Experience

• Texas A&M University

  PhD Candidate/Diversity Fellow/Teaching Aid

  Assistant to Dr. Reuben May. Helped grade tests, administer tests, and attend all classes.

• Lawrence University

  Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow

  Jesus worked at Lawrence University as a Assistant Professor and Mellon Fellow

• Delta Lambda Phi Beta Tau Chapter at UTEP

  Brother

  Social Chair

• The University of Texas at El Paso

  Rainbow Miner Initiative Intern

  WORK EXPERIENCE
  Student Development Center/Women’s’ Resource Center
  May 1, 2007-July 31, 2011
  Rainbow Miner Initiative Intern SpeakOut Lead:
  Recruit and train over 30 speakers for LGBT Speaker’s Bureau
  Led over 60 panels discussions with faculty and staff
  Assemble panels for classes and lead discussion in classes
  Provide evaluations at the conclusion of panels
  Analysis information from evaluation forms and implement changes when necessary
  
  Queer History Month & Queer History Month Advisory Board
  Produced UTEP’s first ever Queer History Month
  Assembled advisory board of students, faculty, and staff
  Advised board on decision making for events on campus
  Programmed lectures, panels, discussions, campus events, and conferences
  Supervised entire month of events and monitored budget of $1500
  
  Queer Leadership and Academic
  Development Conference 2009 & 2010
  Managed and supervised event at UTEP
  Presented and collaborated on projects
  Brought in high profile Keynote speaker
  Created an opportunity for students to present research
  
  Queer Prom 2009 & 2010
  Conceptualized first ever Queer Prom in city of El Paso
  Logistical organizer and planner
  Fundraised over $500 first year and $1500 second year
  Established first Rainbow Miner Initiative Scholarship for LGBT and straight ally students at UTEP with financial success of both Queer Proms
  
  LABORATORY EXPERIENCE
  Dr. Meissiner’s Investigative Interviewing Laboratory
  Spring 2010
  Lab manager
  Set up room for experiment
  Met participants and described experiment to them
  Distributed demographic forms, surveys, and evaluations
  Monitored video cameras and interrupted erroneous experiments
  Debriefed participants after study was conducted & logged all information in database
  Ran experiments as volunteer 8 hrs a week
  
  Men Can Stop Rape Spring 2010
  Instructor under Dr. Candice Berger of Health Sciences
  Participated in pilot program
  Conducted study with organizations
  Distributed pre-test, post test, demographic forms, evaluations

• The University of Texas at El Paso

  Graduate Assistant and Teaching Aid

  Master's Student in Sociology and teaching aid to Dr. Cristina Morales
  
  Thesis: Sexual Racism in a Gay Community along the US/Mexico Border: Revisiting the Latin Americanization Thesis Online
  
  Committee: Chair: Cristina Morales, Gina Nunez, Oralia Loza
  
  Teaching Assistant 2011-2012
  For Dr. Cristina Morales and her Social Inequality, Statistics and Migration classes.
  Dr. Aurolyn Lyks and her Human Sexuality and Language and Power on the Border classes
  Proctored exams, graded homework assignments, hosted study sessions and met with students during office hours