Annie Mazzarella Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Develop and execute strategic communications to amplify NLC's federal advocacy efforts, enhancing influence on national municipal policy.
• Collaborate with 7 lobbyists and policy committees to translate complex legislative issues into compelling narratives for diverse audiences.
• Manage media relations for federal advocacy initiatives, securing national media placements to position NLC as the leading voice on municipal issues.
• Craft content for press releases, op-eds, policy briefs, and social media to effectively communicate NLC's stance on federal legislation.
• Develop advocacy toolkits and resources, empowering local leaders to engage with federal representatives.
• Analyze advocacy communications effectiveness, optimizing strategies for target audience engagement.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Facilitated and organized councilmembers’ calendars to coordinate meetings with developers, lobbyists, and constituents to discuss city goals and strategies.
• Worked collaboratively with department directors to prepare policy changes to present for approval at city council meetings. Successfully created, presented, and passed a unanimous ordinance change to Tempe City Code.
• Ideated, scheduled, and published 50+ social media posts per week across Facebook, X, Instagram, and other channels on behalf of councilmembers.
• Organized and staffed monthly community outreach and social events for councilmembers to connect with up to 100 constituents at a time.

Arizona, USA

• Oversaw, organized, and staffed candidate's weekly call time program (assure call sheets are ready per fundraising plan, log activity in CallTimeAI and NGP, and perform routine follow-up with donors)
• Tracked progress to produce regular reports on call/cash flow metrics for candidate and senior staff
• Worked directly with finance director and campaign manager to carry out finance plan (assist with production of fundraising events, staffing candidate as necessary, and securing contributions)
• Aided in preparation of thank you letters, event invitations, and other mail solicitations

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Worked closely under finance director to execute campaign's fundraising plan
• Conducted donor research and cultivated supporter base to increase the number and size of individual contributions
• Worked immediately with host committees to plan fundraisers and recruit attendees (designed invitations, tracked and updated RSVP lists, consistently staffed candidate while soliciting donations throughout)
• Collected and maintained up-to-date donor records for the campaign in NGP database
• Recruited, trained, and managed interns' schedule and workflow

Tempe, Arizona, United States

• Functioned as liasion between technology development team and sales/marketing team to prepare and evangelize Valore's products
• Worked collaboratively across departments to manage intranet migration to the cloud
• Oversaw QA for more than 1,000 cross-department SharePoint migrations
• Wrote and designed accompanying email campaigns and graphic content

Tempe, Arizona

• Provided hour-long tours of the ASU Tempe campus to families discussing tips for academic success, campus resources, Sun Devil athletics, and the school's history and current assets
• Used public speaking skills and energetic personality to assist prospective students in their college-decision making process

Tempe, Arizona

• Served as a lab leader in the Public Forum Debate Lab at a non-profit summer camp (recurring July 2015-July 2018) designed to help students further their success as high school speech and debate students
• Worked with fellow coaches and overseers to create a rigorous curriculum emphasizing technical debate skills as well as a strong foundational understanding of government, foreign affairs, and public policy
• Procured self-written lectures plus conditioning drills on research, professionalism, word economy, and organization

Ahwahtukee, Arizona

• Met with the team 6 hours per week to enhance their research, written, and verbal communication skills
• Critically coached and created arguments based on intense reading of topic literature
• Lead a team to qualify to the National Speech and Debate tournament as well as the Tournament of ChampionsDesert Vista High School has been named a School of Outstanding Distinction at the NSDA National Speech and.

Mppa, Masters Of Public Policy And Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Barrett, The Honors College, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, Devils' Advocates, ASU Young Democrats.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate (President/Founder), The SPArrow Student Newspaper (Editor), Varsity soccer team, Varsity.

Education record

Through a study abroad in London with ASU's Barrett Honors College, I earned 6 upper division honors credits from courses each taught by.