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Social impact and corporate purpose strategist for Fortune 100 and 500 companies and NGOs.

Alongside a small team of students, I collaborated directly with the Associate Director of the Kenan Institute of Ethics at Duke University to provide Restorative Justice training and experience to Duke’s faculty and student body, engaging with student clubs, organizations, & social groups.

Empower the People (EtP) is a non-profit, nonpartisan, student-led organization working with young people across the country to apply civic education to enacting social change. In partnership with global youth leaders and select nonprofits, EtP equips students with the tools to raise awareness, pursue policy change, and galvanize other youth within their local communities.EtP's signature Civic Action Project (CAP), executed in partnership with Teach Democracy, is focused on closing the civic opportunity gap for under-resourced youth through a dynamic project-based civics curriculum for students in Title 1 schools. CAP mobilized 50,000+ students per semester in middle and high schools across all 50 states to build projects for impact in their communities.Summer CAP highlight:As an extension to in-school CAP programming, EtP pioneered a 5-week summer intensive for CAP participants to shape long-term impact strategies for projects developed during the school year. The Summer CAP program involved hands-on workshops, relationship building, skills development, etc. with EtP leadership and feature sessions with global youth leaders/activists from the US, Canada, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Cameroon leading large-scale initiatives in their respective regions.

Worked with the communications team in the Career Services Office at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University; I facilitated undergraduate communications on internships, info sessions, and job networking opportunities for 500+ students; led digital promotion to increase attendance and student-employer engagement.

• Organized the march and rally in Parkland that gathered 30,000+ people from across the country to address recent gun violence.• Directed a team of students, volunteers, and Everytown experts to organize event logistics, curate messaging, and design a media strategy to promote event attendance and broadcasting; event success received HandsOn Broward Team Impact Award.• Launched strategic fundraising campaign, including apparel and merchandise, that raised over $120k in donations.• Delivered keynote speech aired on national television; later awarded and invited to speak at several social impact-focused events.