Marisa Casellas-Barnes, Mpa Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Led strategy and operations for the function, prioritized and managed community development portfolio; allocate resources across teams and projects
• Drove the team’s matrixed structure by managing the operational aspects of assigned projects; developed stakeholder engagement strategy; and established cadence of reporting to keep senior management informed of.
• Liaised with internal leadership team, external consultants and staff to implement team’s strategic goals; identified process improvement opportunities and oversaw the creation of tools to improve workflow
• Oversaw reporting for senior management and external audiences
• Championed diversity, equity and inclusion practices and professional development processes needed for staff to do their best work

New York, New York

• Designed, implemented and managed portfolio of Bank-wide community development programs focused on economic inequality, poverty alleviation and racial equity. provided actionable insights by leading strategic design on.
• Generated innovative ideas across multiple channels and created persona-based content to maximize reach of Community Development products such as the Economic Inequality and Equitable Growth Hub and Policy Forums.
• Served as thought-partner to senior leaders in Research, Communications and Legal Groups to co-design and execute joint programming
• Co-designed and co-led Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Community Advisory Group; briefed senior leadership on recruitment efforts and recruitment strategy; determine agenda topics, co-facilitated roundtable.
• As an active participant in the New York Fed’s Diversity & Inclusion efforts and strategy, regularly collaborated with the Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Resource Networks to execute internal events.

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

Greater New York City Area

• Managed and assisted in strategic initiatives that drive the firm’s Corporate Responsibility efforts.
• Assisted in implementation and launch of $250mm global workforce initiative; helped develop briefing documents and talking points for CEO; conducted research on global skills gap and prepared comparative analyses of.
• Supported Employee Engagement team in helping to create greater alignment between volunteerism activities and grantmaking portfolio
• Processed payments for workplace volunteerism programs including matching gifts, volunteer grants, Good Works Workplace Giving program and disaster relief
• Interfaced with Global Philanthropy operations team and technology vendor to support employee customer service requests and communicate system updates and improvements; and managed corporate mailbox customer service.

Long Island City, NY

• Authored internal case study documenting Citi’s financial contributions and non-profit partnerships providing disaster recovery assistance in the NY tri-state region
• Researched and compiled NY tri-state demographic data used to identify and implement CRA eligible non-profit programs and partnerships supporting low-income individuals through financial inclusion, microfinance and.
• Assisted with the collection of data and analysis of lending metrics used for Citi Community Development’s midyear review, marketplace overview, and external audit

Mexico City Area, Mexico

• Spearheaded research project in four Mexican states to assess and evaluate national, state and municipal government perspectives on a countrywide educational program (GEMUN)
• Implemented strategic marketing and communication techniques developed to interact with local governments, key stakeholders and community groups and to obtain project outcomes
• Co-authored report for the World Bank and Mexico’s central education agency (CONAFE) to be used to evaluate a subsequent phase of a countrywide educational program

New York, NY

New York, NY

New York, NY

• Managed economic empowerment programs with total annual program budgets exceeding $1.5 million and leveraged Federation membership networks to fund and promote financial inclusion, homeownership and small business.
• Responsible for processing grants to non-profit partners and vendors for programs throughout NY tri-state region and for developing marketing and communication materials and distribution channels

Master Of Public Administration (M.P.A.), International Policy Analysis

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Urban Studies

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree