Experience

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  Obama for america

  Jun 2008 - Nov 2008

  • Canvassed.• Performed phone banking.• Led visibility. • Complied data entry.• Performed basic office duties.• Persuaded voters. • Coordinated registration drives.• Engaged in volunteer recruitment.• Performed various office duties.• Promoted community organizing among key constituencies. • Conducted lit drops.• Planned house meetings.• Canvassed. • Phone banked.• Organized various grassroots volunteer trainings.

  • Campaign Intern

    Jan 2008 - Nov 2008

  • Organizing Fellow

    Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
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  Boston city council

  Sept 2008 - Dec 2008

  Public engagement intern

  • Performed administrative tasks, mainly being the first responded when answering the phone, filing, and creating excel spreadsheets.• Conducted research for small projects, such as current laws, policies, and regulations.

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  Feminist majority foundation

  Jun 2009 - Aug 2009

  Choices campus organizing intern

  • Performed office work.• Organized community activism. • Conducted research. • Facilitated member outreach. • Created blogs.

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  World teach

  Sept 2009 - May 2010

  Recruiting, admissions, and african programs assistant

  • Expanded the network of colleges that the company recruits at. • Organized applications. • Prepared volunteers for their time abroad.• Persuaded accepted applicants to participate in their programs.• Performed office tasks.

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  Martha coakley for senate

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2009

  Campaign finance intern

  • Collected signatures.• Phonebanked donors.• Processed checks.• Complied mass mailings.

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  Planned parenthood league of massachusetts

  Jan 2010 - May 2010

  Grassroots organizing intern

  • Performed various research on issues regarding sexual health.• Performed data entry. • Helped student VOX (Voices for Choice) chapters. • Worked on the Spring 2010 community outreach campaign, which focused on getting men of color tested.

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  League of united latin american citizens

  Jun 2010 - Dec 2010

  Voter engagement fellow

  • Designed and implemented the 2010 Voter Registration Campaign for LULAC with the goal of registering 10,000 Latinos to vote across 10 target states. • Coordinated and trained voter coordinators in 14 LULAC states, 20 technology centers, and 18 college campuses across a total of 22 states and 12,000 Latinos register to vote.• Created training guides and outreach materials for all states involved. • Coordinated the Fall Advocacy Visits for the LULAC National Board and various congressional members. • Created and implemented a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) campaign ensure that Latinos were educated about the issues in 2010. Show less

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  National organization for women

  Mar 2011 - Jul 2013

  • Ran the Field Campaign for various all gender equity issues, such as working reproductive rights issues and fighting for justice for the women of Wal-Mart in all 50 states and DC.• Supervised and delegated various tasks to field and policy interns, such as performing logistics for rallies.• Composed various action alerts, media releases, talking points, and fact sheets on every issue, such as Social Security, fair pay, and reproductive rights.• Coordinated various field actions for NOW members in key states, such as Florid and Colorado; these actions were mainly advocacy visits, rallies/pickets, and town hall meetings.• Facilitated various local and state NOW chapters by developing and/or strengthening their members or actions.• Executed educational webinars, trainings, and panels, such as necessary for chapter development.• Collaborated with various coalitions of other organizations, such as the Strengthen Social Security Campaign and the Paycheck Fairness Coalition; ensured that NOW members could play a key role in these coalitions’ actions.• Implemented and executed a chapter organizing webinar series on various community organizing issues from filing taxes to working with the media. Show less

  • Senior Field Organizer

    Mar 2013 - Jul 2013

  • Field Organizer

    Mar 2011 - Mar 2013
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  Jumpstart

  Oct 2013 - May 2014

  Corps member

  • Promoted literacy, through small reading groups, to students from low-income communities of color.• Coordinated events to promote literacy and parental involvement with corps members, students and parents.

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  Center for popular democracy

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Strategic research intern

  • Conducted extensive research on charter school oversight on various target states.• Collaborated with a partner organization on a summer-long research project on the immigrant healthcare.• Conducted research on household demographics for single mothers.

