Manages a team of 20 staff based in Washington, D.C. and Illinois, including yearly budgets, performance reviews, events, casework, constituent and stakeholder relationships, and liaison with House Democratic Leadership staff.Serves as a trusted advisor to Rep. Casten. Final decision maker on all policy and political plans, such as committee assignments, voting decisions, endorsement recommendations and communication strategy. Executes all internal communication, and final decision maker on all external communications strategy and plan.Oversaw the hiring of an all-new senior staff as part of a complex reorganization to increase the office’s reputation, operations and employee engagement.Developed and executed a strategic plan and acted as crisis management official to win through redistricting, a Member-on-Member primary (40-point win) and a competitive frontline general election (8-point win, 75% new district). Total Raise: $6 million.

Ran a winning frontline House campaign (7-point win). Total of 15 staff and 10 consultants. Total Raise: $5.8M.Lead on fundraising, voter outreach and communications including paid digital and TV communications.Developed relationships with press contacts and served as a source on background and on the record for local and national media, including on-air appearances. Pitched and staffed interviews and facilitated debate prep.

Flipped the CO state Senate from Republican control to Democratic control and created the Dem-trifecta in Colorado!Implemented a fundraising program that broke all prior records including growing the email program from an average of $1,000 a month to $18,000 a month. Total Raise: $2.66MManaged processes for two television commercials with vendors (including script writing, production and TV buy strategy) and organized a massive multi-candidate mail shoot that resulted in over 40 pieces of mail.

Oversaw the state-wide events planning, strategy, and executive for a $2M+ Governor primary.

Drove C-level, marketer and web developer activation through high-touched and scaled initiatives, including in-person events, digital channels, workshops and emails. Managed over $350M yearly in touched revenue.

Managed day-to-day client and account relationships to drive audience acquisition and brand campaigns, representing over $1.2M quarterly revenue (around 200 clients a quarter). Hit performance targets every quarter (six quarters in a row). Ranked in the top 5% of Google employees. Acted as a team anchor for 10 strategists.

Only daily newspaper in Berkeley (pop. over 100,000). Financially independent from university and student-run with 270+ staff members, 10,000 print circulation, and $900,000 annual operating budget. • Made final decisions on all editorial matters, served at top of business's management hierarchy• Generated new revenue streams in first five months: published a profit-making book for the first time, reintroduced classifieds to expand our clientele base, introduced work-study to save us over $4000 a semester, created events department, designed new fundraising strategy to better crowdsource donors, negotiated creative advertising packages with our athletics division to both launch mobile advertising and save the paper about $8,0000 in travel costs.• Drafted first balanced budget and on track with 25% sales goal at the end of first quarter SKILLS: Effectively able to prioritize a number of projects at the same time, work well under pressure and tight deadline, self-starter, strong team leader, strategic, good crisis management solutions

I served on the Senior Editorial Board for the Daily Californian and managed a department of writers who covered Berkeley's campus and community by using new media techniques and strategies.• Over three months, reinvigorated an online-only blog with minimal views to a top department creating weekly top stories receiving 3000+ page views and over 600 new likes to Facebook page• Wrote and edited in-depth stories for over 40 hours a week resulting in 170+ articles in three months. Stories include exposing campaign violations and student government trends, as well as campus lifestyle.SKILLS: Excellent oral and written communication, strong attention to detail, team-building, creative thinking

• Performed general office duties including compiling daily clips, answering constituent questions and attending community meetings. Work with staff to create informational memos and staff events

I work closely with the Center for Informal Learning and Schools to reach and inform members of the community about relevant research for their programs and work. I also manage the Relating Research to Practice website, which includes uploading content to our website, sending out our monthly newsletter, and managing all forms of social media.

I assisted in running the intern and docent program for the National Portrait Gallery!

•Conduct research and data collection studying human economic decision making in regulated experiments•Graph data analysis to determine links between human cognition and animal behaviors

•Wrote in-depth stories and breaking news on crime daily as the crime reporter

Assist in marketing and outreach to the Berkeley community by designing and writing spotlights and creating marketing tools.

•Spent over 30 hours a week writing stories and controlling overall coverage of our student government, specifically focusing on the student elections

• Planned and executed a trade show for over 30 vendors and 600 members of the public• Created business analysis presentations for the Board of Directors• Managed visitor sales and customer service, including increasing a weekly newsletters click rate from 2% to 10% over a three-month period and developing a new wedding package