Cassie Watters Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, TN, US

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Working in District 3 - Southeast - Organize the South!

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

In 2000 a core of campus workers, students and community allies launched an organizing drivefor living wages and decent working conditions on the UT Knoxville campus. Beginning withfew resources outside of the workers’ initiative and student solidarity, UCW has affiliated withthe Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO, CLC) and grown to a current.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

(formerly Save Our Cumberland Mountains) SOCM is a member-run organization that encourages civic involvement and collective action so that the people of Tennessee have a greater voice in determining their future. The mission of SOCM is to empower Tennesseans to protect, defend, and improve the quality of life in their communities across the state. SOCM is.

• As part of new University-wide initiative, coordinated graduate inter-university certificate program, liaised between culturally diverse students, faculty and administration, executed weekly seminar series.
• Planned and executed strategy and logistics for two-week trip to Angola for world-renowned human rights scholars as part of CDC-funded project on psychosocial effects of landmines on communities.2005‐2006: Program on.
• Managed program communications, scheduling, travel arrangements, and two professors’ courses, resolved inquiries, interpreted, organized, and communicated information, supported inter-university certificate program.
• Organized content for (successful) federal grant application.

• Center for Public Health Preparedness, Division of Public Health Practice:
• Liaised with faculty and staff across multiple schools of University and with state and local partner agencies.
• Managed and streamlined Center communications, scheduling, and travel arrangements, researched and reported, developed conferences and special events, assisted with execution of grant applications and reporting.

• Eastern Massachusetts chapterField Organizer 2001‐2003:
• Instilled unity among 75-member union and community coalition to build support for workers’ rights.
• Engaged with existing member representatives to strengthen their commitment and participation.
• Organized actions and events with existing and potential network of organizational and individual members.
• Organized ad hoc, annual, and ongoing project committees and coordinated Executive Committee.
• Organized and facilitated planning committee for annual political education retreat, Solidarity School.

Ba, English: Literature & Writing

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