Kalysha Clark: What I've Done

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Piedmont Triad Regional Council

Stormwater SMART Outreach Coordinator, AmeriCorps Member
April 2015-February 2016
As the Stormwater Outreach Coordinator, my responsibilities fall into three categories: environmental education, conservation volunteer program development, and disaster preparedness.

While serving at the PTRC, I:

Created outreach materials such as blogs, newsletters, flyers, brochures and programs to expand participation on environmental education events.
Provided outreach for PTRC at local fairs and festivals
Assisted in providing hands-on environmental education activities

Assisted in development of a materials for a disaster preparedness program

Sampling a creek for macroinvertebrates to determine water quality. Here we are flipping a net inside out so we can rinse off any organisms we found.

Representing Stormwater SMART at Summerfield's Founder's Day Festival!

Using a model watershed to teach middle school students about pollution, runoff, and water quality.

Small Mammal Research Assistant at the University of Arizona
May 2014-August 2014
As a research assistant, I was involved in the following tasks:

Trapping and handling cliff chipmunks in order to check reproduction status
Utilize radio telemetry (homing) in order to locate night nests of chipmunks
Conduct behavioral analyses of juvenile chipmunks
Conduct morning nest observations of chipmunks
Conduct an independent research project on perceptual range
Utilize radio telemetry (biangulation) to locate juvenile chipmunks and endangered Mt. Graham Red Squirrels

Processing a juvenile chipmunk.

Conducting a behavior analysis on a
juvenile chipmunk.

Leadership in Action
January 2012 - April 2014
Leadership in Action (or LIA) is a four-year leadership program at NC State and is put on through the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics, and Public Service.The program goes through the three phases of leadership. Students take a class during their first year called Discover 1 in which they learn everything about how to be a leader, from their personal leadership style to collaboration and problem solving. Students participate in leadership retreats each year. During the second year, students must complete a service project. Students must also complete a number of workshops in order to receive their Visionary Leader Certificate. At the end of the program, students present their projects to peers at a poster session.

Leadership In Action, Class #5 after our orientation!

After I received my Visionary Leaders Certificate.

Conservation Internship at Piedmont Wildlife Center
May 2013-July 2013 [10 weeks, 141 hours]
The Piedmont Wildlife Center is located in Durham, NC and has three main components of its mission: education, conservation and promoting the care of injured and sick native wildlife. The conservation goals include:

To inventory flora and fauna of Leigh Farm Park and surrounding New Hope Creek natural areas for existence of invasive species as well as threatened species and species of special concern.
To restore wildlife habitat in New Hope Creek that encourages native wildlife to live, roost and flourish in its natural areas
To provide nest boxes for native wildlife in New Hope Creek and encourage use in the backyards of area residents
To teach area residents how to provide food, water, cover and a place for wildlife to raise young in their backyard
To involve the public in community service through conservation projects
To study the human impact on various species of wildlife (current project is studying impact on box turtle population in Leigh Farm Park)

As a conservation intern, my biggest task was tracking marked Eastern Box Turtles using Radio Telemetry. I also assisted with animal care of the education animals (dove, snakes, bearded dragon) and was involved with Raptor Training. I was also tasked with various other conservation efforts including constructing wildlife gardens, assembling and installing nest boxes, and coordinating and retrieving data from trail cameras. I assisted with WildNet, a wildlife rehabilitation hotline and will be assisting with BioBlitz - a 24-hour species inventory of Leigh Farm Park later in the summer.

A baby box turtle found in the woods.

AOW and his radio transmitter.

Me holding Athena the Barred Owl.

A baby leopard frog found in the woods.

Me with one of our education animals -

Nessie the Bearded Dragon.

Research in the Biodiversity Lab at the Nature Research Center

January 2013-January 2014
As an intern in the Biodiversity lab, I assisted Research Technicians with various tasks, including dissecting coyote scat, calibrating camera traps and researching and compiling images from camera traps as part of the eMammal project.

Dissecting a sample of coyote scat. (They eat a lot of persimmons!)

Camera traps that need to be calibrated.

During the calibration process.

Roots and Shoots @ NCSU
Vice President
May 2013-Present

Roots and Shoots is a conservation club that is part of the Jane Goodall Institute. Our chapter at NCSU mainly focuses on animal conservation and education. We host guest speakers, show documentaries; volunteer, and raise awareness! We also fundraise in order to donate money to conservation organizations. I am the reporter for Roots and Shoots, which means I will be dealing with all aspects of social networking for the club. Last year, we hosted speakers such as Dr. Meg Lowman and the founders of Rhino Reality. We also raised money for Elephant Human Relations Aid. This year, we have hosted Born Free, USA, Red Panda Network, American Wildlife Refuge and the US Fish and Wildlife Service as some of our guest speakers. As theVice President, my duties are as follows:

Upholds the roles of the president if the president is unable to in reasonable circumstances.
Sets the expectations of the members in order for them to become active members, with the approval of the rest of the officers.
Sets up speakers for each semester
Contributes to jobs that officers find that they cannot do themselves

Club members volunteering at a local community garden called The Wedge Garden.

