Austen Levihn-Coon Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Austen works with the world's leading non-profits to leverage technology to build grassroots power.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington, DC

As Chief Innovation Officer at Fission Strategy Austen managed a team of designers, developers, strategists, and campaigners executing on a dozen projects at a time. In this role he worked with team members to develop goals, track progress, manage budgets and timelines, build ownership, and grow expertise.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Austen is committed to supporting non-profits in their search to implement cutting edge technology to optimize their online engagement and supporter mobilization strategies. At Fission Strategy, Austen has overseen the strategic design, development, and implementation of Facebook apps, websites, infographics, and social media campaigns.

Fission strategy helps social causes harness social media for social good. We specialize in delivering social media and mobile-driven strategies for nonprofits and foundations. Our services include: mobile (SMS) action network launch & management, Facebook, Twitter, and mobile application development; online-to-offline grassroots event planning.

• Oversaw the web properties of Joe Trippi & Associates, contributing daily blog posts, managing a Twitter account with over 1.15 million followers, and conducting general website and social media maintenance
• Manages the web properties and strategic online communications for clients, drafting email copy, composing daily blog posts, and designing and implementing membership activation campaigns
• Implemented a website redesign for a national environmental non-profit integrating social network, online fundraising, and email communications tools, resulting in 20% month over month growth in website visitors and.

• Designed and implemented online social media campaign for youth climate conference with 12,000 attendees
• Managed profiles, engaged members, and grew communities on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter
• Promoted offline activism through online channels, tying online efforts to a grassroots field campaign
• Monitored the Power Shift ’09 blog, writing climate-related posts and cross-posting relevant content

• Recruited, trained, and coordinated volunteer teams that knocked on over 15,000 doors, made over 30,000 phone calls, and contacted over 10,000 targeted swing voters in historically Republican counties
• Utilized online social networks and online tools to mobilize new volunteers and facilitate remote volunteer participation to achieve offline voter contact

• Audited advertising practices, refining messaging and implementing a student involvement campaign featuring an online activist forum and workshops teaching community organizing skills
• Developed and ran a retreat for student activists which promoted activist collaboration, focused on environmental justice, and precipitated an atypical alliance of shareholders

• Audited efficiency of company practices, overhauling practices to remove hundreds of hours of unnecessary task repetition through technological solutions
• Designed and implemented on-site renewable fuels program for company’s vehicles to run on recycled vegetable oil
• Trained employees to use new fuel systems, conduct maintenance, and purchase new supplies

• Built community support for state and local action on electronic waste recycling and in opposition to landfill expansion
• Consistently met fundraising and letter writing goals

• Worked as Spanish translator for electronics exports to South America.
• Assisted with warehouse organization and shipping preparation

Ba, Social Inequities And Social Movements

Activities and Societies: Sunday Night Group, Alliance for Civic Engagement, Socially Responsible Investment Committee, Environmental.

Arabic

• Attended intensive courses in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Colloquial Arabic, completing levels 1-5 in each.

Marine Biology, Scuba, Maritime Literature, Applied Calculus, Caribbean History And Culture

Spanish

• Learned fluent Spanish while enrolled in local school in a year-long full immersion exchange program.

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