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Empowering organizations and leaders for success through growth strategies, fundraising, financial best practices, operations excellence, and forward-looking problem solving. Clients include ActBlue, Chicago Teachers Union, Schmidt Futures, Action Network, Empower Project, Vote Rev, Trestle Collaborative, Strategic Organizing Center, Parents Together, Advancement Project, CTUL, Imagine Us, Avaaz, Color of Change, Economic Security Project, CryptoHarlem, MoveOn and more.

Executive consulting on fundraising strategy, benchmarking, financial reporting and management.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Directed all finance, fundraising and operations for MoveOn.org Civic Action (c4), MoveOn.org PAC, and MoveOn Education Fund (c3), with up to 250 total staff, more than 10 million active members, and hundreds of thousands of volunteers nationwide. Created and managed a dozen new income channels to support advocacy, political mobilization, and grantmaking. Supervised financial planning, risk management, operations, governance, legal, grant reporting, auditing, human resources, and security. Served as CFO, corporate officer, and member of the senior leadership team.* Supervised finance, operations, and HR for three separate organizations while staff grew from 22 to 100+* Led income growth from $8 million to $64 million per year * Launched new fundraising programs to diversify income, including major donors, foundations, peer-to-peer fundraising, online advertising, direct mail, phones, bequests, and member services, which together generated over $20 million in 2020* Expanded grassroots email fundraising to $43 million of income per year, with an average gift size of $18* Managed MoveOn grantmaking process for up to 60 grants per year and $12 million in total giving

Washington, Dc

Strategic consulting on operations, fundraising and organizational development.

Washington, Dc

Supervised operations for Greenpeace, Inc. (c4) and Greenpeace Fund (c3), with a $40 million combined budget, 550 staff, and 18 offices in the US. Led all domestic Greenpeace program activities as part of senior management team. Directed finance, legal, investments, data, governance, information technology, and human resources. Served as CFO and corporate officer.* Supervised risk assessment and legal strategy for national corporate campaigns and nonviolent direct action* Professionalized systems and compliance as the organization grew by 30%* Led new organization-wide equity initiative that significantly increased recruitment diversity and improved staff retention

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Led AFL-CIO community affiliate Working America, with up to 1,400 staff organizers and 25 offices nationwide, and a peak annual budget of $22 million. Developed innovative worker mobilization campaigns to promote good jobs, health care, increasing the minimum wage, and electoral engagement. Supervised communications, online engagement, media outreach, data management, information technology, and national office administration. Managed key fundraising, personnel, and finance responsibilities. Represented organization with national media, allies, and donors.* Helped create strategies that recruited 3.3 million new members via door-to-door organizing* Managed real-time data and targeting systems supporting up to a quarter of a million door-knocks per week* Served as on-the-record media spokesperson in print interviews in and live appearances on major media outlets worldwide, including MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and the BBC* Led programs that generated the highest levels of online member engagement in the AFL-CIO’s history to date

Led the union movement’s first coordinated online mobilization program, which grew to include more than 8 million activists in 600-plus union organizations nationwide. Developed new strategies for online advocacy, member mobilization, GOTV, fundraising, and email recruitment. Represented the AFL-CIO’s internet programs with media and allies. Negotiated and managed national contracts with business partners on behalf of 14 million union members.

New York, Ny

Managed national organizing program for one of the largest unions in the US (1998–2000). Helped supervise 100 field organizers nationwide and oversaw $20 million organizing department budget. Carried out strategic campaign support, target assessments, financial analysis, budgeting, and personnel administration. Directed national department staff. Lead Organizer (1995–1998): Managed dozens of union organizing drives in textile, garment, distribution, and industrial laundry sectors, in both Spanish and English.

New York, Ny

Responsible for all fundraising for nation’s largest community media center. Raised over $1.3 million in new funding from corporate, foundation, individual, and government sources. Helped create new community media programs. Developed major capital campaign for national landmark building.

New York, Ny

Directed international cooperative photojournalism business (1992-1994). Supervised staff of 14. Managed participation of 500 photographers worldwide for sales to more than 2,000 mass media, nonprofit, and progressive clients. Board of Directors Member 1989-1994. Picture Editor 1990-1992. Photo Researcher 1989-1990. Photographer Member 1990-2000: photojournalism and documentary photography for international major media clients, book publishers and non-profits, with photos published in a wide range of outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, The Village Voice, many others.

Ba, Sociology, Magna Cum Laude With Highest Honors

John Harvard Scholarship for highest grade point level. Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis. George C. Homans Prize.

The Art Of Leadership Certificate

Training in leadership development for non-profits and social changemakers.