Teresa Duran

• Participated in and eventually volunteered at the Jingle Bell events until 2023, when Sacramento Arthritis Foundation stopped doing the events because of the winter storms
• Fleet Feet's Winter Fest almost every year around middle of November until the last day of December (virtual; with the exception of the Winter 5K event that people just bring an unwrapped toy to participate in the 5K)
• participate in Elk Grove's Restaurant Week every time they have it going on each year (almost every year, at the bare minimum)
• Participate in the Dias de Los Miles 5K event almost every October (this year is on October 25th in Elk Grove's District 56)
• protests (e.g. No Kings, Women's March, etc. - 2017 until today)
• A Seat At The Table books' Science Cafes (a few Trivia Nights, too)
• Community College Clubs and community activities: (1) TOP Plant Club, (2) Women's Conference at U.C. Davis, (3) Code Blue film screening (August 2017- May 2023)
• Assisted a couple with medical issues in Elk Grove (volunteer position at first, but then got paid every two weeks afterwards - January until May 2026):

a. took the groceries out of the van and into the house (I rotated out the juice, too)

b. brought the garbage, recycling, and organic bins out to the curb (brought them back in on Friday afternoons; I also took the trash, organics, and recycling out of the house to the bins every week)

c. picked up dog dirt, gave the dogs fresh water (same thing with the cat water bowl that is on the front porch)

d. Gardening action items: preparing the garden beds for spring planting; planting seeds and plants in the two garden beds; weeding out the area around the drain and weeding the driveway; watering plants (both in front and backyards); preparing the solution for getting rid of snails/slugs off of the trees; preparing the sugar water solution for hummingbirds

e. miscellaneous: attempted to fix the black box underneath the Lazyboy chair; swapped out the old wire holders for the new ones (for the couple's camera system on the side of the house); brought in multiple bins of Easter/Spring decorations and a Spring welcome mat; took out all of the frozen foods and the ice packs because the couple needed to get another fridge installed with the new freezer sections because the old freezer was eventually not working too well with the old one making a ton of strange noises; and getting the couple's mail

• high school events (August 2014 - May 2017):

a. T.D.A. (Technology and Digital Arts - Elk Grove High School) movie nights

b. TDA Black and White Ball (almost all four years - ended up getting very ill my Senior year of high school)

c. Senior BBQ at the Elk Grove Regional Park

d. Yearbook signings

e. Homecoming parade with TDA classmates

f. Senior Sunrise

g. TDA's Senior Showcase

h. student volunteer at a FFA event at a nearby barn in tenth grade

i. worked on the Strauss Festival poster logo and design in my Senior year (the theme was Wizard of Oz that year) as an assignment

• Helped reinforce classroom procedures and positive student behavior.
• approaching disagreements in a solution-finding rather than fault-finding manner with the children on the playground during their recess times
• flexibility with working in different grade levels with the various teachers
• leadership abilities with leading the homeless students to either recess time or to the activities room (only if it was raining, so that the students can watch a film)
• supported and encouraged the students in finding their creative passion
• Assisted in guiding the students to use please and thank-yous during lunchtime, utilizing active listening skills during classtime, and to ask permission for touching individuals or to do something before others are able to have a chance of doing that activity

Took out recycling, trash, and organics; helped with gardening activities; cleaned up the dog dirt in the backyard; got the weekly mail; helped with bringing in bins of Spring/Easter decorations; assisted with bringing in the groceries (including rotating out the juices); tore down boxes; fixed odds and ends items; and cleaned the dogs' water bowls (and the cat bowl out on the front porch).

• assisted with the pre-Jingle Bell 5K event registration, bib, and shirt tables
• helped out with handing out the medals after the race was over
• was an active listener during the meetings (when I could attend the meetings)
• participated in the Advocacy Action Summit in two different years through the Arthritis Foundation committee
• the Jingle Bell 5K event in Sacramento always was on a Saturday morning in December that the AF committee would always put on for the Sacramento community (they stopped doing this because there were always winter storms that were happening on the same morning as the 5K event)

• SWSA Member
• Psych Society Member
• CLC Member
• Relevant Coursework: Crimes Without Victims; ID 195 (field experience); Sikh Americanization and Globalization; Chicano/Latino Politics and Public Policy; American Immigration History; Women in the Middle East (WGS 121); Gender, Race, and Class (WGS 136); and currently taking WGS 175 (Gender and Disability) and WGS 166 (Gender and Politics).