Taylor Light Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

- Leading Atlassian's efforts to bring our products, practices, people and funding to support the effectiveness, collaboration, and health of social impact teams.

Sydney, NSW, AU

- Leading Atlassian's Product Impact and non-profit success strategy and programs- Managing global education grant partnerships and grant strategy

• Co-founder of Tâm Journey (formerly Tịnh Tâm), Vietnam's first-ever mental health and wellness mobile application for Vietnamese youth
• 1st Place Winner of Columbia University SIPA's Dean's Public Policy Challenge, which rewards original projects that use ICT and/or data analytics to address global policy problems

Lansing, Michigan, US

- Volunteer recruitment, phone banking / in-person canvassing training, GOTV efforts and coordination in Macomb County, Michigan

New York, NY, US

• Constructed and taught Design Thinking curriculum and courses for SIPA’s Sustainable Development Practice Program, including 3-hour design sprint courses, international development case study workshops, and prototyping.
• Built and taught Human Centered Design workshops for students, faculty, and visiting scholars from Columbia SIPA, Columbia’s School of Social Work, Columbia Law School, Columbia Teacher’s College, Columbia’s Obama.
• Co-taught “Design Your Future,” a 3-week design-thinking seminar for career/personal development, to 150+ Columbia graduate and undergraduate students
• Facilitated and coached Columbia University student teams on applying design thinking tools/strategies to venture development, policy design, and social impact program design

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Co-led M&E initiatives, including survey design, data collection, and impact analysis for MIT D-Lab’s Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Convening in Accra, Ghana and MIT D-Lab's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Builders Program (an.

Nairobi, Nairobi, KE

• Co-led a M&E framework build, program redesign plan, and strategy consultancy for Ongoza, a youth entrepreneurship accelerator and MIT D-Lab Innovation Ecosystem Builder Fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, developing an.
• Served as a Business Development Advisor and coach to agribusiness and start-up entrepreneurs within Ongoza’s accelerator advisory portfolio, creating and facilitating lesson plans on utilizing the business model.

New York, New York, US

• Created and directed Global Citizen Live! and Global Citizen: World on Stage, two UNGA Week campaign events with a combined 2,000+ attendees, 40 speakers, 3 prime ministers, and 12 musical performances, and.
• Created and directed Global Citizen: Movement Makers, Global Citizen’s first ever policy summit for activism and advocacy, consisting of 10+ hours of live programming, featuring 30+ speakers, panels, and performances.
• Co-created and managed the George Harrison Global Citizen Award with the Harrison Family honoring Annie Lennox and Paul Simon and delivering $50k grants delivered to grassroots advocacy and community organizations.
• Co-organized flagship Global Citizen advocacy campaigns and events including the 2017 Global Citizen Festival Hamburg and the 2017 NYC Global Citizen Festival (60,000 attendees, campaign achievements of 1.6million.

New York, New York, US

• Directed Global Citizen’s Ebola Response campaigning and developed editorial content strategy in support of 15 NGO partners in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone
• Devised and guided Global Citizen’s global health campaigning and Ebola response campaigning for the 2015 Global Citizen Earth Day event in Washington D.C., culminating in an $126 million dollar commitment from USAID.
• Coordinated internal project management, logistics, and stakeholder management for the 2015 Global Citizen Festival (60,000 attendees, 2 million political actions taken in Global Citizen Festival advocacy campaigns)

New York, New York, US

• Performed a variety of administrative, logistical, and strategic organizational tasks for Global Citizen’s U.S. Country Director, including direct daily support, organization of core meetings, management of travel.
• Produced pop-up campaigns and events in partnership with Global Citizen’s WASH partners for World Toilet Day (2014)
• Co-produced Global Citizen’s event campaign activations at SXSW, Bonnaroo, and Lollapalooza

Washington, DC, US

• Assisted donor relations, led presentations and program events in Tokyo, Japan, supported program managers, and contributed to communications and press releases for the TOMODACHI Initiative, a public-private.

US

• Contributed market research, analysis, and administrative support for FaRao, a Japanese mobile-music streaming application
• Assisted and supported day-to-day operations for Faith Inc.’s Nippon Columbia and Future Records record labels’ international licensing and publishing departments
• Led exploratory new market research in Indonesia, Israel and India for Faith Inc.’s record label properties and for FaRao

Atlanta, US

• Provided support on story coverage and production, wire reporting, and on off-site shoots
• Took on Production Assistant responsibilities (Anderson Cooper 360) and story coverage development in support of senior producers and Los Angeles bureau reporters
• Provided research for in-depth pieces and CNN.com

• Created tour plans, managed and assisted in tour development, market research, pricing and economic studies

Burbank, CA, US

• Assisted on off-site shoots, show production and research
• Assisted on talent management and music production

Marina DL REY, California, US

• Led a $25,000 (USD) fundraising initiative to build classrooms and provide educational support for Muddy Lotus Primary School in Bongema Village in Kono, Sierra Leone

Washington, DC, US

• Assisted on production, research, and community engagement for the Democratic National Convention

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Assisted on mail room operations, client operations, sitting in for executive assistants, script reviewing and preparing

Master Of Public Administration - Mpa, Sustainable Development, Management, Social Entrepreneurship

B.A In Communications, Communications, Business Studies, Music

Japanese Language Proficiency, 日本語