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• Currently manage partnerships with community organizing, advocacy, and electoral organizations, supporting them with strategic campaign direction, stakeholder engagement strategies, and ensuring grant, donor, and board.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between data management, data science, product development, and program teams to deliver integrated support services and data-driven insights to partners.
• Developed and led implementation of a two-year partner experience strategic plan that sought to create comprehensive systems including partner onboarding protocols, transition documentation, feedback mechanisms, and.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive partner transition management system that facilitated over 20 successful handoffs between partnership managers through detailed organizational history documentation and.
• Created and scaled a standardized point-based Ladder of Engagement framework enabling 60+ partner organizations to quantify and track stakeholder activism (from volunteer actions to advocacy efforts), transforming how.
• Led strategic implementation of voter participation research initiatives, including design and management of first randomized control trial measuring which community organizing tactics, such as door-to-door canvassing.

• Designed and delivered a culturally-responsive leadership development program in Spanish for farmworker communities, resulting in three members taking on new leadership roles.
• Strategically aligned grant requirements with programmatic goals through systematic monitoring and reporting:
• Developed comprehensive event strategy to meet grant deliverables;
• Created tracking systems for grant compliance and reporting;
• Produced regular newsletters and updates for stakeholders;
• Led coalition-building efforts with statewide advocacy organizations to advance agricultural labor rights initiatives

• Co-managed the Peer-to-Peer program, from text-drafting to uploading campaigns on Impactive (formerly OutVote), collectively reaching 7 million voters with over 35 million texts.
• Managed 2 staff members who oversaw the WWAV Staff Digital Moderator program and the Volunteer Text Leader program, onboarding over 30 staff members and 8 volunteers, each completing 2 moderation shifts per week.
• Maintained the volunteer Slack channel, creating community through weekly activities, and regulating the nearly 6,000 volunteers who texted with WWAV.

New York, New York, United States

• Oversaw the quality control processes for statewide voter registration programs in 13 states, serving as the point of contact between the state coalitions, the national data team, and vendors.
• Redesigned and managed State Voices’ Data Certification Program online, facilitating the graduation of over 60 participants in 2019, and inaugurating the first onsite training in Atlanta, GA with over 30 attendees from.
• Traveled extensively to lead on-site and in-person trainings for national and local voter registration partners on programmatic aspects, including field planning, data tools and best practices, and voter registration.

Greater Chicago Area

• Designed and delivered a grassroots organizing training program for new volunteers and volunteer leaders, which reached 400 participants and involved 120 coalition partners
• Conceptualized and developed OFA’s first ever Spanish curriculum that reached over 40 volunteers across the country
• Facilitated an organization-wide after-action review to assess OFA’s first political program and offer a total of 21 recommendations
• Served as a liaison between volunteers, field staff, and the training team to transform field needs into training materials

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Assisted with all finance operations in a competitive gubernatorial race, successfully organizing over 500 hours of call time, directly resulting in nearly $500,000 raised
• Conducted donor research to expand the donor pool using public campaign finance data, an effort that brought in over 320 new donors in a two month period, a 28% increase from 2017
• Oversaw the data entry and analysis process using NGP VAN to track pledges, donor thank you process, and event RSVPs

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Developed and managed an integrated fundraising program, including executing candidate call time, organizing the pledge chasing program, and researching donors and prospects to continuously grow the pipeline and base.
• Planned and coordinated fundraising and voter outreach events, including an eight-city listening tour and 10 house receptions through Q4 2017
• Designed and implemented Phase 1 of a four-phase voter outreach strategy that sought to recruit, train, and mobilize volunteers and supporters to conduct voter contact through phone banking, canvassing, and digital.

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

• Assisted a team of international organizational development consultants in recommending a design for Alco CxA’s annual Week of Service, a key program in a comprehensive corporate social responsibility strategy
• Conducted and supported research in communities of focus by coordinating site visits and interviews with local residents, organizing a database for tracking collected data, and helping with data analysis.
• Worked closely together with Alco CxA’s Community Affairs Director to assist with the implementation of the pilot program, which successfully connected 63 company employees to community service events

Broward County, FL

• Implemented a capacity building and voter outreach strategy using proven organizing tactics that increased voter turnout by six points and delivered a win for Secretary Clinton and Democrats in a key region of a major.
• Recruited, trained, and supported three volunteer teams with over 50 committed volunteer leaders responsible for conducting voter contact in their local communities
• Worked closely with volunteer leaders to register new voters and expand the electoral universe for Democrats, ultimately leading my region in voter registration through Q4 2016
• Managed a team of four interns who assisted volunteer teams in coordinating phone banks, door-to-door canvasses, and voter registration drives

Greater New York City Area

• Coordinated and assisted with the implementation of large events, including reunion weekends and graduate job fairs, which helped maintain the relationship between the College and alumni
• Screened and routed incoming communication, arranged travel for senior leadership, and managed the team’s calendar of events

• Assisted with day-to-day operations, including handling records management and data entry using Accudemia, managing e-mail correspondence, and greeting and directing clients

Bronx, NY

• Tutored middle school students in all academic subjects
• Provided strategies for time management skills, study skills, and overall academic success

Department Of Nephrology

• Crossbred and genotyped mice in order to combine desired gene lineages
• Used PCR techniques to identify and isolate mice with necessary expressed biomarkers
• Quantitatively analyzed proteins on Western blots using ImageJ for a publication on acute kidney injury
• Co-authored, “Unique Transcriptional Programs Identify Subtypes of Acute Kidney Injury,” Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, November 2016

Master Of Arts - Ma, Food Studies; Policy & Advocacy

Thesis: "Your Food, Our Way: Empowering Farm Workers With Tools for Change" Research focus: Agricultural labor rights, farmworker.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Sigma Delta Tau, American Chemical Society Minors in Mathematics and French