Placing computer scientists, engineers, and other technologists to work with Members of Congress and Congressional Committees through our one-year Congressional Innovation Fellowship. Our express goal is to upskill Congress by serving as a recruiting pipeline and converting fellows into full-time staffing roles on Capitol Hill. To date, we have placed 75 fellows across the House and Senate with offices ranging from Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Rob Portman, Sen. Ron Wyden, Rep. Will Hurd, and others. In 2020, amid the pandemic, we launched the Congressional Digital Service Fellowship, a one-time effort to support Congress in addressing urgent digital capacity gaps while building proof of concept for a Congressional Digital Service. As a result of our work, in early 2022, the House of Representatives announced the launch of the House Digital Service (HDS), the first-ever digital services office in a legislature in the United States.

-Member of Washington DC Chapter Advisory Board, 2022 - current.-Current NLC Entrepreneurship Trainer ("LEAD trainer"), traveling the country to facilitate personal development workshops at other NLC chapters. Since 2014 I have trained hundreds of NLC fellows across more than one dozen chapters. -Alumni, San Francisco Chapter Advisory Board, 2016 - 2017.-As DC Chapter Co-Director from 2011 - 2013, I helped grow our application pool by 72%, break national fundraising records, and establish a mentorship program for fellows. The chapter won 2012 awards for best recruitment, alumni and fundraising programs.NLC is a highly competitive once-a-year fellowship for 20 young professionals with 50+ chapters across the country. The organization facilitates trainings on communications, fundraising, organizing, management and life prioritization skills from some of the brightest minds in the political world.

We are 1500 former Congressional staff dedicated to addressing sexual harassment on Capitol Hill by providing resources and support to current staff and advancing solutions in pursuit of cultural change. Our work brought the #MeToo movement to Congress by shining a light on pervasive harassment and abuse and led to a massive reform overhaul signed into law in late 2018.

I managed the legislative staff for the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, assisting the Congressman's work on his core political priorities: implementing the Affordable Care Act, protecting the U.S.-Israel relationship, addressing climate change and enacting network neutrality. Other successes include: -Leading the work in Congress to ensure that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will protect countries from tobacco company attempts at striking down public health protections like limits on advertising and the banning of dangerous chemical ingredients. -Restoring into law the "Lautenberg Amendment," a refugee program that allows about 2500 Jews, Christians, Baha'is and other religious minorities under threat of authoritarian governments quick escape to the United States annually; -Securing federal dollars for building a 21st Century transportation system in Los Angeles, including extending the subway to the Westside, finishing the Expo Line and helping local communities implement bicycle and pedestrian projects; -Leading the coalition opposing discriminatory “Prostitution Pledge,” which denied PEPFAR funding to HIV/AIDS organizations assisting sex workers, helping to overturn the provision at the U.S. Supreme Court; and -Directing the effort in Congress to pressure the Boy Scouts to drop its ban on LGBT scouts and scout leaders.In addition, I: -Launched the first digital skills training program for Congressional Staff: the Digital Academy Fellowship, during which fellows complete a series of workshops with technology companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter and produce a digital media strategic plan. -Provided strategic planning guidance and training to over 100 Hill staff, including the California Democratic Legislative Directors and ten Member offices. -Launched Legisletters (Legisletters.com), a search portal for policymaking letters sent by Members of Congress.

Writer and New Media Officer for UN Foundation and Better World Campaign. I directed UN advocacy work for U.S. payment of dues to the UN regular budget and UN Peacekeeping, leveraging constituents to send 70,000 letters to Congress in support of the UN. I also managed the organization’s online election 2008 campaign, "On Day One," winner of a Silver Pollie Award and Web Marketing Award.