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Empowering Communities, Unleashing Potential. As a community strategist with a multifaceted background in alternative energy, the arts, event production, and climate advocacy, I help make impactful connections, create roadmaps, strategize KPIs, and increase engagement with your customers and community members.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Exclusive fellowship cohort-based program for working professionals to learn about applied climate solutions. Fellows study climate solutions through the lenses of science, technology and innovation, policy and governance, and equity and justice.

Palo Alto, California, Us

CMX is an organization supporting community professionals. Providing events, content, and community spaces for members. It supports their professional and emotional needs with in-depth digital training programs and certifications, community spaces, masterclasses, summits, and industry research and reports. CMX is a part of Bevy, an event SaaS platform helping companies scale global community events programs.● Led and directed a team focused on enriching community engagement and programming.● Spearheaded strategies enhancing engagement, doubling interaction rates in 6 months.● Pioneered cost-effective programming, reducing expenses by 20% without compromising quality.● Doubled community programming sponsorship in 6 months, significantly boosting community impact.● Authored the pivotal Annual Community Industry Report, influencing industry standards.● Orchestrated the annual summit, picked keynote speakers, and wrote the overall content, focuses, and guidelines. This is the premier global event for all community professionals.

San Mateo, California, Us

Vyond is an enterprise-grade agile video creation studio enabling businesses to quickly create relevant and engaging videos.● Established a growing community marketing department, organized events and conference showcases, created content and campaigns for social media, and built a customer community of eLearning, training, and HR professionals.● Shaped department by focusing on building relationships, identifying influencers, sharing knowledge, networking, and proactively connecting customers and product team to facilitate feedback loops.● Led a successful platform transition, boosting community membership by 2000%.● Grew a vibrant customer events program, increasing meet-up attendance by 800%.● Championed a pioneering virtual events program, contributing over 50% of marketing leads.● Undertook the creation of methodologies and processes for interdepartmental collaboration by creating a manual to support company-wide community fostering.● Established a superuser program with prominent industry figures.● Co-founder of the company D.E.I. taskforce, with members from our international offices. Advised both internal and external DEI issues.

Santa Rosa, Ca, Us

Maker Media is an event and publication company for do-it-yourself (DIY) enthusiasts. The Maker community comes from a wide variety of interests, such as robotics, 3D printing, computers, arts and crafts, and hacker culture.● Provided leadership and direction for a global community platform that connects makers with other makers, products, services, and partners. ● Created job descriptions, recruited, hired, and managed a team of 15 stage producers.● Built outreach strategies to spread awareness. Worked in collaboration with influencers.● Continuously took risks on new makers to boost excitement and strengthen diversity. ● Established the Maker Faire Advisory Board, integrating influential voices and diversifying content.● Launched the Make: Space exhibit and gathered a production team with members from NASA and JPL.● Championed and led diversity and inclusion initiatives across the organization.● Implemented the Maker Influencer stage showcasing Mark Rober, Backyard Scientist, Jimmy Diresta, and many others.

San Francisco, Us

A 501c3 community arts organization with 300+ volunteers, creating global interactive art collaborations and projects.● Built an arts organization from the ground up, with over 300 volunteers, driving global interactive art collaborations and projects. ● Facilitated a diverse team of 6 co-founders, implementing a structured leadership framework and effective project management infrastructure.● Oversaw the creation and execution of 9 interactive projects, managing all aspects from team coordination and fundraising to site preparation, construction, safety protocols, and media relations.● Represented Flux Foundation at prestigious events, advocating for community-driven art initiatives.

As a Freelance Graphic and web Designer and Photographer, my clients have included Genentech, Chabot Space and Science, Haines Gallery, and Hertz.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

ALL Power Labs designs, engineers, and manufactures biomass gasification energy platforms. Focusing on creating physical tools and information resources for people to make and use renewable energy with locally available waste streams.Director of Communications & Events● Designed brand tone and voice across platforms, orchestrating high-profile events to enhance brand visibility and foster industry collaborations.● Orchestrated high-profile events, enhancing brand visibility and fostering industry collaborations.● Pioneered alt-energy open houses in the "green corridor" to engage community and encourage networking.● Successfully organized a high-profile 3-day alternative fuel race from Berkeley to Las Vegas, generating media coverage in reputable outlets such as the New York Times, Wired magazine, and The Colbert Report.● Established an online community platform catering to customers and enthusiasts, enhancing engagement and facilitating communication.Chief of Staff● Directed daily operations of three offices: California, Italy and Liberia.● Developed a process to streamline third-party supplier management.● Established HR protocols, payroll, insurance, facility improvements, and operations. ● Recruited and managed the hiring process of 40 employees and established an Internship program.

A female-driven group of artists making interactive, large-scale art installations.●Champion the artistic endeavors of FLG, including strategic plans, community engagement, budgeting, UX/UI design, and education efforts.● Established and built a technology team of 20, managed engineers, and designed and built an innovative interactive computer control system, which included custom microcontroller boards. The system could be controlled by crowd input, computer interface, and Wii game controllers.● Oversee technical and production elements of installations, which include contracts, crew organization, build scheduling, permitting, PR, communications, and structural calculations.● Manage project creation and direction for three signature works of art, including the management of teams ranging between 50 and 150 people.● Led three international art showcases, including local work and prep, international shipping and travel, onsite construction and safety management of people and heavy equipment, representative for local government regulatory agencies, and public relations for all news media. The teams ranged from 15 to 150 people while on location for three weeks to 2 months.● Cultivated engagement through storytelling by becoming early social media adopters, establishing channels and creating content.● Serve as an external ambassador, speaking publicly on behalf of the organization at prestigious events.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Instructed students to work through conceptual ideas while learning fundamentals of photography, color theory, digital concepts, photography history and fine art digital color printing. Classes included The Possibilities of the Digital Image, Introduction to Photography, Color Photography, Photography with Light and Color, and Pre-College Color Photography.

Managed daily operations of a film production company. Coordinated film schedules and rentals, followed up on leads, acquired new equipment, and developed growth strategies. Set photographer creating production stills for documentation and promotion purposes.

An onsite teen enrichment organization at George Washington High School supported by the San Francisco Beacon Initiative and Richmond District Neighborhood Center.● Found and created the Art and Technology program in partnership with Colin Powell's Power-up, Salesforce.org, Cisco, and the Beacon Initiative at George Washington High School.● Designed and implemented engaging year-round programs and curricula for youth and adults. Providing them access to technology and educational support.● Wrote grants to support a team of educators for our adult technology program. Wrote job descriptions and curriculum, interviewed, hired, managed, and scheduled a group of teachers.● Built, maintained, and designed three digital media arts labs. Worked in collaboration with teachers to create exciting and relevant curricula to leverage technology in their classrooms.● Coordinate and collaborate with city-wide youth agencies.● Received national awards for this work.

Mfa, Photography

Ba, Environmental Psychology