*Advocating for Individuals with intellectual disabilities. *Locating and linking individuals with services that fit their needs.*Identifying and applying for funding for support services.*Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

WRITING: Specializing in internal and external communications, including newsletters and blog content.CONTENT DEVELOPMENT: Print and online campaign development.SOCIAL MEDIA: Creation and establishment of social media planning and calendar, content posts and scheduling.MARKETING: Strategic Marketing plan development, oversight, and program management. Creative Campaigns, Focus groups and brainstorming session leadership.PUBLIC RELATIONS: Press release composition and distribution, media inquiries, public speaking as spokesmen on client behalf.

WCI develops safe resource Centers that provide women with opportunities to enhance life skills, access key resources, and connect with each other.Baraka Women's Center in Nairobi, Kenya opened in October 2012. Oakland Women's Center in West Oakland, CA (USA) opened in May 2015. Together they have served over 1250 women, helping them build healthier, more prosperous lives.

*Develop and implement a cohesive marketing plan to increase target audience and drive sales revenue.*Create various internal and external marketing and communication documents or promotional materials.*Generate new business opportunities and cultivate relationships within the core target audience.*Content writing and publication of blog articles to engage and attract a variety of followers.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Locate and establish new clients and business opportunities, within the biomedical and health or scientific research fields. Help clients define their concept and finding the most effective and sustainable path to see their vision come to life. SALES: Develop new relationships, and grow relationships with prospects, to ensure they develop and grow from vision to concept, to established project or program. ACCOUNT & PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Develop and manage business relationships to ensure continual business growth for both parties, utilizing the most suitable creative tools and platforms.COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING: Work with management and team to ensure all marketing and communications avenues are met, and consistent with the company mission. Seek new and creative marketing and communications opportunities.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Create and cultivate new markets and clients within the rigid packaging and branding spectrum. Planning and development of strategies to achieve overall business goals.PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Organize, manage, and cross-capability team meetings and other project and client needs from ideation to production engineering. Establish, improve, and maintain efficient processes and project management best practices. Ensure projects remain on track with approvals and scope, to ensure adequate deadlines are both, set and met.CREATIVE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT: Providing creative services to accelerate large company intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs, to increase the speed of concept to market.

Real Self Defense for Real Situations!Krav Maga is a practical and tactical system that teaches how to prevent, deal and overcome all kinds of violence and attacks. Krav Maga prepares the trainees in the subjects of self-defense, self-protection, fighting and combat skills, as well as skills to defend others, all in unique and comprehensive teachings and way.As one of a handful of certified female KMG instructors in the United States Cassandra, provides daily instruction to both men women and children. Cassandra also specializes in working with survivors of abuse and trauma, as well as specialized program development including but not limited to anti bullying, anti abduction and train the trainer courses to recognize and work with traumatic triggers.

Real Self Defense for Real Situations!Krav Maga is a practical and tactical system that teaches how to prevent, deal and overcome all kinds of violence and attacks. Krav Maga prepares the trainees in the subjects of self-defense, self-protection, fighting and combat skills, as well as skills to defend others, all in unique and comprehensive teachings and way.

VICTIM SUPPORT SERVICES/CASE MANAGEMENT: Inform client regarding available services, organizations, benefits and limitations within and outside of organization. Deliver individual intervention and advocacy services for survivors. Maintain up-to-date records and reports of all direct service activities. Oversee database management and data mining for specific project. Develop strong business plans for future growth and projects. -RESULT: Enabled numerous victims to achieve specific personal, educational and professional goals leading to empowered and thriving lives of choice.ADVISE: Act as a liaison to state, county, and municipal collaborators. Represent organizations at DC Anti Human Trafficking Task Force. Advise the community by creating workshops and educating modern day human sex traffic as the DC Anti Human Trafficking Task Force Representative. Advise the DC community by creating workshops and educating modern day human sex traffic cases -RESULT: Collaborated with key Task Force members to establish an essential law enforcement and community trainings.OUTREACH & TRAINING: Facilitate reoccurring support groups. Develop, implement and facilitate educational and training materials targeted at the general public for education, prevention and reporting. Implement outreach services such as networking, lectures, trainings, speaking engagements, and media events to increase public education and awareness on the issues of prevention of abuse/sexual assault and available services. Provide outreach, support and partnership to nonprofit, law enforcement and community programs targeted at violence prevention or interested in education, awareness and reporting potential victims.PUBLIC SPEAKING: Represent organization at key industry, media and government events, including press interviews and appearances. Regularly speak at universities, press interviews, radio and various media outlets as a subject matter expert.BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING & VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT

Covering news, events,reports and all human rights issues affecting children across the globe. Specializing in issues of Child Trafficking, Child Soldiers, Child Labor and Armed Conflict.RESEARCH AND WRITING: Researched and wrote on relevant global subject matter topics including child labor, trafficking and soldiers. Attended and reported on relevant media, government and academic events. –RESULT: As a founding author established a unique brand and loyal readership to establish the only internationally recognized children’s rights blog, leading to numerous article reprints in international papers and continual references and citations in media and academic sources.MARKETING AND DATA MANAGEMENT: Managed website content and resources, exceeding targeted monthly web hits and reprint requests. RESULT: Brought the average monthly readership from null to 18,000.COMMUNITY RELATIONS & CUSTOMER SERVICE: Responded to reader and press inquiries in a timely fashion with retort, source referral or additional information. Cover hearings, events and special “press only” affairs for article coverage and dissemination to readers. Conduct interviews with media, organizations and leaders in the field. http://foreignpolicyblogs.com/author/cclifford/

Covering events, news, and interviews on various Human Rights topics in the Greater DC Metro area.http://www.examiner.com/x-7661-DC-Human-Rights-Examiner

Writing special reports on current issues related to modern slavery, such as sex trafficking, child soldiers, forced labor, child labor, debt bondage, ect. across the globe.ISN Insights is an editorial news service designed to provide you with daily in-depth analysis of the most critical international trends and events of the day.http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/ISN-Insights

Contract Editorial position focused on internal and external publications, with a primary focus on producing content for the magazine International Educator.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & MANAGEMENT: Managed departmental budget, purchasing, corporate sponsorship, grant writing and bids. Planned, developed and managed events. Researched and managed various projects and administered program development and oversight. Led key development activities, donor relations, funding requests, and proposal writing for programs. –RESULT: Worked jointly with British Army installation at Gamecock Barracks in Bramcote, whom held a Family Fun Day, carnival event and fundraiser on base to raise funds and awareness for the organization.PUBLIC SPEAKING AND MEDIA RELATIONS: Wrote and distributed press releases with photos; conduct press conferences and interviews. Represented organization at key industry, community, media and government events, including press interviews and appearances. RESULT: Named Mayor’s Charity of the Year, resulting in regional wide press coverage, media conference and increased awareness and funding for services.VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT: Recruited, trained and advised event learning disabled/client volunteers and aids. Managed and trained event volunteers for small and largescale events. Encouraged staff and Board Member involvement in funding activities and events.

PRWeek is the only weekly title in the US and UK to cover every aspect of public relations, from corporate communications to the public sector, lobbying and healthcare.Cassandra's key client industries included; Non-profit, Fashion and a selection of top industry PR firms. She was a dedicated leader in her department, who excelled at giving her clients that personal one-on-one touch. Cassandra also continuously increased her portfolio by developing relationships and building new accounts and providing dynamic and highly visual advertising presentations for her client markets.