PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Annual Giving Student Ambassador – HWS Connect Crew
September 2016 - May 2017 (9 months)
Geneva, NY
The HWS Philanthropy Ambassador Program.
Assisted with research projects, constituent outreach, donor stewardship, and partnership relations.
Solicited alumni, alumnae, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the Colleges.
Raised $30,000 in donations for the Colleges’ greatest needs, academic departments, and athletics department.
Demonstrated interest in innovation, leadership, and the values of HWS.
Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit and comfortability speaking with people on a range of topics about HWS, including Title IX, The Pitch Contest, and The Gearan Center for Performing Arts.
Received training and guidance to better equip myself to reach out to alumni/alumnae, surrender students, parents, faculty, staff and friends.
Served as student caller and the voice and face of HWS when making calls, writing thank you notes, and doing other outreach with supporters.
Focused on expressing appreciation for the time, talent, treasure and ties of everyone who supports HWS.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Partnership Development
March 2017 - March 2017 (1 month)
Greater New York City Area
The Salisbury Center for Career, Professional, and Experiential Education - Experiential Education Program.
NYC Media & Communications Career Trip.
Networked with alumni, alumnae and friends of the Colleges through firsthand insights and engagements to explore and learn about careers in in the New York City Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Media and Public Relations.
Made important connections in the Media and Communications Industry with alums who seek candidates that can solve problems creatively, write well, analyze challenges from multiple perspectives and adapt to new situations.
Participated in required orientation, professionalism sessions, and professional networking events with high-net-worth and distinguished alums prior to program.
Participated in information session on how liberal arts education can translate into the media and communications field to maximize potential job opportunities.
Participated in the inaugural day-long trip to New York City to further developed my professional network and business relationships with:
IPG Mediabrands; Courtney Aquadro ’15, Alexander Everett ’15, Zachary Frantz ’13, Leila Gibney ’09, Alexandra Hancock ’10, Brian McHahon P’10, Don Morrison P’07, and Haley Wolf ’15.
Appboy; Wendey Hankemeier, Recruiter Zeno Group; Jacqueline Cox ’05.
Merkley & Partners; Mason Barron ’15, Alexander Gellert ’86, and Emily Jaeckel ’15.
Horizon Media (One of New York’s largest media agencies); Alexandra Haack ’09, Michael Shore ’15, and Daniel Thomas ’12, Shayna Walker, Recruiter.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Partnership Development
January 2017 - January 2017 (1 month)
Washington D.C. Metro Area
The Salisbury Center for Career, Professional, and Experiential Education - Experiential Education Program.
Day on the Hill Trip.
Networked with alumni, alumnae and friends of the Colleges through firsthand insights and engagements to explore and learn about careers in Politics and Government in Washington, D.C.
Participated in required orientation, professionalism sessions, and professional networking events with high-net-worth and distinguished alums prior to program.
Participated in the inaugural three-day-long trip to Washington, D.C. to further developed my professional network and business relationships and make important connections in the political and government sector with:
State Departnment Office of Opinion Research; Peyton Craighill ’94, Division Chief of Europe & Asia and Keynote Speaker at Alum Panel.
The Majority Groupw; Hadley Sosnoff ’06, Managing Director and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Buidling. Discussed Life off the Hill.
Daimler AG; Jeff Werner ’91, International and Public Policy and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Buidling. Discussed Life off the Hill.
Department of Justice; Neil Wakeman ’08, Presidential Management Fellow and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Buidling. Discussed Life off the Hill.
Women for Peace; Alli McCracken ’10, National Organizer and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Discussed Policy and Advocacy.
US Business Leadership Network; Brian Horn ‘12, Chief of Staff and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Discussed Policy and Advocacy.
United Nations Foundation; Kelsey Carroll ’14, Universal Access Project Coordinator and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Discussed Policy and Advocacy.
RAINN Rape Abuse & Incest National Network; Nancy Amestoy ’14, National Campus Programs and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Discussed Policy and Advocacy.
Freedom House; Bridget Sawowski ’14, Middle East and North African Program Associate and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Discussed Policy and Advocacy.
Offices of Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand; Denzel Singletary ’13, United State Senate and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Working on the Hill.
United States House of Representatives, Congressman John Delaney; Muchele Viterise ’09, Legislative Counsel and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Working on the Hill.
