Responsibilities
Meet one-on-one with student-athletes who are at rick for low academic performance, manage structured study hall hours, monitor progression of grades and weekly reports, collaborate with team including academic advisors and student mentors to create academic success plans for individual athletes, and oversee learning and language development of international student-athletes.
Years at BYU
- 2024-Present: Athletics
- 2021-2024: English Language Center
Education
- A.S. General Studies with a TESOL Certificate, BYU-Idaho
- B.A. TESOL with a TESOL certificate, BYU-Hawaii
- M.A. TESOL with an emphasis in Curriculum and Materials Development, BYU
Prior to BYU
- Scoring and Feedback Specialist at Flashlight 360
- Research Assistant at BYU
- Academic and Teacher Coordinator at Lumos Language School
- Writing and ELL Tutor at UVU
Personal
- From Payson, UT
- Married to Vinicius Sousa; Dog mom to a German Shepherd Husky
- Served an LDS mission in Fresno, CA
- Lived in the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, and China
- Speaks Spanish and Portuguese
- Hobbies include cooking, reading, gardening, hiking, camping, playing soccer, weightlifting, puzzling, embroidery, crochet, playing the piano and violin, solving
- Sudoku/KenKen's, watching Anime/Korean dramas, doing family history, and playing Pokemon Go and Duolingo.