Founding staff member working to build a strong nonprofit to close the opportunity gap for girls and scholars of color.- Provides leadership in evolving and implementing SPINs organizational and strategic priorities. Builds the framework to cultivate, expand and make the best use of SPIN's board.- Expands the financial base of SPIN, pursuing philanthropic funding sources and other creative sources of revenue for the organization. Retains, attracts and manages a team of volunteer staff who possess the capacity to fulfill the organization's mission. Expands the reach, influence and public recognition of SPIN as a trusted STEM-based organization.- Manages the fiscal governance and partner and vendor contracts to meet or exceed industry standards and provides monthly and quarterly reporting to funders and advisory board on programs, budgets and contracts.- Works with community partners to build STEM capacity in under-invested communities in Southeast Seattle. Partners closely with community network members and families to build a birth to career or college pathway for scholars of color and girls in STEM disciplines.

Founding staff member responsible for building a new broad-based Coalition across diverse communities and constituents.• Community Partnerships and Collaboration: Developed entrepreneurial community engagement; built multi-faceted coalition to welcome diverse populations; empowered communities toward success.• Administration and Management: Grew the Coalition to 70 partners and counting; led and support all aspects of SESEC program; worked with multiple partners to coordinate all aspects of the work to achieve mission; developed and managed budget; served as central communication hub for project.• Advocacy and Events: Led research and development of position papers for community-driven priorities; developed and staffed action committees working to achieve our advocacy campaign.• Communication, fund development, and outreach: Successfully secured more than $2 million of grants, built and maintained website; developed all collateral content; maintained communications between funders, partners and community members.

- Worked to re-launch a coalition of over 100 organizations to increase the availability and impact of global education programs in the state of Washington- Honed mission and vision of the Coalition to more effectively achieve growth of international education- Developed a new, improved website (www.internationaledwa.org) including content and strategy, as well as design using WordPress

- Headed Global Washington’s internal and external learning processes- Developed the organization’s theory of change and logic model - Led research efforts to better define and respond to the needs of the international development sector, shaping Global Washington’s outreach programming- Designed, wrote, edited and distributed communications materials, including newsletter with a distribution of over 2000 and website (www.globalwa.org) - Developed fundraising prospects and research, leading to increased sponsorships and support

- Worked successfully with cross sector, multi-organizational team to build international development network- Conducted needs analysis of the international development sector in Washington - Surveyed and analyzed the sector to produce a series of in-depth reports on poverty, the environment, health and education- Planned and executed four major events based on this research attended by over 200 people- Worked with stakeholders to develop a business plan for Global Washington, leading to a successful initial membership drive of over 40 organizations

- Designed and conducted evaluation project for CARE based on the democracy and political participation programs of CARE Ecuador, including development of local town councils and other civic engagement programs- Delivered process evaluation and recommendations for improvement for CARE Ecuador, case study for CARE USA, and degree project for the University of Washington

- Held responsibility for all aspects of apheresis donor recruitment leading to a measurable increase in donations- Developed and implemented community marketing campaigns - Averaged 3 business meetings and presentations per week in community- Developed tracking systems for donors used for analysis and increased efficiency

- Worked with 28 grassroots HIV/AIDS prevention NGOs to increase collaboration- Collaborated with NGO leaders to develop targeted goals and measurable indicators- Participated in direct in-the-field surveys of high-risk target populations

- Managed cross-functional teams in the development of multimedia learning courses- Collaborated with team on scope and design, development, implementation and assessment - Managed budget, expense, and resource allocations for multi-million dollar projects - Managed client relationships and third-party vendor relationships with Fortune 500 clients - Drove content creation for large development teams- Researched, wrote, and edited content, from dramatic scripts to educational tutoring