United States House of Representatives, Betty McCollum; Libby Foley ’10, Legislative Assistant and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Working on the Hill.
Congressman Andy Biggs; Liz Seidel ’13, Director of operations and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Elections and Campaigns.
EMILY’s List; Kelly Biggs ’11, Membership Services and Planning Giving Manager and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Elections and Campaigns.
Senate Democrat Campaign Committee; Dominique Miller ’15, Political Director and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Elections and Campaigns.
African Wildlife; Hannah Wilber ’13, Social Media Officer and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Sustainable Development.
League of Women Voters; Nelle Crossan ’13, Executive Assistant to the CEO and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Sustainable Development.
ACDI VOCA; Ana Carolina Hoff ’15, International Recruiter and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Sustainable Development.
International Downtown Association; Cole Judge ’05, Director of Research and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Sustainable Development.
Hillary for American Campaign; Shannon Casey ’16, Field Organizer and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Young Alum Panel.
Twin Logic Strategies; Kevin Casey’16, Legislative Manager and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Young Alum Panel.
United States House of Representatives, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter; Sam Menchel ’16, Staff Assistant and Alum Panel
Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Young Alum Panel.
Story Partners; Hannah Cooper, ’16, Intern and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Young Alum Panel and Adam Croglia ’10, Senior Director.
Department of Homeland Security; Sydney Arsenault ’16, Contractor and Alum Panel Speaker at Cannon House Office Building, Young Alum Panel.
U.S. Secrete Service Headquarters; Stuart Hillenbrand ’04, Foreign Missions Branch, Secret Service Academy James J. Rowley Training Center Instructor.
Washington Post; Jennifer Legat ’94, Human resources Director, Planning, Analysis & Retention & Colleen O’Hara ’12, National Account Executive.
Multicultural Networking and Career Conference
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
February 2016 – February 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Participated in panel discussions and workshops with alumni and alumnae of color, as well as a keynote address from the Honorable Laura G. Douglas ’79, Justice of the Bronx County Supreme Court and Supervising Judge of the Bronx County Civil Court.
Participated in speed networking, a graduate professional school panel, business panel, and non profit panel.
Received insight and knowledge on business and obtaining business partners. As a result, I found a business partner and started an industrial hemp processing business.
Sankofa: the Black Students’ Union, Caribbean Student Association, Latin American Organization partnered with the Salisbury Center for Career, Professional and Experiential Education, the Office of Intercultural Affairs, Office of Advancement, Department of Africana Studies, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and African and Latino Alumni Association to host the inaugural conference.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Partnership Development
January 2015 - January 2015 (1 month)
Greater New York City Area
The Salisbury Center for Career, Professional, and Experiential Education - Experiential Education Program
New York City Non Profit Day Experience
Networked with alumni, alumnae and friends of the Colleges from five different non-profit groups to make important connections in the non-profit sector.
Participated in firsthand insights and engagements to explore and learn about careers in the New York City Non Profit Industry and to further develop my professional network.
Participated in site visits to non-profit organizations that work to create meaningful change in the areas of human rights, civil liberties, international development, peace building, public policy and public health worldwide.
Participated in required orientation, professionalism sessions, and professional networking events prior to program.
Participated in the inaugural day-long trip to New York City where I developed business relationships and connections with:
National September 11th Memorial and Museum; Amy Dreher ’93, manager of institutional assets and initiatives at the museum.
United Nations; Jay Pozenel and Cristina Milano Principal, Legal Officer from the Office of Human Resources Management. Toured the Secretariat Building and also met with staff and current interns in the Young Professionals Program to learn about ways to prepare and compete for careers at the U.N.
Ford Foundation, Tanya Khokhar, Program Analyst and Talent Acquisition Specialist Kamilah Duggins. While there, learned about the various philanthropic efforts the Foundation sponsors in international development, peacekeeping and social impact.
American Civil Liberties Union; Rachel Fishman, deputy director of development at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Pearl Jones, human resources manager.
The Doe Fund; George McDonald, CEO. Toured the Doe Fund offices in the Harlem Center for Opportunity with several members of his staff, including: Director of Human Resources Kenise Etwaru, Director of External Affairs Alexander Horwitz, and Director of Programs Nadia Sadloski.
