Nadia Gronkowski Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Lead Start Early’s federal policy portfolios on climate change and home visiting.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Provide strategic, analytical, and operational support to the Senior Vice President for Advocacy & Policy, National Policy Team (NPT), and Illinois Policy Team (IPT), including planning, execution and distribution of day-to-day assignments and deliverables by developing, organizing, coordinating, and translating plans into existing frameworks and new initiatives. • Support management of partnerships, develops communications, and contributes to effective relationships with national, state and local organizations and philanthropy. Serves as liaison with other divisions and external partners. • Provide high-level support to executive leadership and policy teams in overall strategy, operations and management, and external relationships. Oversee the project management and operations needed to support effective implementation of policy deliverables. Facilitate and coordinate the planning, execution and monitoring of project work plans, timelines, priorities for internal and external partners.

Chicago, Il

• Provide support, staffing, and thought partnership to the Educare Learning Network’s senior leadership to further the Network’s goals and to support the Ounce’s work to influence change in early childhood practice, policy, research, and public-private investments for at-risk children ages birth to five years. • Assist senior leadership with all follow-up tasks related to advancing the Network’s collective goals and to the growth and development of the division. Facilitate communications and advance work streams with Network members and across the 7+ Ounce divisions that contribute to ELN’s work. • Coordinate and manage workgroups, committees, meetings, and special events with both internal and external audiences. Includes agenda creation, planning, research, development of meeting materials and talking points, communications, and meeting facilitation. • Compose, edit, and distribute written resources including presentations, memos, reports, and briefs.• Staff the planning, execution, and follow-up for the annual Educare Learning Network meeting, a multi-day meeting attended by 300+ Network members and partners. Includes composing all speeches and talking points for ELN senior leaders; staffing executive leadership sessions; supporting development of VIP list; and creating and holding the meeting’s annotated agenda.

Springfield, Illinois Area

• Support local non-profits in improving their service to the community through alignment with high-quality research evidence. • Cultivate trusting relationships with elected officials, funders, community members, and local non-profit leadership and staff to make recommendations that can increase organizational impact and to understand barriers to using research evidence and evaluation to inform service delivery. • Analyze current research on evidence-based best practices in K-12 education and cradle-to-career youth programming; summarize and communicate findings to program staff, community members, and grass-tops advisors. • Plan and coordinate all events, communications, meetings, research projects, strategic planning, grant-writing, and other activity in support of the Sangamon Success report, a set of 25 recommendations that aims to increase evidence-based programming for local low-income youth; track report implementation strategies and progress. • Create, coordinate, and staff all Social Innovation programming, including the Community Support Plan non-profit consulting process.

Springfield, Illinois Area

• Conduct undecided voter persuasion calls and door-to-door canvassing, while maintaining excellent customer service and a positive attitude; Maintain excellent records using databases including VoteBuilder and miniVAN.• Serve as phone bank captain.• Conduct volunteer recruitment calls.• Participate in campaign organizing professional development sessions.• Train community volunteers to speak with their friends and neighbors on behalf of Illinois democrats.• Assist with planning and implementing special events (phone banks, action days, community days).

New York, New York

• Conducted outreach to community leaders, performed interviews, and conducted research in order to author six blog posts and an internal report on culturally-responsive healthy eating and physical activity programming in several Native American communities.• Edited and organized 80+ pages of National Nutrition and Physical Activity Content Advisor webinar materials to ensure consistent grammar, voice, and messaging for Healthy Schools Program online resources.• Collaborated with 2-3 interns to create National Network Team infographics and support documents.• Participated in professional development seminars in media strategy, press release writing, infographics, Excel, social media outreach, advance work, and more.• Participated in intern hiring process by reviewing resumés and applications, drafting interview questions, and performing candidate interviews via phone and Skype for Business.• Volunteered as VIP/Principles area staff for Clinton Foundation 20/30’s flagship NYC fundraiser.

Greater Chicago Area

• Researched and monitored ongoing state (IL) and federal policy activity pertaining to school lunch, school gardens, child nutrition, elementary and secondary education, chronic absenteeism, and school-based health centers.• Authored policy reports and fact sheets for internal and external use; contributed directly to policy analysis and recommendations for use at the local, state, and national levels.• Conducted outreach to and interviewed approx. 10 Midwest region school-based health center practitioners and support organizations; compiled interviews into internal report.• Conducted research for partner organizations regarding state-level data on childhood trauma and chronic absenteeism.• Created and revised content for grassroots advocacy materials while maintaining consistent organizational voice.

New York, New York

• Implemented early childhood curriculum, increased adult support in the early learning environment, and promoted children’s language and literacy skills through ongoing relationships with 15 partner children ages 2-3 at Grand Street Settlement Daycare on New York City’s Lower East Side. Provided supplementary development for English Language Learners.

Northerly Island

• Directed and facilitated daily camp schedule and operations for 10-16 children age 7.• Communicated environmental lessons via games and daily activities.• Collaborated with Camp director, coordinator, and staff to discuss best practices, resolve interpersonal conflicts, and address any caretaker concerns.• Engaged in daily conferences with parents and caretakers.

Lake Forest, Il

• Assist in the instruction of Forestry and Dendrology. Responsibilities include: • instructing selected class sessions; • preparing readings, handouts, and assessment tools for each class session; • helping lead educational visits to local natural areas; • holding office hours each week outside of class; • answering students' questions via oral and written communication; • assisting students with research and paper writing; • and helping coordinate off-campus educational trips.

Lake Forest, Il

• Assisted in the instruction of Introduction to Environmental Studies through in-class, extracurricular, and in-the-field instruction. • Responsibilities included • participating during class sessions; • adding to professors' instruction during class sessions; • instructing class sessions; • holding office hours twice each week outside of class; • answering students' questions via oral and written communication; • editing rough drafts of students' papers; • leading educational visits to local natural areas; • supervising students during local, environment-focused community service and restoration projects; • and carefully observing the instructional strategies of college professors.

Chicago, Il

• Worked on a team of 4 interns to re-write previous summer camp curricula, assist in developing new curricula, and implement curricula. • Responsibilities included evaluating curricula from previous years using knowledge of the environment and education, research existing projects/crafts/games/activities that pertain to curricula, create original projects/crafts/games/activities designed to educate campers on current environmental issues, create daily schedules for four two-week-long summer camps, delegate tasks to counselors, and implement curricula through the use of educational projects and unstructured nature play.

Assisted Summer Camp Interns in the implementation of outdoor experiential learning and environmental curricula, facilitated indoor and outdoor unstructured play, and assisted with daily camp operations for children ages 4-12.

Worked with the Public Programs, Graphic Design, and Visitor Services departments to develop and implement workshops and tours for museum visitors (children through adults), and conducted online product research to help implement eco-friendly products and practices in the workplace. Also completed diversity training, and participated in team-building activities and habitat restoration projects with fellow interns.

Public Leadership Credential Policy Design & Delivery Course

Ma Environmental Conservation Education (Focus On Public Health And Policy/Lobbying)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Environmental Studies, Educational Studies, And Legal Studies

Activities and Societies: Secretary and President of LEAP (the League for Environmental Awareness and Protection); Secretary.