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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

• Represented clients before the State of Arizona Executive & Legislative Branches and coordinated meetings, updates, recommendations, and changes to law or administrative code for school districts, non-profits, and private companies.• Represented the Gila River Indian Reservation through the decadienal Congressional & Legislative map redistricting to ensure the community is adequately represented by their future elected officials in Congress and the Arizona Legislature. • Testified on behalf of the Education Finance Reform Group and Arizona Technology Council to support or oppose bills related to their top priorities for that year. • Drafted multiple policy proposals, amendments, and bill proposals to advance client priorities at the Arizona Legislature • Worked closely with elected officials and stakeholders to introduce bills and amendments in the Senate and House of Representatives. • Project manage funding proposals for a variety of issues from arts funding, new school construction funding, and land funding for school districts working with both the Executive and Legislative Branches on new construction projects.

Due to COVID-19 and emergency declaration for the State of Arizona, was charged with the management of the School Facilities Board as the Director's designee. This lead to many new opportunities and success: • Leading an agency of 13.25 full-time employees including two consultants and managing a robust grant program, capital financing initiatives, the Minimum School Facilities Guidelines for Arizona K-12, and over $250 million in funding for school districts. • Responsible for successfully responding to 28 recommendations from a significant, controversial audit of the organization's management of the Building Renewal Grant program which provides funding to districts to fund facility repairs and replacements clearing a 628 project backlog. • Transitioned the agency over to a new grant management software to better track our projects in addition to consolidating the agency and its various programs into the Department of Administration. • Prepared the Director to lead the agency’s monthly Board meetings, coordinate responses to Board member questions and meet with Board members on various issues, and managed all of the policy initiatives untaken by the Board.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Acted as a senior advisor to the Director of the Department of Administration on various external and internal issues related to enterprise initiatives the agency was managing• Staffed the Director during out of town meetings and events assisting with relationship building and participating in meetings that related to the State’s priorities• Prepared talking points, proposals, and presentations for the Director to give during meetings with the Governor’s Office, national associations, and public meetings. Represented the Director during these meetings as well or attended in his place. • Worked with the appropriate division heads to further the Director’s priorities and provide updates to the Director or working with the division heads on solutions to meet the Director’s goals

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Acts as the personal aide to Governor Doug Ducey and briefs him on our daily meetings, speaking ops, panels, media interviews, and all events on his calendar. • Assists in coordinating the Governor’s travel arrangements and staffs the Governor during all travel in and out of state including coordinating with various VIPs, events and media. • Worked closely with the Governor’s senior staff to keep him informed and briefed on all relevant information related to his office and agenda priorities.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Works closely with agency public information officers to align messaging and content with Governor's Office policy and facilitate effective, proactive messaging of agency initiatives. • Includes serving as first point of contact for agency communications officers to assist with media inquiries, public records requests, and communications decisions. • Assist with inter-agency coordination as well as creation, changes or consolidation of agencies. • Ability to effectively manage PIOs during an emergency response and crisis management to a wide range of issues• Combine an understanding of executive branch structure with a strong ability to organize and coordinate sound communications strategies across various agencies• Follow-up and an attention to detail to 37 agencies and offices directly under the Executive Branch

Tucson, Arizona Area

• Responsible for executing the campaign’s grassroots operation in Southern Arizona by recruiting interns and volunteers, managing voter canvassing to meet daily and weekly goals, and coordinating with other campaigns to persuade and engage with voters• Represented the campaign at events and meetings throughout Southern Arizona as well as organized events hosted by the campaign in my region ranging from rallies, protests, meet ‘n greets, and press events• Managed the campaign’s Southern Arizona campaign office and staff of over 30 interns and field organizers in Tucson and acted as the point of contact for the campaign in my region

Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Planned, implemented, and executed community and state engagements for Commissioner Tobin as well as staffing and attending meetings, including Open Meetings, on behalf of the Commissioner to further key policy stances and initiatives of the Commissioner• Researched, summarized, and highlighted key issues in testimonies of other parties, orders of other parties, official responses to draft orders and drafting orders for Commissioner Tobin. Including drafting, summarizing, and coordinating key amendments for Commissioner Tobin during open meetings as well as summarize and advise on amendments proposed by other Commissioners and exceptions put forward by various parties• Served as a right hand to Commissioner Tobin’s policy advisor by assisting in or taking over key issues and responsibilities to further Commissioner Tobin’s scope of work including coordinating between other Commissioners, staff, agencies, industry leaders, and members of the public to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Corporation Commission. • Drafted press releases, talking points, and worked with media staff to produce material to engage the media and create a positive pattern of public engagement highlighting Commission Tobin’s success and value in the community as a Commissioner.

