ariana simpson
Store Support Associate Team Leader at Whole Foods Market
wannabe zine queen . intersectional activist . poet editor .
experienced customer service specialist demonstrated history working retail industry . skilled journalism , poetry , editing , research , tutoring . strong support professional graduated rollins college .
Whole Foods Market
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Store Support Associate Team Leader
Whole Foods Market
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•Executing cash management for store including deposits, audits, and loans
•Strengthening relationships with team members and store leadership through a communication-obsessed approach, managing operations, and proposing new results-oriented ideas to help the store and team grow
•Demonstrating excellence in hospitality, resolving difficult customer situations, and acute awareness of customer needs by tracking customer/store flows then directing team members as necessary
•Holiday Table Point: Overseeing successful facilitation of placing and receiving orders through our online ordering system eStore for prepared meals and platters during all holidays year round as well as running the pickup process. Trained team, worked with alongside department leads, problem solved any issues for customers. During peak season of Thanksgiving oversaw successful completion of up to 200 orders a day
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Store Support Supervisor
Whole Foods Market
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• Provide support to the store and handle all guest service functions including processing Amazon and WFM returns, cash handling, bagging groceries, answering phones
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Store Support "Boothie"
Whole Foods Market
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• Operated machinery including La Marzocco grinder and espresso machine, nitro kegerator systems, BKON tea craft brewer to provide customers with specially crafted espresso, tea, and juice beverages
•Department absorbed into Bakery, duties included packing out products for the day and filling the service case after completing production e.g. cake writing, building terrines, topping cheesecakes and assisted department buyers in receiving
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Allegro Coffee Barista
Whole Foods Market
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•Utilized vast knowledge and safe food handling to provide upscale customer service behind the juice bar, coffee bar, cheese counter, and beer/wine service bar, while assisting in coffee roasting 
•Ensured that team members completed regionally assigned trainings and worked with other team trainers and TMS to train new hires for the store. Trainings were completed in a timely manner keeping the department within 95% completion by due dates.
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Specialty Team Trainer
Burrow Press
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•Curated an interview series, (aural)ando, that focused on local literary organizers and active zine curators who work to showcase the growing niche of aural and performative literature where I booked writers for interviewing, read submissions, edited written content, edited audio, and publishing
•Read submissions, communicated with other editors to edit pieces, build and strengthened relationships with writers and the literary community
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Contributing Editor
Teavana
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•Sales, opening and closing operations, restocking, store displays and resets, “tearista”
•Crafted specialty tea beverages iced and hot for taste, pleasure, and to assist customers who sought out the various health benefits of tea
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Sales Associate
Rollins College
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•Lead marketing promotions, clerical work, mediated communication between students and primary scholarship advisor, and scheduled appointments, trained new work studies, and trained in basic web design.
•In first year, placed head over delegating and designing annual banquet for scholarship applicants and their committees and designed the annual memory book for scholars
Office of External and Competitive Scholarships
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Work Study
Bachelor's of Arts
Although English Literature was my major, I also studied Sociology and Music (composition). My focus and interests lied in utilizing theory and research, coupled with creative writing to tell an intersectional narrative. As a student I took part in opportunities such as alternative spring and winter breaks that allowed me to visit places such as Selma, Flint, and Gainesville. I was allowed to experiment with poetry and encouraged to challenge institutionalized methods. It is through the lenses of social justice, empathy, nuance, research, and creativity that I will always strive to bring activism into my work.
English Language and Literature
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Rollins College
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Winter With the Writers is a festival of the literary arts open to the public that hosts a series of events including masterclasses led by invited writers and poets, readings by the invited writers and poets, interviews, and signings. The festival is run by a group of selected interns. Rollins students apply to be a part of the coveted program, and those chosen students operate the festival along with renowned poet and Program Director, Carol Frost. Students help with marketing, website maintenance, photography, hospitality, staging, and building an engaged social media presence for the festival.

Thanks to a then-new partnership with the National Book Foundation, I was able to work alongside 2015 National Book Award Finalists Ross Gay and Sy Montgomery; as well as Chase Twichell, Philip Deaver, and Antonio Skármeta while an intern of the festival. As a poetry focused writer, for my choice of masterclasses, I decided to share my work and study memorably with Ross Gay and Chase Twichell.
Winter With the Writers
Intern and Event Coordinator
International English Honor Society
Sigma Tau Delta
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Burrow Press
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Brushing is the literary and arts journal of the Rollins College student body. Brushing publishes poetry, fiction, play excerpts, and any form of visual art.

