Maria Coaker, Mpa Email & Phone Number

Prioritized initial grant proposals/grant writing with the input from agency specialists to fund new programs that were initiatives across divisionsManaged Family Support Grant Programs; ensured all necessary reports and evaluations were submittedImplemented and submitted grant/proposal evaluation components. Provided results to funding source, program participants and staff; improved and adjusted evaluation components as indicatedLed groups and discussions around what were the desires and hopes of the consumersSpecialized in the OPTS Proposal (Options for People Through Services) designed for consumers to be involved in innovative services through new grant fundingActed as a liaison with the local school and vocational programsAdministered and updated informational sessions around transition activities in concert with the Director of Development for the Jawonio Foundation

Lexolution, Peak Staffing, Hire Counsel, Spherion, Update Staffing Placements Include: Lerner, David, Littenberg; Krumholz, LLP; Morgan Stanley; Brown Raysman; Thelen, Reid, and Priest; McDermott, Will and Emery; Milberg Weiss, Bershad, Haynes & Learach; Pfizer Corporation, Litigation Paralegal• Responsible for document review, indexing, and coding for high profile intellectual property and criminal cases• Responsible for maintaining internal reports and ensuring that Branch Managers are following company policies and procedures• Reviewed documents and prepared depositions and exhibits for trial• Accountable for the production of all relevant materials and its impact on the litigation• Indexed documents for a complex commercial litigation. Responsible for handling class action cases for asbestos litigation• Reviewed complaints and delegated documents to team members• Represented Fortune 500 clients and their future interest

Program Management• Developed a program that increased the revenue into a 1.5 million dollar corporation within a year• Increased enrollment of students from two to over 500 students within eighteen months• Hired clinicians to evaluate students for special placements• Supervised a staff of six employees; recruited, hired, trained staff• Served as a liaison with the community and responded to public relation demands• Built collaborative partnerships among groups with diverse interestEducator/Evaluation • Participated in administrative functions which enabled students to excel in academic scholarship• Reviewed and prepared evaluations of children and worked in conjunction with cliniciansUpdate Staffing, Legal Assistants (1988-1990) New York, NYPlacements Include: Cravath, Swain, and Moore, Louis Nizer Litigation Paralegal• Accountable for document production and pre-trial litigation for high profile criminal and political cases.

Master Of Public Administration

Seminar in Non-Profit Fundraising, Organizational Theory in Management, Introduction to Public Administration, Ethics and Leadership.

Ba, Sociology/African American Studies

Activities and Societies: Honorable Mention in African American Studies, Charolette Newcombe Scholor, Vice President of the Molimo.