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Sacramento, California, United States

• Represent our firm’s clients in the Capitol and with regulatory officials.
• Advise clients on legislative and regulatory processes and policies.
• Represent clients in meetings with Members of Congress.
• Direct clients on advocacy and communications initiatives.

Oakland CA

• Manage team of 10 to develop and implement campaign strategies protecting clean water in California and nationally.
• Lead fundraising activities including grant writing, major donor visits, and membership outreach.
• Direct advocacy efforts with state and federal policy makers.
• Coordinate communications with the media, policy makers, members, and the public.
• Direct organizational administrative and human resources issues.

• Responsible for developing and implementing campaign strategies in California and Nevada for the largest solar company in the United States:
• Working with policy staff to implement campaign strategies and tactics leading to an extension of key policies in California favorable to the rooftop solar industry.
• Developing and running programs to train solar city staff on policy issues and ways for them to be involved with influencing issues.
• Planning and facilitating town hall meetings in Nevada for customers, community members and civic leaders on policy issues.
• Organizing multiple rallies in Nevada and California working with diverse organizations with hundreds to thousands of attendees.
• Working with policy staff to develop and implement multiple campaigns in California addressing policy challenges with municipal energy producers.

Sales and lead generation.

Auburn, CA

• Responsible for managing campaign staff, providing strategic guidance, and corporate engagement for an organization working on international forest and climate change issues:
• Manage three campaigners on day to day corporate outreach, strategies, campaign coordination, and development
• Lead contact for individual foundations to build and maintain relationships and funding including development of key documents and proposals
• Work as part of the senior management team to guide the direction of the organization, manage staff, facilitate meetings and raise funds
• Work with staff and lead on direct communications to corporations to develop procurement policies
• Represent the organization and our campaign work to the media and the public including making media calls and helping write media materials

Washington DC

• Responsible for managing senior campaign staff at a major international campaign driven organization to implement policies both governmental and industry driven to protect the environment and human rights:
• Directly managing five senior campaign directors on campaigns including forests, climate and energy, oceans, toxics, and nuclear issues including coordination international campaign efforts.
• Managing a 30-person campaign team to develop strategic plans, campaign messaging, and tactics.
• Facilitating cross-departmental coordination and meetings including implementing processes to improve campaign work.
• Representing campaign team during senior management interactions to enhance the optimization of organizational resources.
• Managing emerging initiatives such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico including the use of a Greenpeace ship to campaigning to pressure White House policies on whales at international forums.

• January 2008 to August 2009 Responsible for managing an international and domestic campaigns on climate change including:
• Developing and executing campaign strategy and administrative duties such as reviewing and processing contracts, developing internal documents, and processing external requests for funding.
• Coordinating outreach to Congress, the media, and the public and representing Pew at high level international and domestic meetings such as the United Nations climate change negotiations.
• Production of campaign materials for distribution to Congress, the media, and the public.
• Collaborate in international campaign strategy development, implementation of tactics, and outreach for a global coalition of organizations working to influence the international United Nations climate change.
• Organizing and facilitating international meetings to discuss climate strategies with external partners and internal colleagues.

• Director of highly successful Victoria’s Dirty Secret Campaign, which publicly pressured the company to reduce its environmentally destructive catalog practices. Responsibilities included:
• Leading strategic planning, message development, company relations and field activities;
• Writing yearly planning documents and helping to develop funding proposals.
• Coordinating several ForestEthics departments in development and execution of campaign strategy.
• Communicating with media, investment groups, other environmental organizations and industry about the campaign.
• Representing ForestEthics at international and domestic meetings.

B.A., Journalism/Political Science

Journalism Major with a Political Science Minor

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Journalism And Political Science

Activities and Societies: Society of Professional Journalists