Bob Payne Email & Phone Number

Greater New Orleans Area

Fundraiser: Raised over $35 million for education organizations in Louisiana across federal, state and private grants. Support grant reporting for an organization with a $8 million annual budget. Political Consultant: As National Grants Manager for America Votes in 2020, supported large investments in all key swing states to support presidential, US Senate and state legislative races. Served as General Consultant for Louisiana's Senate Democratic Caucus for 2019 election cycle, supporting candidates statewide in the face of unparalleled Republican spending.Policy Writer: Authored briefings on economic and education topics for groups including Louisiana Budget Project, State Innovation Exchange and 4.0 Schools.Social Media Strategist: Created strategy for and implemented social media plan for charter schools serving ~2000 students in Bay Area (California) and New Orleans.

New Haven, Ct

Managed Governor-elect's daily schedule, and all operations for transition team. On transition, took on additional responsibility of finances and facilities.

Connecticut

• Managed all daily internal operations for winning Democratic candidate in toss-up gubernatorial campaign to support political, communications and strategic aims of campaign. • Authored a daily schedule book to satisfy strategic and communications goals and candidate needs.• Communicated directly with out of town-VIPs, family, candidate’s social network and donors on sensitive issues of candidate access and day-to-day needs. • Led campaign in coordination and logistics for semi-weekly commercial shoots. • Supported field operations with special projects including payroll, facility/equipment procurement.• Participated in high-level strategy meetings focused on paid/earned media strategy, polling, and digital strategy as part of senior staff reporting to Campaign Manager.

Various

I worked at a variety of campaigns over the lst several years. I worked for New York State Assemblyperson Mike Blake in fall 2016, presenting him analysis and recommendations on district school quality and swing state 2016 results. I canvassed for the final weeks of the Hillary for New Hampshire campaign and for the final seven days of the Jon Ossoff for Congress campaign. I prepared my policy analysis exercise on targeting districts in Louisiana for the Louisiana Democratic Party.

Cambridge, Ma

Graduated May 2018. Excelled at yearlong sequences in policy analysis, negotiations, and statistics. Excelled at electives including The Internet and Political Campaigns, Running for Office and Managing Campaigns, Speechwriting, Op-Ed Writing, and Adaptive Leadership. Analyzed interviews, voter file and election data using Stata and Excel to complete Policy Analysis Exercise (thesis) "Targeting Legislative Seats in Louisiana in 2019" for the Louisiana Democratic Party. Published political op-eds in multiple states.

Houston, Texas Area

I helped Lina Hidalgo get her campaign off the ground through policy work. The campaign is for county-wide executive in the country's third biggest county. I collaborated with Lina and her manager to identify focus policy areas and design detailed policy proposals, especially her flood management plan. I hired and managed a remote part-time staff of five, a mix of paid and unpaid interns. I worked about 20 hours/week for her through the fall, but needed to give it up once my academic work ramped up around finals time.

Greater New Orleans Area

I worked at SiX for the summer. I authored 10 policy briefings summarizing succesful state legislative efforts on taxes, income inequality and immigration.

Greater New Orleans Area

Launch the music, PE and afterschool programs at three charter schools in Central City serving low-income students in New Orleans. Manage a high 6-figure budget across three schools.

Greater New Orleans Area

Manage Expanded Learning Time program at three different charter schools in New Orleans

Atlanta, Ga

Coach new teachers directly our of collegeCollaborate on a team of 7 to run a summer school in AtlantaEvaluate lesson plans on a daily basis for a team of 12Facilitate group learning sessions for groups up to 30Strategically evaluate gaps in teacher knowledge and develop new plans to target gaps

St. Bernard, La

Taught Reading, Writing and Social Studies to over 100 kids in St. Bernard, LAMade an average of 2 year gains in reading with all studentsEvaluated, re-wrote and trained teachers to implement new Social Studies Curriculum for 7th and 8th gradesObserved teachers on a weekly basis and coached them as part of TAP systemCollaborated on school-wide instructional systems with leadership team

Mpp, Political Science And Government, Master'S

B.A., Political Science, English

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association, LUCAP (volunteer group), Honors Program, Pi Sigma AlphaVice President and Chief.

Hurricane Katrina Semester

Activities and Societies: Harvard Crimson

Master Of Public Policy, American Government And Politics (United States), Mpp, 2018

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