Sandra García Rivera Email & Phone Number

A star-quality administrative professional elevating executive efficiency, team productivity, program quality, and management of special projects; a solution-driven confidential gatekeeper and strategic partner who can think independently and prioritize on the fly; bilingual (Spanish/English); excellent writing and editing skills; a scheduling maven adept at navigating fast-paced high volume calendars, day-to-day operations, and the successful launch of major events; a domestic and international travel coordinator, from budget to expenses; an engaging trainer, presenter, host/MC with versatility across industry: a liaison from the boardroom to the mailroom, from C-suite to Main Street, from project management to hospitality, from labor union to financial institution, from state university to national centers of performing arts.Tech: PC and Mac; Zoom hosting; Google Suite, MS Office Suite (Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint); Adobe Photoshop and Acrobat Pro; Concur; Tessitura; Salesforce; WordPress; Slack; A/V and social media savvy.In addition to MFA and BA degrees, SGR is an alumni of writing & performance workshops: Brava for Women in the Arts, June Jordan's Poetry for the People Program at UC Berkeley, VONA Voices, CSU Summer Arts, Writers of the Americas (Havana), and Las Dos Brujas Writers Workshops; SGR is the recipient of a 2019 BRIO Award for Excellence in Poetry, from the Bronx Council of the Arts; and the recipient of a 2015 Artist-in-Residence grant from the Headlands Center for the Arts.With two decades of program leadership in the arts, youth/family support, and education in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area, SGR has partnered with organizations such as SF Jazz, El Museo del Barrio, WritersCorps, Galería de la Raza, SFMOMA, Youth Speaks, The Cooper Union School of Art, YWCA / Mission Girls Services, San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Brotherhood/SisterSol as a teaching artist, facilitator, program and events coordinator, curator, curriculum developer, administrator, and consultant. SGR has captured audiences in the U.S., Caribbean, and U.K. as a spoken word artist, and vocalist, performing and recording with Caribbean roots and Latin Jazz musicians and legends. The Curator & Host of Lunada Literary Lounge at Galería de la Raza from 2009-2018, under her leadership the program received two awards for Best Literary Night (2016 & 2017) by the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Awards.

Listed skills include Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Music, Editing, and 28 others.