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Ashti Mistry
ashti.mistry@gmail.com

Tufts University Bachelor of Arts Degree; May 2009 Child Development and Sociology

Work and Research Experience

Belmont Cambridge Health Care August 2010- Present
Cambridge, MA
● Patient coordinating
● Billing and insurance claims
● Administrative assistance

Adoption Coordinating Agency of Karnataka October 2009 – May 2010
Karnataka, India
●Accompanied social workers on home study visits and answered questions relating to adoption
●Composed home study reports
●Assembled a comprehensive data catalogue of adoption cases in the agency
●Presentations on adoption from the perspective of an adopted child
●Visited orphanages and wrote status report updates

Manipal Hospital August-October 2009
Karnataka, India
●Play Therapist in Pediatric Oncology Ward
●Ages of 10mo to 18 years
●Utilized games, toys and books to distract children from pain, surgery or doctors

Adoption in India - Independent study Summer 2007
Bharatiya Samaj Seva Kendra, Pune, India
●Volunteer work at an orphanage and adoption agency
●Assisted in organizing a Post-Adoption workshop for families

Other Experience

Tufts Educational Day Care Center
Somerville, MA
Special Friends Program September 2007- May 2008
●Built a relationship with a three-year-old girl
●Helped build her verbal and communication abilities through games and imaginary play

Asian American Peer Leading 2007 Academic Year
Tufts University, Medford, MA
●Assisted in organizing discussion boards on race and ethnicity
●Mentor for freshmen

Holt International Conference April 14 2011- April 17 2011
Washington, DC
●Talk on International Indian Adoptee personal experience

Language Skills
●Spanish- conversational
●Hindi- conversational