- Co-founder of a movement-building organization working to organize women, girls and gender-expansive people to advocate for an end to gender-based violence in the Indo-Caribbean communities based in New York City.- Work with the Steering Committee to manage the organization’s growth, strategic vision and goals.- Design programs that support the leadership development, healing, political education of survivors.- Lead fundraising efforts through managing relationships with institutional/individual donors, engaging in grant writing/prospecting and coordinating donor cultivation events to grow the organization’s capacity and infrastructure.- Build partnerships and relationships with gender justice organizations in NYC and nationally.

At Media Sutra, I worked to support individuals, organizations and networks to be empowered, bold and effective. My consulting services included:- Fundraising and Communications strategy development and implementation;- Facilitation, trainings/workshops and coaching to increase impact; and- Program and campaign development that integrate the arts, culture and creative process.

- Manage consultants and develop new internal communications tools and processes for the organization.- Build relationships with media and raise the profile of the organization through securing targeted print, radio and TV coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Daily News, WNYC, WFUV, NY1, and Bronx News 12. - Develop press releases and media alerts and coordinate logistics and planning for press events.- Utilize e-marketing tools to promote monthly arts events and to share important announcements. - Manage social media accounts and website by updating content regularly and increasing followers/likes.- Lead institutional fundraising efforts for youth development and microenterprise programs, which resulted in raising a total of $1.4M from 2012-2014.- Build and manage relationships with program officers and institutional fundraising contacts to develop a portfolio of new and existing funders to support organizational growth, operations, and programs. - Manage an extensive grants calendar and write grant proposals, mid-term and final reports and letters of inquiry.- Oversight of department administration to ensure smooth flow of development operations, including processing checks and acknowledgement letters and maintaining foundation and individual records in Donor Perfect.

- Work in close partnership with the executive director to support with fundraising efforts through grants management, grant writing and reporting and building an individual giving program.- Manage the entire grants administration process, including tracking deadlines in a comprehensive grants calendar, processing institutional and individual gifts, and sending out acknowledgement letters.- Implement an annual appeal and year-end fundraising campaign for the organization.- Organize and coordinate logistics for special fundraising events, including house parties and a funder’s briefing to share the organization’s model of transformative leadership development with current and prospective donors.

- Provide support and counseling for patients and their families to help them cope with chronic, acute or terminal illnesses (Alzheimer’s, Cancer and HIV/AIDS), substance abuse and domestic violence.- Create plans that address patients’ needs once they are ready for discharge from the hospital by connecting them to services in the community such as shelters, rehab programs, mental health clinics or at-­home services.- Coordinate and facilitate an education and counseling program called Mommy Academy to provide emotional support and preparation for pregnant teens to become first time moms.-Speak with patients about Medicare and help them to understand their rights.

- Coordinate BAC’s Youth Arts & Activism Leadership League (Y’AALL) Program based at Freedom Academy High School in Brooklyn; youth learned how to become civically engaged in their communities and use their art as a means of raising awareness about social justice issues.- Develop and implement curriculum for a workshop series on the Prison Industrial Complex for teens at TRUCE, a media literacy and youth development program based at Harlem Children’s Zone; work with youth to explore related issues like racial profiling and police brutality and the series culminated with a short documentary.- Produce monthly arts showcases and series centered on engaging communities in activism.- Oversight of administration duties as the New York City Chapter Coordinator, including fund development for new youth leadership and organizing programs

- Work in close partnership with the Executive Director on program development and fundraising efforts.- Create an innovative youth development program for teenagers called Linking Identity to Living Arts (LILA), an arts & education program to teach youth about their history and culture and instill a strong sense of identity.- Create and implement outreach and marketing strategies to enroll youth and adults into multi-arts programs.- Organize a Community Arts Fair for hundreds of community members as an outreach strategy.- Create print and online promotional material and write press releases and letters to update media contacts, community members, and donors about multi-arts programs and productions.

-Coordinate and facilitate Desi Girls On ‘Da Rise; an arts-based leadership development and community organizing program for young South Asian & Indo-Caribbean women ages 14-17. -Develop and implement curriculum for the year-­long program to support young women to explore personal issues such as identity and body image as well as social issues that affect their community at large.