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Decadally is a full-service Social Impact and Brand consultancy dedicated to driving meaningful change by helping organizations align their brand actions with purpose and impact. As Founder and CEO, I lead the firm’s growth, strategy, and service offerings, working with clients to refine their Brand, Talent, CSR, and ESG strategies to meet cultural, industry, and sustainability standards.- Spearheading the development of core services, such as Brand Purpose Strategy, Internal Culture Building & Engagement, and Impact Assessment & Measurement.- Guiding businesses through Risk Mitigation and Management Strategy, and aligning business practices with purpose-driven goals.- Providing part-time Fractional Executive Services across key roles, including People, Impact, Strategy, and Marketing leadership.

Purpose Built venture studio brings together pre-idea entrepreneurs, capital, coaching, and resources to turn the best ideas into great companies focused on fintech, upskilling, and the future of work.

Los Angeles, Us

As the only national EVSE-dedicated operations and maintenance service provider, ChargerHelp! takes a technology first approach to providing our clients with reliable, predictable, and hassle-free EV charging.

Los Angeles, Us

Brand Citizens was born out of a desire for the power of creativity to help brands generate positive social impact while advancing their business goals. Drive strategy to support iconic and emerging brands to operationalize, build capacity for and measure their impact. Lead growth, business development pipeline, strategy development and core service productization.

New York, Ny, Us

Driving innovation in social impact operations, strategy and reporting for the broader fund and portfolio companies.

Los Angeles, California, Us

Founded Dave’s Social Impact division, leading a cross-functional team in strategy, developing innovative approaches to sustained philanthropy, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, strategic NGO partnerships, impact measurement and reporting, and integrating social impact modeling across the business.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Santa Monica, California, Us

Broadening the reach of the Headspace brand by finding new and creative ways to bring Headspace’s practical wellness tools into communities that would want or need them but traditionally lack access. Launched Headspace for Education - a multi-phased approach to integrate mindfulness in classrooms across America reaching 300,000 US K-12 educators in its first year- cultivating partnerships with key education stakeholders including Google For Education, Teach for America, CASEL, and the California Department of Education. Key driver and stakeholder in the development of Headspace’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts and programs.

Santa Monica, California, Us

As founding member of the customer success and relationship management team, I help spearhead the engagement strategy of a leading mindfulness and meditation workplace wellness program. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams in business development, sales, product growth, marketing, PR and customer support,I helped build the strategic development of our onboarding and client engagement efforts, built client facing guidance and support, and helped integrate comprehensive client feedback loops to inform the development of Headspace’s proprietary SAAS enterprise platform. I worked cross-functionally across product, growth, marketing, PR and customer support teams, managing 100+ mid-large size corporate clients representing $700,000+ in revenue.

Hair To There (HTT) is a natural hair company that develops all organic, fair trade ingredient-based products for women of color with natural hair. HTT also develops education based curriculum tools to educate young women of color about the science, politics and history of their natural hair. Responsibilities include managing the day-today online sales and business operations, directing outreach and social media marketing campaigns to drive web-traffic and sales, and product research and development.

• Manage the financial and creative development of video narratives, documentaries, training videos and PSAs focused on issues of education, at-risk youth, and programs supporting victims of crime. • Led the production of the 5-part video series entitled, “Helping Victims of Mass Violence and Terrorism: Planning, Response and Recovery” for the Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime including organizing and executing all field production, script development, and editing; managing client and hired-contractor relationships; and balancing a $450,000 project budget within the 18–month project timeline.• Managed the production of the 2015 and 2016 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Theme and Service Award Tributes Videos in partnership with the Office for Victims of Crime.• Transitioned and continued to foster relationships with DC Public Education Fund and DC Public Schools (DCPS) to produce the 2015 “Excellence in Teaching Award” tribute videos honoring highly effective DCPS educators and a promotional video that illustrated DCPS’ success in and expansion of Blended Learning initiatives. See examples of my work below:

Washington, Us

• Created and implemented tools and metrics to streamline the organization’s high net-worth individual, corporate, and prospective board member cultivation strategies.• Collaborated with DC Public Schools (DCPS) leadership to secure over $250,000 in grant funding to invest in innovative STEM, Blended Learning, and Family Engagement initiatives.• Managed the creation of the “Excellence in Teaching Award” tribute videos honoring highly effective educators for the annual fundraiser and gala, Standing Ovation for DC Teachers.• Successfully executed three citywide outreach, social media, and brand recognition events in partnership with United Way of the National Capital Area and DCPS’ Office of Family and Public Engagement.• Worked with DCPS’ Director of Technology & Library Media to develop a 3-year Blended Learning expansion plan including fundraising, capacity building and branding goals.• Led the production of a promotional video that illustrated DCPS’ success in and expansion of Blended Learning initiatives.• Supported program and grant management, which included proposal drafting, donor interfacing, creating fundraising marketing materials, school-corporate partnership cultivation, and community outreach.

• Managed a $140,000 grant funded college access and attendance program that encompassed strategic planning, fundraising and curriculum development, and supervision of program coordinator and intern staff; • Executed a city-wide youth attendance campaign (A-GAME) in collaboration with Baltimore City Public Schools, the Open Society Institute, the Out of School Time Network and Maryland Transit Authority;• Developed program-specific systems of measurement, reporting and data analysis for funder reports; and • Created a citywide youth career-training and professional development program with supporting materials and curriculum.

• Created and implemented a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum for over 400 Baltimore students; • Worked with students to develop individualized college plans including college application completion, standardized test preparation, coordination of college visits, financial aid planning, family engagement, and the creation and use of a comprehensive scholarship database; and• Cultivated strategic partnerships with regional colleges and universities and community organizations.

Master Of Science, Social Entrepreneurship

Bachelor Of Arts, Comparative Human Development