*Served as managing director of a 17-person department responsible for driving the advocacy campaigns of a 200+ member coalition of diverse national civil rights groups.*Assisted and advised issue leads on integrated policy, field and communications program strategy and execution, including planning, creating and following through on effective theories of change.*Engaged with institutional funders and liaised between development and program staff to seek, report on, and execute grants ranging from $250,000 to $10,000,000.*Drafted, edited and coordinated the roll outs of reports and publications to advance civil rights policy.

*Directed communications and, later in my tenure, all non-litigation programming, including policy, grassroots organizing, communications, campaigns and digital fundraising.*Secured grants and assisted in direct mail, major donor, and gala fundraising efforts.*Built a digital advocacy and fundraising program that recruited over 150,000 newstakeholders, tripled the number of donors to the institution, and built the largest American Muslim organization on Twitter.*Directed rapid response to anti-Muslim hate crimes and policies from the Trump Administration.*Led campaigns to pass the NO BAN Act (the first Muslim civil rights bill) and on police accountability, prison reform, mosque and Muslim cemetery permit opposition, judicial and executive branch nominations,surveillance and corporate accountability.*Led an organizational rebrand, resulting in an updated mission statement, core messaging points, visual elements and web site.

I had the incredible pleasure to mentor and teach dozens of aspiring journalists and communicators.Topics of classes included beginner and advanced writing for the news media and for public relations, best practices in public relations and the use of social media, and the role of PR professionals in creating news.

*Directed and executed the policy advocacy campaigns of a 200+ member coalition of diverse national civil rights groups on every major federal civil rights issue of the day.*Assisted in grant writing and reporting, program design, and execution for major funders, including the Ford, Gates, and Open Society foundations.*Directed and executed all aspects of organization’s media relations program, served as an on-the-record spokesperson and wrote and edited reports, statements, op-eds, editorial board memos, letters to the editor, press releases, speeches, and messaging guidance.

*Oversaw relationships with over 50 neighborhood and identity-based news outlets.*Managed office's Web site and social media leading to her recognition as a 2010 “online all-star” by the House Democratic Caucus.*Convened the relaunch of the LGBT Congressional Staff Association.