Jaime Puente

Curriculum Vitae

2011 Marshall St. #20 | Houston, TX 77098 | (832) 475-1522 | j.r.puente(at)gmail.com

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON- DOWNTOWN, HOUSTON, TX
B.A in English (In Progress) 2010
Major: English
Minor: History/ Philosophy

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Student Representative
UH-Downtown Presidential Search Advisory Committee Dec. 2008- May 2009

Dean’s List
College of Humanities and Social Science, University of Houston- Downtown 2008-2009

President, Pro-Tem
Student Government Association, University of Houston- Downtown Spring 2009

Vice-President, Pro-Tem
Student Government Association, University of Houston- Downtown Fall 2008

President
Toastmasters, University of Houston- Downtown 2008-2009

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

“Inverting Masculinity in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried”
Paper Presented at University of Houston- Downtown “Policing Gender” Undergraduate Conference, 2009

“History and Legacy of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement”
Lecture given at Lonestar College as a supplement to U.S History from 1877 survey course, 2009

PUBLICATIONS

Scholarship Essay:

“Keeping the Story Alive: An Interview with a Hispanic Elder”
Published in the Houston Hispanic Genealogical Society Annual Journal: 2008 Scholarship Essay Contest Winner

Text Book Supplement:

“Speech of Introduction”
Helped design an instructional strategy, and performed those strategies in the Narrative Text version which accompanies the text, Public Speaking: Choices for Effective Results, published by Kendall Hunt, 2008

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Intern
BizTools.com
Administaff Inc., Summer 2009

Student/ Office Assistant
University College Academic Advising
University of Houston- Downtown 2007-2009

Research Assistant
Rhonda Ragsdale, PhD Candidate
Rice University- History Department 2006- 2009

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CoCo’s Crepes & Coffee, Manager 2004-2005