Landed a Real Estate and Development Internship with The Doe Fund, an organization that assists homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals reach permanent self-sufficiency.
Civic Leader
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
January 2013 – May 2014 (1 year 5 months)
Developed strategic partnerships on diversity, sustainability, and community across five departments on campus; Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning, Centennial Center for Leadership, Office of Sustainability, Intercultural Affairs Department, and Finger Lakes Institute.
Facilitated identification and implementation of collaborative projects, such as Earth Week and Food Week.
Identified shared values and action areas for the sake of greater reach, efficiency, and power, with the ultimate goal of moving conversations that have existed on the periphery to the center.
Supported a constructive team climate for accomplishing service activities.
Convened monthly coalition meeting and took meeting notes.
Coordinated a master calendar of events for all participating offices.
Assisted in event planning, communications, outreach and weekly progress updates.
Created semester report enumerating success and challenges and made recommendations about events and activities that the group should pursue and how students can become more engaged in the coalition.
FosterClub
Board Member
August 2018 - Present
Seaside, Oregon
Ensuring FosterClub is the number one go-to resource for every youth in and out of foster care by strengthening and guiding the one and five year strategic plan of the organization,
Identified two strategic partnerships, one with New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services Foster Care Awareness Month Media Campaign and the second with Alia Innovations UnSystem Cohort, resulting in an increase in 1,000’s of youth views on multiple social media platforms.
Provide thought leadership and strategic direction for the organization.
Discuss strategic partnerships, financials, and FosterClub organizational strategy.
Raising visibility of FosterClub’s mission.
Ensuring FosterClub achieves it’s mission in that young people in and from foster care are connected, educated, represented, and inspired.
FosterClub
Policy Lead, Panelist, & Blog Writer
June 2016 – Present
Seaside, Oregon
Authored blogs, newsletters, and Op-Ed pieces and delivered national campaign launch speeches, influencing the passing of two federal legislations, The Health Care for Former Foster Youth Act/ SUPPORT Act and The Family First Prevention Act, improving the lives of 500,000+ foster youth in and out of foster care and 1,000’s of child welfare agencies, organizations, and professionals in America.
Developed strategic partnerships with Representative Karen Bass (CA), Senator Bob Casey, FosterClub CEO, Celeste Bodner, national child welfare and medicaid stakeholders, advocates, and policy makers.
Wrote blogs, newsletters and Op-Ed pieces for FosterClub’s “Fostering Healthy Outcomes” project, their nation wide media blitz and their online Story Bank, in collaboration with the Juvenile Law Center and SPARC and for their new online training for foster parents, stakeholders, and other child welfare professionals.
Advocated for the Family First Legislation Act and participated in phone conferences and video recordings with Senator Hatch (Utah), Senator Wyden (Oregon) and child welfare professionals; Assisted with calls and social media campaign.
Alia Innovation
Cohort Guide
February 2019 - Current
Minnesota, Minneapolis
Influencing the future of the child welfare system by operationalizing the UnSystem, a new child welfare system, with 30+ child welfare innovators across 5 jurisdictions and 14 counties.
Guiding change, grounding innovation, creating the process, and challenging agency leaders to do more and become bolder and more courageous through rapid prototyping, experimentation and rapid cycle innovation to maximize impact.
Ideating, designing, testing, failing, and retrying transformative, radical, ideas.
Scaling and delivering evidence based research and proof of concept to be highlighted by Jerry Milner, Commissioner for the Administration on Children, Youth and Families, in Congress as the national model for child welfare.
Establishing Alia as the answer to child welfare reform in America.
Developing methods to measure our impact through evaluation maps, consolidation, mining our evaluation maps, all-group report-outs, change frameworks, presentations, worksheets, and in-depth peer-to-peer, all-group consultations.
Identifying and evaluating how can we do more, bigger, faster?
Shifting judicial landscape with judges and attorneys to inform a trauma-responsive approach judicial processes.
Organizing events, webinars, and in person talks with legal and financial officials to develop strong partnerships.
Identifying and encouraging the highest potential agencies and counties to adopt the UnSystem model and join the Innovation cohort.
Developing public awareness campaign
Informing five publications, two case studies on process, learning, and outcomes and three research briefs on the economic cost of child welfare.
Learning how to write effective Op Ed’s to maximize impact and reach.
