- Serve as thought partner and collaborator to the Executive Director, especially on people and culture issues, policy work, programs, and strategic plan implementation. Develop and improve systems and processes, lead team culture initiatives, and facilitate goal setting.- Lead policy and communications team; manage staff, provide mentorship and guidance, drive project/program planning, review materials, and hold staff accountable for results.- Own salary transparency and staff development work including creating updated position descriptions for all staff, identifying competencies for each current and prospective role, and developing promotion pathways specific to each position.- Manage strategic plan implementation process. Guide monthly and quarterly strategic plan check-ins; lead portions of strategic plan implementation including race equity and program/policy work.- Support/staff CCE’s Executive Committee, full Board of Directors, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Committee of the Board in collaboration with the Executive Director.

- Serve as thought partner and collaborator to the Executive Director, especially on people and culture issues, policy work, programs, and strategic plan implementation. Develop and improve systems and processes, lead team culture initiatives, and facilitate goal setting.- Supervise members of the policy and communications teams; provide mentorship and guidance, drive project/program planning, review materials, and hold staff accountable for results.- Provide support to Executive Director on Executive Committee and full Board meetings. Create materials, develop agendas, and manage follow up.- Worked with staff to launch two new programs – one on “second chance” hiring for returning (formerly incarcerated) citizens and the other focused on engaging youth in policy and advocacy work around juvenile/youth justice issues in the District of Columbia. Developed program plans, budgets, and outreach strategies, as well as programmatic materials.- Lead salary transparency and staff development work including developing updated position descriptions for all staff and identifying competencies for each current role and prospective roles.

Recent clients include:- National Association of Corporate Directors - Managed overhaul of contract management system- Hines Properties at 1001 Pennsylvania Ave - Oversaw property management office- National Indian Health Board - Organized financial data/paperwork after major leadership and staff transitionOrganizational services provided:- Consult on organizing and advocacy strategy, campaign plan development and grassroots/grasstops outreach- Implement organizational and/or personnel evaluation and management systemsIndividual/small group services provided:- Personal coaching on resumes, cover letters and interview preparation (including informational interviews), supervisory skills and leadership/management- Workshops on job searching, resume and cover letter skills, supervisory skills, leadership and management, professional communications

- Co-lead Political Campaigns and Policy Department with the Vice President. Serve as thought partner and collaborator to the VP, especially on people and culture issues, budget, programs, and strategic direction of political campaign and policy work.- Supervise (directly & indirectly) 17 members of the department (26 total); manage all recruitment, hiring, and onboarding processes for the department. Directly hired 15 people in less than a year.- Directly manage the Campaign Accelerator, a $3 million program that provides strategic and tactical advice, as well as in kind support and funding to local and state level proactive political campaigns. Manage staff, monitor/track budget, liaise with primary program funder, and establish programmatic systems and processes. - Serve as member of the senior leadership team, consulting with the Executive team on organizational strategy decisions, systems and structure, financial management, and people and culture initiatives.- Responsible for monitoring compliance, lobbying, and campaign finance reporting for the department in partnership with the General Counsel and outside counsel. - Serve as a member of the management committee negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement with the RepresentUS staff union (recognized May 2021).

-Led all organizational operations, communications, board management, fundraising, financial management and staff management

- Served as primary liaison to 17 Appleseed Centers located in the U.S. and in Mexico. Led development and support of Appleseed’s Network Collaboration Model designed to foster collaborative advocacy work among Centers to win high-impact victories. Organized, structured, and facilitated discussions; recruited and coordinated work with pro bono partners; and provided strategic campaign guidance to Centers on their advocacy campaign efforts.- Developed and managed relationships with international, national, state and local issue advocacy communities. - Planned events and convenings, including a successful Symposium in 2019 (~80 attendees) co-hosted with Princeton AlumniCorps at the Ford Foundation for Social Justice focused on building networks for change on immigration and forced migration issues. - Led organizational fundraising and outreach efforts to donors, prospective donors, law firms and foundations. Supervised all organizational communications work including quarterly newsletters, blog posts, publications, social and traditional media, and regular emails to supporter list.- Hired, trained, and supervised staff, fellows, and interns. - Coordinated 2018 update to Appleseed’s signature publication, “Protecting Assets and Child Custody in the Face of Deportation: A Guide for Practitioners Assisting Immigrant Families,” including managing all pro bono partners updating/drafting chapters, managing the translation of the full publication into Spanish, and leading outreach efforts to national and state issue advocacy communities. Publication was disseminated to more than 150,000 people in less than a year.

