Program Manager, Community Economic Development + Legal Clinic
Berkeley, California, United States
• Aided low-income clients in starting sustainable local businesses, including: non-profits, food justice enterprises, and cooperative corporations• Engaged in transactional legal work, including: contract drafting, incorporation documents, tax analysis, grant writing, and memo writing on various legal issues• Developed and implement educational programming, including: leading community workshops on cooperatives and the sharing economy, staffing legal clinics and teach-ins offering… Show more • Aided low-income clients in starting sustainable local businesses, including: non-profits, food justice enterprises, and cooperative corporations• Engaged in transactional legal work, including: contract drafting, incorporation documents, tax analysis, grant writing, and memo writing on various legal issues• Developed and implement educational programming, including: leading community workshops on cooperatives and the sharing economy, staffing legal clinics and teach-ins offering pro-bono direct legal services, and teaching Causes and Conditions of Poverty seminars at U.C. Berkeley School of Law • Managed client workload for the clinic, including: coordinating and attending meetings, scheduling and production deadlines, client referrals, and supervising U.C. Berkeley law student work product• Wrote grants for food justice and cooperative development related projects, which resulted in the acquisition of more than $150,000 in funding for clinical programming during my tenure Show less