Founding Executive Director of Trans Bloom, an intergenerational trans and BIPOC-centered cultural hub dedicated to healing through creativity and connection. Manages relationships with community advisory board, organizing committee, funders, and other stakeholders to facilitate the success of an emerging arts and culture organization dedicated to trans liberation and racial justice.

• Created and managed development projects raising $4M for emerging organizations focused on racial justice, trans liberation, cultural transformation, and health equity. • Created successful integrated communications and marketing strategies including videos, events, guerilla marketing, websites, films, and advocacy campaigns. Some previous clients include:ADVOCACY• LA Black Worker's Center• Harvard LGBTQ+ Legal Clinic • Mijente• Hire Trans ChicagoPHILANTHROPY• Third Wave Foundation• Pride FoundationMUSEUMS/CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS- The Chicago History Museum- Trans Cultural District- Tenderloin Museum - Digital Transgender ArchivesMEDIA• Bay Area Video Coalition• Eye Witness- Femme FronteraSOCIAL SERVICES• Trans Lifeline • Chicago Latina/o HIV Collaborative• Lighthouse Foundation

• Began as Interim Director of Development (2020-2021) and then Director of Development (2022-present)• Directed a team that raised $1.5 million, increasing the budget from $100K in 2020 to $850,000 in 2023• Secured 74% of all grants, 86% of eligible existing grants, and 42% of new grants • Secured our first multi-year support, tripled the number of grants over $50,000, and established a contingency fund• Spearheads comprehensive fundraising strategy, researches and prospects new grants, develops grants management systems, creates case materials, writes grants, and coaches executive team through funder cultivation• Provides operations support such as designing tracking and evaluation systems, stewarding employee benefits, and streamlining workflows• Thought partner who helps develop the Black Queer Equity Index, a community-led participatory research project building health equity by evaluating how nonprofits treat Black LGBTQ+ staff and board members, publishing an annual report card and offering actionable interventions.

• Increased engagement across all social media platforms to garner 1.25 million annual impressions• Increased newsletter subscribers by 36% (4K) and increased the open rate from 18% to 42%• Engaged a range of stakeholders to drive program re-brand with the coordinated website launch, pitch packet, PR campaign, and event series promotion

• Directed documentary series exploring social issues with BIPOC trans folks that was supported by GLAAD, Arcus, Sundance, and Britt Doc• Collaborated with Community Advisory Board (CAB) to identify strategic priority areas (HIV criminalization, immigration, and civil rights), develop a theory of change, and create an equity-based business model• Partnered with 75+ organizations (including MIT, Creating Change, and the Allied Media Conference) to host 100 workshops, keynotes, and trainings

• Initiated and managed a community-driven project including 100 interviews, a self-publishing hub with400 titles, 5 multimedia installations, 3 residencies, a traveling exhibition, and community events• Established funding base for projects through grants, online fundraising, and fee-for-service contracts• Created and maintained systems to support leadership development, delegation, volunteer accountability, fundraising, and content creation

• Spearheaded development strategy that increased annual revenue of Trans Lifeline from $125K in 2015 to $1.14M in 2017, including by cultivating 10,000 new individual donors, working with corporate partners (such as Google and Twilio), and developing a grassroots fundraising campaign that won all eligible Give OUT Day categories – a first in the history of the event• Expanded capacity of marketing, communications, and development teams by recruiting, training, and supervising two grant writers and six social media team members• Developed recruitment, retention, and training strategy for new board members• Established systems for donor and gift record-keeping, acknowledgment, and reporting• Garnered earned media attention from major mainstream news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and USA Today

• Forged and managed over 100 community partnerships with cultural institutions, advocacy groups, and schools to recruit 4,000 storytellers• Facilitated 600 conversations including over 50 that were featured on NPR’s Morning Edition & WBEZ• Collaborated to plan quarterly public events with 150 participants from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities

• Led a CDC-sponsored peer-to-peer intervention with Latinx men who have sex with men ages 18-24• Recruited, trained, and managed a team of 12 peer education specialists to put on social, cultural, and educational events for up to 200 people• Planned and executed weekly events and monthly media marketing campaignscreate publicity campaigns encouraging safer sex and regular STI testing; • Created a structure for drop-in program and transitional housing program (el Rescate) for young adults• Coordinate grassroots fundraising efforts

• Developed coordinated communications strategy between Local 1’s 14 constituent cities• Revamped website, spearheaded social media presence, and oversaw design, production, and distribution of printed and online media

• Coordinated a cultural exchange program between youth in rural Vermont and youth on a Native American reservation in North Dakota• Developed integrated arts and social justice curriculum, taught multimedia production, and led weekly student-centered critiques

• Co-taught integrated arts and social justice curriculum with BIPOC youth, taught multimedia production, and led student-centered critiques