Mahsa Pashaei

Experience

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  Los Angeles Jewlery

  Feb 2011 - Nov 2013

  Whole sale Jewelry Company
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  Santa Monica College

  Aug 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Assisted professors, faculty members, and staff with technical difficulties and computer hardships Assisted new students and tutored students who took Persian classes at Santa Monica College. • Worked at the reservation desk to assist students with books, and any questions that they may had. • Performed other tasks such as categorizing the magazines and newspapers, straightening up, shelf reading, and organizing books, cleaning the boards, and pushing in chairs at closing time

  • Technical assistant at faculty lab

    Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Persian Tutor and student computer assistant at Modern Language Lab

    Feb 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Library student employee at Santa Monica College

    Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
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  UCLA

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2018

  Middle Eastern research library assistant at Young Research Library

  • Romanized books, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals, etc. (In Persian, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish…)• Categorized books and delivered them to the library’s related departments. • Worked with OCLC, WorldCat, and other related library material and programs

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  La Rabida Children's Hospital

  Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

  Office Assistance at Child and Family Connections #10

  • Communicated with patients and customers about their questions and inquiries • Respected Fellow Employees, Maintained an Appropriate Environment• Maintained files and organized folders• Processed mail and worked with scanners, faxes, and photocopy machines• Responded to phone calls and visitors• Worked on Excel projects, Data input, and maintained the Facebook page

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  University of Chicago

  May 2021 - Jun 2021

  • Taught two different sessions of Beginning and Intermediate Persian classes that each met weekly for 50 minutes duration in a sequence of three quarters • Prepared classroom activities that focused on learning about language and culture• Motivated students to learn Persian by engaging them through various games and activities• Encouraged students to participate in oral communication activities through presentations, games, role playing, narrating summaries and talking about their weekly activities• Inspired students to explore the cultural aspects of the language by fostering cross-cultural connections with native speakers from Iran• Graded participation of students • Corrected, graded, and left feedback for students’ homework every week Show less

  • Teacher Assistant

    Mar 2020 - Jun 2021

  • Public speaking

    May 2021 - May 2021
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  Princeton University

  Feb 2022 - Sept 2022

  Special Collections Assistant V, Library - Scholarly Collections and Research Services
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  UCLA

  Sept 2022 - now

  PHD Student

  PhD. Student at NELC