Club members got to see a demonstration by the Turtle Dogs, two Boykin Spaniels who are trained to find turtles, which assists with conservation and research efforts.

Our group at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences after receiving a private tour from Dr. Meg Lowman, former director of the Nature Research Center.

Reporter
August 2012-May 2013

Roots and Shoots is a conservation club that is part of the Jane Goodall Institute. Our chapter at NCSU mainly focuses on animal conservation and education. We host guest speakers, show documentaries; volunteer, and raise awareness! We also fundraise in order to donate money to conservation organizations. Last year, we hosted speakers such as Dr. Meg Lowman and the founders of Rhino Reality. We also raised money for Elephant Human Relations Aid. This year, we have hosted Born Free, USA, Red Panda Network, American Wildlife Refuge and the US Fish and Wildlife Service as some of our guest speakers. As the Reporter, my duties were as follows:

Makes the club's actions "public"
Writes posts on the club website that includes meeting minutes, stories, events and forms
Reports events on national Roots and Shoots website
Manages social media accounts - Facebook and Twitter
Create sign-up forms for volunteering events and fundraisers

A small group of members of Roots and Shoots (with some other
student volunteers) after our clean-up of Lake Raleigh!

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Companion Animals
January 2013-May 2013
As a Teaching Assistant, I am a resource for my peers. The course is designed to to educate students on a variety of topics regarding companion animals, including dog and cat breeds and characteristics, simple anatomy and nutrition information as well as reproduction. The course also covers birds, reptiles, and pocket pets. As a TA, my duties are as follows:

Create questions for quizzes and exams
Grade quizzes and exams
Post grades and attendance for students
Coordinate one guest lecturer
Act as a role model to peers
Handle student affairs with respect and confidentiality

Myself with Mayzee, a corn snake, brought to our class by a guest lecturer.

Chancellor's First Year Student Leadership Program
January 2012-January 2013

The Chancellor's First Year Student Leadership Program is a new program at NC state that is sponsored by Chancellor and Mrs. Woodson. The purpose of the program is to educate first year students about gender-based leadership and also give them the opportunity to meet and spend time with the chancellor and his wife. During the program, I met with women from the Raleigh area who are making a big impact for our community and state, including NC State Auditor Beth Wood - who was the first ever female state auditor. I also learned a lot about gender-based leadership in the workforce and how women face challenges regarding negotiating for pay and work-family balances.

Myself with Mr. and Mrs. Woodson, the Chancellor of NC State
and his wife.

Big Brothers Big Sisters
December 2011-December 2012

Iwas the Big Sister of a fifth grader at a local elementary school and met with her through half of her 6th grade year. I visit her once a weekly. We participatde in a variety of activities, including homework/projects, making Valentine's Day cards for the soldiers, conducting research on Michelle Obama, and her favorite - playing UNO. We also made painted Christmas ornaments during our last time together.

On our last day together before I left for summer
vacation, Paris and I made each other posters to keep.
Here's two we made. I made the one on top for her
and she made the bottom one for me.

Homework Lab at Neighbor 2 Neighbor Community Outreach

August 2011-May 2012

Twice a week, I spent two and a half hours help students in grades K-12 with their homework. I also provided them with a role model/someone to look up to, as well as helping with anything they need.

Volunteer at Valerie H. Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Affiliation with NC Zoo
April 2010-April 2011
I volunteered at the Rehab Center for a year and dedicated 75 hours of work. While volunteering, my duties were preparing diets for native wildlife, administering food and some medications, cleaning and repairing habitats and cages, answering phones, filing, charting, and record-keeping, and evaluating and checking in injured wildlife.

Colonel, a corn snake, and I after we assisted him with shedding

his skin. Colonel is an education animal at the rehab center and

will never be re-released into the wild.

President of Teens With a Purpose - a Nonprofit Organization
2010-2011
Teens With a Purpose is a local nonprofit organization, completely run by teens, that worked to raise awareness and money for various causes, mostly human rights-related. As president, my duties were to conduct meetings, create agendas, plan events and fundraisers, contact sponsors, and communicate with members of the organization as well as the community.

Some of our events were written about in the local paper. Here is an article about the organization on world AID's day and here is an article about a fundraiser for a local restaurant that was damaged by a fire.

Intern at Bernard H. Thomas Leadership Academy
June 2010
I interned at the leadership academy with a class of fifth graders. My duties were to assist the teacher in any way possible, take roll of students, participate in all activities and team builders with the students, get to know the students and their goals, help students get from one place to another, and monitor student drop-off and pick up before and after the academy.

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