Focused on communications strategy, organizational growth and development including fundraising, and campaign strategy for small to mid-size organizations, including:Community Resource Hub 2020-presentCo-Founder & Trainer, George Jackson SchoolDefund Police Organizing ConsultantBorealis Philanthropy's Communities Transforming Policing Fund 2020-presentTechnical Assistance Provider Women on the Rise (Atlanta, GA) 2018-presentDevelopment ConsultantCommunications ConsultantTransgender Law Center (Oakland, CA) 2018-presentDevelopment & Capacity BuildingBorealis Philanthropy's Spark Justice Fund 2022Organizational Development Consultant Racial Justice Action Center (Atlanta, GA) 2018-2020Communications ConsultantSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (Calabasas, CA) 2018-2020SEE South ConsultantEl/La Para Trans Latinas (San Francisco, CA) 2019Executive Director RecruitmentFamilies and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (New Orleans, LA) 2018-2019Development and Communications ConsultantStrategic Planning ConsultantThe First 72+ (New Orleans, LA) 2018

Founded and directed youth-led, membership-based organization to build power of LGBTQ youth of color ages 13-26 to end criminalization in New Orleans, LA;Won campaign in partnership with LGBTQ youth members of BreakOUT! that forced the New Orleans Police Department to adopt one of the most extensive LGBTQ policing policies in the country as part of the We Deserve Better Campaign, with strategies including direct action, grassroots organizing, public education, media-making, and civic engagement;Grew organization over 6 years to annual operating budget of over $1,000,000 with 10 full-time staff and over 60 youth members with national recognition and over 7 awards and honors;Oversaw all fundraising efforts, wrote all grants and grant reports for organization, developed grassroots fundraising strategies, and cultivated major donors;Oversaw all communications and campaign strategy in partnership with young people for campaign to end discriminatory policing that resulted in passage of groundbreaking LGBTQ policy in the New Orleans Police Department;Worked in collaboration with partners to co-author the GetYrRights Curriculum, GetYrRights Toolkit and Vice to ICE Toolkit, three resources for sharing lessons learned and wins in areas of: LGBTQ youth-led grassroots organizing, policy advocacy to win policing reforms, and base-building across intersections and language barriers in the South to build movements to end criminalization;Handled all financial and administrative matters of organization and work with Advisory Board and fiscal sponsor, Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, to ensure proper oversight, sustainability, and transparent organizational processes.

Received national fellowship of the Open Society Foundation to lead grassroots effort to reform practices regarding the policing, arrest, and incarceration of LGBTQ youth in Louisiana.

LGBTQ YOUTH PROJECT DIRECTORTestified at Department of Justice Prison and Jail Rape Review Panel Hearings on Orleans Parish Prison in Washington, D.C.;Developed and helped implement model policy for LGBTQ youth in detention at local detention center, Youth Study Center;Published Locked Up & Out: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Louisiana’s Juvenile Justice System;Conducted trainings for all levels of juvenile justice system (including judges, public defenders, district attorneys, court staff, and detention centers) on LGBTQ youth to improve conditions of confinement and reduce the number of LGBTQ youth referred to detention;Served as consultant on development of model LGBTQ youth re-entry and GED program in New Orleans;Helped develop model standards for juvenile detention centers in Louisiana and ensured inclusion of mandatory training on LGBTQ youth issues for juvenile detention center staff;LEAD YOUTH ADVOCATESupervised advocates, attorneys, and interns doing investigation in three juvenile secure care facilities, as well as investigation for ongoing litigation against juvenile detention center, Youth Study Center;Worked in partnership with formerly-detained youth and organizers to launch the Shut It Down Campaign which called on the closure of the Youth Study Center;Helped write model juvenile public defender standards for the state of Louisiana in partnership with Statewide Indigent Juvenile Defender Board;Provided legal advocacy and worked closely with legislators to improve conditions of confinement for incarcerated youth in three Louisiana youth prisons, resulting in the downsizing of Jetson Center for Youth in Baker, LA;Served as an organizational representative on key committees/working groups such as Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative and Statewide Detention Standards Committee for youth in detention centers.