Crew Leader, Mayor Menino's Green Team
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation
May 2009 - Aug 2009 (4 months)
Led a diverse group of fourteen high school students in environmentally minded tasks such as trail building and invasive species removal as a part of a youth employment & education program through the City of Boston. Our team was officially sponsored by then-Mayor Thomas Menino and worked in his home neighborhood of Hyde Park. In keeping with the environmental theme, the team biked to and from each worksite.
In addition to the environmental work, the role included the following:
- Organizing soft skills training sessions for the youth on a variety of topics with community leaders
- Assisting in the management of the program, including disbursal of paychecks and tracking expenditures
- Communicating with collabora