Amy Casso Email & Phone Number

As a Senior Associate, she collaborates with organizations, networks, government agencies, and communities to produce and deliver services committed to transformational, long-term change for racial equity. She employs a collaborative change framework to shift and build power in ways that challenge the underlying drivers of inequities. Her client services.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Provide strategic direction for organizational initiatives that strengthen cultural competency, and understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, and other areas of individual identity.
• Created and executed a citywide Equity Training Program and Equity Capacity Building Initiative
• Developed curriculum and tools; designed customized training strategies; administered a train-the-trainer model; managed DEI consultants.
• Facilitated and aligned cross-departmental training teams, department equity action teams, and equity trainer cohorts (100 trainers/40 Departments) in implementing a three-part equity curriculum.
• Implemented targeted and large-scale DEI programming for all City employees.
• Administered and managed departmental equity assessments and action plans for designated City departments.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Developed and implemented programs strategically designed to give a voice to intersectional marginalized communities by building coalitions through grassroots organizing focused on racial, gender and reproductive.
• Oversaw and evaluated the implementation of gender justice programs including We are BRAVE (Building Reproductive Autonomy and Voices for Equity) a reproductive justice project instrumental in the development and.
• Strategic oversight of legislative and ballot measure campaign strategies, staff, campaign coalition budget and communications strategies.
• Coordinated program integration with Racial Justice and Tribal Sovereignty Directors on tools, curriculum, and training plans.
• Administrative and managerial oversight of program staff (incl. recruitment and hiring) and program budget.
• Subject matter expert to organizations, campaigns, foundations, and governmental agencies on racial, gender and reproductive justice inclusionary policies and best practices.

San Antonio, Texas Area

• Conducted health and social policy analysis and advocacy for systemic changes in health and social policies impacting Latinx health. Organized advocacy support and civic education activities on policy priorities by.
• Strategized and implemented program activities: research, program objectives, curriculum design and training.
• Supervised staff, research interns and/or volunteers.
• Secured strategic partnerships with coalitions, educational institutions, legislative staff, and community.
• Developed communication strategies for legislative campaigns; cultivated media contacts, organized press conferences; produced media talking points and messaging.
• Analyzed, developed, and monitored local, state, and national policies.

Founding member of a regional grassroots organization committed to providing immigrant rights advocacy groups with tools, political analysis, training opportunities and spaces for dialogue that modeled popular education principles. Project Responsibilities: * Conducted strategic planning and established organizational infrastructure. * Convened local.

A national staffer based in Texas, coordinated Immigrant Community Organizers (ICO) program, a resource for immigrant rights organizers nationwide. Program Management Responsibilities:* Responsible for ICO program outreach and recruitment. * Established and provided oversight to ICO working groups, facilitated meetings, developed workplans, and produced.

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Salem, Oregon

Master Of Public Administration, 2002

Bachelor Of Arts, Planning, Public Policy And Management & Political Science

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Leadership Studies