Managed expansive legislative portfolio including health care, women's issues, education, and domestic social policy.

- Supported Senior Legislative Assistant in areas of women's issues, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, and military sexual misconduct, education, and healthcare.- Assisted the Congresswoman in writing speeches for events, floor remarks, a letter to a federal agency in support of survivors of sexual assault, social media posts, and press releases.- Managed FY19 appropriations process for the Congresswoman by tracking over two hundred requests, managing review process with senior staff, and delegating responsibilities to supporting staff.- Facilitated the legislative process for various bills related to the Americans with Disabilities Act and online sexual violence.- Supported task force and caucus work related to sexual violence.- Wrote policy memos relaying best practices for combating sexual misconduct in the federal workplace and legislation related to individuals with disabilities and special needs.

- Nominated and selected for a graduate assistantship for the President Emeritus Stephen J. Trachtenberg of the George Washington University. Assistant teacher for an undergraduate honors course on leadership in practice. - Facilitate operations for course, including scheduling important speakers for the class throughout the year.- Assist in various projects for the President Emeritus, including outreach for a book anthology to university presidents and staff. Draft speeches and communications on behalf of the President Emeritus.

- Advanced gender equity issues by lobbying members of Congress weekly on Capitol Hill. Assisted in preparing materials and briefings, creating walksheets for volunteers, and data entry.- Drafted important public policy resources, including fact sheets, correspondences to Capitol Hill, position papers, legislative updates and alerts, briefing materials, and articles for policy publications.- Monitored and facilitated communications with AAUW members, including crafting official responses to members’ concerns, responding to inquiries about AAUW’s advocacy and mission, and assembling a weekly newsletter of policy updates.

- Assist the Senior Director in special projects for OAPS, an office that provides academic policy guidance for K-12 schools and manages student data systems for tracking and compliance purposes. Oversee OAPS-wide operations, communications, and cross-functional initiatives for three teams (18 people) and supervise one full-time direct report. - Delegate and respond to questions from over 50 field staff and assist all trainings by supervising timelines, collecting documentation, and providing operational support. Draft submissions and manage review process for OAPS submissions to two major NYCDOE publications, Principals’ Weekly and Field Support for Schools, received by over 11,000 NYCDOE staff weekly. - Supervise communications across two OAPS teams for “NYC Schools Account”, a mobile-friendly tool currently used by over 113,000 parents and guardians that provides access to student information. Review all publications for the tool including 7 public and internal documents, multiple internal announcements, translations, and language on the public website.- Implement the cross-functional OAPS help desk that responds to a daily average of 15 escalations from field staff. Built the help desk platform using a web-based application and enforced protocols and business rules for 7 help desk agents across all teams. - Handle 2 major web tools for OAPS: wiki space and intranet website. Design the wiki space for time-sensitive resources and update the intranet repository for over forty published guidance documents, respectively.- Support the Senior Director with oversight and purchasing for a budget of over 300,000 dollars by provisioning funds for consultants, external vendors, data systems and software, as well as office supplies. Assist with hiring and onboarding of additional team members. - Created and implemented a quarterly feedback structure for managers and employees.

- Directed a cross-functional project to implement a city-wide admissions test for over 5,000 students with testing accommodations (28,000 total students) by monitoring schools, finalizing guidance materials for schools, verifying testing accommodations for students with disabilities and English Language Learners.- Supervised 6 consultants by monitoring daily shifts and work streams, providing workspace and important instructions in an environment with major working limitations, overseeing the project timeline, providing resources for conducting outreach, while also developing training materials and responding to inquiries from schools.- Developed guidance materials in order to guide and inform schools on a new diploma seal recognizing service achievement, including a high school transfer credit FAQ, guidelines for New York State Education Department (NYSED) “pathways to graduation” initiative, and an academic programming guide. - Reformatted the OAPS intranet resources page, edited January graduation and Spring semester programming guidance, updated a document providing guidance on a NYSED waiver for math exams for NYCDOE students, and reported on coding discrepancies between 2 major student data systems used by school staff.

- Represented the NYC-based, boutique lobbying firm publicly and collaborated directly with city council members and state elected officials on over 5 major projects and client issues, including a minority-owned casino bid in New York State, a prominent real estate proposal to replace a Brooklyn hospital, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) first Legislative Arts Breakfast.- Supervised all aspects of the firm such as garnering popular support on client issues through outreach and communications, compiling over 25 letters of support and speeches from elected officials and prominent community members on behalf of clients. Participated in monthly City Council meetings, State Assembly meetings, and the annual Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian legislative caucus gala in Albany. - Liaised between clients and counterpart firms, while also attending community events in Orange County and Brooklyn to gain popular support for clients, conducted research on relevant policy topics, and filed monthly legal reports to the New York State Ethics Commission.- Conducted outreach and collection of over 50 letters of support from the Newburgh community for a major casino client in New York State. - Drafted speeches for a protest against the proposed shutdown of Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in upstate New York utilized by elected officials, community representatives, and additional speakers.

- Supported the Senior Director of Institutional Effectiveness to maintain timelines, supervise office projects, and facilitate team building.- Led an initiative to enhance the NYCDOE high school transcript, developed the OAPS “lookbook” in order to profile each team, streamlined data verification process, and collected qualitative research on data culture.

- Assisted in policy and daily office work for Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) on Capitol Hill by conducting research for staffers, answering and logging on average 10 constituent phone calls per day, logging over 30 constituent requests and concerns per day, and drafting responses to constituents on behalf of the Congressman.- Attended multiple hearings and briefings on various issues, such as the United States Supreme Court decision on Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act.- Improved the Congressman’s social media presence by updating and managing the Congressman’s Facebook page, email newsletter, and Twitter.