Provide management and leadership of SEARAC’s communications strategies, which include external marketing, media engagement, storytelling, and branding; increase SEARAC’s visibility and communicating organizational impact to partners, media, funders, and the general public

Develop both short- and long-range strategies for communications and development; develop and implement SEARAC’s external communications strategies to increase the visibility and reach of SEARAC’s work; support the monitoring and execution of overall development strategies including foundation, corporate, and grassroots fundraising.

Consultant for academics seeking to collaborate on research studies and projects; freelance writing and editing, including full-length features, communications and marketing materials, press releases, scholarly articles, textbook chapters, and research documents for a diverse range of businesses and institutions (academic, nonprofit, and industrial).

Editorial support for Clinical Lab Products and 24x7 magazines, as well as the Axis Imaging web site; write monthly imaging column for print, compile weekly e-newsletters that review industry news, and manage online content, including site maintenance and social media channels; work with a wide network of industry contacts to produce monthly editorial sections.

Managing various activities of a SAMHSA-supported suicide prevention program, including overseeing the creation and implementation of a University-wide task force to examine key campus and community target areas for suicide awareness. Other accomplishments included development of suicide awareness lectures tailored for undergraduate journalism students, coordination of on-campus safeTALK and ASIST trainings, and performing a literature review to identify best practices for acknowledging institutional sensitivity around the topic of suicide while promoting awareness.

Collaborated with scholars from the School of Social Work. Tasks included, but were not limited to, revising and updating textbooks and other course materials for graduate level students, performing literature reviews on the socioeconomic impact of disparities in health, education, and criminal justice, and researching, writing, and editing masters-level texts that introduced health, education, criminal justice, and other policy areas for a social work audience.

Led the organization's preliminary program evaluation efforts regarding impact of its out-of-school learning initiatives on participating LA Unified School District schools. Tasks included survey creation, collaboration with site supervisors, and grant-writing.

Facilitated planning and execution of roughly 20 focus groups in NYC neighborhoods consisting of Asian American elementary and middle school students, their parents, and their teachers, with the goal of informing a policy report that examined the model minority myth and the problematic educational deficits it produces among Asian American youth; wrote and presented thematic observations from focus group conversations. The full report, "We're Not Even Allowed to Ask for Help," can be found via: http://www.cacf.org/documents/We're%20Not%20Even%20Allowed%20to%20Ask%20for%20Help.pdf

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