Cathy Stephens Email & Phone Number

2275 Third Avenue

2275 Third Avenue

2275 Third Avenue

Responsible for advocating for quality education for all children no matter what zipcode or economic background they come from, trained newly hired straff members who were participating in the Organizing Academy, managed Organizers, conducted weekly trainings, conducted one on one meetings with parents and proscpective members, was responsible for membership building, leadership development, parent education and empowerment, campaign development, facilating meetings, mobilizing and preparing paremts for press cpmferemces and events, providing training in public speaking, lobbing before elected officials both locally and in Albany and also phonebanking on a daily basis and creating and updating events in NationBuilder.

2275 Third Avenue

584 Nostrand Avenue

Advocated for quality education for all children in low income communities through petitioning, community outreach, door knocking, phone banking, one on one meetings with parents, was responsible for parent mobilization, empowerment and leadership development as well as facilitating and running monthly meetings.

584 Nostrand Avenue

Participated in a five week Organizer In Training Program which entailed training in canvassing, community outreach, phone banking in order to schedule one on one meetings, membership building, parent mobilization, facilitating and entering of data into database.

233 Broadway

Advocated for quality education for all students, Organized parents and students of schools that were on the 2012 Schools Closing Lists in order to prevent the closing of their school. Attended and presented at PTA Meetings. Corresponded with parents and elected officials via email and telephone. Organized and assisted parents with brainstorming, strategic planning and preparing for actions, parent mobilizations press conferences and lobbying before elected officials both locally and in Albany.

127 West 26Th Street, Suite 1002, New York, N,Y 10001

Supervised, managed and trained field organizers, was responsible for community outreach and base building, attended and presented at community board meetings, facilitated at town hall meetings, spoke before elected officials, prepared time sheets, updated database and spread sheets, prepared for all actions, typed correspondence and emails and maintained filing system and telephone operations.

124 East 117Th Street

Organized tenants of a 72 unit building which was in foreclosure along with 47 others throughout East Harlem, scheduled and facilitated meetings, met with Housing Preservation and Development in order to address and correct building wide violations. Met with and interviewed prospective buyers. Kept tenants abreast of their rights and reached out to building receiver as well as management on behalf of the tenants.

115 East 106Th Street

Was responsible for community outreach, community organizing, public speaking, served on the Affordable Housing, Welfare Reform, Sustainable Communities, and Sustainable Business Committy, met and presented before elected officials, door knocked, attended meetings with Rights To The City and Housing Here And Now on a monthly basis, participated in brainstorming and strategic planning, spoke before UN Representatives, at press conferences, and before 5,000 people at the Show Down on Wall Street, lobbied before elected officials both in Albany and Washington D.C., phone banked and updated database.

1901 First Avenue

Kept Director abreast of appointments and meetings, ran the office, wrote, typed ad distributed correspondence, took and transcribed dictation, prepared reports, supervised volunteers, responsible for payroll, prepared materials for meetings, reserved and set up the conference room for meetings, maintaining filing system and twas responsible for telephone operations.

1901 First Avenue

Reported to the Director of Education. Responsible for running the office, took and transcribed dictation, wrote, typed and distributed correspondence, prepared, payroll sheets, prepared reports for monthly managerial meetings, typed monthly aids reports, supervised volunteers, reserved and set up the conference room, scheduled orientation for new employees, scheduled training courses for hospital staff, faciltated New House Staff Orientation and was responsible for company policy and procedure adherence.

New York, New York

Was responsible for the day to day operations of the office. Maintained the Director's calendar, kept the Director abreast of all appointments, took and transcribed dictation, wrote, typed and distributed correspondence, made travel arrangements, prepared expense reports, updated and maintained filing system, was responsible for petty cash, maintained telephone operations and managed office supplies.

Business Management/Data Processing, 4.0 Gpa

Regents Endorsed Diploma, College Bound Program

Upon entering Julia Richmond High School I was a part of the College Bound Program, studied Spanish for three years and graduated.