Change and growth coaching for small business, startup, and nonprofit leaders. Using emergent strategy and community organizing principals to redesign a failing nonprofit so it can adapt to a post-covid landscape and move towards long-term sustainability.Provide training and compliance and governance support to nonprofit boards and officers. Lead a programming redesign effort to drive radical culture change for an educational organization.Oversaw FDA and other regulatory compliance process and documentation redesign effort for a nutraceutical manufacturing plant.

Founded a nationally-recognized grassroots immigrant advocacy project and nonprofit organization. Designed and led anti-racism trainings built using trauma-recovery frameworks.Organize the San Diego Lights for Liberty March (2000 attendees) with a diverse, community-centered leadership coalition in only 3 weeks.Invited Speaker: Santa Cruz & Santa Clara Counties Community Action Boards; European Minority Rights Delegation to the San Diego Diplomacy Council; UC San Diego; San Diego State University.Provided testimony regarding US human rights abuses against migrants to the InterAmerican Council on Human Rights and the DHS Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties.

Provided strategy, research support for entertainment, business, and family litigation practice.Drafted pleadings, complex motions and memoranda, and other court filings.Drafted and revised deal memos, contracts and other transactional, client-facing documents.

Founded a legal tech start up focused on reducing the time and workload for complex cases to increase attorney capacity and ensure that asylum-seekers and refugees have access to competent legal counsel.Invited to speak at South By Southwest Interactive (2016 & 2017) and Universidad Internacional Collegio de Derechos (Cuernavaca, Morales, Mex).Led product strategy and development and managed marketing and public relations for early stage startup creating client-centered immigration management solutions.Invited as a co-founder to participate in Summer 2014 Plug N Play Startup Camp.

Drafted and strategized oral arguments for a 4th Cir. Appeal Led case preparation for individual hearings and agency and circuit court appeals focusing on defense against removal and defensive asylum cases.Directed legal strategy, conducted legal and factual research, and drafted complex trial briefs, motions and other court filings.Managed law student interns and pro bono volunteers (between 5 and 20 students per term) assisting with litigation and DACA application project.

The Stanford Law and Visual Media Project (LVMP) encourages the integration of visual media with the study and practice of law, public policy and advocacy. The project first focused on the production of documentary video as a way to explore and understand the human impact of law. LVMP continues to support student video projects and has expanded its efforts to support the use other media, such as photography and visual information design, to improve advocacy and increase access to justice.

Research Assistant to Jay Mitchell, Director of the Organizations & Transactions Clinic. Literature review on the use of document design in creating more effective corporate governance documents.Interdisciplinary coursework in public policy, legislative processes, multimedia journalism, media and cognitive psych, and human-centered design.

-Researched wide-range of legal issues and drafted research memos for real estate and land use litigation, administrative law and public agency practice, and labor and employment.-Co-authored 2 articles on digital signatures in medical records management for industry newsletter.-Drafted a Motion for Final Order of Condemnation including motion, memorandum of points and authorities, multiple declarations, and exhibits.-Shadowed transactional team for bond refinancing deal; assisted with due diligence document review.

-Researched legal issues and feasibility of filing and monetizing patents for student inventions. -Developed implementation plan to pilot donation of pre-IPO stock from partnering entrepreneurs.-Wrote corporate governance reference document, summarizing key provisions of organization bylaws.-Compiled recommendations and resources for undocumented high school students seeking legal immigration status, college admissions, and financial aid.-Conducted feasibility study and developed strategic recommendations for major fundraising initiative.

-Led strategic communications for 3-person start-up team; defined core business and marketing strategies, produced collateral materials, and provided consulting services.-Developed comprehensive business plan for a financial sector start-up.-Provided executive coaching, market analysis and research, and white paper development for an international consulting firm identifying and positioning a new service line.-Created content for web-based, coaching and consulting venture; 2012 anticipated launch.

-Managed $4M federal IT/training contract at the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs-Supervised 6-person consulting team providing grants management support, IT services, training development and delivery, and communications support. -Designed business processes and agency-level policies for administration of DOJ Recovery Act grants; trained agency executives, grant managers, and grant recipients nation-wide.-Provided strategic communications and marketing support of community-based, public health programs for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Indoor Air Division.-Engineered a comprehensive training program and leadership and organizational development initiatives for the National Institutes of Health’s Division of Extramural Activities Support (DEAS), the agency’s largest division.

-Taught advanced university writing to students majoring in engineering, hard sciences, criminology, pre-law, and social sciences.-Coached students in developing professional deliverables for real-world clients.-Developed and reviewed department-wide curriculum; wrote and edited department textbooks.

-Taught first-year and upper-division technical and academic writing courses. -Coached students in developing professional deliverables for real-world clients.-Developed and reviewed department-wide curriculum; wrote and edited department textbooks.-Trained colleagues during professional development conferences and workshops.

-Implemented and managed administrative operations; supervised support staff.-Helped negotiate client contract with $100K+ in annual revenues; managed 200+ associated cases. -Built a customized Access database to manage consumer collections practice.

Taught literacy and primary education to adults in a rural, subsistence-farming community outside Irapuato, GTO, Mexico, under the direction of Mexico’s National Institute for Adult Education (INEA) Completed independent, in-country ethnographic research and folklore studies.