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Sacramento, California, United States

- Manage team of nine digital strategists; team delivered ~40% of 2023 company revenue and ~75% of gross margin- Lead strategy and facilitated cross-functional collaboration for YouTube and Google retained accounts, resulting in multiple years of account renewal and Shareability’s largest client(s)- Work collaboratively across the senior leadership team &.

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Leveraged storytelling structures, data analysis and human insights to develop social-first campaign strategies and help world-class brands shift their audience engagement strategy from broadcasting to participating- Clients included: Tim McGraw (resulting resulted in ~63% increase in followers in less than a year), TurboTax, Adobe, the Elevate Prize.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Supported CEO to build systems and practices for business scalability and growth; key support to sales and bizdev--from pipeline outreach strategy to drafting proposals- Led consulting and development of internal and external narratives for teams at Facebook, and the executive teams at Dolby and Diversified- Redesigned and co-led narrative training for.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Right hand to Dir. of Communications on internal & external strategy and messaging, incl. press work and copywriting for one of the largest charter management organizations in the US
• Led & coached a team of 3 to create & deliver on content strategy, including a copywriter & videographer
• Oversaw & supported content development pipeline & strategy, including writing, editing, production, & project management
• Applied a structured, hypothesis-driven approach to analyze, recommend & deploy email marketing campaigns to more than 12k+ contacts
• Served as lead editor for the Green Dot Blog reaching ~3,000 monthly readers
• Presented to senior leadership to gain buy-in on strategies

Los Angeles

• Developed & executed a wide variety of projects to support the CEO (speech & presentation prep, program research, acting as a policy envoy in Sacramento & Washington, D.C.)
• As part of the Strategic Planning team, analyzed data & conducted extensive research to prepare detailed presentations for review by all levels of management, and org-wide impact
• Managed parallel projects that included data-driven recommendations around school growth, best practices in how to support vulnerable students, and how to refine our approach to internal communications
• Served as a liaison to & meeting manager for the National and CA Boards of Directors

Los Angeles, CA

When my grandfather's health took a turn, I stepped in to help modernize a family-owned business focused on innovative solutions to paint overspray. I led strategy for product deployment, including marketing strategy to optimize digital platforms. I created new organization alignment and restructuring. I also wrote and researched new patents around product.

Inglewood, CA

• Selected from ~25,000 applicants to serve in a highly acclaimed national service corps
• Planned, organized, and taught 12th grade Government/Economics/AP Government at Animo Inglewood Charter High School
• 1 of 3 LA corps members nominated for national Sue Lehmann Excellence in Teaching Award
• Scored above school & network average on teacher expectations, practices, and relationships
• Coached Bain Student Consulting Team & Poetry Slam Team (placed 2nd of 18 teams in LA)

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Prepared reports for coalition building, community outreach, & crises management
• Made outreach calls and drafted communications to elected officials
• Collected and archived research for Campaign and Issues Management projects

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Spanish

Activities and Societies: USC Helenes, Mosaic Trojan Network

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Education Administration And Policy