Maya Thomas-Benke
511 Hickory Ridge Ct.
St. Louis, MO 63131
314-686-9716
thomas-benke.1@osu.edu
mayatbenke@gmail.com
WORK EXPERIENCE:
OFFICE ASSISTANT (2017-present)
*Employee at Baker Hall East and Busch House
*Receive and distribute mail to residents, check out desk items for resident use, issue loaner keys, act as a resource for students, maintain a welcoming and friendly environment
BASKIN ROBBINS (2017-present)
*Shift Leader
*Worked with others scooping ice cream, as well as making other frozen treats, handled customer service concerns and made sure store was clean, worked the register
FROYO (2017-present)
*Shift Leader
*Worked alone for both opening and closing shifts, making yogurt, cleaning the store, and checking out customers
LOU FUSZ SOCCER PARK (2015-present)
*Worked the concessions stand, sometimes alone but most often with one or two other people
*Stocked the food, made pretzels and popcorn, worked the register
REFRESH (2016-present)
*Fill-in-manager
*Worked the register, tagged, priced, and, sorted clothing, dealt with foster children and parents, accepted donations, cleaned the store
*Most often worked alone, but sometimes with another volunteer
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
MIRRORS SOPHOMORE CLASS HONORARY-JAMES CANCER CENTER (2017-present)
*Volunteer at the James Cancer Hospital two hours per week, as well as other various service projects
*Plan and implement a gala in March benefitting the James Cancer Hospital
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES (2017)
*Volunteered four hours a week for a semester
*Tutored adult refugees from areas such as Somalia, Syria, and Kenya in English and job skills
FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION (2010-16)
Volunteer/Youth Board member/Award recipient
* One of five volunteers ever to receive a Board of Directors’ Outstanding Youth Service Award
* Collected donations totaling $8,751 (2013-present); contacted and arranged to pick-up lost & found clothing donations of numerous middle schools and high schools; sorted, laundered, tagged, and valued donations
* Member of the Youth Board, which included volunteering at FACC’s clothing store and helping plan a Foster Parent Appreciation luncheon (2013-14)
* Created video still shown regularly at FACC luncheons
* Gave dance lessons to foster children at 4 events
* Donated birthday gifts to FACC’s Birthday Buddy program
BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL (2014-15)
* Volunteered in mother/infant and acute medicine units
* Job shadowed in surgery and the emergency room
AFS (2014-17)
* Hosted a Persian-Norwegian sister
* Organized several get-to-know-you parties to help assimilate the exchange students into the Parkway South community, and provided students with transportation
* Volunteer for AFS Missouri Gateway team for since 2015, volunteer at AFS River Valley Ohio since July 2016
HOMES OF HOPE, ENSENADA MEXICO (2014-17)
* Helped build a home for a family in Mexico in 2014 and 2016
* Used $600 of my personal funds to return to help build another home in 2015, and again in 2017
SPINE AND SPORTS PHYSICAL THERAPIST (2013)
* Volunteered and job shadowed a physical therapist for 15 hours
LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE:
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT (2017-present)
*Assist in events around campus and initiate campus-wide policy
MOUNT LEADERSHIP SOCIETY SCHOLARS (2016-present)
Leadership Training Committee Member/ Team Global Captain
*Participate in a variety of community service projects, such as cleaning parks around campus and assisting with festivals in the area
*As a member of the Leadership Training Committee, plan and initiate events within Mount Leadership Society
*As a captain of Team Global, direct my team in brainstorming community service ideas, contacting local agencies, planning and budgeting the events, and implementing the three original community service projects in the span of two weeks
MORRILL SCHOLAR (2016-present)
*Received a four-year full-tuition scholarship to The Ohio State University
*Act as an ambassador for diversity on campus
PARKWAY MIDDLE SCHOOL POMS CLUBS (2013-16)
Founder/Lead Coach
* To grow the Parkway South High poms team, recruited teachers to sponsor poms clubs at both middle schools feeding into PSH; advertised, choreographed, and taught dances to middle school students; recruited other poms team members to help; posted practice videos; and arranged performances
PARKWAY SOUTH HIGH POMS DANCE TEAM (2012-16)
* Varsity Patriettes team – 11th and 12th grade
* JV Patriettes team – 9th and 10th grade
* Only member of team invited to apply for Universal Dance Association staff position (2015)
PARKWAY SOUTH HIGH DIVERSITY CLUB (2013-16)
Member/Co-President
* Requested permission to discuss use of the “N word” at PSH. Instead the principal created a Diversity Day. I co-led a workshop about diversity at PSH (the school district’s diversity director led the very popular “N word” workshop)
*Coordinated and lead an effort to create a video series about understanding and embracing cultural differences in Parkway students
DANCE (outside of school) (2012-16)
* Member of dance studio’s hip hop competition team (2012-13)
* Dancer in two small group hip hop performances at Pulse on Tour dance convention in Atlanta and Chicago (2013, 2014) We were one of 5/85 performances given a “fast track” to America’s Got Talent auditions
PARKWAY SOUTH HIGH STUDENT COUNCIL (2012-16)
* Vice President of Philanthropy _ 12th grade
* Vice President of Patriot Recognition – 11th grade
* Treasurer of sophomore class – 10th grade
* Member – 9th grade
MINI MEDICAL SCHOOL I/II program– Washington University (2014-2015)
* Attended a total of 28 hours of the lecture series with labs
INTRO TO SPORTS MEDICINE AND ATHLETIC TRAINING course – St. Louis University (2014)
* Attended a 24 hour summer workshop including cadaver demonstrations
PARKWAY SOUTH HIGH NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY (2014-16)
* Attend monthly meetings and volunteer at events inside and out of school
PARKWAY SOUTH HIGH CONNECT SOUTH (2014-16)
* Helps students new to Parkway get assimilated at South