EPCAMR would like to welcome our newest Part-time Bookkeeper to our Staff, Denise Hernandez, Wilkes-Barre, PA on board who will also be doubling as a Community Service Volunteer since having recently graduated in May 2014, from King’s College with a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Environmental Studies, and minoring in Geography. She also has an Associate Degree in Science, from Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY, where she majored in Community Health, back in 1997.
Denise Hernandez, EPCAMR’s Part-Time Bookkeeper and Community Service Volunteer
Denise comes to EPCAMR through a reference and Professor from Luzerne County Community College, Dr. Brooke Yeager, who is a long-time supporter and friend of EPCAMR’s. It’s a very small world. She even knows some colleagues of the EPCAMR Executive Director’s through some AAU Sports Programs that her son is involved with in the City of Wilkes-Barre and they have some close friends that are only six degrees of separation apart from one another. She has plenty of experience in the Microsoft Office Suite and QuickBooks, which is a bonus. Dierdre Jolley, our former Part-time Bookkeeper has moved on from EPCAMR in an amicable way to a more long-term full-time accounting position in the Back Mountain. Denise has been able to fill her shoes quite well. Denise also has some familiarity with ArcGIS Suite (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox-Verson 10) and other geospatial data management tools. She’s looking forward to volunteering with EPCAMR to learn more about our use of GIS and 3D Modeling of our underground mines throughout the Anthracite Region as a Volunteer, while being paid for a few hours out of the month to assist EPCAMR with Accounting and Bookkeeping principles, reconciliations, invoices, reimbursements, and data entry into our QuickBooks for Non-Profits Accounting Software.
She has previously worked for the Institute for Public Policy and Development, Wilkes-Barre, PA in the Fall of 2013 as an Intern. She is currently also working for the Good Shepard Lutheran Church, Wilkes-Barre, PA from April of 2007 to the present, where she is a Parish Secretary. She has previously worked at the Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke, PA as an Administrative Assistant/Receptionist, so EPCAMR’s clerical duties are nothing new to her, although the type of work that we do to restore the environment is. She previously had been a Receptionist/Administrative Assistant for the Times-Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA as well. She has a very long and productive work history and is Bi-lingual in Spanish. EPCAMR is hoping to be able to provide her with some opportunities to work in the field with our Staff on projects and with students during some of our Summer and Fall Environmental Education Programs. Her ability to speak another language may come in handy as we continue to work with a very diverse student population within the coalfield communities and underserved school districts that we partner with. Denise excitedly said, “I am very excited to work with Robert and EPCAMR on environmental issues in the area that I’m not entirely familiar with. I’m like a sponge! I will eat up all the information that they will give me and experiences that the Staff are willing to share ! I’m looking forward to spending as much time with them over the Summer and Fall and hopefully thereafter, to gain some very valuable experiences and participate in some first hand community experiences to clean up the watersheds that have been impacted by AMD and abandoned mines”.
Robert stated, “I knew I liked her the second I met her because of her calm demeanor, her background, and her enthusiasm for wanting to obtain the position. I need someone who is as detail-oriented as I am for this position. We hit it off during the interview right away. She knew where I was coming from and I know where she wanted to go. Plus, it’s good to have another set of eyes on the books to cross-reference my check book register with the actual bank statements and Quickbooks, along with our Treasurer, and myself.” “Part-time work is just what she needed and we can provided her with a few hours a week, in addition to her wanting to become an active volunteer with EPCAMR because of her background and recent degree in Environmental Studies. I think she will benefit tremendously from working with EPCAMR and volunteering for other opportunities that we offer throughout the year where she can participate in to get a feel for the breadth and depth of work that a regional non-profit organization like ours does to improve our watersheds, rivers, streams, and land impacted by past mining practices.”
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