*Passed sweeping legislation to reform post-conviction procedure in New York State*Led organizational involvement in a national coalition to end the trial penalty*Managed lobbying efforts in a portfolio of 13 states, including developing legislative and communications strategies, participating in stakeholder meetings with government officials, managing contract lobbyists and creating and editing advocacy materials and direct lobbying*Built and maintained organizational presence in NYC coalition work*Established working group for exonerees to design model legislation to provide post-release services to exonerees*Initiated new program to lobby prosecutors directly to make policy changes in their offices to reduce wrongful convictions

*Led the process to pass over 20 pieces of legislation, including strategizing, drafting, coalition building and direct lobbying*Hired and managed a staff of 3-5 across the NYC and Albany offices*Served as internal liaison for the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Educational Technology*Developed and maintained legislative, lobbyist and press relationships*Negotiated compromises between community groups regarding local development issues in the community*Developed communications strategy that captured the Assemblymember’s legislative agenda and community interests; integrated weekly press releases and social media as well as informal communication with constituents and stakeholders*Supervised the creation of all administrative procedures in a new office*Oversaw $1 million annual office budget*Led annual grantmaking process, including $10 million in capital funding and $100,000 in programmatic funding

Taught and tutored SAT prep to NYC high school students

*Increased programmatic fundraising by 30% across 5 education programs by developing and implementing evaluation modules to improve content, enhance program delivery, and gain new members.*Revived the national book club; transformed an underutilized program into a thriving, beneficial curriculum that increased fundraising across the country and expanded membership to incorporate a younger demographic.*Leveraged social media to strengthen the organization's image and involve younger members; initiated Facebook presence; created online profile for the President and employed videos and podcasts to inform/update membership. *Created an online survey, enabling groups across the country to gain key insight into the program needs and wants of members, raise additional funds, and increase member participation.*Increased donations and event attendance by providing chapter leadership with innovative ideas for fundraising programs, ways to help their educational programs flourish, and templates for press releases, *Achieved significant increase (15%) in click-through and open rate on policy background emails.

*Designed, developed and implemented an organization-wide training program for more than 30 administrative assistants; standardized processes, promoted collaborative, team-driven environment, and decreased training costs.*Initiated weekly meetings with the Executive Assistants to the top 3 senior leaders of the organization (Assistant to the CEO, Assistant to the President, and Assistant to the CFO) to streamline processes and improve effectiveness. *Developed and implemented an online travel approval request system that decreased average turnaround from 10 days to less than 48 hours. *Evaluated processes from systemic, organization-wide perspective, implemented improvements, changed procedures, and maximized overall efficiency.*Maintained calendar, travel schedule, email and phones for the CEO; anticipated issues, addressed problems, scheduled meetings, and ensured all data/information was gathered and provided for events.*Point of contact for McKinsey consulting engagement; scheduled meetings for consultants with all stakeholders (more than 80 meetings per month).

Managed a department of 3 to format, proofread and deliver closing documents to county recorders to ensure real estate transactions were correctly processed