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Serve as a strategic thought partner for the leadership of a new state agency as they developed their organizational structure, planned citizen engagement activities, and built their data infrastructure.Lead team efforts to support transformative projects across children services, childcare and early education, maternal and infant health, early childhood development, family support & stabilization, and young adult supports.Provide strategic and operational expertise in the lead-up to the agency’s official launch, including the development of key internal and external stakeholder communications, facilitation of technology needs assessments and preparations, and the delivery of an agency-wide Logic Model to foster buy-in and alignment across the agency.

Served as primary project and change management advisor for senior State Agency leadership across full spectrum of Health and Human Services programs, including transformative children’s services efforts and the development of program analysis for the Governor’s office and public consumption.Served as the agency’s primary strategic support in multiple State Legislature-initiated Task Forces, strategizing and coordinating agency response, developing presentation materials, structuring committee deliverables, and facilitating stakeholder workgroups and meetings.Built and launched new internal- and external-facing Dashboards encompassing key operational data for state and county leadership and associations, including analysis designed to support and address children services placement and workforce attrition mitigation efforts.

Built, launched and delivered a statewide new worker training program to 200+ participants, coordinating with State counterparts to evaluate and improve ongoing participant engagement, understanding, and adoption.Developed and managed the distribution and analysis of the County Operations Survey to all 88 Ohio Counties, validating results and following up with outstanding counties to ensure comprehensive, standardized results.Conducted wide-ranging data analysis, incorporating approximately 40 points of operational survey data and performance metrics from 88 counties, utilizing Excel and Tableau to find and visualize meaningful insights.

New York, New York

Designed, built, and implemented a Statewide Training Schedule for Ohio’s 5000 SNAP/TANF staff over 4 months.Managed central communications for Field Support Team through daily and monthly IES project newsletters to increase team awareness of upcoming project milestones and to increase staff engagement and share best practices.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Serve as a critical member of school leadership team, along with School Leaders and Assistant School Leaders, to ensure effective operational support of school strategy and to manage school operations.Assist the School Leader and Manager of Finance to create and oversee the school’s budget and finances with support from the Director of Operations and manages school-based purchasing.Oversee student information systems, school facilities and physical conditions, and logistics for school field trips and events.Implement and maintain technology plan and school-wide compliance with health and safety laws for the campus.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Serve as the point person for key operational needs and functions by overseeing the day-to-day administration of facilities, technology, and student health and safety.Capture and organize attendance records, student testing, and other data entry, as well as track staff records, to ensure accuracy and compliance. Responsible for site level budget monitoring and management, with input into budget development.Negotiate with third-party vendors to provide services and products for the school.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Served as a near-peer tutor and mentor for students and a community-builder in an under-resourced school, promoting efforts to keep students in school and on track.Served in a local school by working with diverse people, ideas and cultures to build a stronger community.Led in-kind donation efforts exceeding $2000 for team and corps-wide events; Responsible for initiating and building relationships with local community partners to support our mission.

Greater St. Louis Area

Assisted with office management by answering phone calls, assisting constituents, and processing mail.Connected with constituents by drafting correspondence and attending outreach events.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Coordinated efforts to connect with constituents through the use of commendations. Handled incoming letters of concern and managed the Representative’s response letters.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Led an Ohio State dorm team and was essentially in charge of the on-campus staging location for dorms. Supported Field Organizers with recruitment, training, and coordination of 60+ volunteers leading up to and on Election Day; and reported progress and status to Organizers periodically during the election.Co-led an On-Campus High Traffic team, which registered voters, informed students of voting rights, manned polling locations, canvassed campus and dorms, and campaigned for President Obama.Special Recognition: One of five students selected to greet Air Force One and President Obama.

Greater St. Louis Area

Worked directly under the campaign coordinator, Samantha Rosenbloom.Led canvasses to reach out to the local community, and inform citizens about the election and Representative Kirkton's positions.

Greater St. Louis Area

Coordinated efforts to reach out to and register students, including searching school district bylaws and working with the Principal to contact all voter-eligible students.Led a group of students in conducting a fact-check of the opposition.Registered 200 students in an election that came down to 500 votes.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Working Professional Program, 3.97

Activities and Societies: Fisher Board Fellows

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

Activities and Societies: Executive Founding Member of Multi-Partisan Coalition, Member of Collegiate Council of World Affairs.

3.8

Activities and Societies: Speech and Debate Team, Model United Nations, Young Moderates, Student Government, Mock Trial, Amnesty.