Experience

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  Agros international

  Aug 2007 - Jan 2009

  Creative services assoc
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  Maria-jose soerens counseling

  Jan 2009 - Nov 2016

  Licensed mental health counselor

  Mental Health Counseling with a focus on Trauma and Abuse (domestic violence, sexual abuse). Cross-Cultural Counseling:-Life coaching to adapt to the new culture in the areas of relationships and professional life.-Challenges for Bi-national couples.-Major life transitions away from your home country, such as engagement & marriage, becoming a new mom, death of a loved one, or graduating from school and beginning an new career.-Issues related to trauma and abuse within the context of vulnerability (such as lacking documents, etc).-Issues affecting adult first generation children and their parents.Psychosocial Assessments for Immigration Law Show less

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  Puentes: advocacy, counseling & education

  Jun 2014 - Nov 2016

  Founding executive director
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  Resistencia coffee

  May 2017 - Mar 2023

  Co-owner
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  Cultivate south park

  Aug 2019 - May 2022

  • Equitable Development

    Jan 2021 - May 2022

  • Executive Director

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
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  Coté soerens studio llc

  May 2022 - now

  Principal

  I help you articulate your vision for change through visual thinking.

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  Trinity christian college

  Mar 2023 - now

  Center for Transformative Neighborhoods

  • Co-Founding Director, Center for Transformative Neighborhoods

    Oct 2023 - now

  • Director of Tuition Transparency and Access to Higher Education

    Mar 2023 - Feb 2024