Vanessa Saenz Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Solidarity Strategies is a award-winning political consulting firm owned and operated by Latinos. Our firm operates year-round, encompassing a Public Affairs division and a Campaigns and Elections department. With a dedicated team, we serve clients across various sectors, including non-profit, private, corporate, campaign, and government, offering data-driven solutions and culturally competent services.

Washingto, D.C.

The Strathdee Group is a political consulting firm that focuses on building an individual fundraising network for Democratic congressional Members and candidates.-Specialized in PAC Fundraising for Reps. Tony Cárdenas & Sylvia Garcia

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Administrative Assistant for The George Washington University's Multicultural Student Services Center.• Facilitated and created marketing content for 8 cultural programing events celebrating diversity on campus through leading, participating, and promoting our office’s signature Heritage celebrations sharing our campus’s diversity. • Committed to building community in the space through active-listening basis in order to encourage students-of-color attendance and exemplify our office’s commitment to student success.• Elevated the reputation of the office by acting as a representative of the university across campus-wide programs, advocating for greater visibility in the community.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed over 15 community events, engaging my floor, residence-hall, and campus-wide community through interactions. Through interactive experiences ranging from floor-wide cookie-baking to facilitating campus-wide conversation with the university’s Multicultural Student Services Chief officer. • Constructed strategic programming efforts designed to create community for campus-residents by attending weekly 2-hour collaborative team meetings to improve student experience.• Promoted harmony in my hall to ensure healthy relationships by implementing de-escalating efforts to respond to inter-personal residential conflict.

Passaic, New Jersey

• Empowered over 200 young women in grades k-8 in the Passaic County School System through facilitating Girl Scouts' LEAD curriculum, exposing low-income youth to early-leadership development• Prepared young women to cultivate strong all-women spaces in order to develop a strong sense of self-worth and maintain healthy female relationships

Passaic, New Jersey

Led over 180 girls in grades k-9 in a tailored summer curriculum geared towards empowering low-access young women in low-income communities

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Collaborated a Returned Peace Corp event, connecting 100 low-income-girls from a Girls Scouts Summer Camp in Paterson, NJ with 3 DC-based volunteers, exposing the girls to a trans-national experience and an opportunity after college, promoting the goal of our office in our community • Consolidated over two-years of back-logged contact information into streamlined Customer Relations Management and Wagtail services

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Contributed to the Congressional website through submitting a diverse set of memo reports on the different briefings happening on the Hill, connecting our South Bronx constituency to their relevancy on the Hill• Developed passions for legislative justice in defense of Latinx communities through attendance of Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ Health Summit, inspired my enrollment in a degree seeking program for a BA in Political Science

Bachelor'S Degree, B.A. Political Science

Activities and Societies: Humphries Award '22 GW Women’s Leadership Program, GW Residential Assistant for Somers Hall Presidential.

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Head of Community Service, Co-Captain of the Varsity Swim & Dive Team and JV Soccer Team, Varsity Track & Field.

Scholars Graduate '14