- Led all organizational outreach efforts to national and state issue advocacy communities, including voting rights, environmental issues, LGBT rights, reproductive rights, labor, etc. Singlehandedly led outreach efforts to the criminal justice community, a new target for JAS, including developing new relationships and securing speaking opportunities.- Provided extensive direct support on advocacy and lobbying efforts to state advocates; reviewed and tracked state legislation; and drafted statements, letters, and legislative testimony. Convened and led a national strategy coordination table and knowledge-sharing calls with state advocates from across the country.- Successfully directed all planning and execution efforts for 2015 Fair Courts State Summit (~150 attendees) including logistics; marketing; Planning Committee management; agenda development; outreach to speakers; on-site conference management, etc. Led all planning efforts for 2016 Summit.

- Led team of 14 in executing youth engagement and policy change campaigns across the country and in Canada. Served as a member of the senior leadership team.- Worked directly with clients at the state, provincial and local level to achieve youth tobacco and obesity prevention goals through a results-oriented and research-based proprietary youth engagement and campaign model. Managed additional voluntary policy campaigns with a focus on reducing adult exposure to secondhand smoke.- Developed and implemented all aspects of campaigns including work plan development, materials creation, execution of specific strategies, tactics and activities for each, and evaluation and reporting of results.- Created and managed budgets and supervised reporting and evaluation for all contracts. - Supervised the growth of a movement of youth activists focused on fighting tobacco from 6,000 to more than 9,000 in less than 2 years.

- Worked with the Director and other senior leadership to implement strategic direction of government affairs and outreach work, particularly as it concerned the organization's various constituencies and advocacy partners.- Provided extensive capacity building, training, and technical assistance to communities around the country, particularly around stakeholder engagement, communications, messaging and coalition-building efforts. - Planned for and led a team in executing major federal advocacy efforts.

- Led major, multi-state policy change efforts from initial strategic planning, needs assessment and partnership development through campaign execution, materials production, budget tracking and evaluation.- Served as primary contact for 50+ member organizations and other external partners; recruited new members to the coalition; managed all member benefits including members-only website, listserv and database. Standardized membership dues process and generated over $30,000 in dues in 4 months, equivalent of a 500% increase in revenue from the previous year.

- Help set the strategic direction and goals for YNPNdc- Communications Committee: publicize events, develop marketing materials, pursue press outreach, live tweet events, etc.

- Directed all outreach, advocacy and coalition-building activities for the Nonprofit Congress initiative. Wrote, edited and built action alerts, fact sheets and toolkits.- Co-authored, edited and produced Work With Me: Intergenerational Conversations for Nonprofit Leadership, a workbook designed to help nonprofits identify and leverage the expertise of all generations. - Supervised all planning efforts for 2009 Nonprofit Congress event (450 projected attendees) including content development, marketing, communications, logistics, outreach, sponsorship and related tasks.

- Mobilized members and state partners on legislative campaigns through phone, mail and email contact. Created sample letters to Congress, letters to the editor, call scripts, website content, talking points and email alerts for each campaign. Increased activist participation in advocacy campaigns by 50%.- Coordinated major national and local efforts on voter registration, education and mobilization (Voterization) focused on homeless and low-income citizens. Worked with national coalition partners, distributed materials to participants, tracked outcomes and reported on results.

- Served as first point of contact for all office visitors- Handled all incoming calls and transferred to proper personnel- Provided extensive customer service to magazine subscribers- Ordered office supplies and maintained cleanliness/neatness in all common areas

- Developed strategic plan, goals, timelines and grassroots action campaigns for Campus Organizing Program, ensured that timelines and goals were met and reported on results. - Coordinated, managed and offered support to 20 state affiliate campus organizing programs, over 100 campuses and several student organizers in non-affiliate states.

- Organized and supervised feminist activist student groups nationwide through phone calls, emails and visits to 46 campuses in 11 states and the District of Columbia.