• Lead weekly meetings to align a seven-person cross-functional team that oversees 35 violence intervention and prevention contracts and projects equaling over a $4 million budget• Spearhead the adoption and training of Asana utilizing an agile methodology to scale the programs and impact of the office that benefits Austin’s million+ residents • Establish automized workflows and a standard intake process for evaluating project prioritization to increase efficiency and timeliness in accomplishing the SMART goals set out by the office• Design and establish a strategic communication plan to identify common terms, definitions, and talking points to streamline all future communication efforts for the office• Create curriculum and managed an educational workshop on the body’s natural stress response and stress management techniques for a sponsored neighborhood safety summit• Identify gaps and constructed standardized protocols for onboarding, contract management, community engagement, event sponsorship, and grant applications initiatives for the office • Coordinate a federally funded grant program to create a cross-jurisdictional standard firearm surrender protocol for domestic violence cases in Austin and Travis County• Wrote a federal grant for supplemental funding for the City’s new Community Violence Intervention that utilizes trusted messengers to target high-risk individuals to change their behaviors away from committing violent acts

• Constructed an asset map plan and visual model of resources to overcome the impact of interpersonal violence for one of Austin’s violence hotspots to identify gaps that can target future initiatives to assist people most impacted by violence • Created educational and actionable material for distribution at local community engagement events• Produced a community engagement plan to further integrate the new city office with community leaders• Supported writing and facilitating a MOU for three local organizations to apply for a federal grant to improve the continuum of care for mental health, substance use, and reentry services for people leaving incarceration• Evaluated requests for proposal applications to determine the best applicant(s) to support a community rooted grant to support the violence prevention work of small, local non-profits • Design a community needs survey in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese to gather data on residents’ perception of safety in their community to shape future programmatic efforts for an equitably safer city• Researched community engagement and coalition-building techniques to produce and implement a strategic outreach framework for the city’s new Violence Prevention Coalition

• Recommended process improvement and organizational change strategies to streamline operations through standardized operating procedures and innovative technology solutions• Facilitated in-depth interviews and transcribed current operational procedures and cross-departmental needs utilizing Vizio to streamline grant management operations and selection of a new CRM system

• Conducted subject matter expert interviews and researched program sustainability best practices for state-wide non-profits and corporate social responsibility fundraising to develop a comprehensive funding sustainability strategy report • Developed a 4-month project plan and delegated responsibilities among a 4-person team of student consultants to meet project milestones in a timely manner

• Conducted interviews with the organization's coalition leaders to understand what data they require to make informed decisions for their various initiatives, programming, and services • Compared findings from informational interviews with data that is publicly available and identify gaps where publicly available data does not exist and/or cannot fulfill the coalitions’ data needs • Composed a presentation to leadership of 20+ data metric recommendations from current and future data needs • Provided recommendations for cost-efficient and sustainable software for dashboard development

• Organized and created consulting material for an internal cohort of consultants to lead monthly community advisors group meetings tasked with co-creating a blueprint for the organization’s future strategic direction by reviewing and providing qualitative perspectives to their community needs survey findings• Served on a panel and created presentation materials and speaking points for an audience of 20 people for Mission Capital’s Partnership in Measurement event to relay the highlights and challenges as one of St. David’s first equitable evaluation grantees• Composed a bi-monthly newsletter template used to recruit community members to a community-based participatory research initiative

Capacity Catalyst matches graduate-level, highly skilled students to community organizations with data, measurement, and evaluation projects. My externship match was with Hearts2Heal. I now serve as a yearly alumni panelist to assist future externs with navigating the process of becoming an independent non-profit consultant as an early career professional.

• Analyzed and developed data visualizations for a community needs survey with over 100 responses to synthesize insights for local stakeholders involved in BIPOC mental health services and to create data-driven strategic plans

• Conducted a comparison study on various state and national level healthcare systems and SWOT analysis to refine innovative approaches of high-functioning public health systems supporting low-income individuals• Facilitated weekly research objective meetings for a six-member team in the strategic planning division

• Executed a quantitative survey for current and previous program participants to measure the impact and shortcomings to lead strategic planning efforts to enhance the engagement and retention of programs

• Developed and disseminated a county-wide bilingual (English and Spanish) survey on prescription and needle safety with over 750 respondents • Formulated an education implementation plan using the survey’s data to address target populations that are not properly adhering to prescription safety protocol• Composed a poster presentation and two success stories to highlight the coalition’s community context, impact, key activities, and future steps for a statewide convening • Constructed a local community dashboard incorporating Tableau graphics that highlight the county’s progress to increase medication-assisted treatment, and decrease high-dose opioids and fatal overdose deaths

• Evaluated cell phone use of low-income individuals to propose two innovative features to enhance the Choose Healthier mobile application • Contacted 30 prospective health promotion companies to advertise their classes and events for the Choose Healthier mobile application• Scheduled and tracked over 60 future health promotion posts for the company’s website