Laura Oganowski Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Earned Master of Public Administration Degree as part of employment
• Manage program and student support for Graduate Studies in Business
• Systems interface for domestic and international admissions
• Financial oversight of purchases, expenses, and travel in department

Richmond, Virginia Area

• Serving as volunteer recruiter among members and non-members to attend training and campaign events
• Build working relationships with community organizations to raise awareness about the 2016 presidential election

Midlothian, Virginia

• Developing working relationships with community organizations and local campaigns to recruit a volunteer organization to reach +3,000 voters in Virginia Senate District 12
• Attend events with candidate and represent campaign at events

Manassas, Virginia

• Using voter databases to develop and implement voter outreach strategy for 42 precincts across 3 localities, operating on a $30,000 budget
• Using active listening and communication skills to hire, train, and manage three organizers
• Build working relationships with party officers, community leaders, and elected officials
• Driving candidate on door-to-door canvasses and attending events with or on behalf of campaign

Blacksburg, VA

• Coordinating with campaign and community leadership and donors to establish field office
• Recruiting and managing two neighborhood teams of 129 volunteers across three localities
• Executed six principal events of 60-300 guests

Blacksburg, Virginia

• Consulted with the field organizer to write the Virginia Tech campus plan
• Planned and conducted voter registration drives at Virginia Tech
• Distributed Commit to Vote Cards to students to pledge their support for the Democratic ticket
• Planned and conducted GOTV drives and phone banks in order to increase student awareness about the Virginia gubernatorial election
• Served as the Virginia Tech staging location director during the final two days of GOTV
• Recruited and built a student volunteer team at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

• Making 100 recruitment phone calls every night to build our volunteer base in Blacksburg.
• Hosted phone banks and training new phone bankers
• Launched canvasses and trained new canvassers
• Recruited and trained office managers and data entry people
• Managed the office when the boss is unable to

Blacksburg, VA

• The Virginia Tech Math Emporium is a large, off-campus computer lab where undergraduate students come to take their online math classes. Students can also come to study and use the computers.
• Checked students in and out of the facility.
• Cleaned computer screens and work stations every week.
• Proctored students taking exams, setting them up with the appropriate software and monitoring them to make sure they don’t violate the Virginia Tech Honor Code.
• Made sure the printers are full of paper, students were not eating food or bringing in uncovered drinks, and maintained the general orderliness of the facility.

Blacksburg, VA

• VA State Senator of Loudon County is running to be Attorney General of Virginia on the Democratic ticket.
• Circulated petitions around Southwest and Southside Virginia (primarily Montgomery County) and collecting signatures to get Mark Herring on the ballot for Attorney General in the state of Virginia.
• Spoke at city, county, and campus Democratic Committee meetings on behalf of the congressman, updating them on the campaign and talking about the senator.

Danville, Virginia And Blacksburg, Virginia

• Ran voter registration drives, phone banks, and GOTV (Get Out The Vote) events and launched canvasses, as well as participating in said activities.
• Distributed 1,500 tickets for President Obama’s rally in Roanoke, VA.
• Distributed tickets for Vice President Biden’s rally in Danville, VA, trained event volunteers, and oversaw management of the line at the event.
• Made volunteer recruitment phone calls
• Trained volunteers to do voter registration, phone bank, canvass, and participate in GOTV events
• Entered data from events, phone banks, and canvasses into Votebuilder/VAN at the end of the day to keep track of our volunteers and voters.

Kingwood, Texas

• Answering constituent phone calls and directing them to the appropriate office employee at networking or constituency services.
• Drafting emails
• Organizing and attending events on behalf of the congressman and with the congressman.

Humble, Texas

• Checked customers out at the cash register
• Kept the floorset tidy, clean, and assisted customers on the floor
• Made sure the dressing room ran smoothly

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, 3.3 Gpa

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Geography, 3.1 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Students for Barack Obama, Young Democrats at Virginia Tech