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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

● Program Development & Leadership: Devised, deployed and monitored development plans that have doubled organizations capacity for impact and revenue. Oversaw day-to-day operations of organization and strategically integrated information technologies to improve program effectiveness and ongoing evaluation of impact. ● Fund Development: Planned annual organizational budget. Developed and cultivated lucrative relationships with foundations through effective communication and successfully written grants. Set up new mechanisms for more personalized donor engagement and increased retention. ● Communications: Established communications plan to more effectively manage marketing and communication efforts that support the strategic plan, leading to increased communications with community partners, key stakeholders, families, and youth receiving services.

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

•Program Development: Wrote numerous grant applications to secure proper funding; and continued development and monitoring of program budget and expenditures. Worked with Executive Director to create program vision and strategy that fulfills organizations mission. Managed relationships and operations with our 50+ partner organizations across the state of Ohio – coordinating and setting the agenda for monthly meetings and activities.•Event planning and implementation: Developed outreach activities, identified and recruited topical experts, speakers, and public officials to participate, organized event logistics, and developed the agenda of over 20 community engagement events in Ohio directed to solve shared challenges and craft better public policy; as well as designed and implemented statewide training workshops for our partners focused on implementing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion best practices within their organizations.•Relationship Management: Develop and maintain close, cooperative relationships with various community groups, public agencies and public officials. Served as the primary point of contact for community leaders and organizations looking to get involved with our work.•Research & Analysis: Directed research focuses for Your Voice Ohio project and have written dozens of research papers and articles analyzing the effectiveness of various public health and economic policies. In the first two months, tripled the number of active subscribers to website. Thorough data analysis of overdose victims’ demographics by county using Access, then geocoded data to create interactive map that provided greater insight of the effects of various policies on Ohio counties and Ohio as a whole. Created a program, using excel and Python, automating our participant selection process, significantly shortening the process which was previously done manually and took multiple days at a time.

•Heavily assisted in the research and development of Rebecca Otto’s Healthy Minnesota Plan (a health plan that provides universal, guaranteed and portable health care coverage) by: Reading various proposed state single-payer bills and developed an extensive comparative paper and presentation outlining each bill, how they differ, the economic impact of each if successfully implemented, and why they failed or succeeded in passing or implementation.•Conducted literature reviews and synthesized research findings in briefs which outlined the extent of a particular issue, as well as various policy responses. Issues have included: opioid epidemic in MN, education cross-subsidy funding, rising cost of healthcare for schools, etc. •Authored extensive white paper on Minnesota infrastructure focusing mainly on the issue of the lack of funding available from the fuel tax and outlining alternative sources of funding and various other money saving solutions.

•Maintained records of research and lab operations; this included documenting experimental research procedures and risk assessments and assisting with laboratory database management.•Processing and analyzing data. Data collection using EEG, eye-tracking data, and lab-based measures of social behavior, including preparing for sessions and operating hardware and software.•Prepared materials for submission to granting agencies and foundations

•Prepare trial notebooks for court, organize attorney’s schedules, organize case files and maintain documents.•Successfully transferred all personal injury case files to a law office management software, ProLaw, to help the office go paperless and increase efficiency by easily being able to manage an entire matters lifecycle in one place.•Drafting letters, creating pleading index, preparing documents for electronic filing, and preparing responses to complaints and discovery requests.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

•Steadily advanced through a series of promotions from a volunteer to a full-time paid employee, based on outstanding leadership performance.•Managed an average of 20 volunteer at a time to restore/build homes with limited supplies and tight deadlines.•Created a community youth sponsoring program, ‘Help-A-Neighbor’. In its first month, it raised over $10,000 for families in need.

Masters Of Public Policy - Mpp

B.A., Political Science; B.A., Economics; Legal Studies Minor

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