The San Fernando Valley subregion manager is aware of all Metro projects in the area, as well as public transportation operations, and manages active planning projects. Is the point person for community stakeholders and government officials.* Leads the public outreach program for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor and I-405 Sepulveda Pass ExpressLanes projects.* Maintains relationships with stakeholders, community leaders, and elected officials in the San Fernando Valley. * Supports the needs of stakeholders concerning LA Metro projects. * Supports agency needs concerning San Fernando Valley stakeholders.

Develops and manages activities involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating community outreach programs and activities, including public information dissemination, facilitating the resolution of complex issues, building strategic relationships with stakeholders, and developing consensus for projects, programs and operations from planning through construction and into operations of transportation systems.* Engage and inform stakeholders on Social Media platforms through posts and community meetings on behalf of the Purple (D) Line. Facebook un-paid organic engagement increased by 1000% in a year, raising total engagement online by 300% *Cross-departmental project management of marketing materials, content development, and public participation plans supporting the PLE team, supporting Metro’s Vision 2028 Plan, and addressing the needs of diverse communities.* Identifies opportunities and develops and implements strategies to promote Metro programs, services, and goodwill, researches the more complex and sensitive incidents, complaints, and concerns, and works with staff and management at all levels of the organization as well as stakeholders to achieve solutions.

Advancing the direct service needs of Strength United clients through the implementation and coordination of relationships and advocacy with local, state and federal Governmental Leaders, Community Leaders, and Funders. Works closely with the Executive Director and Program Managers to integrate the advancement of the organization's internal and external growth.* Coordination of internal organizational growth and structure to ensure the organization is functioning at its highest capacity to serve individuals who have been harmed by violence and trauma. * Working to grow the organizations business development, community relations, and government affairs plans and engagement, while implementing the plan in order to grow the organization's footprint and ability to serve more clients. * Management of brand development, social media and communication advancements as well as internal development planning in order to identify and gain the resources needed to achieve our mission. * Coalition building with other agencies in the anti-violence and family justice movement to ensure we are speaking with one voice, achieving political goals, and advancing the movement.

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Responsible for public affairs strategy and implementation for environmental infrastructure accounts located in Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange County. Oversee project management to ensure projects are completed on time, minimizing delay and increased cost to client and company.• Manage communications with multiple stakeholder groups such as Elected officials, community leaders, andstakeholders to increase awareness and ensure projects are completed and supported.• Assess and implement a strategic public participation and community engagement plan, and measure and trackimpacts based on the client's key performance indicators.• Identify new opportunities, clients, and contracts to support the company's growth and network.

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Responsible for cultivating and building strategic relationships to achieve the organizational advocacy, training and development goals. Provides oversight to the training and outreach programs, including partnership development, community and civic leadership outreach, and taskforce management, while meeting the diverse needs of the Los Angeles community, using a rights-based approach for marginalized populations, through multi-disciplinary collaboratives, and culturally competent programs. Manages staff in the Partnerships department. * Contributes to organizational policy formation and long term management planning. * Oversee five outreach and education grants directed at identification of Human trafficking victims, as well as growing the network of providers who can serve Human Trafficking victims.* Develops and maintains relationships with City, County, and State elected officials in Los Angeles County. * Develops and maintains a dozen relationships with Corporations interested in ending Modern Slavery through corporate responsibility campaigns in a given year.

Managed, developed and executed outreach strategies for distribution and transmission infrastructure projects, while leading teams from across the company and territory. Works at a high capacity under pressure, during volatile situations to manage crisis. * Managed a dozen projects simultaneously, working alone and in groups to monitor and complete projects.* Identified appropriate mitigation strategies and campaigns to assess and manage corporate reputation risk, through research and analysis. * Developed communication materials to inform local governments and customers about the need and rationale for the projects. * Presented training's to variety of engineering and construction staff focusing on managing emotionally charged stakeholders and situations.

