Senior Field Manager
Washington, Dc, Us
Community Outreach to advance environmental/public health legislation.Accomplishments and Responsibilities include:-Raised over half a million dollars through direct fundraising (with hundreds of thousands of contributions in small to medium size amounts).-Generated thousands of hand-written/typed constituent letters to elected/public officials on environmental policy.-Trained grassroots organizers, who later went on to become Field Managers and Canvass Directors-Filled in multiple times as Canvass Director; performed duties pertaining to position (ex. payroll, hiring, administrative)-Lobbied legislators in Trenton (State Capitol)-Worked to help pass NJ environmental legislation such as; Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act, Fertilizer Reduction Law to save Barnegat Bay, Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant closure, stopping the proposed 'Pur-Gen' Coal plant, reducing toxic pesticide use on NJ schools and parks.-Political campaigning such as John Kerry for President, Barack Obama for President, Elizabeth Warren for US Senate, and numerous NJ State Assembly and Senate endorsement campaigns.-Cross-trained (through HBC Network) at Forests Forever (San Francisco, CA), Citizens Campaign For The Environment (NY and CT), Florida Consumer Action Network (Tampa, FL), Ohio Citizen Action (Columbus, OH), Citizens Action Coalition (Fort Wayne, Indiana), and two other Clean Water Action offices in FL and CO.