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Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Small business facilitating childbirth education and preparation to hundreds of birthing families ensuring they are active participants in their pregnancy, birth, & postpartum experience.
• Implement trauma-informed, evidence-based, childbirth preparation classes and birth support (hospital & birth center), weaving in wisdom, pain-coping, & mindfulness strategies.
• Maximize marketing strategies & client management protocols.
• Sustain small business financial management & accounting.
• Built a website and online course.
• Facilitate cross-discipline collaborative partnerships with nursing, obstetrics, and other medical care providers and small businesses.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Management graduate program designed for working professionals at top-five graduate school of public policy and administration in the United States.
• Developed a teaching case applying executive leadership pressure-mapping and crisis communication frameworks to a resource allocation problem to illustrate an effective solutions-focused approach.
• Delivered policy analysis with an options-criteria matrix and recommended strategies for the City of Seattle’s interventions with people living in their vehicle.
• Applied financial management practices towards analysis of complex accounting and resource allocation problems.

Greater San Diego Area

• Managed the Sexual Assault Victim Advocacy Program for most of San Diego County (population 3 million) supported by Federal and State contracts, philanthropic funding, and volunteer hours.
• Built, supervised, and led a team of 50+ advocates to provide advocacy and accompaniment to 1k+ survivors of sexual assault annually throughout the criminal investigation and healing process.
• Sustained collaborative partnerships with the county-wide Sexual Assault Response Team including law enforcement, prosecutors, and health and social service providers.
• Maximized efficiency of response and collaborative functioning of a 24-hour forensic exam response victim advocate team.

• A start-up student-led 501(c)3 organization collaborating with resettlement agencies offering community support and connection to refugee families and college-preparedness coaching for refugee youth.
• Increased fiscal capacity of a start-up organization by 400% through individual contributions.-Managed a team of 19 staff and interns.
• Implemented comprehensive evaluation mechanisms ensuring program efficacy.
• Built and maintained strategic collaborative relationships with 12 core community organizations.

• Recruited, trained and managed over 300 volunteers.

Executive Masters In Public Administration

Graduate Diploma, Migration And Refugee Studies

Cairo, Egypt Fulbright Scholar, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies

Anthropology, Nonprofit Leadership & Management, Summa Cum Laude

Barrett Honors College. Tempe, Arizona. Thesis Advisor: Margaret Nelson Thesis Title: Prehistoric Climate and Population Variation in the.