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Leading CI’s statewide policy “proof point” strategy to build public demand and legislative support for equity-focused, aligned early learning emphasizing social justice. Efforts helped bring forth unprecedented state investment in early learning.. Coaching for site-based leaders and employees led to largest single public grant in early learning to our external partner.Key Achievements:• Designed a systems-change program strategy that reinvents collaboration between leaders, employees, and community stakeholders and has increased employee retention by addressing burnout in partner organizations.• Led implementation of systems change programming and leadership coaching in four pilot sites. Coaching and subsequent new partnerships led to the largest single statewide grant award in early learning to our partner organization.• Guided organization-wide adoption of internal communications and workflow tools. Significantly reduced operating costs by strengthening cross-team communication and maximizing employee salaried time spent on work directly in service of the mission.

Scoped, designed, and led transformative policy consulting projects to shape state and national education discourse toward a focus on equity and inclusion. Developed solutions to long-standing challenges while reducing financial/organizational risk through the use of creative ideas, tools and processes.Key Achievements:• Profitably managed the largest single policy consulting contract in company history, included hiring and overseeing a team of 15 direct reports. Led team to review, synthesize and analyze key policy points from all 50 states’ federal education funding plans. Won award for resulting work product.• Hand-selected by company partners as project manager of the firm’s Strategic Blueprint; included co-creating firm three-year focus areas (each centering equity) and conveying the plan in one, polished graphic and PowerPoint deck.• Increased client employee satisfaction (measured through quantitative and qualitative program evaluation) through designing, leading, and implementing employee engagement programs (e.g., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Massachusetts Teacher Engagement Program).• Grew company relationships with high-profile clients, grassroots groups, and "grasstops" decisionmakers through delivering high quality work products within and before deadlines. Built connection with clients through empathy, active listening, and responsive project management. High client satisfaction led to contract growth (example clients: U.S. Dept. of Education, Hawai’i Department of Education, ExcelinEd).

Portland, Oregon Area

Designed adaptable training curriculum for clients on Rubicon products to exceed targets like client retention and client engagement. Co-created Core Talk, an iOS application for localized and national policy news, managing Core Talk team and guided policy perspective for original content. Forged communication and workflow routines across crossfunctional teams to ensure the agile development of new features and content within the app that drove core business.Key Achievements:• Raised company’s profile as a leader policy and technology through delivering international webinars and national conference sessions on Rubicon products showcasing the partnership between clients and the Rubicon team. • Shepherded creation and launch of a new iOS application called “Core Talk.” Designed and led the original content strategy and approach for integration with full suite of company products. Through Core Talk, identified and cultivated new prospective clients and grew company revenue by providing insight and guidance on key education policy developments.

Monterey, Ca, Usa

• Recruit and train all RTH leader-hosts, volunteers• Write/edit promo materials and event scripts for RTH campaign• Conduct all event-planning duties for culminating RTH fundraiser • Represent the Association at professional/ governmental gatherings, presenting on Alzheimer’s research and care

Portland, Oregon Area, Usa

• Build a staff of 10-60 fundraising campaigners by creating recruitment campaigns, designing interview questions, interviewing prospective staff, and making hiring/dismissal decisions • Carefully monitor and record office income/expenses in order to process staff payroll, track the budget, and prepare quarterly (executed in Excel using customized workbooks) • Synthesize and communicate party policy/platforms in both written “white paper” form and in verbal/visual presentations, conduct training exercises for staff in these platforms• Canvass 3-4 days per week to provide persuasive information to voters about party candidates/issues and meet fundraising goals

Vienna, Austria

• Prepare English language lesson plans in grammar, speaking, colloquial English, Anglophone culture, American civics, and writing• Edit and advise students on their required English-language “senior” theses, providing suggestions for spelling, grammar, syntax, diction, and content, etc. • Conduct classes based on my lesson plans to encourage and instill English language skills and cultural knowledge in students ages 12-19 years old• Provide proofreading services to English department colleagues for interdepartmental memoranda and English-language student recommendation letters

Mulhouse Area, France

• Devise and organize all curricula for undergraduate level English courses in accordance with department strategic objectives and guidelines established through collaborative planning• Fashion input, recommendations, and questions to contribute to department policy (including graduation requirements, “cut scores” for semester exams, etc.) • Effectively communicate my curriculum and guide activities in class to enhance students’ oral and written English as well as their understanding of Anglophone culture, politics, and history • Foster a participatory classroom environment through multiple-intelligences learning techniques

Ma In International Policy Studies, French, Development (Migration And Education), 3.94 Gpa

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government, French, Cum Laude / With Honors In Major Study