
October 2015 - May 2020
Through the Royal Canadian Air Cadet program, I competed as a competitive biathlete, taught lessons about leadership and aviation, and conducted a marching band.