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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Did research and coordinated planning and policymaking to improve transportation, housing, economic development, and natural disaster resiliency in the ten-county CAPCOG region around Austin (Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Travis, and Williamson Counties).• Collaborated with and provided technical assistance to partners at City of Austin, Capital Metro, TxDOT, Austin Housing Coalition, and many other agencies and stakeholders.

Austin, Texas Area

• Used ESRI ArcGIS to map City of Austin pedestrian infrastructure and other street markings.• Provided recommendations to facilitate uptake and continued use of new GIS tools by nontechnical staff.• Participated in an interdepartmental working group to evaluate open data portal alternatives.

Austin, Texas Area

• Produced high-profile special events on the biggest policy issues facing Texas and corresponding communications campaigns for a fast-paced, innovative, mission-driven non-profit. • Managed multiple, detail-intensive, time-sensitive projects simultaneously; collaborated closely with internal and external teammates on marketing and logistics; built relationships with university, corporate, and media partners statewide; handled communications with state legislators and other prominent panelists; provided outstanding customer service to the public; and implemented targeted outreach strategies to engage new and existing audiences.• Contributed to the organization's strategic planning, conducted a comprehensive audit analysis of past events by region and media market, and identified opportunities for stronger branding and marketing.• Improved business operations: developed mobile-friendlier MailChimp campaign templates and an actionable mailing list signup form; supported adoption of Eventbrite, use of its data analytics and donation tools, and its integration into the CMS/website; and provided input into the organization's CRM conversion from Sugar to Salesforce.

Austin, Texas Area

• Managed public face of a policy research center, bringing elected officials, issue advocates, and government staff together with academic experts to better inform real policymaking.• Organized 42 timely public events, from a 400-person policy forum to alumni happy hours.• Independently developed, executed, and evaluated all public engagement/communications initiatives, including all website, social media, mailing list, and graphic design work.• Sought and embraced technologies to boost outreach and marketing, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, MailChimp, Google Hangouts on Air, YouTube, Eventbrite, and these tools’ analytics; continually self-educated on communications trends and news. • Established partnerships to maximize impacts with limited human and financial resources. • LBJ School Representative to the UT Austin Staff Council. Served as liaison on campuswide issues and developed an initiative to expand “UT Bike to Work Day” to encompass all modes of transportation beyond driving alone.

Austin, Texas Area

• Helped launch and lead a grassroots advocacy movement for a transparent, data-driven, inclusive, and successful urban rail planning process.• Represented AURA on Mayor Leffingwell’s Project Connect Central Corridor Advisory Group (CCAG): built working relationships with the media and city leaders, leveraged social media to drive public engagement and solicit public input on the project, spoke up about concerns and proposed alternatives, and was only CCAG member to recognize the final project would not receive voter approval in the November 2014 bond election.

Austin, Texas Area

• Primary analyst for legislation related to public pension systems, consumer financial services, and economic development, including unemployment insurance. • Worked long hours under tight deadlines, preparing 45 bill analyses in April and May for the HRO Daily Floor Report used by state representatives. • Sought out and summarized stakeholders’ arguments for and against bills; translated bill legalese into lay terms, highlighting key and controversial elements. • Tracked and reported on state budget issues related to the Teacher Retirement System and Texas Workforce Commission. • Served as a technology resource to peers, assisting in development of charts for publication and facilitating adoption of online communication tools.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Prepared briefs on recent research studies about college readiness, student assessment, and data-driven performance management and on local, state, and federal education policy changes that could have had an impact on the district’s grant-funded data dashboard project.• Analyzed the data dashboards for weaknesses in content and functionality, gave specific recommendations to improve meaningfulness and actionability, and assisted with development prioritization. • Collaborated with the technical development team to accurately document the dashboards' student and school metrics in a user-friendly wiki knowledge base.

Austin, Texas Area

• Pursued expanded economic opportunity for low- and moderate-income Texans via research and advocacy on a range of programs and policies: EITC, volunteer income tax assistance, college savings accounts, unemployment insurance, payday lending, asset-building, and more.• Obtained, compiled, analyzed data from state and federal government and national policy institutes; created charts and maps of findings. • Developed written products, including memos, testimony, action alerts, reports, presentations, and grant applications and reports. • Supported legislative advocacy: tracked and evaluated bills and prepared products for hearings, legislative staff, and the public. • Proposed new media communications strategies to broaden and strengthen the Center’s impact; shared research with local media.

Austin, Texas Area

• Researched the Central Texas community’s demographics, its health characteristics and needs, and health care services available to meet those needs.• Assessed unmet community health care needs, particularly of the un/underinsured, and developed strategic funding recommendations.

Austin, Texas Area

• Led a team in a program evaluation study for the TX Office of the Attorney General on its parenting curriculum for high-schoolers; trained teammates and planned and integrated contributions. • Developed a pre/post-test survey to collect assessment data from students, organized its administration with teachers statewide, analyzed quantitative and qualitative data collected, and delivered research findings and recommendations to the client (OAG) in written reports and an oral presentation. • Revised the student assessment for official deployment by the OAG with the goal of providing data useful to both the teachers and state government. • Supported conference preparation by conducting a literature review on the effects of prenatal father involvement on child and family outcomes.

Houston, Texas Area

• Earned a spot in NASA's selective co-operative education program, alternating semesters of work at JSC with semesters of continued undergraduate coursework. • Earned certification to teach and taught a technical lesson about the International Space Station for astronauts and flight controllers. • Discovered weaknesses in the lesson, suggested improvements to permanent staff, and collaborated to implement my recommendations. • Identified, self-taught, and used a new technology (Adobe Flash) to create interactive teaching and planning tools. • Took initiative to increase team efficiency by writing how-to documentation of internal operating procedures. • Was chosen by the team lead to coordinate a workgroup of permanent staff charged with defining and prioritizing the long-term goals of the team. • Improved NASA JSC’s communication with new and prospective student employees by co-founding the Co-op Ambassador Program.

Master Of Public Affairs

Activities and Societies: Social, Health, and Economic Policymakers (Co-Founder and Chair), Graduate Public Affairs Council (External.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Government

Activities and Societies: Soma Dance Ensemble (Treasurer & Choreographer), University Democrats (Travis County Deputy Voter Registrar)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Society of Plan II Engineers (President & Secretary), Kappa Theta Epsilon Co-operative Education Honor Society.

Education record