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Arlington, Ma, Us

Consulting clients have included: Board of Supervisors campaign in Virginia, statewide cabinet office campaign in Pennsylvania, statewide ballot initiative in Maine, congressional candidates, Super PAC initiatives in Michigan and Tennessee, state legislative candidates/county commission candidates and party committees in Florida, among others

Responsible for statewide fundraising operations across Florida, including management of call time program for Chairman and Executive Director, event execution including an annual fundraiser with hundreds of attendees, managing digital fundraising program with our digital vendor, and shepherding large donations in the range of five and six figures.Managing one full time Deputy Finance Director and coordinating fundraising with surrogates including Vice Chairs, county party officials, and allied/affiliate organizations. Broke odd-year Florida Democratic Party fundraising record in 2021, raising over $6.1 million for core Florida Democratic Party operations and $9.8 million overall.

Created call time program from scratch, increasing average weekly call time hours from 7.5 per week in my first month to an average of 34.6 hours per week by the end of the cycleManaged two full-time finance staff, fundraising consultants, and a team of interns to complete projects including event management, digital fundraising strategies, call time program research and execution, etc.Developed and maintained political relationships with unions, members of Congress, and endorser organizations. Worked with our consultant team and campaign manager to pursue endorsements and institutional money Broke district (MI-06) fundraising records, raising more than $3.1 million in the 2020 election cycle, more than twice as much as any previous Democratic congressional campaign for the 6th District

Developed a comprehensive legislative agenda for the 2020 session with House Democratic leadership to prepare for an incoming Democratic majorityProvided policy input, legislative opposition research, and mail/media citations for House of Delegates campaigns in targeted districts throughout the Commonwealth Developed and implemented whip strategy with House Democratic Whip team to ensure caucus discipline and force strategic votes and compromises with Republican majority during the 2019 session

Bismarck, Nd, Us

Responsible for implementing statewide finance plan with the Executive Director, raising more than $3.5 millionBuilt and managed call-time plan for Dem-NPL Chair and Executive Director, organizing grassroots fundraisers, planning and executing the first annual Governors’ Dinner fundraiser, and planning the annual Burdick DinnerGrew annual donor program (Century Club) from 550 members to more than 880 members through direct calls, emails, and events; created digital fundraising strategy including emails and other digital donor methods alongside Dem-NPL digital directorBuilt finance plans for two statewide candidates

Managed four senior staff including field, communications, finance, and data departments. Responsibilities included training some staff and interns in use of VoteBuilder, NationBuilder, and other campaign technology suites (acting Campaign Manager from May 2017 to October 2017).Acted as primary contact for campaign’s finance operations, including communication with compliance firm, responsibility for higher dollar fundraising operations, donor relations and retention, and communicating with PACs to seek endorsements.

Helped raise over $800,000 in less than two months during the special election. Implemented a multi-pronged campaign finance plan with the finance director including call-time, fundraising events, and digital media strategies and maintained contact with union PACs, donor organizations and the campaign’s compliance firm.

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Conducted budget analyses for five agencies in the Rhode Island state government totaling $1.5 billion in annual expenditures, including the state’s entire public higher education system and the state’s child welfare agency. Attended high-level policy meetings with principals to discuss major legislative initiatives, including systemic reform of the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families and the development of a new two-year free college tuition plan. Presented analyses of budget impacts for various legislative bills, state agency requests, and gubernatorial budget proposals to the House Finance Committee, including in televised sessions

Worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Jiso Yoon at the University of Kansas, helping her with a long-term research project. Project analyzed women's political representation in East Asia, specifically in Japanese and Korean local legislative assemblies. I constructed an original dataset of variables used to analyze women’s political representation in local Japanese legislatures, analyzed data in Stata 13 statistical software to identify appropriate research methodologies, and edited the Professor’s research proposals and drafts prior to submission to review boards

Managed field operations as Deputy Field Director for the Jean Schodorf for Kansas Secretary of State campaign during the 2014 election cycle. Duties included recruiting and organizing volunteer operations in Eastern Kansas, coordinating with Democratic Party county chairpersons in larger counties, attending campaign events and communicating with voters, and assisting the Kansas Democratic Party with get-out-the-vote efforts in the last month of the campaign.

I worked as a production assistant at the University Press of Kansas for a little over one year. My duties there included proofreading and editing manuscripts, communicating with authors and referring them to various departments within the Press, answering calls to the Production Office, communicating with the Library of Congress about CIP information, and assisting with various other duties that my superiors requested of me.

During the 2013 session of the Kansas Legislature I worked as a legislative intern for Representative Sydney Carlin of Manhattan, Kansas. My duties included writing letters to constituents, legislative research, attending committee and caucus meetings, summarizing bills for my Representative, and editing/improving floor speeches.

Master Of Arts (M.A.) With Honors, Political Science And Government

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) With Distinction, Political Science And Government, And Minors In Philosophy And History