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Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Strategic Outreach and Engagement: Coordinate development and implementation of creative outreach and engagement strategies aligned with Atlantic Council priorities, including the Center’s Fellowship programs.
• Business Development: Undertake all aspects of project development, fundraising, and implementation. Oversee corporate membership program with partners from across industries.
• Congressional Relations: Develop the Center’s strategy to shape congressional priorities. Lead congressional outreach, including engaging policymakers, key committees, and staff members.

Washington, United States

• Spearheaded fundraising strategies for +5 new programs, creating three Congressional fellowships; a regional women empowerment network; an initiative to counter disinformation; and bi-national multi-stakeholder working.
• Led congressional engagement to shape policy choices of key committees by steering relations between the United States andLatin America and the Caribbean engaging with policymakers across party lines.
• Led more than 150 private and public policy discussions involving key high-level policy influencers, providing thought leadership on the intersection of geopolitics and economics.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Organized, planned, and managed multi-day international workshops in democratic governance, political communications, and grassroots politics. Coordinated capacity building and networking programs for civil society.
• Designed and executed a multi-year program focused on global advocacy for Latin American political, social, and business leaders in Washington DC. Partnered with a network of regional NGOs (AMCHAM, IRelGov, etc) for.
• Monitored, analyzed, and evaluated data on Political Risk Analysis and Game and Drama Theory in Latin America. Prepared briefings with action-oriented recommendations to regional partners including local governments.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• Developed campaign and communications strategy; write press releases, advisories, pitches, and email campaigns for clients; and communication strategies for multiple clients.
• Led target audience identification, media landscape surveys, supervised messaging, third-party validators engagement, and social media micro-targeting. On-field accompaniment, staff training, and consulting to clients
• Implemented grassroots methodology to increase contacts ratio and engagement strategy for clients.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• Led and executed policy strategy with a $2M annual budget. Supervised a team of over 300 employees. Served as spokesperson. Orchestrated fundraising strategy and oversaw financial execution. Partnered with local NGOs.
• Oversaw a portfolio of 56 community-managed daily care homes in charge of over 2.500 children and 8 senior clubs responsible for over 600 citizens, in the lower-income areas of the municipality. Provided capacity.
• Developed an alternative dispute resolution program for the municipality for violence prevention in high-crime areas of the municipality. Created twelve resolution centers benefiting a population of over +50.000.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

• Designed and implemented a college scholarship program for young students with limited resources “Supérate y Progresa." The program awarded more than 1.200 scholarships.
• Created “Emprende y Progresa” a program to build capacities for local low-income entrepreneurs. Built partnerships with the banking sector awarding low-interest loans to over +80 entrepreneurs.
• Built 50 “Espacios Juveniles” in the municipality. These spaces were created to recover high crime areas (hot spots) to mitigate violence in the neighborhood and provide quality family spaces.

Caracas Area, Venezuela

Managed department budget (1.200.000,00 US$, official exchange rate). Acted as the spokesperson and establish partnerships with multiple stakeholders. Supervised 42 team members.

Miranda Area, Venezuela

• Designed the communication strategy, responsible for budgetary control and team recruitment, training a 4,000 activists team. Grassroots planning and get out the vote and day-to-day operations oversight. Management of.
• The resulting victory became a historic landmark over the government party. The final outcome was a difference by four percentage points over the government party and an increase of 44% of the votes supporting the.

Master'S Degree, Political Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government