Mahsa Pashaei

Mahsa Pashaei

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Grad student

  • Education

    • Santa Monica College

      2014 - 2018
      Associate of Arts - AA Psychology
    • University of Chicago

      2019 - 2021
      Master's degree Linguistic, Comparative, and Related Language Studies and Services 3.8
    • UCLA

      2016 - 2018
      Bachelor's degree Iranian/Persian Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics 3.97
  • Experience

    • Los Angeles Jewlery

      Feb 2011 - Nov 2013
      Whole sale Jewelry Company
    • 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
    • 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • Princeton University

      Feb 2022 - Sept 2022
      Special Collections Assistant V, Library - Scholarly Collections and Research Services
    • UCLA

      Sept 2022 - now
      PHD Student

      PhD. Student at NELC

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      University of Chicago Humanities Fellowship Full Tuition Scholarship University of Chicago Humanities Department Aug 2020
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (FLAS) U.S. Department of Education Feb 2020 Academic Year FLAS Fellowship for 2020 - 2021
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      Foreign Language and Area Studies Program (Summar FLAS) U.S. Department of Education Feb 2020 Summar FLAS Fellowship award for study abroad. 2020-2021
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education Scholarship - Dec 2019
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      Community Corporation of Santa Monica Scholarship Community Corporation of Santa Monica Jun 2019
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      David B. Philips Award for leadership Santa Monica College Jun 2016
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      Edmund and Emma Slama Memorial Scholarship Santa Monica College Jun 2016
    • Awarded to Mahsa Pashaei
      David Simon Scholarship David Simon Jul 2015
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Vice-President of the Iranian Student Association at Santa Monica College

      Issued by Santa Monica College on Feb 2016
      Santa Monica CollegeAssociated with Mahsa Pashaei
    • Secretary of the Iranian Student Association at Santa Monica College

      Issued by Santa Monica College on Sept 2015
      Santa Monica CollegeAssociated with Mahsa Pashaei
    • Presentation at Persian Circle

      Issued by University of Chicago on Apr 2020
      University of ChicagoAssociated with Mahsa Pashaei
    • Presentation at Persian circle

      Issued by University of Chicago on Feb 2020
      University of ChicagoAssociated with Mahsa Pashaei