ashley mercado

* Attend working group and planning meetings * Coordinate and partner with community organizations, community members, and elected officials to integrate fun, family-friendly arts activities along event route * Plan and host 3 healthy activity zones across the 17 mile route * Prepare and submit media marketing materials and volunteer incentives * Manage 3 project assistants * Create and maintain Apple iOS App, newsfeeds, and analytics

* Conduct research to make Granada Hills more walkable * Conduct surveys, analyze observation results, and prepare design guidelines * Use of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods * Prepare booklet with walkable street proposal based on literature, survey results, and observation outcomes

* Compile data set on Demographics of all 272 Los Angeles County Neighborhoods * Crime * Property Value * Median Household Income * Ethnicity * Parks, Vacant Lots, Fast Food, Motels, Hotels, Liquor Stores and Marijuana Dispensaries * Analyze data in order to find correlations * Research on crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) * Identifying issues with the built environment * Clarify the nature of a problem, evaluate alternatives, propose viable solutions * Summarize findings and write report

* Promote and sustain organic leadership by maintaining positive peer-leader relationships * Provide residents with information regarding individual academic success * Assist students as they develop interpersonal skills and individual responsibilities * Encourage university involvement, civic engagement, and social responsibilities * Counseling and Behavior Management: Conflict resolution, policy enforcement, and crisis response

* Assist in the development of Block 9, innovative place-making project in North West Pasadena * that transformed an under-used lot into an urban beach that serves 2000+ community members * Manage project budgets, work with city administrators to secure event permits * Grant writing, coalition development and collaboration with diverse local community partners to institute positive change * Facilitate the Los Angeles County Parks Needs Assessment in seven Unincorporated SGV areas to encourage community improvement projects