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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.