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Harrisburg, Pa

Leading association's efforts to educate, advocate and inspire equal justice for all. Specifically, marshalling legislative efforts to elevate defense lawyers' legislative voice, driving content generation, strengthening the organization's financial position, analyzing key market trends and disruptors to generate transformational innovation, and focusing on high-quality, thought leadership CLE training for the criminal defense practitioner.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Supported an elite information technology industry group in Washington, D.C. by delivering high impact legislative assistance, optimizing IT members’ contract lobbyists to achieve state policy objectives, organizing industry-wide consensus on policy issues, coordinating efforts to mitigate or defeat harmful legislation which would stifle innovation and limit public sector procurement options, and creating business development events with high-level influencers.

Mechanicsburg, Pa

• Advocated for a large school leaders association (6000 plus) by developing political strategies, direct lobbying, maximizing political opportunities, and developing strong working relationships on the hill. • Partnered with senior leadership at education related organizations to develop plans for effectively implementing high impact strategies for improving school funding, relieving school districts from mandates, and increasing student achievement.• Prepared a variety of legislative bills and amendments to advance association’s legislative platform and other communication materials such as testimony, briefing sheets and position papers. • Identified, analyzed and monitored legislation and key legislative, political, regulatory and economic trends impacting public education.• Established relationships with legislators, their staffs and other key policymakers positioning the association as a trusted, informational resource and leader in education.

Mechanicsburg, Pa

• Developed, recommended and executed legislative strategies in favor of association's policy positions in the areas of education, tax, pension, labor relations, employee health, appropriations, and other issues.• Ensured that the views of the association were communicated directly and throughout the legislative process.

Harrisburg, Pa

• Achieved nonprofit’s first legislative initiative to develop a funding stream with projected annual revenues of $1 million plus.• Raised $2.425M in corporate, governmental and private funding via advocacy, networking and grant writing.• Increased and diversified programmatic revenues by $100K by creating program services.• Generated $1 million+ in annual donated media support for multi-media anti-drug campaign. • Created advertising agency project generating $158K of in-kind support and development of award-winning public service announcements with all production created pro bono externally through collaborative partnerships.• Initiated and launched qualitative and quantitative prevention research including Pennsylvania’s first middle school youth drug survey and Pennsylvania’s first employer survey examining businesses’ drug-free workplace strategies.

• Assisted in the creation and implementation of drug-free workplace programs for businesses of all sizes to protect employee health and help improve workplace safety. • Promoted awareness of the dangers of substance abuse in the workplace through public service announcement campaigns, special fundraising events, and collaboration with federal and state agencies. • Sourced, tracked and assisted in the development of grant proposals to support fundraising goals.• Partnered with Pennsylvania ad agencies, broadcasters, and newsprint to raise the level of awareness of youth substance abuse and its dangers by promoting national anti-drug campaign and development of fresh, locally created public service announcements.

Juris Doctorate

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree