Lisa Chen Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Strategically manage the Food Equity Fund to increase investments in community work led by those most impacted by food and health inequities: Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), immigrants, refugees, people with low incomes, families with young children, youth, and elders.

Providing strategic leadership on the City's Environmental Justice Committee, EJ Fund, and Green New Deal.

Greater Seattle Area

I support organizations, foundations and public institutions to increase their capacity through strategic planning, organizational development, meaningful community engagement, and program development and implementation. Selected projects & clients include: City of Seattle: Manage and implement all stakeholder engagement for Food Action Plan 2020 update, produced 30+ page report synthesizing all relevant data and key strategies King County Public Health: Facilitate and lead cohort of food justice leaders to create people of color led food coalition in South King County 4Culture: Co-facilitate 4Culture's first strategic planning and evaluation process to set a roadmap for arts and culture in King County for 2020-2023Seattle Foundation: Co-author evaluation report for capacity building cohort in the Neighbor 2 Neighbor grant making program. Participate in funding decisions for policy and systems change grants through reviewing and analyzing grant proposals and leading site visits.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led small youth organization to grow into a regional leader on health equity and food justice by increasing resources and shifting model to grassroots organizing. Tripled operating budget and strategically grew from 3 FTE to 8 FTE in less than 3 years Represented FEEST’s mission and vision in diverse policymaking tables (City of Seattle’s Equity and Environment Initiative, Seattle Sugary Beverage Tax Commission, Seattle Public Schools Nutrition Services Taskforce, and Communities of Opportunity Policy Cohort) Managed 5 FTE program team to build out school food organizing work and create unprecedented youth advisory boards with Highline and Seattle Public School DistrictManaged multiple 25k+ major donors, multi-year 300k+ grants from local and national foundations, and secured government contracts with King County Public Health and City of SeattleOversaw finances of 1 million+ non-profit on a regular basis

Seattle, Washington, United States

Managed 5 FTE field organizers in city initiative to win livable wages for childcare workersTrained and coordinated diverse pool of 30+ volunteers to participate in door knocking, phone banks, election debates, community endorsement meetings

Seattle, Washington, United States

Organized union and non-union hotel workers to win economic justice in an overwhelming majority people of color industry. Trained and mentored 20+ worker leaders to develop campaign strategy plans for their co-workers facing intense management intimidationAssisted 250+ workers to understand their health benefits and union contract. Represented members in grievance process with Human Resources; successfully reinstated three workers after unjust terminations

San Francisco Bay Area

Built nation’s first undocumented Asian youth project, ASPIRE, amidst urgent pushes for state and federal DREAM Act and comprehensive immigration reform. Managed local press conferences, legislative visits, phone-banks, know your rights trainings and rallies for organization’s involvement in immigration reform Analyzed and synthesized complex immigration bills into policy memos and popular education curriculum for outreach workshops reaching over 400+ immigrants Co-authored nationally recognized training manual for best practices to fight deportation cases of undocumented youthLed the city-wide coalition to halt the deportation of an undocumented nursing student resulting in thousands of online petitions, 15+ news articles, 2 city resolutions, and 3 press conferences in less than 4 weeks

B.A. Political Science And International Studies

Activities and Societies: University of California Student Association United States Student Association

Public Policy And International Affairs Fellowship

Nationally competitive, rigorous academic and career development program in quantitative reasoning, economics, and policy analysis.