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Abode Services is one of the Bay Area’s largest providers of housing and services to help society's most vulnerable families and individuals.

Morgan Hill, California, United States

Gilroy, CA

Creating opportunities.Changing lives.Community Solutions provides critical services for children, teens, adults, and families who are facing times of crisis, ranging from mental health and substance use challenges to domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. We provide services in Santa Clara County and San Benito County.

San Jose, CA

Leading a team of 4+ in providing graduate student programs and services (non-academic), student leadership and career services; promote alumni engagement, build brand awareness and forge strategic community and industry relationships; manage internal and external communications and university events. As a cabinet member, serve on accreditation committee.

San Jose, CA

Developed comprehensive career services program for graduate students, including workshops, one-on-one career counseling and resume review, mock interviews, in-class presentations, career fairs and employer outreach. Implemented a no-cost online platform for career curriculum.

Palo Alto, CA

Benetech, a Palo Alto, CA-based nonprofit, creates sustainable technology to solve pressing social needs. Managed volunteer program, including operation for longstanding program in which volunteers digitize books for inclusion in Bookshare, the world's larges digital library for people with print disabilities. Spearheaded initiative to engage volunteers in.

Santa Clara, CA

Led a team of three responsible for scaling up McAfee's Online Safety for Kids initiative. Developed program objectives, metrics and strategy, and managed staff to create comprehensive multi-media presentation materials, oversaw translations and localization, built program infrastructure, including development of a Quick Base database, formalized program.

San Jose, CA

Managed all aspects of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's School & Youth Programs in Silicon Valley and Monterey Bay, successfully growing the fundraising revenue by 130%. Responsibilities included program development, communications, marketing, PR, budget management, program evaluation, hiring and supervising contract employees; engaging volunteers.

Sunnyvale, CA

Managed the company's community involvement activities in Silicon Valley, including corporate/foundation grantmaking, sponsorships and promotional events, in-kind contributions, employee volunteerism, community and local government relations and issues management, community-related communications and PR. Measured and reported impacts to community benefit.

Ba, Management

Certificate, Corporate Community Relations

Music-Vocal Performance