Grace Gong
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I host a top VC podcast called Smart Venture Podcast (SVPpro.com); past guests, including…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Volunteer

    Alternative Spring Break at the University of Illinois

    - Present 14 years 5 months

    Social Services

    The Sanctuary (Independent media center) Trip in Troy, New York (9 days)

    • Raised funds by selling various snacks in university dormitories, facilities, and libraries to support the Independent Media Center
    • Created a blog for the media organization and wrote articles for their website as an organization representative
    • Posted articles and summited photos to record the organization’s trip for ASB and the media center
    • Set up for the media center’s benefit concert…

    The Sanctuary (Independent media center) Trip in Troy, New York (9 days)

    • Raised funds by selling various snacks in university dormitories, facilities, and libraries to support the Independent Media Center
    • Created a blog for the media organization and wrote articles for their website as an organization representative
    • Posted articles and summited photos to record the organization’s trip for ASB and the media center
    • Set up for the media center’s benefit concert that featured a Grammy-winning singing group
    • Participated in such activities as painting houses and stairs, rearranging videos, organizing books in the library, and rebuilding the yard by relocating giant stones
    • Received the “Screaming/ Laughing Award” due to exhibiting a dedicated work ethic, well-rounded personality, and the ability to make friends with team members from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds

  • Volunteer

    Students Today Leaders Forever

    - Present 11 years 5 months

    Social Services

    Volunteered for local organizations in six different cities

    • In Indianapolis, IN: folded laundry, wiped the floor and window, cleaned up the trash for men’s homeless shelter
    • In Canton, OH: stuffed Easter eggs, painted and cleaned the church
    • In Pittsburgh, PA: read the story and talked to disabled children at a school for the blind
    • In Hershey, PA: cut roses in the snow, used giant iron trimmers to fix the roses
    • In Baltimore, Maryland: sorted dangerous shrapnel…

    Volunteered for local organizations in six different cities

    • In Indianapolis, IN: folded laundry, wiped the floor and window, cleaned up the trash for men’s homeless shelter
    • In Canton, OH: stuffed Easter eggs, painted and cleaned the church
    • In Pittsburgh, PA: read the story and talked to disabled children at a school for the blind
    • In Hershey, PA: cut roses in the snow, used giant iron trimmers to fix the roses
    • In Baltimore, Maryland: sorted dangerous shrapnel from floor tiles in a warehouse
    • In Washington, DC: picked up trash in the Anacostia River with 200 + students from 6 other schools (Minitosta Twin City, etc)

  • Volunteer

    Alternative Spring Break at the University of Illinois

    - Present 13 years 5 months

    Social Services

    Minnesota LGBT Volunteer Trip (9 days)

    • Created posters and bulletins to help local LGBT organization promote their meetings
    • Made and answered phone calls and contacted each LGBT family to come to the meeting
    • Wrote small supporting language on paper clips and put them around the community to give moral support to high school LGBT students
    • Traveled to the University of Minnesota to listen to multiple LGBT lectures to support the community

  • Volunteer

    Alternative Spring Break at the University of Illinois

    - Present 12 years 5 months

    Children

    South Dakota Trip Preparation

    • Watched South Dakota related videos with other team members, while learning about the local culture and what these people are going through
    • Assisted in finding a driver for our trip
    • Raised funds for the organization by selling various snacks in the Champaign-Urbana community
    • Made a private monetary contribution into the organization, while continuing to raise funds

Publications

Projects

  • NO SHOPPING THIS WEEKEND challenge

    This is a research project I did with Dr. Grace Giorgio. I created a Facebook event to encourage people to not shop for a weekend to experience an environmental weekend with family and friends. 230 people participated on Facebook, and a lot of my friends shared their thoughts and their way to protect the environments. It successfully made people learned the lesson in an active way.