Phoenix, Az

• Worked cohesively with a team of 5 interns to create, update and track the schedule of hearings, caucus’ and committees in addition to covering each committee hearing by taking notes that would be sent out to appropriate staff for immediate legislative decisions.• Managed daily and weekly legislative duties such as delivering the legislative report to appropriate staff, tracking amendments and strikers when dropped and tracking bills as they go through the legislative process.• Presented bills to the Governor in addition to being responsible for the creation process of bill folders containing all relevant information of the bills presented to Governor Ducey for his reference.

Tucson, Az

• Worked extensively on research projects which varied from data trend comparisons to candidate history.• Maintained an organized work area for staff including organized volunteer sheets, issue binders and contact sheets.• Assisted in fundraiser management and events for the campaign while attending the events and helping the fundraiser and event coordinator. Called and logged voter concerns for the campaign while recruiting volunteers and collecting data for the campaign

University Of Arizona

- Manage and organize the fraternity community of 22 chapters totaling to 1,800 members with a bi-annual recruitment process with 2,000 students participating.- Lead a board of 7 vice presidents ranging from finance to risk management and a community wide project to further the community.- Edited, revised, and created a new five year plan of directives for the interfraternity community to progress further and set the bar higher in education, philanthropy, and advocacy.- Partnered closely with Greek councils to sponsor informational seminars, with various university departments to educate our members, and with Tucson non-profits to create a positive change in both the IFC community, but also the Tucson community.

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Organized a full cabinet of officers and created both goals and action items in partnership with other members to fulfill a unanimous direction for our chapter- Attended many meetings through the National Office and University to further my leadership skills and educate myself with better practices to run a chapter- Managed a 100K-200K budget annually by heading our prudential committee and budgets for different aspects for our chapter accordingly- Headed our standards (Judicial) committee which holds members accountable through a fair and equal judicial process which includes trials, fines and suspensions

429 Cannon House Office Building

- Helped maintain office with supplies, office materials, and different news outlets- Answered phone calls from various constituents about legislative issues and others that had business with our office- Assisted in maintaining an orderly schedule for the congressman and other staffers- Regularly assisted staffers with meetings including researching various and often random information regarding policies, organizations and other representatives/senators- Drafted many documents for the Congressman ranging from appreciation letters to speeches on the house floor- Drafted policy briefings, talking points in defense of legislative proposals, and letters to businesses and individuals.- Extensively interacted with constituents as the lead tour guide and by answering phones and operating constituent databases- Attended committee meetings and policy briefings, conducted research projects, and oversaw mass mail distributions

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Responsible for attending various Senate and House committee meetings to take thorough notes and then produce well-written memos.- Helps with all clerk work within the law firm which includes filing, organizing, maintaining library, and assisting with various meetings.- Kept office organized and materials stocked for all partners, associates and staff.- Assisted with office fundraisers for various Senators and House Representatives such as Sen. Grassley, Sen. Rubio, Rep. Mike Turner, Chairman Cole and Speaker Boehner.

Tucson, Arizona Area

- Responsible for writing one journal article per week for Fall 2014 semester of 500-800 word length - Produced well written articles that were approved by editor and edited by chief editor before publishing- Attended weekly staff meetings to create new topics after which topics were assigned and topic was researched thoroughly before writing process

Wildcat Threads

- Performed sales using the cash register, managed the daily cash count and conducted transactions with customers. - Handled the incoming and outgoing shipments to the store as well as inventory management. - Ordered new products and sales material, stocked and organized both sales room and backroom storage.

Legends Bar And Grill

- Maintained dining areas by performing general tasks such as cleanup of tables.- Improved the speed at which servers were able to place orders by implementing a radio system in the restaurant, which made it easier for food orders to be relayed to the chefs.- Answered the phone to assist customers with questions and provided information about menu items, suggesting menu items and placing orders.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies/Political Science And American Politics, Currently In Study

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Order, National Leadership Honor Society, The Odyssey Newspaper, and Elevation Snow and Ski- Kappa.

Bachelor’S Degree, Communications And Law & Public Policy