Curate and coordinate academic queer studies programming including lectures, conferences, performances, films and panels each semester in tandem with CLAGS Board and director, managing event planning, set-up, digital promotions, and web content in collaboration with Graduate Center staff. Manage interns, scheduling scholars, staff and volunteers for events.

Conduct and collect oral history interviews, research historical materials and primary source records to document the founding story of the first Women’s Studies Program and Women’s Center at CUNY. Collaborate with Brooklyn College Library Archives, former administrators and faculty. Maintain digital files, write descriptions, metadata, build, and organize the digital collection in Omeka database.

Develop, write, and lead intersectional identity and professional development based curriculum for year-long leadership program for 26 LGBTQ identified undergraduate CUNY students from across campuses. Led workshops that foster growth career mentoring, trans cultural competency, organizing & lobby training, campus-based service-learning projects, LGBTQ history, and leadership development. Contribute to grant-writing and program evaluation.

Manage online tools to connect, engage, service and grow a diverse network of retail and fashion workers to improve the largest industry of low-wage workers in the US: Retail. Work with membership and partners to increase earned media and the production of creative media to amplify the voice of NYC retail workers. Conduct media trainings, manage website and social media, online campaigns, and coordinate production of videos educating audiences on issues like wage theft, work-life balance, workplace safety, paid sick days, living wages, and non-discrimination.

Managed all media and constituent communications, online advocacy campaigns for Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem’s national organization dedicated to eliminating media sexism and amplifying women’s voices across entertainment & news media. Managed a team of 3 employees and 10 rotating interns. Launched campaign and website for Name It. Change It. media watchdog campaign during 2011 elections, developing rapid response media monitoring protocol. Served as official spokesperson for press and events. Managed copy & content for multiple websites and social media assets. Ran high-level media trainings for Progressive Women’s Voices program & Women Moving Millions. Oversaw & executed earned media strategy, recruited journalists, edited and authored 2 national blogs, created constituent action alerts, and broke national stories.

Oversaw client projects, staff & hours allocation, and managed publicists for various national and local media campaigns focused on gender justice, climate change, corporate accountability, racial and queer justice. Created and executed communications plans, media lists, press releases, press materials, and agency marketing and newsletters. Ghostwrote blog posts, OpEds, LTEs. Managed client proposals, reporting, timekeeping, and client interviews for traditional & new media campaigns for documentary films, non-fiction books, non-profits, activists, think tanks, and photojournalists working towards social change.Clients included: ROC-NY, Applied Research Center, Oxfam America, Dr. Gabor Mate, Metropolitan Books, Groundspark, Bradley Manning Support Network, Keep a Child Alive, Political Research Associates,

Monitored regional print, television, and radio news to ensure fair, accurate, and inclusive reporting about gay people & issues in 12 Southern states. Composed press releases & advisories, authored and placed Op-Eds, made pitch calls, created targeted media lists, and crafted issue-specific talking points for campaign spokespeople. Trained journalists on AP Style, requested changes to defamatory content, mobilized constituents through action alerts. Trained over 100 advocacy leaders & activists on media essentials including media spokesperson & interview preparation, messaging, blogging, and basic media relations resulting in an increase of coverage in Southern mainstream media. Organized and oversaw media monitoring teams, field interns, & created communications plans for media events.

Media spokesperson for gay community center. Wrote and pitched press releases, oversaw all outgoing communications. Authored and updated web content, mailing lists. Designed and implemented media newsroom trainings for major daily newspapers, presented cultural competency trainings in universities, authored weekly eblasts, monthly enewsletter, special event communications, & action alerts. Monitored and responded to regional radio, print, and television news media. Authored speeches, letters-to-the editor.

Responsible for all aspects of volunteer management and organizing including volunteer/staff relations, policy development and implementation, recruiting, succession planning, operational administration, professional development training, change and performance management, and volunteer diversity & development. Created training curriculum and taught medically accurate orientation & training sessions for new volunteers in clinics, education, special events, lobby days, outreach, and development. Led HIV and STI outreach and testing program.