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  Institute of international education

  Sept 2014 - May 2015

  Research and evaluation intern

  • Created data tables through the use of SPSS and contributed to data analysis for the Open Doors Report 2014.• Worked on an evaluation using social media to connect with alumni and creating alumni profiles.• Worked on a brief and presentation, which examined gender mobility trends for international students in the U.S. and U.S study abroad.• Coded interviews and focus groups for an impact evaluation using a variety of tools, including MAXQDA software.

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  Social accountability international/rapid results institute

  Oct 2014 - May 2015

  Project associate

  • NYU Wagner Capstone Project.• Impact evaluation (team lead).• Monitoring and Evaluation.• Fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil (January 2015).

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  Start small think big, inc.

  Sept 2015 - Oct 2015

  Research and evaluation analysis intern

  • Developed qualitative component of impact assessment.• Conducted interviews for various business clients.

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  American institutes for research

  Oct 2015 - Jan 2021

  • Led team for the Gates Frontier Set to increase outcomes for low-income and minorities students.• Created catalog and evidence-mapping tool for youth violence prevention programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. • Executed data analysis, cleaning, and replication for a school climate survey for Cleveland School District, using SAS/WPS. (Lead Data Replicator).• Conducted qualitative coding using NVivo and created reports on 26 turnaround indicators for underperforming schools.• Conducted cognitive interviews and focus groups for an evaluation of citywide afterschool programs in New York City. • Designed surveys complex surveys in multiple languages, primarily English and Spanish, using tools, such as surveymonkey and vovici. • Analyzed data from stakeholders, including students, teachers, and principals, using SPSS and STATA.• Wrote literature reviews on a variety of afterschool education and expanded learning topics, such as youth character development. • Acted as a district liaison for eight school districts in Nevada School Climate Survey by providing technical assistance for schools.• Created survey items and coordinated cognitive labs for the Elementary SEL/School Climate Survey.• Conducted site visits in Massachusetts using CLASS tool.• Coordinated recruitment for IES study to help reduce the achievement gap.• Acted as Meeting Coordinator for the Interagency Forums on Aging and Children to support the product of America's Children Brief, 2018; America's Children 2019; America's Children 2020; and Older Americans 2020. Show less

  • Researcher

    Mar 2020 - Jan 2021

  • Research Associate

    Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
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  Unicef usa

  Feb 2021 - now

  -Work on the CACR Research Agenda to advance child wellbeing through a child rights lens.-Collaborate with premier scholars on research projects aligned with UNICEF USA’s mission.-Expand UNICEF USA’s research network by building relationships with leading child rights scholars.-Manage key research relationships, domestic research coalitions, and contractual agreements.-Oversee data analysis and KPI monitoring, including data visualization and dashboard creation.-Support municipal partnerships with data collection, evaluation guidance, and project scaling.-Engage in professional development, lead internal workgroups, and manage interns. Show less • Manage eight Community Engagement Associates (CE) mobilizing volunteers in support of objectives in programs and advocacy.• Provide guidance and training to Community Engagement Associates on their functions, professional activities and operations.• Manage CE Associates on the recruitment, training and onboarding of their volunteer leaders, providing guidance and ensuring timely, quality results related to volunteer management.• Liaise with the CFCI team and the Advocacy team to manage workflows and deliverables conducted by CE Associates.Develop, iterate and socialize the monitoring framework, tools and reporting systems for engagement, advocacy and impact partnerships, including quantitative and qualitative measures of success; oversee and guide the use of data, analytics and monitoring to track progress, refine tactics and communicate results in engagement, advocacy, community fundraising, community engagement and impact partnerships against strategic milestones, key initiatives of the operational plan, and organizational dashboard metrics. Show less

  • Assistant Director of Research, Evaluation, and Research Partnerships

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Assistant Director of Community Engagement

    Sept 2022 - Mar 2024

  • Manager of Community Engagement

    Feb 2021 - Sept 2022