Hi-Zor Farm Industrial Hemp Processing
Co Founder, Partner & Processor
December 2016 – Present
Seneca Castle, NY
Enabling and accelerating Industrial Hemp market opportunities and research in New York State through New York State’s Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program and in partnership with the Department of Agriculture and Markets and Cornell Universities College of Agriculture and Life Science.
Introducing mobile hemp processing through a portable decortication system, developing an unfair advantage for acquiring strategic partnerships by offering more cost effective, environmentally conscious, processing.
Delivered 10+ speeches, wrote 5+ papers, and completed 3+ architectural design projects on industrial hemp.
Strengthened relationships and gained support with Hobart and William Smith Colleges Finger Lakes Institute, Centennial Center for Leadership, Fribolin Farm, Alumni Associations Office, Alumnus, Geneva community members and former President, Mark Gearan.
Designed and integrated 3D printed hemp filament cylinders apart of Hobart and William Smith Colleges RockSat-C teams aerospace research payload competition that was used to detect radiation shielding properties in space to conduct product and market research for hemp products.
Co-manage resources and operations.
Produce business, grants, and partnership proposals.
Drafted and developed operations strategy, market strategy, timeline, and research proposals.
Initiated business relationships with farmers, processors, and product manufacturers to advance research, economic development, and market opportunities.
Advocated and communicated support to New York State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and Senator Thomas O’mara for the 2017 Hemp Bill revision at the first-ever Industrial Hemp Summit in New York State as a representative for Hi-Zor Farm.
Received one of the first Industrial Hemp Processing Licenses in New York State.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Foster scare Awareness Month Social Media Campaign
January 2018 – September 2018
New York
Participated in the NYS Office of Children and Family Services Foster Care Awareness Month Media Campaign.
Participated in a video shoot that showcased stories of an adult in my life that made a difference and supported me in a positive way and what that meant to me.
Developed marketing strategy and partnership between Youth In Progress, FosterClub, and Alia Innovations with the NYS OCFS Office.
Committed to improving foster care experiences for children across New York State.
Contributed to the project to enrich parent recruitment efforts as well as dispel misconceptions about who youth in care really are.
Foster Youth College Tour Program
Founder
December 2016 – May 2017
Geneva, New York
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Created, organized, and led four college tours and one on one mentoring sessions with 40 foster youth between the ages of 13-17 in New York State, in collaboration with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the organization Youth In Progress, and sponsored by the Intercultural Affairs Department.
Coordinated facilitated workshops by eight departments on campus, educating youth on financial aid, scholarships, and opportunities available for foster youth and the opportunities college offers.
Enabled youths understanding of college opportunities and the financial assistance provided for foster youth in New York State, resulting in 95% of attendees to want to college opportunities after college.
Removing artificial limits that college and success as a foster youth in not a possibility.
Encouraging and educating foster youth on how to maximize their foster care experience.
Resulted in three publications and state recognition.
Developing a state and national model for colleges and universities to replicate for foster youth in their communities to establish a national and state standard for foster youth access to college.
HWS IdeaLab Six Week Accelerator Program
March 2013 – October 2013
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Successfully selected as one of seven student awarded funding by the Centennial Center for Leadership’s (CCL) “start-up” accelerator program, the HWS IdeaLab, for my business idea.
Participated in the six-week accelerator program to help develop and refine my business plan and ideas through workshops with faculty, staff and alums.
Developed a business proposal that included Proposal Description, Value and Social Responsibility, Viability Research, Competitors, Customer Segment, Cost Structure, Implementation Timeline, and Leadership Role.
Learned a broad range of entrepreneurial concepts and collaboration techniques.
Bard College Center for Environmental Policy
C2C Fellow
December 2016 – December 2016
Graduate of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy Northeast Regional C2C Fellows Workshop, a national program for undergraduates and recent graduates aspiring to leadership positions in sustainable policy, politics and business.
Part of a national network with access to continuing educational and professional opportunities and an ongoing network to lead change.
Participated in training focused on developing a network, developing a persuasive pitch’s, identifying strengths and skills, raising funds, and blog writing.
Part of a cohort of leaders whose vision is to change the world.
C2C stands for Campus to Community, to Congress, to Corporations, to Capitol, or to City Hall, emphasizing the importance of sustainable leadership in all of these areas.