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Served as Senior Advisor and Consultant to Cook County educational facilities to develop and implement strategies and initiatives for after-school and in-school programs. Overhauled after-school “ACE” programs to reduce required administration leadership engagement time by 75%, allowing for administration to refocus human capital on other school priorities while maintaining an engaging, compelling program for students. Built partnerships and connections to increase institution program revenue to $75k, and improving customer satisfaction by:- Identifying three core problems in the areas of communication, branding, and registration;- Providing solutions in weekly reports to constituents; new design and logo; and streamliningregistration and payment process. Modernized and digitized institutions' financial processes including moving from paper and check registration to all online registration and payment and direct-to-Finance pay process.Managed schools' special project budgets, payment systems, invoicing and contracts.

Member of Presidential Campaign senior staff and served on national campaign's state leadership team. Managed all campaign operations for state-wide organization, including: overseeing 110 employees across all regions of the state; developed from scratch the state's campaign processes and systems; drove efficiencies around campaign budget and personnel. Opened 14 offices statewide, in fewer than two months, including the first two presidential offices ever in Lake County, the 3rd largest county in Illinois. Served as state point of contact for National campaign Headquarters and worked closely with Director of Human Resources to ensure that staff were onboarded, supported, and organized both on technology and in their regional offices. Worked closely with Human Resources to resolve work-related concerns and build, grow and ensure high team morale and productivity. Created state's organizational strategic roadmap and directed teams to execute on candidate's vision, messages and scale national campaign's activities across the state. Developed custom internal tracking systems for statewide budget, supplies, merch/chum, etc.

Served as senior advisor to the 501(c)3 organization.Supported Neighborhood Parents Network's mission to connect a diverse community of families with the resources they need to navigate parenting through fundraising; providing parent education opportunities; and developing partnerships with local businesses within the community.

Led Board of Directors of Chicago-based 501(c)3 non-profit, Neighborhood Parents Network, to work directly with youth through organizing and driving regular activities including foreign language classes, story time and poetry readings at The Poetry Foundation, and interactive events within the local community.Directed fundraising activities in support of organization's mission and initiatives.

Chief of Staff to Counselor to the Mayor.Enhanced operations at Mayor’s Office of Appointments; improved office efficiency throughassessments and upgrades of back-end systems and streamlining appointments processes.Convened agency stakeholders, leaders and oversaw consultant’s work with the City on regulatory processes. Oversaw operations and managed conflict resolution for Mayor’s Office of Veteran’s Affairs, NYCDepartment of Records, Civil Service Commission, and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.Created internal tracking systems reflecting workflow prioritization for Mayoral staff to ensure initiatives were coordinated and resourced. Led NYC Municipal Archives Interagency Records Project resulting in the unveiling of New York City’sfirst-ever online archive of 870,000 unique images – the largest collection of its kind in the world.Key leader executing Marriage Equality Act: Led July 2011 Manhattan Marriage Bureau – coordinated team of volunteers to ensure processing of approximately 500 couples wed on the day the Marriage Equality Act took effect.Captain at 2008 Papal Visit of Pope Benedict XVI, managing logistics and crowd of 60,000 including checkpoints and high profile visitors.

Mayorally-appointed position which led the Mayor's Commission and 39-member Advisory Board of corporate, nonprofit, and government leaders.Represented the Mayor at events throughout New York City.Worked to achieve Commission's mission to connect women with City programs and resources that addressed and supported their needs.Raised funds and managed Agency's budget: increased contributions 260% from annual levelsunder previous leadership to procure over $1.4 million.Increased private sector investment in City initiatives with procurement of over 50 corporate partners.Spearheaded NYC's annual Women’s History Month celebration.Coordinated City Hall messaging and communication related to women and families; wrote andapproved Mayoral speeches and press releases; led overhaul of agency website; and coordinatedstrategic print marketing campaigns.Designed and directed implementation of annual NYC Ladders for Leaders education initiative (citedby the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and the Center for an Urban Future as a model program for connecting qualified youth to professional internships). Directed day-to-day office operations, including hiring and supervising all agency staff and consultants.Executive Producer of “NYC Make it Here, Make it Happen” television and taxi-cab PSA seriesfeaturing 31 New York City women along with a 30-minute special.

Managed floor for event days (Women for Bloomberg launch, Primary Night, Election Night, etc.).Assisted in borough-by-borough visibility efforts (i.e. literature distribution, canvassing, etc.).Supported campaign GOTV rallies; parades; cultural events.Secured volunteers to help with campaign.

Managed floor for event days (Women for Bloomberg launch, Primary Night, Election Night, etc.).Assisted in borough-by-borough visibility efforts (i.e. literature distribution, canvassing, etc.).Supported campaign GOTV rallies; parades; cultural events.Secured volunteers to help with campaign.