Outreach Coordinator
The Leakey Foundation
San Francisco, California
Plan, implement, and evaluate events including lectures, symposia, education outreach, film screenings, donor events, and board meetings across the USA. Prepare board documents and donor acknowledgements. Oversee partnership opportunities, budgets, vendors, and contracts. Recruit, train, and oversee volunteers and contractors. • Planned, implemented, and evaluated events for 5 to 700 people. Created a new event series whose audience was 79% new to the Foundation.• Developed new event partners including the Bay Area Science Festival, SF Giants, and SF Marathon. Strengthened partnerships with longterm partners including the California Academy of Sciences and American Museum of Natural History of NY.• Networked at conferences such as the Science Events Summit and American Association for the Advancement of Science to hone event skills.