Lead a high-performing team to grow and improve organizational reach and resources by collaborating with members and partners to provide updates on policy analysis, strategy, and advocacy efforts by email and through weekly coalition meetings; engaging with 100 dues-paying member organizations to ensure their policy priorities are promoted within the wider advocacy community and supported at key inflection points; and working with paid external service providers to expand grassroots and grasstops advocacy communications and fundraising.Identify and establish coalition partnerships with large and small organizations at the federal, state, and local level to ensure collaboration, while spearheading communications and advocacy campaigns focused on tax policy and budget and appropriations issues addressing education, healthcare, immigration, economic policy, and social safety net programs.Plan and execute agile strategic campaigns to achieve public policy goals, including tactically choosing when and where to employ tools ranging from social media, webinars, online activist tools, and supporting in-person lobbying efforts and other activities.

Cultivate and strengthen coalition ties with member organizations and service providers, unions, and religious organizations nationwide to advance campaigns focused on public policy priorities.Translate policy analysis into understandable and actionable information for advocacy operations at national, state, and local organizations and for members of the public, including soliciting and incorporating feedback to respond to local concerns.

Project Manager: Serves as the project manager for the Karabelle Pizzigati Advocacy Initiative for Children, Youth, and Families. Working to achieve evolving project goals while maintaining active stakeholder involvement. Engaging the client to ensure that the building of the initiatives structure and resources remained inline with original vision while being flexible enough to succeed. Key Accomplishments:● Developed partnerships with national leading organizations, ensuring partnerships would be able to provide the diversity of opinion and expertise needed to enable institute success.● Sourcing expertise and knowledge from both inside and outside the advocacy community to ensure that programmatic build-out is oh the highest quality.

Outreach Coordinator (August - October): Serves as the primary liaison for CHN's to stakeholders through developing and implementing an outreach plan with an emphasis on communicating technical policy concepts. Responses to requests for information, media contact support, and project support.Key Accomplishments● Developed partnerships with organizations in every targeted states, ensuring partners had the capacity to achieve set benchmark goals.● Coordinated project work to curtail project creep while ensuring that all project goals are being met.Fundraising Project Coordinator (May - July): Raised funds through various business development techniques including prospecting, targeted follow-up, and new lead generation. Leverage existing fundraising streams while continually generating new targets. Delivered organized, structured, and persuasive presentations to stakeholders using effective written and verbal communication. Managed income requirements and provided accurate projections to Executive Director while set and met hard deadlines to ensure project timelines were met.Key Accomplishments:● Increased funds raised by over thirty percent from last comparable year.● Solicited sponsor level contributions from 40+ sources.

Monitored and provided analysis on federal and state regulatory developments with a focus on environmental, health care, and labor and employment. Was the sourcing point of an intellectual property supply chain that was marketed to one-time and subscription clients.Key Accomplishments:● Researched and prepared clearly written materials on the requirements of federal laws and regulations from Departments and Agencies including Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Environment, Food and Drug, and Health & Human Services.● Utilized various state level resources and made contact with relevant local officials to track changes, check accuracy, and ensure the highest level of product quality for clients.● Produced written materials for Bloomberg Terminal and issues focused subscriptions.● Wrote drafting guidelines for creating reports on regulatory actions for six states.

Duties included serving customers, dealing with money, giving advice, answering inquiries and ordering books for customers. Carried out stock control, assessed the market, and ordered new stock. Preformed administrative tasks, which involved some accounting, distributing orders, arranging deliveries and dealing with returns.Key Accomplishments:● Recognized as top preforming employee for several consecutive months.● Implemented multiple product modeling projects designed to take advantage seasonal sales.● Trained new employees to achieve highest performance standards.● Employed customer segmentation to successfully target persons for Barnes & Noble’s membership program.● Executed efficient processing of large sales for VIP clients enabling store to meet or exceed sales target.

Provided programmatic support to the Global Trade Watch team in carrying out research projects, grassroots education and legislative campaigns. Served as a point of contact with coalition partners, congressional offices, and members of the public. Performed background research, both independently and as part of a team, and creating briefing/campaign materials such as mails, formal correspondence, fact sheets, and news releases. Key Accomplishments:● Monitored, evaluated and reported to senior staff the status of ongoing international trade agreements.● Created and maintained large data sets in support of our ongoing projects. ● Recruited, screened, and managed our intern program.

ATEK is a social and professional support network for English teachers in Korea. It provides advice about labor issues, emergency needs, and professional and cultural development. In addition it also facilitates organization of the expat teaching community for volunteering opportunities and other events.Key Accomplishments:● Restructured national organization to better meet the needs of its membership (English teachers) by shifting from a top-down structure to a bottom-up structure.● Provided communications, resource, scheduling, and integration oversight of regional subgroups.● Fostered the expansion of the organization to support volunteering activities of the teachers.

Relocated to Daegu, South Korea to teach English as a second language to elementary and middle school students. Responsibilities included preparation of lessons; creation and implementation of rubrics; establishment of evaluation guide lines to ensure student success; assessment of new student ability for placement in the correct level class; and, monthly communication of student progress to co-teachers, administrators, and parents.Key Accomplishments:● Through interaction and guided lessons, conducted 13 weekly classes to a total of 60 to 85 students. ● Trained new incoming teachers to adapt to Korean education system.

Provided high-level administrative support to Congressional staffers. Handled telephone inquires, managed files, researched complex topics for policy makers, and drafted correspondence and reports. Compiled reports on various topics for senior staff. Responded to requests for information on a range of topics from constituents.• Wrote personalized correspondence to over 200 constituents• Provided legislative research for legislative bills• Prepped Member and staff for committee hearings and briefings• Draft floor statements for Member.

Worked for Americans for Democratic Action, a national organization dedicated to good government and sound public policy. Aided National Director and legislative staff by attending briefings and drafting press releases, letters to Congress, Congressional floor statements and other documents. Helped organize events including panel discussions, movie presentations and fundraisers. Position required multitasking and team work.

Helped establish, organize, and run grassroots campaign offices. Clocked the hours of paid staff, reviewed and submitted payroll accounting sheets to headquarters in Boston, and ensured timely payment of staff. Acted as liaison with other state and local organizations and government agencies including MoveOn.org and the VA Board of Elections. Facilitated the communication of campaign message to staff and public. Worked with members of the community in order to reach a larger percent of voters. On a daily basis, ensured that numbers of contacts were recorded and sent to the central office. This position required work with a diverse group of people - sometimes in stressful circumstances. Worked as team. The position required constant multitasking.

Helped maintain a clean and welcoming environment. Duties included stocking, check out, handling money, heavy lifting (up to 60 pounds), operating fork lift and ordering new stock. Provided excellent costumer service in a sometime stressful environment.