Sarah Knispel, Lgsw Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Prepared accident victims for independent medical examinations and represented their attorney during exams.• Wrote detailed reports on independent medical examinations for attorney use.

Remote

• Conducted an assessment of assets and needs to produce recommendations to operationalize NC2’s vision and a program proposal including potential funders.• Created resource library and website for NC2 partners to launch anti-hierarchical support and educational groups.• Co-developed the curriculum for NC2’s inaugural program. Facilitated building a program logic model with NC2 founders.

• Provided quality referrals for a wide range of social services issues, including employment, housing, and higher education to a caseload of 35 adult learners, most of whom have limited English proficiency. • Taught clients how to navigate public assistance and city and state agencies and programs.• Advocated for clients to the NYS Education Department when they have problems obtaining their high school equivalency diplomas.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Provided individual counseling to eight students with social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges to achieve goals developed with teachers and parents.• Co-facilitated group counseling sessions for new students and students with separated parents. Created a unique curriculum for and a girls’ empowerment group I facilitated in person and virtually.• Created social-emotional learning curriculum that is still being used for Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 4th grades.

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted co-coordinators with logistical tasks for planning and executing the United Association for Labor Education’s Northeast Regional Women’s Summer School.• Conducted outreach to vendors, students, unions, and worker organizations to recruit and host at least 120 attendees for the four-day “summer school” at Hofstra University in July 2019.

Created informational materials to explain the privatization crisis to public housing residents and their allies.

North Brooklyn

Organized ten tenant associations to win repairs and stop harassment through legal and public pressure campaigns and rent strikes. Developed association leadership through one-to-ones and trainings.Created and implemented targeted outreach plan, cold doorknocking 24 apartment buildings per year based on known bad acting landlords, banks, and data on building conditions.Facilitated UNO, an organization of 85 low-income tenants fighting against displacement. Oversaw the election of leadership and development of a steering committee and coached members through outreach, general meetings, public speaking, and campaign planning.Led the communications committee for the citywide coalition Stand for Tenant Safety (STS). All 12 of the bills we proposed were passed into law due to our efforts.

• Built an online following of over 3,000 people via social media, emails, and press outreach.• Designed and implemented short and long-term fundraising plans to raise $2,000 monthly and coordinated grassroots fundraising events, each raising $600-$2,000.• Coordinated dozens of volunteers to create art celebrating $15 Now and carry it in a local parade and to spread information about our campaign to their networks.

Seattle, Wa

Master Of Science In Social Work, Advanced Generalist Practice And Programming

Master Of Social Work - Msw

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Media And Cultural Studies