Savanna Torres, MPH

Experience

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  Hernandez Roofing & INJ Good Rentals

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Administrative Assistant

  • Organized files, offices, and desktops• Handled sensitive customer data• Provided excellent Customer Service• Used Word and Excel for documents• Provided general office support

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  University of Illinois at Chicago

  Apr 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Provide administrative support to undergraduate orientation program, including hiring and training orientation staff.• Assist in planning and executing 45 orientation programs for over 4,000 incoming UIC students.• Serve as a paraprofessional supervisor to a staff of 30+ undergraduate students.• Speak on behalf of UIC to over 100-300 attendees per program. • Generate content for the UIC Orientation Instagram.• Represented UIC at the Student Leadership Institute, at the 2017 National Orientation Director's Association (NODA) conference. Show less

  • Senior Student Orientation Leader

    Oct 2017 - Sept 2018

  • Office Aide - University Student Financial Services & Cashier Operations

    Aug 2016 - May 2018

  • Research Assistant, Sociology

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Student Orientation Leader

    Apr 2017 - Dec 2017
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  College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs

  Aug 2018 - May 2019

  Urban Public Policy Fellow

  • Participate in a year long internship and research project on women's access to reproductive healthcare. • Present research project at the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education Research Symposium and the UIC Minority Health Conference.

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  Chicago Department of Public Health

  Sept 2018 - Apr 2019

  Policy Intern

  • Analyze proposed legislation to determine whether it would be good for public health.• Identify effective policies in other cities that could be applied in Chicago; focusing on a specific practice and determining its feasibility in Chicago.• Assess how health could be integrated into the work of other departments. • Analyze CDPH programs to help determine whether policy change is needed. • Review databases, literature, and reports as a basis for drafting executive summaries, resolutions, press releases and other documents Show less

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  Society of Women Engineers

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2018

  Business Administration Intern

  • Ensure accurate processing of membership orders and data organization.

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  UI Health

  Feb 2019 - Apr 2019

  Intern

  • Support the work of Community-QUIT, a program between the UIC Cancer Center (UICC), Mile Square Health Center, the American Lung Association (ALA) and the American Cancer Society (ACS). • Conduct assessments of community organizations serving the target population. This includes identifying, tracking, and building relationships with community organizations to facilitate services for tobacco users in need of services to promote lung health. • Participate in community events, observe clinic sessions, assist with data collection, and reporting of findings. • Edit questionnaires and surveys used to reach out to past and current participants, as well as community partners• Collect and report data on past Community-QUIT participants using developed surveys Show less

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  SmithBucklin

  Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

  Membership & Operations Associate

  • Build and sustain strong member relations through attentive detail in handling member requests and volunteer interaction.• Provide administrative and project support to the client and staff team, including database maintenance and reporting.• Serve as staff liaison to client member committees.• Coordinate and maintain financial projects, monthly revenue allocations, membership dues, registration and AP/AR.• Write and produce content for association member e-newsletters and other electronic communications.• Maintain and update areas of the association website with current information, benefits, member programs, etc.• Assist with the preparation of conferences, board meetings and seminars. Show less

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  Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates

  Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

  Membership & Operations Associate
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  Society of Pediatric Nurses

  Jun 2019 - Apr 2021

  Membership & Operations Associate
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  American Academy of Pediatrics

  Apr 2021 - now

  • Program Manager

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Child & Community Health Specialist

    Apr 2021 - Sept 2023