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Michigan, United States

Responsible for implementation of ambitious voter protection program to “rescue” approximately 10,000 initially rejected Democratic ballots across Michigan via targeted digital and direct outreach and rapid coalition building.Scaled program from initial plan to fully running campaign team (5,000 trained volunteers, 50,000+ calls, 70,000+ texts, 10,000 knocked doors) via entirely virtual campaign apparatus in 3 weeks.

New York, United States

Member of senior team responsible for development and execution of campaign strategy, including an extensive print and digital comms programs for a slate of 25+ geographically and ideologically diverse top-tier races across New York State.Played key role in recruitment and management of 40+ campaign staff, orchestration of opposition research, and both local and statewide coalition management.Served as primary political point of contact for NY Assembly’s 102 Democratic members, challenge candidates, and broad coalition of key union and advocacy group stakeholders.

Bronx, New York, United States

Designed and executed ambitious grassroots campaign plan as part of NYC Council Member Pierina Sanchez's successful re-elect in Bronx District 14.Managed substantial field program (15 contract + hourly field staff, 100+ volunteers); regular interface with mail + digital consultants; $207K budget.Managed relationships with high profile campaign surrogates including Bronx Borough President Vanessa L. Gibson, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, and Members of Congress Adriano Espaillat and Ritchie Torres.

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Developed/managed country’s largest statewide Democratic voter protection operation to respond to GOP efforts to disrupt and invalidate Michigan election results during the 2022 election cycle.Built network of local, regional and state actors to recruit and train >2,000 volunteer team to monitor voting and to identify/resolve voting issues in conjunction with MDP legal team during 40-day election period.Modernized processes to optimize polling location prioritization & volunteer deployment, enhance data metrics tracking and reporting, and streamline volunteer recruitment and training.Reported directly to MDP and DNC leadership and managed eight direct reports operating offices across Michigan.

Nyc

Designed and implemented organizational plan to conduct large-scale community-based COVID-19 vaccination + stop the spread effort in minority and underserved communities across the five boroughs.Hired + managed 50 mgmt/supervisory staff and 1,000+ local community members; Partnered with 100+ non-profit and local gov. organizations; co-managed $10+ million budget.Created extensive data organization + quality control tools, staff hiring, training and developmental materials, communication + organizational structures.Program results: >150,000+ vaccine appointments, 650,000+ testing appointments, >11 million masks distributed.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed consultant pods responsible for producing and fielding over 70 television and radio ads plus $150 million spend on digital targeted messaging operations throughout the 2020 cycle. Assigned to operations in six key Senate battleground states including Michigan, Georgia, and Iowa, providing policy guidance, persuasive messaging and candidate research for SMP consultants and internal staff.Collaborated extensively with in-house and consultant’s digital media teams to design, develop and deploy large-scale social media campaigns to targeted voter audiences across multiple platforms.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Wrote and distributed in-depth hearing summaries, press releases, and daily/weekly press briefings for individual clients and national groups (> 5,000 subscriberships).Monitored and analyzed media coverage and congressional activity across multiple policy areas for a diverse client portfolio.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Managed 30+ interns and 400+ active volunteers running the regional headquarters in the campaign’s 2nd highest performing region, running field operations for Bredesen for Senate, Mariah Phillips for Congress and highly competitive races for one state senate and four state house candidates.Recruited and trained volunteers and interns, organized candidate events, and maintained a complex organizational system (Votebuilder/VAN and Xcel) in a high pressure campaign environment.Ranked in top five organizers statewide for volunteer recruitment.

Shanghai City, China

Played an active role in annual budget review process across company’s six divisions -- attended executive level budget meetings in both English and Mandarin and reviewed budget reports for company’s production facilities throughout China. Attained proficiency in SAP business software

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Dealt with constituent relations and internal communications and gained proficiency using Fireside. Expanded newsletter subscribership by approximately 400%.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Relations; Foci In Economics And Chinese

Activities and Societies: PostScript Magazine - Director of Marketing, Sino-US Relations Group Engagement (SURGE), Tufts Orchestra, Tufts.

International Business

Semester-long study abroad program at ECNU's Shanghai campus.

Year Long Study Abroad/Immersion Program

Activities and Societies: Achieved HSK 4 Accreditation (mid-level conversational fluency) in Mandarin at program's terminationAFS Study.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society