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Honors & Awards

  • The "Chun Lei" Cup Chinese National Writing Competition

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    Awarded first place in the "Chun Lei" Cup writing competition. It has the highest reputation among Chinese high school and middle school.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • i-Invent

    Member

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    • Participated in group discussions about inventing websites, apps, organizations, and energy saving tools • Presented ideas about thing that could be invented and shared it with a group of people, receiving feedback to improve the original idea • Provided feedback to other group members and brainstormed about different strategies that could be used to improve one another’s projects • Shared entrepreneurial opportunities and creative, inspirational ideas with one another • Formed small teams…

    • Participated in group discussions about inventing websites, apps, organizations, and energy saving tools • Presented ideas about thing that could be invented and shared it with a group of people, receiving feedback to improve the original idea • Provided feedback to other group members and brainstormed about different strategies that could be used to improve one another’s projects • Shared entrepreneurial opportunities and creative, inspirational ideas with one another • Formed small teams and cooperated with members from different majors and cultural backgrounds to improve group project

  • Illini Body Building Club

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    • Participated in Facebook discussions with other club members and shared work out schedules to pair up working out in the gym • Developed personal training plans and shared inspirational videos, photos, and workout routines • Learned work out strategies and exchanged experiences with other club members about lifting and dieting • Associated with other members by watching the Arnold Classic at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to learn more about professional bodybuilding

  • JAMS Media (Journalism, Advertising, Media Study Student Organization)

    Media Study Head

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    • Writer & Photographer for Spread Digital Magazine; facilitated a photo shoot for the cover page of the first Spread Issue among other Spread Issues • Designed events, planned meetings, created bulletins to promote the events, organization and magazine • Recruited new members by creating posters, marketed a Facebook group and created Facebook events • Used strategies from other organizations to conceptualize an SNL style series of campus comedy videos

  • American Advertising Federation

    Active Member

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    • Designed marketing and advertising strategies for Illini Fencing club, designed recruiting strategies, designed the logo for the club, designed an avenue to advertise (i.e., a paper fan with logo) • Designed different marketing strategies for different organizations on campus, collaborated with 5-20 persons on a team, used Adobe Photoshop to create posters and brain storm slogans, watched different advertisements for inspiration, worked in a 3 persons team to retouch advertisement

  • American Marketing Association

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    • Participated in talks hosted by respected companies such as Yahoo, Macy’s, Jimmy John’s, Red Frogs • Engaged in club member discussions to organize volunteer events and other activities that would benefit the club and career fairs • Collaborated in recruiting talks held by famous and well-respected businesses • Attended different social events hosted by the club and got to know the attendees on a personal level

  • Web Monkey

    Member

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    • Engaged in club meeting • Discussed personal web designing plans with other club members • Gathered resources to self-educate for web designing

  • IRenergy

    Social Chair

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    • Planned social events to make club members more involved with the group • Organized the email list of club members • Assisted checking out the projectors and renting classrooms for club meetings • Attended various speeches given by professors and watched educational documentaries about energy crises around the globe • Collaborated in club discussions about the latest global energy issues • Planned trips to different local high schools to promote energy and environmental friendly…

    • Planned social events to make club members more involved with the group • Organized the email list of club members • Assisted checking out the projectors and renting classrooms for club meetings • Attended various speeches given by professors and watched educational documentaries about energy crises around the globe • Collaborated in club discussions about the latest global energy issues • Planned trips to different local high schools to promote energy and environmental friendly knowledge • Participated in debates and discussions about global energy use • Promoted the club by going to different classrooms and university facilities to write on chalkboards about upcoming events

  • Daily Illini

    Web Poster

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    • Used different posting systems such as Drupal and Gryphon to post articles, photos and videos, insync with The Daily Illini newspaper • Designed the layout of the website, tagged relevant sources, created name links for each individual, events and objects; Set up time stamps and recreated headlines for the official DI pages on Facebook and Twitter • Communicated with 3 different departments to obtain layout designs, wrote report letters to the DI chief editor,reported on work progress…

    • Used different posting systems such as Drupal and Gryphon to post articles, photos and videos, insync with The Daily Illini newspaper • Designed the layout of the website, tagged relevant sources, created name links for each individual, events and objects; Set up time stamps and recreated headlines for the official DI pages on Facebook and Twitter • Communicated with 3 different departments to obtain layout designs, wrote report letters to the DI chief editor,reported on work progress, number of people and technology issues; created on a Google document contact with other producers’ progress

