COLLEGE OF

Education and Human Development

Tina Zillhart

  • Pronouns: she, her

  • Employer Relations Coordinator

Tina Zillhart

Areas of interest

  • Challenging students to engage with opportunities they haven’t considered before
  •  Engaging career exploration in ways that meets students where they are
  • Holistic student development
  • Community Engagement
  • Mental health and the intersectionality of marginalized identities
  •  How to better understand what a good work environment means to individuals
Biography

I have been a part of the University of Minnesota since I began as an undergraduate in the College of Liberal Arts in 2009. While an undergraduate, I studied history and political science. This helped me understand the complexities of the ways that institutions are present in and work with communities. I knew that I wanted to provide community engagement in some capacity. However, as I often like to share when connecting with students, I did not take advantage of my career services resources. So, when the time came for me to decide what I wanted to do next, I realized that I was missing the kind of engagement I needed to do in order to understand what work I was interested in. This led me to join the AmeriCorps VISTA program, serving the City of St. Paul for two years exploring educational programming.


In 2015, I came back to the University as a staff member in the Office for Student Affairs (and not too much later, as a graduate student in CEHD!). My positions in Student Affairs gave me the opportunity to learn about the importance of holistic student development and support, something that I have brought to my current position as the Employer Relations Coordinator. I use this experience to challenge students and employers to challenge conventional approaches to career and recruitment, encouraging creative thinking and innovative engagement strategies

  • Education: 
    Undergraduate degree in History and Political Science from the University of Minnesota,
    College of Liberal Arts
  • Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development (Higher Education) from the University of Minnesota, College of Education and Human Development 
     

Myers-Briggs: 
INTJ

Strengths: 
Context; Input; Intellection; Restorative; Ideation

Dream Job: Dog rescue!


I’m passionate about: Engaging in fandom culture


Fun fact:
I am also a professional dog trainer