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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Sacramento, California Area

Bringing economic development expertise in economic equity and inclusive growth, entrepreneurship and small business, and innovation. Helping policy makers, economic developers, and foundations to build partnerships that can strengthen local economic development ecosystems through strategic plans, policy analysis, incentives analysis, and technical assistance. • Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC): Program Support for Treasury’s SSBCI Initiative• Prosper Portland: Business & Industry team metrics • Sacramento, CA: Project Prosper: Strategic Stakeholder and Community Engagement; Neighborhood Economic and Community Development Strategy; Scale Up Sacramento: An Inclusive Economic Development Action Agenda• Franklin County, OH: Economic development strategic plan, tax incentive evaluation analysis, and SWOT. Partner: Business Development Advisors• Pew Charitable Trusts: Equitable Economic Development and Community Engagement• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: COVID-19 and Entrepreneurial Firms (2022); Incentives for Entrepreneurial Firms (2021)• The James Irvine Foundation: Strategic Policy and Grantmaking: Business and Workforce Development• Greater Sacramento Economic Council: Equitable economic and community development metrics for Sacramento's Project Prosper. Organizational assessment of research function and capacity; advised on strategic economic development policy agenda.• Center of Excellence, California Community Colleges and Los Rios District: Strategic development of research and talent recruitment, industry cluster research design, data collection, and analysis for regional workforce efforts.

Arlington, Virginia

Smart Incentives advises economic development groups that need access to high-quality business intelligence in order to make the best decisions for their community. We provide research and analysis (surveys and large scale data sets; interviews, focus groups and benchmarking; policy analysis design, implementation and evaluation) of state and local economic development incentive strategies.

Davis, California

Advises the Vice Chancellor for Research on strategic opportunities in humanities, social sciences and the arts, elevating the visibility of UC Davis' research strengths and capabilities in these research arenas through funding agency advocacy, issue management and liaison with community and campus constituents, and development of strategies and partnerships with external stakeholders (foundations, industry and government).• Strategic partnerships, research development, facilitation, capacity building, proposal grant writing, and project management

Fairfax, Virginia

• Developed curriculum and taught courses in public policy, local economic development, and research design and statistics courses (undergraduate, masters, doctorate).• Directed and redesigned a multi-department interdisciplinary Urban and Suburban Studies Minor and the Departmental Honors Program.• Directed funded research projects on economic development (broadband, entrepreneurship, green/clean tech and innovation, design and evaluation of economic development incentives, economic sustainability, and transportation); funders include Small Business Administration, Kauffman Foundation and CGI.• Published peer-reviewed book and journal articles, organization trade journals, corporate white paper series, contract research reports, and blogs.

Washington, Dc

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to helping economic developers do their job more effectively and raising the profile of the profession. When we succeed, our members create more high-quality jobs, develop more vibrant communities, and generally improve the quality of life in their regions.• Managed a 10 person team responsible for content development of membership conferences and training courses for economic development professional certification (CEcD), updates of CEcD manuals and exams; provision of technical assistance for multiple federal and state contracts, and production of multiple research reports, quarterly journal and bi-weekly newsletter.

Washington, Dc

ITIF is a non-partisan research and educational institute – a think tank – whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technological innovation and productivity internationally, in Washington, and in the states. Recognizing the vital role of technology in ensuring prosperity, ITIF focuses on innovation, productivity, and digital economy issues.• Created a new research team and policy agenda on the green innovation economy; research and analysis (reports, briefs, blogs and public forums) to inform federal and state clean energy policy advocacy discussions and legislation.

South San Francisco, California

RHK, Inc. ( acquired by Ovum in 2005) was a market research and consulting firm, provides advisory services to the companies in the telecom industry. It offers strategic consulting support, market/technology subscription research, and investment banking services.• Developed an e-magazine publication strategy and web presence; wrote short and long form articles on telecommunications technologies and industry trends with engineers and analysts.

Claremont, California

• Directed research and data collection for telecommunication master plan for a master planned community; lead research projects concerning economic and social impacts of information technology.

Claremont, Ca

• Directed a research project examining education and health issues in the Latino community; identified research and other fundraising opportunities and wrote proposals.

Ph.D., M.A.P.P. (Public Policy), Political Science & Economics

Activities and Societies: John R. Haynes Dissertation Award; Frank Biondi FellowshipDissertation: “Location, Location, Information?.

Ba, Political Science & Economics