Jenny Higgins Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

San José, Ca

- Membership recruitment, event organization, and endorsement organizations for recently founded women’s caucus in the County’s largest Democratic club.

San José, Ca

- Responsible for fundraising, organization, and strategic planning.- Led board meetings of activists and donors, ensuring collaborative and efficientdecisions.- Led fundraising effort that resulted in $500,000 in 9 weeks and that enabled historicallylarge marches and rallies in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.- Organized educational and political events on a range of issues related to genderequality.- Helped draft bylaws and procedures to guide the organization’s work.

San Jose, Ca

- Responsible for developing, coordinating and managing various events and meetings, including leadership development conferences, candidate forums, and community workshops.- Outreach and communications liaison with sister organizations, allies, community partners, businesses, volunteers, vendors and more.- Building and developing partnerships to elect women and support the women’s agenda across the United States.

San José, Ca

- Responsible for gathering information relevant to issues pending before council, mainly focusing on public safety, gender equity, human services, libraries, seniors, economic development and education.- Compiled and analyzed a wide variety of material on assigned projects, programs and topics.- Assisted in preparing speeches, articles, ceremonial items, memos and other communications.- Responded to constituent inquiries and issues, resolved complaints, and interpreted operating policies for community members.- Planned and executed arrangements for large and small community events, meetings and programs.

San José, Ca

- Leadership role in a successful nationally high-profile recall campaign of the Santa Clara County judge who sentenced Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to 6 months in jail for sexual assault.- Responsible for outreach and strategic partnership development with endorsers and affiliated campaigns, recruited and trained volunteers and worked on communications and fundraising which raised more than 1.5 million.- Strategic campaign planning led to the collection of over 94,000 signatures for the first judicial recall in California in 86 years and won with 62% of the vote.

San José

- Held a wide range of sale-oriented management roles, including sales management, product and business development, marketing and event planning, and trade show coordination.- Led a team of 24 professionals. Shifted to an active consulting role in 2006.- While playing a key leadership role in sales and marketing, contributed the company’s growth from $500k revenues to $23 million in revenues.

San José, Ca

- Raised over $1 million for blood cancer research.- Awarded Leukemia Lymphoma Society/Team In Training California Fundraiser of theYear 2011.

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