Stealth mental health venture launching Q4 2024.Formerly:Nina founded, bootstrapped, and managed to profitability Samara Family Services, a company building healthier teens and happier families through skill building, peer mentoring, and care coordination. Long-term City Commissioner and Chair for the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth. Oversaw grant-making of $150+ million to more than 80% of Oakland youth; chaired the evaluation committee which assesses strategy and program performance for hundreds of community-based organizations. Initiated and led the strategic shift to create the nation's first coordinated municipal grant-making for K-12 social-emotional learning. Advisor or consultant to multinational, federal and state agencies, including Office of Science and Technology Policy of the Executive Office (White House), State Department, U.S. Trade Representative, Environmental Protection Agency; member of the U.S. delegation to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, technical advisor to International Standards Organization. Under an Executive Order, created a strategic policy plan adopted by twenty-nine federal agencies. For the United Nations, Nina created economic modeling-based tools used by hundreds of U.S. cities to reduce municipal carbon footprints. As Research and Client Services Manager at Public Insight, LP, Nina provided expert analysis on law, regulation, and policy for investment firms across a broad set of sectors, with particular focus on M&A, due diligence, and risk management.Nina’s policy career follows two decades as an academic publisher across a variety of biological and environmental sciences. As product manager for global educational publishers, she commercialized more than 100 successful products, serving millions of college students around the globe and bringing to market ideas from leading educators and Nobel prize-winning researchers.At home, Nina teaches meditation in nature, offers retreats, and is a pro bono reiki practitioner for low-income women living with cancer.Specialties:• Tri-sector competency in government, corporations, and non-profits.• Strategic management of multi-million dollar business units.• Change management for improved performance through comprehensive program analysis, planning, implementation.• Policy, economic, legal, political, and quantitative analysis; market research; business analytics.• Strong constituent, client, and customer orientation.• Full life cycle product development. • Public speaking and thought leadership.