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Miriam’s Kitchen: Designed and implemented a playwriting workshop for people with lived experience to use their expertise and voices to advocate for their needs.Black Lives Matter: Organized learning circles to engage and mobilize a broad range of community members around social justice actions, including phone banking, campaigning for candidates, and effective allyship in criminal justice.ACLU: Organized locally lead launch of nation-wide grassroots member-mobilization project, petitioning for restoration of rights to formally incarcerated people, and local campaigns focused on voter and citizens’ rights education.Florida Immigrant Coalition: Helped lead art therapy and sign demonstration for children of immigrants with vulnerable status.Planned Parenthood South Florida: Conducted phone banking and education, ensuring wider representation and connection to services for women of color.

Miami Rail Art Magazine- written articles and art reviews “Political Sideshow”, Collaborative visual art piece; Florida Atlantic University Art Gallery “Intersectionality”, Collaborative visual art piece; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

Create marketing content to help health services organizations engage consumers in real-world health conversations, increase brand recognition, and drive revenue growth.

U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness· Designed and implemented agency’s engagement with people with lived experience of homelessness, including facilitation of listening sessions with people with lived experience.· Advise agency leadership on racial equity and develop communications strategy around racial equity topics.· Designed and executed communications strategy around the launch and promotion of Home Together: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness, including podcast series.· Work closely with staff to generate ideas for highly impactful communications products and see those products through to completion for social media content and bimonthly newsletter that aligns with agency communications plan.

· Developed and conducted intensive training of trainers on behavior change communication.· Assessed and deepened Women’s Empowerment Activity’s mobilization strategies across the agricultural sector.· Developed a social behavior change communication plan for staff and local partner organizations.

Served as the coordinator of IRC Liberia’s media strategy during the Ebola outbreak, including staff media training and talking points, press relations, field visits, social media, stories, photography, and video.· Cultivated and trained local IRC field staff to serve as spokespeople.· Landed big name international press placements (initially other organizations were taking credit for our accomplishments in the field).

· Designed and provided technical assistance to support social change communication that would dramatically increase the use of HIV prevention products and services among those most at risk.· Provided capacity building support to the Ministry of Health to bring strategies to scale and coordinate implementation at the community level.· Successfully designed and intensively supported acceleration plans to raise multiple partner organizations targets from below 50% to 90% -116%.

· Provided onsite, intensive capacity building, technical leadership and implementation oversight for behavior change communications initiatives across the country with a focus on program sustainability.· Built programming that integrated cultural holidays and ceremony into a natural calendar to carry forth initiatives to reach target audiences of various stages and genders.

· Developed the communications arm focused on changing behavior surrounding community’s role in supporting mother and child health, including radio, television, and print media campaigns.· Planned and coordinated regional, national and international events including nationwide launch of government-supported national nutrition communications strategy.· Helped develop strategies, instructional materials, and tools that effectively transferred collated data to target beneficiaries and ensured sustainable practices.

· Translated dense scientific information and research into easily accessible documents and informative pieces for beneficiaries and mainstream press in support of fundraising campaigns.· Managed donor relations and refined program policies, including expansion and streamlining of the donor program.

· Designed and implemented community-based campaigns· Copy edited documents and reports

· Designed and implemented community-based campaigns to launch products, encourage better practices, and support behavioral change.

· Organized regional interviews and audits throughout rural communities.