Amy Williamson Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California Area

Developing community partnerships to help people build financial health. Integrating free financial coaching with various local inclusive economic development initiatives.

Sacramento, California Area

Promoting the best use of human and financial resources to support, grow and create partnerships, programs and policies that help households in our region build economic security.

Sacramento, California Area

Communications, partnership development, fundraising, research and management for affordable housing and leadership development organization.

Published in Forbes, SF Weekly, Sacramento News & Review, East Bay Business Times, California magazine. Pitched stories, worked closely with editors, met tight deadlines.During this period I also spent six months as a Fellow at California magazine and four months on the staff of a student-produced magazine at the UC Berkeley journalism school. Responsibilities included reporting; writing articles, blurbs and captions; editing; copy editing; photo editing; fact-checking.

Created and managed nonprofit matched savings and financial education program through which low-income families worked toward home purchase, small business development and higher education goals.Raised over $1 million from wide variety of public and private funding sources, responsible for all program facets. Developed U.S. Treasury-recognized financial capability curriculum based in adult group learning methods; taught workshops in English and supervised instructors in Russian, Spanish… Show more Created and managed nonprofit matched savings and financial education program through which low-income families worked toward home purchase, small business development and higher education goals.Raised over $1 million from wide variety of public and private funding sources, responsible for all program facets. Developed U.S. Treasury-recognized financial capability curriculum based in adult group learning methods; taught workshops in English and supervised instructors in Russian, Spanish and Hmong.Managed collaborations with several community-based organization and financial institution partners. Conducted and/or supervised all program reporting and output/outcome evaluation. Show less

Worked with staff, volunteers, community organizations and low-income residents of rental housing complexes to develop on-site youth and economic development services and programs.

Reported on wide range of community events/issues. Attended city council, school board and other community meetings, developed source networks. Wrote news/features for daily papers.

Mj, Journalism

Ms, Community Development

Bs, Applied Behavioral Sciences