Mira Khaled

Entrepreneur, Content Writer, English Instructor

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Intro

Beirut, Lebanon

CEO at Htch

Studied Certificate of teaching English to Speakers of other Languages at Cambridge - IH

Studied English Language and Literature/ Minor Psychology at Beirut Arab Univerity

Joined June 8, 2021

Skills

Languages

English

Fluent

Arabic

Native or Bilingual

About

Taking on the entrepreneurship road by working on my own startup, Htch. Htch is an online smart furniture startup that offers customizable, multifunctional and space-saving furniture that boosts your at-home productivity Developing and pivoting towards the Content Creation career path. I have developed the content for a medical speech therapy clinic as well as contributed to the content creation and marketing of a skin care startup in social media. Cofounder and Curriculum Developer in an edutech company, BloomEdu. It has a technical and empowering summer program called Genius Mind, for children from 6 till 11 years, under the Continuing Education Center (CEC) and UNICEF in American University of Beirut (AUB). In Bloom-Edu, we provide monthly workshops all over Lebanon where we teach Engineering, Adobe Illustrator, and wood classes for refugees and under-privileged students; funded by UNICEF. The purpose of these classes is to give the student the chance to imagine, grow, and create. In addition, I was also working as an English teacher in HOPES/HEEAP project in collaboration with the British Council. In this project, I helped in the education of refugee students intensive English; with the aim of establishing a safe, cohesive, and communicative environment for the student’s learning needs. Finally, I have been working in Wellspring Learning Community for two years as an ESL Support for MYP and DP students as well as an MYP English Language and Literature for grade 6 and 7.

Experience

Htch

Nov 2020 – Present

Lebanon

CEO

Founder of Htch. An online smart furniture startup that offers customizable, multifunctional and space-saving furniture that boosts your at-home productivity

Intelligile Excellence

Jul 2020 – Jun 2021

Lebanon

Content Writer

Content writer for website. Content creator for a speech therapy clinic. (Medical) CC for a skincare company. (Business E-commerce)

Bloom-Edu

Jul 2016 – Jun 2021

beirut, Lebanon

CoFounder & Project Developer

Co-Founder & Project, Curriculum Developer Develop proprietary curriculums that delivers a variety of educational programs such as Genius Mind, introduces science, tech, robotics, arts and history in an innovative manner. Another program: Techwork Workshop funded by UNICEF; teaching Adobe Illustrator and Engineering classes for Refugees and Under-privileged students

Wellspring Learning Community

Aug 2018 – Jun 2021

Lebanon

ESL Instructor + MYP English Teacher

MYP English Language and Literature instructor for grades 6 & 7 ESL Support for MYP and DP students, and high school

British Council

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019

Lebanon

ESL Instructor

HOPES/HEEAP Project by BC in BAU English instructor to support refugee students adults, while building a safe and communicative environment.

Education

Cambridge - IH

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019

CELTA Degree, Certificate of teaching English to Speakers of other Languages

Beirut Arab Univerity

Aug 2015 – Jul 2018

BA in English Language and Literature , English Language and Literature/ Minor Psychology