Makia Tillman is an Administrative Support Specialist in the Personal and Organizational Development for North Carolina Cooperative Extension at North Carolina State University.

Makia holds a Masters of Arts degree in Educational Technology and Research and a Bachelors of Arts in Education with a minor in American Sign Language. She is currently a doctoral student majoring in Technology Education at North Carolina State University.

Makia has a very diverse background. Her professional experience includes a total of nine years of teaching (eight years at the elementary level and one year at the collegiate level). Also, she was employed as a job developer/job coach where she assisted deaf and hard of hearing persons to gain employment and served as a communications assistant where she relayed telephone calls and served as a liaison between the hearing and the deaf. Makia is semi-fluent in American Sign Language and have many years of interacting and connecting within the deaf and hard of hearing communities.

Her duties (in her current position) as an administrative support specialist include: website maintenance, assist with administrative and secretarial duties, schedule/coordinate meetings/conferences/workshops, in service training for NCCE, new employee orientation, manage the learning management system, and serve as a resource professional.

Her long-term commitments are geared towards obtaining a faculty position and eventually excelling to the highest-level office at a university and becoming a well-renown author and writer.

MAKIA

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