The Brushing literary and arts journal emerged in 1972 from the traditional, Spanish-style architecture of Rollins College, as a distinctive and inspired space for student creativity. At a time when Central Florida’s touristic landscape overshadowed the imaginative voices of our community, Rollins English students devised Brushing as a way to unearth and showcase this yearning for literary potential in an expressive and accessible platform.
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Brushing Art and Literary Journal
Brushing is the literary and arts journal of the Rollins College student body. Brushing publishes poetry, fiction, play excerpts, and any form of visual art.

The Brushing literary and arts journal emerged in 1972 from the traditional, Spanish-style architecture of Rollins College, as a distinctive and inspired space for student creativity. At a time when Central Florida’s touristic landscape overshadowed the imaginative voices of our community, Rollins English students devised Brushing as a way to unearth and showcase this yearning for literary potential in an expressive and accessible platform.
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Brushing Art and Literary Journal
Brushing is the literary and arts journal of the Rollins College student body. Brushing publishes poetry, fiction, play excerpts, and any form of visual art.

The Brushing literary and arts journal emerged in 1972 from the traditional, Spanish-style architecture of Rollins College, as a distinctive and inspired space for student creativity. At a time when Central Florida’s touristic landscape overshadowed the imaginative voices of our community, Rollins English students devised Brushing as a way to unearth and showcase this yearning for literary potential in an expressive and accessible platform.
I Am an Adjective
Brushing Art and Literary Journal Vol.XXXXII
Given to students majoring in English who demonstrate exceptional talent in creative writing.
Rollins College English Department
Charles Hyde Pratt Award: Excellence in Creative Writing
Arts and Culture
PALM BEACH POETRY FESTIVAL, INC
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The Palm Beach Poetry Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the writing, reading, performance, and appreciation of poetry – by presenting an annual festival and other poetry events in Palm Beach County – featuring America’s finest poets.

As an Event Coordinator I worked with poet Martha Rhodes and other interns assisting in workshops, meeting poet's needs, ensuring that readings went well with high attendance, providing set-up and take down of hall after other festival events, and so forth. Other poets of the festival included David Baker, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Tina Chang, Lynn Emanuel, Daisy Fried, Terrance Hayes, Dorianne Laux, Carl Phillips, and special guest was past U.S. Poet Laureate, Charles Simic.
Intern and Event Coordinator
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Greater Orlando
Alisha Taylor
Account Solutions Associate at Charles Schwab
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Arlington, VA
Laura Morgan Roberts
Organizational Psychologist / Author / Keynote Speaker / Professor / Consultant / Advisor / Architect of Alignment
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Denver, CO
Aaron Trombley
"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield"
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Denver, CO
Charlene Adimou
Paralegal
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Middletown, CT
Alice Rasmussen
Registered Behavior Therapist
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Broomfield, CO
Alyssa Garcia
Assistant Manager at Gap
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Knoxville, TN
Susan Flynn
Benefit Counselor at Colonial Life
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Denver Metropolitan Area
Mindi Winakur
District Manager
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Winter Park, FL
Ginna Leftwich
Customer Service Representative at Bogen Communications
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Greater Orlando
Michael Serrano
Master of Business Administration In Progress (ETA 2023 - Crummer), Master of Music (LSU), B.A in Music (Rollins College)
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Ocala, FL
Carley Ray
Health Coach & Certified Yoga Instructor
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Orlando, FL
Brittany Bonar
General Manager at Banana Republic Factory Store
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United States
Lori DeFalco
Venue Development Manager at Partner Plus Media
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Pittsburgh, PA
Jessica Donner
Assistant Store Manager at Party City
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Conifer, CO
Vicki Davis
Inside Sales Representative at Ideal Image. Writer. Operations expert. Organizing and planning guru. Highly experienced sales manager.
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Denver Metropolitan Area
Arizona Long
Services Manager at Ulta Beauty
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United States
Victoria Price
Talent Acquisition Specialist
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Denver, CO
Kelci Huggins
Technical Sourcing Recruiter at Amazon Advertising
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Andhra Pradesh, India
Caroline Ignetious
QA - Business Development at Pena4, Inc.
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Texas City, TX
Ariana Simpson
Human Resources & Payroll Manager at Island Famous, Inc.
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Iran
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Attended Ghods
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Waikato, New Zealand
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Manager at Te Whakaruruhau
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London, ON
Ariana Simpson
Manager, Life Sciences and Healthcare Omnia AI at Deloitte Canada
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United States
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