Managed daily activities and campaign strategies, as well as the office and its breakdown at the campaigns completion.Responsible for the recruitment, training and retention of volunteers. Developed campaign scripts and written materials. • Developed strategy and led implementation for PP’s first independent expenditure campaign, located in the Thousand Oaks area, resulting in engaging more than 4K voters and the desired candidate, who won by 2K votes.• Managed all aspects of the campaign, including messaging, campaign strategy and tactics, overseeing 20 volunteers and paid walkers daily, budgets, and tracking results through Political Data Inc. software. Implemented strategy and tactics to engage several hundred pro-choice local community members in the district, resulting in establishing a cadre of volunteers that PP can draw on in future efforts.• Leveraged PP’s message to encourage conservative voters, to vote for and re-elect a pro-choice candidate.• Piloted processes and protocols for an independent expenditure campaign, resulting in Planned Parenthood having an IE template to use in other areas and on other efforts.This position was temporary, lasting the duration of the campaign.

Managed the Communications, and Government Relations departments. Responsible for developing and implementing the budgets, and oversaw measurable outcomes. Grew the visibility of the company by focusing on local policies that had positive health impacts on LA’s air quality. Established coalitions with environmental, labor, and healthcare organizations and stakeholders to ensure a collaborative effort to meet the mission of the organization. • Developed a digital newsletter through Constant Contact and DonorPerfect, highlighting program mission, health resources, and fundraising. Consumable external communications and daily updates regarding policy and local politics, drastically boosted Facebook and Twitter accounts from 200 to over a thousand. • Coordinated and designed a phone accessible WordPress website.• Spearheaded inter-organizational coalition building public speaking and advocacy engagement surrounding our policies to target key influencers in service to the mission. • Supported the development and program departments with marketing materials and outreach, developed the “Year in Review” for 2013, pamphlets for funders, and outreach materials.• Wrote letters and spoke in front of LA City Hall on multiple occasions, and was interviewed by NPR and KNX on the policies based around the bans as well as the health implications of using this product, leading to a successfully run campaign to pass e-cigarette ordinances in the City of Los Angeles, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Prepared the Government Affairs and Communications short and long-term strategic plans, and 30K in budgets yearly. • Developed a radio ad campaign on KNX which was heard by 10K people and generated 500 hits to our new webpage. The digital campaign, developed on AdobeAcrobat, was printed in five papers, resulting in a new base of funders.

Increased fundraising by 50% as a result of strategy development and implementation, including overhauling the organization’s approach to raising money to include events, individual donor contributions, and grants. • Diversified funding sources by designing an individual ask program based on previous and new targeted individuals.• Coordinated staff responsible for fundraising, including supervising volunteers and paid grant writers, resulting in increased grant requests and contributions. • Designed five targeted programmatic fundraising events, the first open house and fundraiser was well attended, resulting in strong media coverage.• Attended workshops at the Cal Endowment to learn how to build a strategic plan and prepared the 2013-2014 Strategic plan resulting in a presentation to the Executives and Board.

Assemblymember Betsy ButlerOversaw and managed all aspects of the Assemblymember’s field office located in El Segundo, including recruiting, interviewing and hiring, and staff assignments. Developed office policies and procedures to support the Members work, and to ensure that the member was focused on priority issues and constituents. Personally provided a high level of support and focus on member’s key issues and staffing needs. • Developed each staff member and their areas of focus, resulting in a high-functioning office that was able to take on a variety of issues effectively.• Developed all external communications, ensuring that speeches, prepared talking points, fact sheets, and constituent communications were consistent, resulting in consistency with the alignment of the Members views.• Worked with stakeholders and shared legislative analysis and technical information, to built third-party coalitions with community activists and local City Councils in support of major issues. Leading to 10 bills and 900 issues resolved around veteran’s affairs, elder abuse, labor, hydronic fracking and environmental sustainability. • Coordinated a retreat with both the Sacramento and District offices, and established procedures and a yearly calendar of events. This eliminated staffing problems that were in place before I arrived, and led to more productivity in the office. • Managed all aspects of monthly community forums, chaired and led by the member, selecting topics, arranging for logistics, and polled attendees to ensure that the forums were as effective as possible. This resulted in an informed constituency, who trusted in the office’s subject matter expertise, and staff.

