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• Responsible for strategy and oversee operations.• Direct and manage strategic projects including growth strategy, financial management, and supply chain oversight and improvement.• Develop and roll out new sales platforms.• Led the company to >100% sales increase, inventory reduction, more efficient operations procedures.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for operations and oversee customer experience and marketing.• Direct and manage operational projects including supply chain, inventory management, sales and growth strategy.• Oversee product consistency and quality.• Develop and roll out new products and product lines, from initial research through launch and sales.• Led the company to >100% sales increase, inventory reduction, more efficient operations procedures.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Oversee all aspects of the customer experience. Liaise with other departments to represent customer needs.• Manage projects to enhance operations and customer experience, including website content and inventory management systems.• Liaise with supply chain partners to ensure product consistency and quality. Strengthen the supply chain, product pricing structure and general operations.• Develop and roll out a new product line, from initial research through launch and sales.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

TRC carries out programs, research and communications projects. Clients included the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and MoEd.• Managed a yearlong research project including in-depth interviews with 100 subject-experts, and wrote a comprehensive situational analysis.• Wrote and obtained a highly selective foundational project grant for innovative educational programming.• Supported research and writing of a report on the extreme right in Europe and the European Parliament.• Prepared in-depth documentation and speeches for conferences and high-level policy meetings.• Created social media marketing campaign for start-up company.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Formulated strategy to transform an ad hoc coalition of NGOs into a formal alliance that promotes intercultural co-operation and activities.

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Created and executed European advocacy strategy on human rights, democracy and education, at the UN, EU, OSCE, CoE.• Built partnerships to ensure adoption of legal and financial instruments to combat discrimination and promote civic participation.• Managed projects from conception and fundraising/grant-writing through on-time and on-budget final reporting.• Selected by the European Commission to serve on the review working group for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

Mba, Heller School For Social Policy And Management

Ma, Hornstein Program In Jewish Communal Service

Advocacy Track

Ma, Semitic Languages & Cultures; Department Of Hebrew, Aramaic & Jewish Studies

Ba (Honours), Hebrew