David Jimenez Email & Phone Number

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Served as primary representative to Congress and executive branch of Prison Fellowship, the nation’s largest Christian prison ministry to prisoners, former prisoners, and their families.
• Promoted in May 2021 to direct state policy work and state legislative strategists or contract lobbyists in Oklahoma, Texas, Michigan, Tennessee, Virginia, and Ohio. Spearheaded with direct reports key policy progress.
• Deepened Prison Fellowship’s substantive and strategic positioning on occupational licensing reform, access to parole and earned time credits, and pretrial reform through independent and team construction of.
• Guided direct reports in drafting, introducing, and advancing state legislation, contributing to existing coalition campaigns on priority reforms, and initiating or deepening institutional relationships with state and.
• Conducted 700+ lobby meetings since April 2019 with congressional and executive branch offices on Prison Fellowship legislative agenda, including First Step Act funding and implementation, Pell Grant restoration.
• Secured 50+ cosponsorship and appropriations sign on requests by Republican federal lawmakers of Prison Fellowship priorities, which contributed to growing momentum behind policy reforms like Pell Grant restoration.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Advanced AEI’s mission by introducing institute’s scholarship to university students, faculty, and stakeholders
• Mentored students on 37 schools to develop campus programming, including reading groups, debates, and guest lectures
• Responsible for event planning and logistics for numerous scholar campus visits, including Arthur Brooks, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jonah Goldberg, Lynne Cheney, and Henry Olsen
• Created extensive programming centered on social policy and political economy, with speakers such as Isabell Sawhill, Brad Wilcox, Ryan Streeter, Glenn Loury, Steven Teles, and Reihan Salam
• Managed $25,000 scholarship program for undergraduate research in public policy
• Acted as one of the primary directors of the Summer Honors Program, a month-long series of undergraduate seminars combined with broader activities in Washington public policy space

Washington, DC

Constanța, Romania

• Taught three courses combining English and American Studies at Ovidius University in Romania
• Worked with students to improve their skills and confidence with English speaking, writing, reading, and listening
• Introduced students to some of the majors events and societal trends in postwar America
• Responsible for designing activities and lectures at the American Corner to improve Romanian students' knowledge of the United States
• Wrote a regular column on American politics and foreign policy for Revista 22, a leading Romanian news weekly

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Participated in six week program combining intensive daily seminars on Western political tradition and weekly meetings with prominent policy makers and thinkers on the campus of Georgetown University.
• Took six weekly classes structured around Machiavelli and the Prince, the American Founding, Plato's Republic, Lincoln's Statesmanship, Iran and the Middle East, and Shakespeare and the Bible
• Joined other Fellows for extensive, informal conversations with major policymakers and writers, including Walter Russell Mead, William Galston, Gen. Michael Hayden, Bill Kristol, Assistant Secretary of State Ann.
• Enjoyed range of regular afternoon workshops, policy simulations, and seminars on topics like biotechnology, criminal justice reform, constitutional law, macroeconomic policy, and foreign policy

Brunswick, ME

• Wrote column twice a month for campus student newspaper on range of international, national, and campus isssues
• Strengthened periodical's intellectual diversity by offering centre-right point of view
• Most well-received writings included pieces on decline of American civil society, Pope Francis, and need for improved campus political discourse

Brunswick, ME

• Created new, officially recognized campus organization to offer a space for discussion of conservative political thought and public policy
• Planned weekly discussions on global and domestic issues built around selected texts from The Atlantic, Commentary, National Review, The American Interest, and a range of liberal and conservative periodicals
• Organized logistics and finances for the arrival of two major campus guest speakers (Daniel Mahoney & Adam Garfinkle) for the Spring 2016 semester
• Strived to advance the quality of campus intellectual life by forming supportive, challenging space for conservative students

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Engaged with issues restorative justice and prison reentry by working with state's leading non-profit reentry organization
• Designed introductory English curriculum for OpenDoors' 9 Yards prison education program to review essential gramatical and writing concepts
• Created lesson plans for program's college writing course with materials on persuasive writing and contemporary issues

Leesburg, Virgina

• Engaged with public policy development and advocacy through work at national organization committed to restorative justice and prison reform
• Managed and significantly improved internet traffic for Facebook and Twitter pages, updated website and blog, and completed research projects on congressional and state legislation, restorative justice history, and.
• Researched, contacted, and successfully lobbied 60 state and national organizations to co-sign with Justice Fellowship in support of Second Chance Reauthorization Act to provide federal support for reeentry programs.

Camden, NJ

• Spent gap year of service after high school and two summers with youth outreach organization in one of the country's poorest and most violent communities
• Responsible for lesson planning, classroom management, and activity design at a summer/afterschool program for underprivileged group of middle school students
• Supported high school students with job applications, speech contests, resumes, and college essays
• Personally raised $4000 for Urban Promise's youth spring break trips through newsletter writing and speaking engagement
• Engaged with issues of urban poverty, education, criminal justice reform, and racial justice through living in Camden neighborhood and building connections with residents

Bachelor’S Degree, History, 3.75 (Final Gpa)

Activities and Societies: Chorus, Catholic Student Union, Christian Fellowship, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Bowdoin Dining.

Government & History

Activities and Societies: Caritas Hellas, Athenian Singers, Salvation Army (Athens)• Studied for two semesters in Athens focused on the.