  • University of Illinois Main Library

    Librarian

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    • Assessed 70+ individuals with checking in and checking out books on a weekly basis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign main library, the second-largest university library in the United States and the fifth-largest in the country overall • Managed phone calls by determining the person’s need and redirecting the caller to the right contact person • Organized and rearranged books in the library basement • Created paperback covers for the books • Arranged books and placed them…

    • Assessed 70+ individuals with checking in and checking out books on a weekly basis at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign main library, the second-largest university library in the United States and the fifth-largest in the country overall • Managed phone calls by determining the person’s need and redirecting the caller to the right contact person • Organized and rearranged books in the library basement • Created paperback covers for the books • Arranged books and placed them in alphabetical and chronological order

  • UIUC VAMP Photography Club

    Photographer

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    • Participated in a gallery concert involving four bands and gallery of photos taken by club members • Recorded the concert and gallery show with video and photography • Recruited to be a professional model by club member

  • Green Observer Magazine

    Member

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    • Designed poster for “Green Observer Canopy Benefit Concert” to promote the organization • Assisted in organizing benefit concert for publishing the Green Observer Magazine • Brainstormed and organized magazine content, such as articles, pictures, and organization events • Assisted the president in preventing the discontinuation of the magazine by recruiting new members and gathering interest from students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Coordinated with other…

    • Designed poster for “Green Observer Canopy Benefit Concert” to promote the organization • Assisted in organizing benefit concert for publishing the Green Observer Magazine • Brainstormed and organized magazine content, such as articles, pictures, and organization events • Assisted the president in preventing the discontinuation of the magazine by recruiting new members and gathering interest from students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Coordinated with other environmental organizations to clean up the organizations’ YMCA office

  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

    Lighting Assistant

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    • Handled professional stage lighting and determined the correct stage area to place the lights onstage • Worked in potentially dangerous areas on a weekly basis, such as the theatre ceiling and roof, to change the lights and tie the lighting core • Rearranged different color lighting papers into different folders • Set the angle of the lighting, putting different color lighting glass plastic papers on the lighting machine • Tested the lighting and took down the stage lights • Used…

    • Handled professional stage lighting and determined the correct stage area to place the lights onstage • Worked in potentially dangerous areas on a weekly basis, such as the theatre ceiling and roof, to change the lights and tie the lighting core • Rearranged different color lighting papers into different folders • Set the angle of the lighting, putting different color lighting glass plastic papers on the lighting machine • Tested the lighting and took down the stage lights • Used different iron lighting chips to change the shape and shade of the light • Painted props and set up stage background, at times independently

  • The Toxic Dance Group

    Performer, Dancer

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    • Performed in the production of “For Your Entertainment” with a 7 person-team at the Canopy Club in Champaign, Illinois • Provided choreography suggestions for the production • Communicated effectively with team members from many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds

  • Illini Union Board

    Marketing Committee event coordinator

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    • Created and coordinated IUB talent show with 7 other students, worked in the department and coordinated with other departments in the club, found programs, contacted performers, made programs, led auditions • Rehearsed and publicized the show by making flyers, posted posters around campus, made advertisements and created events to promote the show on Facebook, analyzed the budget, attracted investments • Fundraised money through advertising on IUB bulletin and sold cupcakes on campus •…

    • Created and coordinated IUB talent show with 7 other students, worked in the department and coordinated with other departments in the club, found programs, contacted performers, made programs, led auditions • Rehearsed and publicized the show by making flyers, posted posters around campus, made advertisements and created events to promote the show on Facebook, analyzed the budget, attracted investments • Fundraised money through advertising on IUB bulletin and sold cupcakes on campus • Created and planned different art shows in IUB gallery to fundraise money and help local artists sell art work

  • Concrete Canoe Club

    Member

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    • Gathered canoe building materials with teammates at the local material shop • Participated in club meetings to discuss future club plans • Designed canoe patterns for upcoming competition in the Spring of 2010

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