I execute the planning and development of strategies to disseminate information on behalf of an organization advocating for evidence-based changes to the District of Columbia’s justice system. I serve as the principal writer, editor, and manager of consultants for an online library on complex justice system policy issues. As part of a team, I develop correspondence for members of the Council of the District of Columbia and Mayorly supervised agencies. As part of a team, I develop correspondence for members of the Council of the District of Columbia and Mayorly supervised agencies. I lead trainings on research, writing, the packaging of information, and strategies to disseminate materials for directly impacted people.

I led the development of content, including correspondence, policy reports, one pagers and website content for the agency's leadership to maximize outreach opportunities and to enhance the organizations visibility and engagement with key constituencies that included crime survivors, a bipartisan constituency of lawmakers and law enforcement, and formerly incarcerated people. I drafted and edited materials for the organization for U.S. Congressional offices and Executive agencies and executed strategies as part of a team to disseminate informational content to engage key constituencies.

I developed correspondence, reports, one-pagers, and other informational content on behalf of the agency's leadership to raise the group's visibility and increase engagement and to enhance, support, and defend policies consistent with the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act (JJDPA). I led the repackaging of analyses of juvenile justice legislation, standards, policies, and practices and planned for the dissemination of these materials to U.S. Congress and juvenile justice interest groups. One report I authored on state-based efforts to raise the age of juvenile court jurisdiction was promoted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) on its websites, list-serves, and through a webinar.

I led the planning and production of informational content for government agencies, think tanks, probation and parole departments, judges, and crime victims' organizations on juvenile and criminal justice reform topics, all focusing on supporting and defending their priorities. Clients included the U.S. Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Campaign for Youth Justice, the National Center for Victims of Crime, and the NAACP.

I led policy and research support to a private sector foundation consortium that developed more than a dozen successful statewide juvenile justice policy change proposals. I worked with a team of analysts to review and publicize policy recommendations to improve legislation and the standards and policies governing state-based juvenile justice systems.

I led the evaluation and outcome processes for a D.C. juvenile justice agency. I developed testimony, correspondence, publications, speeches, budget preparation documents, and persuasive presentation materials on juvenile justice topics for the agency director in communicating with elected officials, justice system stakeholders, and the media.

I served as the Public Information Officer for a juvenile justice agency. I developed all communications materials issued by the department on behalf of the director, including analyses of legislation, speeches, talking points, and reports.

I managed six staff, including writers, researchers, editors, and designers, and planned outreach strategies to widely disseminate materials to support, strengthen, and defend the JJDPA. I led the team that developed OJJDP’s “Second Chances: Giving Kids a Chance to Make a Better Choice” to honor the founding of the juvenile court, which catalyzed a campaign to defend and support the core goals of the JJDPA.

I led efforts with California police chiefs, district attorneys, Sheriffs, and crime victims to support bigger investments in prevention, mental health, and juvenile justice reforms. As part of a team, I helped build law enforcement support for Proposition 63, a ballot initiative that taxed millionaires to support community-based mental health services. I served on Governor Schwarzenegger’s Juvenile Justice Working Group, a body that developed the precursor to a major state-county juvenile justice reform initiative (SB 81).

I served as the first staff person hired by the Justice Policy Institute, one of the first Washington, DC-based think tanks focused on advancing evidence-based youth justice policies to scale. As Associate Director, I led the team that developed OJJDP’s “Second Chances: Giving Kids a Chance to Make a Better Choice” to honor the founding of the juvenile court, which catalyzed a campaign to defend and support the core goals of the JJDPA. As Associate Director, I led the repackaging of analyses of juvenile justice legislation, standards, policies, and practices and planned for the dissemination of these materials to U.S. Congressional offices and juvenile justice interest groups. Key publications covered the topics of Disproportionate Minority Contact, the removal of young people from adult jails, and the adoption of evidence-based practices.