Point Foundation is the nation's largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ students of merit. Having invested over $47M in its scholarship recipients, the Foundation provides financial support, mentoring and leadership training through its year-round programming. Point Scholars study in their chosen fields, at their selected schools, throughout the United States and represent our movement’s future leaders across industries. Point alumni and scholars convene regionally for specific discipline-based training conferences our semi-annual National Leadership Conference. Our research on challenges facing LGBTQ students seeking a higher education led to the implementation Point’s Community College Scholarship Program. In 2020 we launched a national BIPOC scholarship program, which is open to LGBTQ community college, undergraduate and graduate students. We are proud that Point Foundation has received the highest rating from nonprofit watchdog groups GuideStar, Charity Navigator and Great Nonprofits and that Point has been recognized for its life-changing work by national and regional organizations including the National Scholarship Providers Association and the Human Rights Campaign. We continually seek to build the resources and endowment of Point Foundation and its visibility and have received vital coverage from a breadth of mainstream and niche media outlets including The Advocate, Angeleno, Barron's, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNN, The Economist, Extra, Huffington Post, Inside Higher Education, Logo – NewNowNext, The New York Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, OUT Magazine, People en Espanol, Sirius Satellite Radio, TIME, USA Today, Vox, as well as numerous local and regional publications.

The Trevor Project is a national organization which provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth.I was hired by The Trevor Project Founders and Board Chair as its first full-time President & Executive Director in an effort to ensure the organization’s long-term sustainability and to grow its scope and services. I embarked on the organization’s first strategic plan, which led to periods of significant growth, while creating an organizational, programmatic, development and communications infrastructure. By establishing donor groups, national fundraising events and direct mail campaigns, new resources doubled the organization’s budget more than four times over seven years, allowing for an expanded Call Center, the establishment of online counseling, and the deployment of free high school peer-to-peer survival kits. I also served as Trevor’s lead spokesperson — publicly speaking at events and to the press and garnering national media exposure in various broadcast, print and digital outlets. The organization’s impact was further deepened by increasing the number of Board and staff members and recruiting expert professionals to serve at each level.

Pueblo Corporation, an affinity marketing company, served the Hispanic community through a membership program called La Llave del Pueblo, which provided access to quality products.During my tenure at Pueblo, I oversaw the company’s public relations channels and established strategic partnerships with key media outlets. By strategically hiring and directing multiple PR/communications firms, developing key messages, creating core collateral materials, instituting celebrity functions and initiating direct mail campaigns, the company’s reach amongst its target market grew, resulting in increased sales revenue and improved membership acquisition and retention.

Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) inspires young people to develop into outstanding leaders and become a catalyst for positive change in their homes, schools, workplaces and communities. Streamlining communications and marketing assets was a key component of my role at this 7-region organization that serves 12,000+ youth participants at 70 annual leadership seminars representing 7,200 high schools and driven by 4,000+ volunteers. This was accomplished by a) establishing protocol for all branding and communications, b) furnishing new assets including the creation of website content, collateral materials, event communications surrounding leadership seminars, the World Leadership Conference and the Los Angeles Albert Schweitzer Leadership Awards Gala, and c) bringing press activities in-house.

The U.S. Small Business Administration is an independent agency of the federal government created to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, preserve free competitive enterprise and maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. Through its extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA provides services to people in the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Guam. In my role at the SBA, I was responsible for developing communications systems, including processing and reporting between the agency headquarters and its various regional and district offices. I acted as the SBA's liaison to President Clinton and Vice President Gore's Economic Conferences and served on the White House Olympics and Paralympics Committee. Additionally, I chaired regulatory committees comprised of SBA, EPA and OSHA representatives and chaired a committee of SBA and Department of Defense officials in the execution of events for the Defense Loan and Technical Assistance (DELTA) program.