For Senator Fran PavleyManaged all aspects of the Senator’s reputation in the district through leading meetings and speaking at public events in her absence. Co-managed the office, and trained the District Director and staff. Championed issues such as Sustainability and Climate Change, Water Policy and innovation, Labor, Education and Autism. • Managed community expectations during state budget cuts, meeting with more than 20 community groups seeking funding to explain the fiscal concerns of the state.• Completed 50 constituent cases a year, resulting in constituents securing resources such as state food and transportation vouchers and state grants which were recorded in a Legislative Constituent Management System.• Resolved, on behalf of the Senator, highly contentious local environmental issues involving the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, Santa Monica Bay restoration Commission and the Coastal commission, as a cross-functional effort which resulted in funding for the restoration of the Malibu Lagoon and the project’s completion. • Subject matter expert and resource specialist on sustainability and natural recourses. Attend every environmentally themed meeting and conferences, and followed trends and articles. Gathered environmental leaders and labor leaders together to strategize on how we can revitalize Los Angeles economy with green jobs, ensuring a new labor force focused on Sustainability. This venture birthed new courses at Valley and Pierce College.• Developed third-party coalition to support for legislation that required the removal of BPA (a potential carcinogen) from child food containers and plastics working with Labor and health care professionals. This support was the building block to launch this bill out of the Senate. It was not made law that year, but was re-introduced the next year by freshman Assemblywoman Butler. The coalition work continued and the bill passed in 2012.

Developed a strategy for the re-election of the Assemblymember. Demonstrated measurable outcomes, and outreach activates to thousands of households over a three month period. Managed the coordination of the Democratic parties’ joint work in this community for the Obama presidential campaign. • Coordinated political appointments, and talking points for interviews and speeches.• Worked with SG & A Consulting to coordinate and develop campaign strategy and mail pieces. Successfully engaged Spanish speaking constituents, working with Labor, and increased the Spanish vote. • Planned 30 campaign events. Many people attended the kick-off rally and over 100 volunteers attended a precinct walk or phone bank that day.• Managed two staff and interns, as well as data management showing campaign meters using Political Data Inc. (PDI).

Assemblymember Ted Lieu (Now Congress member) Responsible for monitoring key issues and reporting back to the member on hot-button district issues, including energy and the environment, education, labor and health. Attending events in the Members absence and staffed him when he was in the District. • Produced town halls, with a presenter giving the Climate Reality Project at three location across the district. The first was in the City of Torrance, with over 250 community members attended. Many of whom had not yet been exposed to Climate Change and Sustainability ideas. This lead to the Torrance City Council sustainability committee. • Planned and implemented 20 town halls and mobile offices annually in order to provide the member an opportunity to interact with constituents, resulting in the member being better informed about constituent concerns and issues. • Brought legislative ideas, based on community interactions and needs. To support Mar Vista constituents suffering from air quality impacts from the Santa Monica Airport, the member authored a bill requiring a large scale air quality study. Worked with residents, environmental and health leaders, to lobby and push back on opposition. This cross-functional coordination was successful and the legislation was passed. The study was completed in 2008. • Supported a dozen constituent cases a week, resulting in constituents securing resources such as state food and transportation vouchers and state grants.

Managed, trained, and coordinated 2 crews of 5 people, along with precinct assignments and talking points. • Increased the daily average of $300 a night to $500, and boosted political action involvement. This resulted in over 7,000 new contacts and contributors, and the support of over 30 State candidates. • In addition to fundraising, in a two week period, signed up 50 individuals to volunteer for an unknown candidate, Ted Lieu. This was recognized by the campaign and led to a future position with the State Assembly. • Conducted sales and direct fundraising while canvassing door to door on environmental issues and legislation• Meet with pro-environment lawmakers, lobbyists and environmental organization

Organize the library. Support students and staff with their needs and research.