Mitra Jalali Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Issue areas: immigration and refugee issues, criminal justice reform, and public safetyServes as a policy aide and outreach director for Member of U.S. Congress’s district office in the issue areas of immigration.
• Works proactively to surface constituent input, needs and priorities that drive and inform a congressional district office’s work, through targeted meetings with constituent groups and representing the Congressman in.
• Regularly organizes community roundtables, forums, briefings, meetings, and other events with key stakeholders in the district to help develop and advance the Congressman’s legislative agenda and district priorities
• Prepares background memos for Member’s press appearances, meetings and other district events within portfolio of issues
• Supports overall communications strategy through drafting statements and press releases conveying key messages and priorities for a wide range of audiences within portfolio of issues
• Supports casework related to immigration in coordination with D.C. and district colleagues in a timely, sensitive manner

Washington, DC

• Issue areas: education, health care, women's issues, LGBTQIA issues, and immigrationServed as legislative aide and press assistant to Member of U.S. Congress on domestic policy issues with a focus on education.
• As legislative assistant, prepared background memos on bills, meetings and other legislative issues within portfolio of responsibility including comprehensive research, analysis and vote recommendations for the.
• As press assistant, reported directly to Communications Director and wrote statements and press releases conveying key messages and priorities for a wide range of audiences in addition to managing social media presence
• Represented the Congresswoman at briefings, meetings and events to help develop and advance her legislative agenda
• Produced a comprehensive policy paper on addressing the skills gap through promoting targeted workforce development, STEM education and advanced manufacturing for future legislative work

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Operationalized team priorities and managed a portfolio of alumni, school and community relationships as part of organization's work to support teacher preparation and educational leadership development in Minnesota
• Organized professional networking events and leadership development opportunities with community partners for alumni educators
• Built relationships across issues with Twin Cities community organizations also serving youth in a range of areas including housing, LGBTQ supports, social services, parent engagement, immigrant and refugee community.
• Founded The Collective, a professional association for educators of color who are part of Teach For America, in order for alumni educators to have support as teachers of color and for members of the alumni community.
• Led a coalition of 5 organizations to organize a non-partisan mayoral candidate forum on education attended by 240 people, moderated by nationally recognized community leader, covered by 2 statewide media outlets, and.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed all logistics, outreach and communications for leadership trainings team of non-partisan public and political leadership development organization focused on education equity
• Led a 10-person project and design team for the National Organizing Workshops, a series of 80-participant trainings in the basics of community organizing to address school discipline disparities, teacher diversity.
• Supported the design and execution of public/political leadership trainings for Asian-American/Pacific Islander members
• Supported the design and execution of additional public leadership trainings for underrepresented groups of leaders, including women, African-Americans and other communities of color

Saint Paul, MN

• Organized and won 3 issue campaigns as electoral organizer for Saint Paul teacher's union, working to defeat two state constitutional amendments and pass the Saint Paul Public Schools referendum to secure $39 million.
• Recruited nearly 200 teachers to conduct over 300 hours of volunteering talking directly to voters about election issues, including voter suppression, LGBTQIA rights and funding for public schools
• Conducted weekly volunteer recruitment toward regular phonebanking and doorknocking shifts
• Led volunteer trainings in voter persuasion and voter contact to maximize volunteer time
• Worked with coalition partners to support the statewide work of Minnesotans United for All Families and Vote No on Voter Restriction campaigns on behalf of SPFT
• Worked with school site stewards, SPFT staff and executive board to engage member base in electoral organizing program and presented a comprehensive report on successes at the end of the cycle

New Orleans, Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis