* Develop organizational policy priorities* Actively engage GRMP members; stakeholders; board members; national, state and local partnering organizations; and funders* Supervise staff and contractors* Ensure all IRS, Georgia Ethics Commission, Legal, Insurance, Financial and Accounting obligations are met in a timely manner.* Grow resource development activities to support existing program operations and expansion.* Develop communications strategies, including website, press, digital communications, social media, paid media and earned media.* Oversee governmental affairs and organizational plans.https://www.GaMarijuanaPolicy.org/

• Recruit, train and engage a coalition of 57 community leaders across 12 community sectors, aimed at reducing youth substance abuse of alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, vaping and prescription drugs. • Significantly contribute to successful grant awards from Drug Free Communities Support Program, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/NACCHO, Georgia Department of Public Health, and the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. ACHIEVEMENT: Our coalition was awarded a "2019 Coalition of Excellence Award" by Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America; see: https://cadca.org/gotoutcomes• Coordinate coalition members in community assessments, logic model development, community capacity building, strategy evaluation and planning, implementation, and evaluation. • Oversee Communications Manager, coordinate Youth Coordinator and Evaluator.• Conduct community-wide media campaigns related to all substances, targeting teens and their parents.• Oversee policy efforts at the state and local levels related to social hosting, comprehensive smokefree, and minimum age to purchase tobacco.• Increased parent awareness of social hosting ordinances from 28% in 2015 to 66% in 2019

Co-managed a 5-year, evidence-based strategy portfolio to lower underage drinking in Fayette County. Strategies resulted in one county and five municipal social host ordinances; Project Northland alcohol education curriculum in all five middle schools; and the initiation of an annual media campaign aimed at raising the awareness of social hosting of underage drinking parties.

Digital marketing consultancy. Website strategy and design; e-newsletter and social media strategy and execution. Clients include: Fayette County Chamber of Commerce; City of Fayetteville, Georgia; Fayette Visioning; Axis Dance Company; Khalifa Consulting; Aaron Watson Re-election Campaign; Citizens Trust Bank; Emory Center for Injury Control; Georgia Partnership Against Domestic Violence; Riaz Khadem (author); Lewis Beckett (author), Sevananda Natural Foods Market.

• Created/executed strategic communication across website, email and social media platforms, for the Neighborhood Summit Atlanta, Neighborhood Nexus regional information system, and One Region Atlanta.• Provide technical support to community leaders and Foundation grantees, implementing asset-based capacity-building strategies and activities to strengthen community initiatives.• Execute multi-county community outreach to build partnership possibilities with community leaders, and drive attendance to the annual Neighborhood Summit Atlanta.

• Founder and Executive Director of this community development nonprofit based in West End, Atlanta. Inspired by Asset-Based Community Development principles in “Building Communities From the Inside Out”; (Kretzmann, McKnight).• As Publisher of Our West End Newsletter, managed a volunteer staff of 9 editors, 90+ writers and photographers, and a distribution network of 54 neighbors and 46 local businesses, printing up to 6,500 copies per month. Funded via foundation grants and business/organizational ad sales.

I.T. Project Manager emphasizing “keeping people engaged and empowered” during software implementations, including a $2 million automated timesheet system with 9000 users. Maintained client focus by: o Managing customer expectations and feedbacko Facilitating Advisory Councils, and Customer “Road Shows”o Representing users in technical and executive discussions

Led a team designing a Point-of-Sale system to enable comprehensive analyses of retail sales/inventory data. Earlier:o Managed $1 million budget and two analysts. o Led design of a $250k client/server system that lowered sales data gathering costs 75%, and increased printing efficiency 11%.

Successive Business Manager positions in Financial Reporting, Inventory Management and Strategic Planning.o Managed staff of four and $400k budget. o Coordinated warehouse replenishment, distribution and scrapping. o Lowered average inventory supply from 12.1 to 10.3 months.