I have spent my career dedicated to advocacy and service, to my community and to the organizations, executive directors, and other leaders I have been honored to support. I have forged a meaningful and personally rewarding path, supporting goals and visionaries I believed in and wanted to see succeed. As an outside consultant and as a full-time manager, I have helped individuals, departments, and organizations engage with their communities and support their teams, clients, and other stakeholders during times of immense personal and organizational change. I have supported nonprofit boards and executives in for-profit enterprises with long-term strategic business and growth planning, corporate reorganization and right-sizing employee teams, public relations crisis management, and strategic communications to message these complex situations internally and externally. As a staff manager, I have recruited, supervised, and developed small and large staff and volunteer teams. I have developed policies and procedures for startup nonprofits, and para-public and for-profit enterprises alike. And I have developed and managed budgets and accounting for small organizational units, charities, and social enterprises, ranging from managing a kids’ camp program on a tight budget, to directing all accounting and administrative functions for a startup social enterprise.Professionally and in volunteer service, I have participated in and led fundraising and development activities ranging from old-fashioned bake sales and successful applications for government grants, to individual private startup investments and multi-million dollar endowment commitments. I have been privileged in this work to support higher education, HIV and mental health research, community center programming and operations, equal rights and Pride celebrations for LGBTQ communities, Transgender rights and health care access, and equitable support for minority populations in child welfare systems.
Listed skills include Strategic Communications, Public Relations, Public Speaking, Fundraising, and 46 others.