Katie Dilley

Experience

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  Lafayette Peer Empowerment Program

  Jun 2016 - Jul 2017

  Teaching Assistant and Ordinance Advisor

  I had the opportunity to work at my hometown high school, where I helped host a weekly club for 60+ middle and high school students designed to address inequalities experienced in their school system. Engaged in mentorship relationships with students and advocate for underrepresented minority youth to be active members of their community by taking a role in dismantling institutional racism in various policies.

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  Teach For America

  Feb 2017 - Jul 2019

  Teach For America - 2017 Corps Member

  I was selected to be a member of a highly selective, non-profit organization serving students with the mission of ending educational inequities. Gained extensive professional development focused on DEI and culturally relevant pedagogy.

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  DSST Public Schools

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

  I had the unique experience of being one of 13 founding staff members who started CGHS during the 2017-18 school year. We worked as a team to critically plan out the culture and direction of the school, planning for the school to be fully built out in four years and developing a rigorous and transformative educational experience for our students. I was responsible for developing the founding physics curriculum for 150+ students using network standards, culturally relevant Pedagogy, and NGSS. My students achieved student growth and proficiency data in the top 10% of DSST Public Schools Network. Within the first year, our school achieved the highest honor of blue standard school and #1 high school in Denver Public Schools.I led culturally relevant interventions for failing, high-need, or students with a 504/IEP who needed additional support in the classroom. In addition, I served as a first-year student advisor and developed and taught a psychology elective curriculum instructing students in applying psychological theory. Show less

  • Founding Physics Teacher Conservatory Green High School

    Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

  • Student Advisor

    Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
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  Purdue University

  Jul 2019 - Aug 2021

  I had the privilege of working at Purdue University in the College of Agriculture, where I worked with the Academic Programs Department. I took my knowledge of STEM education to develop initiatives engaging teachers and students, introducing them to the world of agri-STEM. I served three main roles, including 1) developing initiatives, 2) overseeing PK-10 early recruitment, and 3) streamlining outreach. This was a new role, allowing me to come in and make it my own, provide strategic direction for the future of this position, and create opportunities for engagement.Responsibilities:Directed an overhaul of the communication process between 1500+ interdepartmental staff, media team, and external facing programming to execute outreach projects across 92 counties in Indiana and managed the strategic development of new critical recruitment pipelines.Built and maintained relationships with external partners to develop outreach projects, establish funding, and expand impact.Trained college leadership, interdepartmental recruiters, staff, and faculty on culturally relevant pedagogy and implementing culturally competent recruitment and retention strategies to drive strategic change in college-wide efforts. Invited as a Purdue PK-12 Honorary Speaker for innovative collaborative strategies and how to roll out new project systems successfully. Additional Roles:Directed Molecular Agriculture Summer Institute (MASI)College of Agriculture Inclusive Excellence Recruitment Committee ChairDiversity Action Team in Agriculture Undergraduate Student Committee ChairIntercultural Development Inventory Continuum CommitteePK-12 Council Show less While at Purdue University, the College of Agriculture faced difficult questions in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. I have the privilege, along with a co-worker, to develop a curriculum to walk leaders in the college through learning more about cultural competency and growing their knowledge of inequities facing our students and country. This expanded into a fully developed curriculum, training program, and publication. Responsibilities: Wrote a year-long curriculum utilizing learning strategies to increase individual and group intercultural competence to address systemic institutional racism in the development of policies and procedures impacting the workplace.Facilitated three 12-month pilot programs with 60+ faculty/staff and rolled out a plan of execution for curriculum to train all 20+ academic, leadership departments, and youth outreach programming.Publication of 'No Agriculture Without R,A,C,E’ in NACTA Journal.Invited to host a workshop for leadership and staff at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Show less

  • Academic Programs Initiatives Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Agriculture Technology and Innovation Learning Community Instructor

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  • Racial Justice Education Curriculum Co-Author & Workshop Facilitator

    Jul 2019 - Aug 2021
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  University of Arkansas

  Aug 2021 - Feb 2023

  Coordinator of Undergraduate Student Recruitment

  I had the opportunity to join the Dean's Office for Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, where I served as the lead college recruiter for all undergraduate programs. In this role, I oversaw the direction and coordination of multiple large-scale programs, built out a full-cycle recruitment plan, led the strategic development of goals driven by data and future projections, and developed numerous new partnership programs.Utilizing my diversity, equity, and inclusion skills, I worked with identified critical internal and external partners to develop initiatives to recruit and retain historically underserved students in the state of Arkansas into the world of agri-STEM. I led the collaboration to connect with partners and build programming to hit strategic goals.I collaborated with the University of Arkansas MANRRS and National MANRRS to help a critical external partner school network establish the first Arkansas Junior Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences Chapter and 19th in the Nation.Responsibilities:Oversaw a budget of $45,000+ for outreach, engagement, and recruitment and $515,345 in grant submissions and funding management. Led analysis of metrics and effectiveness of programming to develop a college-wide strategic recruitment plan and coordinated the execution of projects in collaboration with college leadership and teams across seven departments serving 2000+ students.Directed strategic planning and development of new recruitment pipelines and the evolution of existing programs for 6000+ yearly students.Oversaw the planning of strategic print and media outreach and advertisement of college opportunities and goals in collaboration with the communications team.Directed ALSEA by planning and coordinating all event details, managing the scheduling of all partners, overseeing the budget, submitting and receiving grants for funding, and planning learning experiences. Show less

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  MagicSchool AI

  Jan 2024 - now

  Sales Operations Manager