Sheila Sutton Email and Phone Number

Co-developing and moving policy campaigns forward, co-leading the CAFHA team of community leaders and organizers in building collective power, and ultimately advancing housing justice.

Successfully launch, coordinate, and manage new college farm stand, by engaging customers, coordinating and designing displays, setting pricing, planning weekly harvest, and managing operations and volunteers tasks. Manage volunteers and implement and coordinate greenhouse and outdoor watering schedules, plant and prune, weed management, and general plant and grounds landscaping, and planting of plants into outdoor beds. Coordinate and fulfill instructor requests for instructional materials.

Coordinate with growing team and volunteers to implement successful garden design, upkeep and preserve and nurture native, ornamental, herbal and vegetable/edible plant collections in propagation and show room green house spaces as well as outdoor, raised bed and in ground outdoor environments. Implementing and preserving garden designs and successful maintenance of growing environments.

Implement and manage portions of Housing Action’s Public Policy Advocacy and Public Education and Organizing Programs on local, state and federal spending, legislative and other policy efforts. Lead Housing Action’s work to build the capacity of community-based organizations, to participate in our advocacy campaigns.

Manage and coordinate education and home loan purchase programs for low to moderate-income homebuyers, including policy development, loan origination, government contract compliance in origination and home closing, and loan servicing support. Create and maintain referral partners and system for client support. Direct the creation and implementation of pilot for external homebuyer education program. • Develop and implement system to increase the number of successful applicants moved through Habitat home buying process from 2-4 homebuyers per year to 7-8 per year, based on housing stock supply. Develop support system for incremental increase to 12 successful homeowners for 2021.• Procured $80,000 of down payment assistance to support 4 households in their homeownership journey.

Research industry and culturally appropriate language usage and translate German documents to English. Research social and historical documents and produce genealogy documents for clients.

Managed and lead partner relationships and projects including case management and reporting for inspection programs. Was campaign strategist for Healthy Homes Campaign designing & developing outreach materials for social media and community workshops and forums. • Designed protocol for $50,000.00 EPA Grant-funded Home Inspection multi-organization program to achieve 50 additional inspections per year.• Developed and delivered leadership and public speaking training to enable tenants' leadership to achieve the passage of local home inspection legislation.

Researched primary source and archival materials on urban Detroit. Managed web-based class resources, administered grading for classes. Advised students and lectured classes. • Performed archival research in Everglades National Park archive for National Science Foundation grant under supervision of primary investigator. • Assisted primary investigator and research team with analysis of interview transcripts and production of article for Ford Foundation grant.

Coordinated reimbursement information for multi-city off-site field contractors for FDIC financial reporting and reimbursement as main point of contact between onsite staff & offsite contractors.• Managed, compiled, and delivered monthly Excel expense reports for FDIC compliance for 30 sites (with a total of up to 100 contractors per site) in Excel.

Worked with company executives to analyze and design overall formats summaries, reports & presentations, graphs, layout & data analysis.• Analyzed & synthesized data from Washington Mutual All Employee 20,000 response Survey data, to create summaries for executive division

Coordinated life skills and computer center at residential transitional women’s shelter. • Identified, supervised, matched & scheduled volunteers mentors & instructors with clients for onsite 10 one-on-one mentorships & 25 professional life skills classes.• Performed analysis of Learning & Technology Center usage & produced reports for case managers & executive director.

Advocated for reproductive justice in the state of Kentucky, through building partnerships, researching, designing and facilitating community education and outreach, to support access to reproductive health services and legislative action statewide. • Coordinated Board of Directors activities and supervised and trained volunteers/staff.• Created and administered $60,000 annual budget plan, developing long-term fundraising, grant research and enacting multi-year strategic plans.