Strategic advisor and donor relations to the National Director

Using field-tested voter contact & organizing strategies to ensure COVID-19 vaccinations for Black, immigrant, and other communities of color and rural Americans.Helped more than 409k people get vaccinated in 15 cities and towns, and working with The Divine 9 Alumni and the National Urban League, to get us COVID-free.

Oversaw ground game in 12 US Senate races, with newly elected Democratic US Senators in Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia, keeping Michigan BLUE, giving us the edge in the SenateRevamped field organizing, volunteer, and voter turnout operations in a pandemic, adapting to an expanded digital and largest out-of-state volunteer program ever

Oversaw $16 million field, research, and digital budget to win five state ballot measure campaigns creating independent redistricting commissions in Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, Utah, and Colorado with ReMAP IT. Working with local leaders and stakeholders, we organized and took the fight to end gerrymandering directly to voters to change how redistricting happens in our country. With independent, citizen-led commissions, voters fought off gerrymandering maps and self-interested lawmakers, giving voters back the power to choose their elected officials and to undo a rigged system. Join us to RE-MAP America, end gerrymandering, and take back our country.

Ensuring the voices and leadership of immigrant youth are at the forefront of America's immigration debateDeveloped 2018-2020 political program for immigrant youth and progressive movement on immigration

• Established first in-house communications department, hired senior staff, and managed pollsters, vendors,consultants, and RFP process to reboot and innovate for the 2018 elections cycle.• Oversaw polling, tracking trends/viewpoints of New American Majority throughout Trump’s 1st year in office toinform political outreach efforts among African Americans, Latinos, young people, and unmarried women.• Designed new brand marketing campaign for VPC and affiliated organizations.

Managed and advised the senior research and communications staff for 2018 Senate and Governors races. Coordinated the donor relations, branding, and promotion of American Bridge. Oversaw the communications and daily rapid response teams for our 2016 presidential and senate programs. Developed meta-narratives with national, state reporters, and producers; managed senior/junior staff to place research and products with major outlets, resulting in regular frontpage stories and prime-time TV segments. Worked with partners, pollsters, donors to amplify Trump, senate, and governor research into paid and social media. Set the organization’s communications priorities for the General Election, directing staff to focus on research of Trump’s temperament, his finances and failed business record, and hypocrisy in his rhetoric, resulting in 673 news stories by Bridge about Trump and his record. Established trusted (mostly off-the-record) relationships with reporters and producers, providing research and tracking footage without prints to generate multi-day stories. Fostered staff to develop creative, forward-facing products and tools to reach new audiences with research and tracking footage, i.e. Trump Museum at the RNCC/DNCC, Wall of Taco Trucks in Las Vegas, Escape the Tape video game, Facebook & Twitter ads targeted at Trump Tower. Responsible for special projects, public and confidential briefings, and donor relations.

Led the national, state, and local communications, media outreach, and digital strategy coordination for the immigrant rights movement Institutionalized state/local “action teams” for voter engagement and candidate bird-dogging activities.• Designed the public education campaign and immigrant outreach program to build broad, diverse support for immigration reform, elevating the voices of immigrant families, advocates, business executives, faith leaders, and other stakeholders to pass a bipartisan Senate bill and to pressure the President to pledge action• Worked with organizations and identified new partners at the state and local level to create media opportunities and promote immigration reform, expose politicians for their anti- positions on reform; cultivated a national narrative to amplify local actions by coalition members for national media and cable TV, generating 16,000+ news hits and opinion pieces• Led rapid response efforts, uniting and coordinating hundreds of organizations and spokespeople to respond to campaign developments and political attacks against legislation and immigrant communities• Convened grassroots partners and opinion-makers to ensure complementary efforts in multi-pronged legislative, administrative, and public campaign

Developed the media and communications strategy for the ground breaking campaign that propelled Walmart retail and warehouse workers and their fight for better working conditions to national attention.• Oversaw national and local media outreach, digital, paid media, and mobile strategies in the lead up to Black Friday community actions in 47 states, tailoring segmented messages for broad audience engagement• Managed online activist engagement plan to mobilize online-to-offline community support • Maintained strong national, business, retail, labor, and progressive media relationships, and customized outreach program for targeted reporters, online and wire outlets, national and local news and cable shows• Wrote speeches and trained workers, customers, community leaders, and politicians as campaign spokespeople• Collaborated with community groups to initiate local, municipal, state legislation and/or ballot measures geared to protect consumers and workers

After successful Vermont campaign, promoted to direct strategy teams in national priority campaigns and initiatives, setting up rapid response and member engagement programs with affiliate organizations. Capitalized on electoral opportunities to advance member growth and contract campaigns.• Advised and convened national and local stakeholders, built infrastructure and capacity to support short- and long-term plans to elevate teachers’ voices and advocacy for education policies• Developed and executed voter persuasion campaign for teachers in FL, MN, OH, PA, VT to establish union rights for early educators, to prevent education budget cuts, and to stop anti-union legislation

• Oversaw field mobilization and leadership development for 10,000-workers in Vermont, and developed collaborative programs with children’s advocate organizations and ally groups. • Responsible for statewide communications and message development in early childhood education organizing campaign; built communications infrastructure for statewide organization and identified and trained speakers’ bureau of early educators.

• Associate Producer for Anderson Cooper’s Emmy-nominated documentary series Haiti in Ruins about the displacement of Haitian families after the January 2010 earthquake• Location and Casting Manager for documentary about Vietnamese fishermen and families affected by the BP oil spill in Louisiana and Alabama, sponsored by the National Geographic Education Foundation

Advanced the public debate on the role of unions in America and worked to unite more than 132,000 workers into SEIU. Promoted to Deputy Director for new regional expansion.• Developed and implemented the communications plan to rebrand SEIU in the South-Southwest region of the United States to emphasize the organization’s commitment to public service, health care reform, and social justice, achieving new alliances and partnerships with employers, community groups, and political moderates• Executed the media strategy and rapid response to pass national health care reform and federal labor laws in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, and Louisiana—securing 7 out of 10 US Senators voting for the Affordable Care Act

Responsible for outdoor advertising, promotions, and buys in 28 Chinese cities in lead up to and during 2008 Olympic games.Worked directly with Chinese athletes, talent and technology staff to design 3d, 4d, and 5d animations and sound.

Advanced the public debate on the role of unions in America and worked to unite more than 132,000 workers into SEIU. Promoted to Deputy Director for new regional expansion.• Directed communications for the 2006 Massachusetts ballot initiative to establish a state partnership with early education professionals; crafted campaign messages and managed a $2.4 million paid advertisement budget and media outreach• Co-created an online social networking platform for SEIU members that served as the first-generation prototype for the Action Network, now used by political candidates and organizations across the country to increase participation in their campaigns• Oversaw the creative design of campaign materials and video, supervised radio, print, and TV ads, and the production of direct mail, brochures, white papers, legislative packets, and presentations. Managed consultants, videographers, designers, printers, and mail houses

Led civil society development in fledgling democracies in Eurasia, laying the groundwork for citizen movements that changed governments. • Developed and executed $1.3 million USAID grant to increase citizen participation in newly democratic countries with direct voter communication, outreach, and paid advertising strategies• Identified and cultivated 150 female candidates for public office: 86 elected, 59 for the first-time, including Georgia’s first female Speaker of Parliament• Advised local NGOs on management, organizational development, advocacy programming, budget, communication, and staff training• Coordinated similar projects and cross-trainings in Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Western Russia, and Kyrgyzstan