Experience

University of Southern Maine Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Director of Engagement

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  The University of Southern Maine Foundation supports the success of USM and its students by cultivating relationships and fostering a culture of philanthropy. The USM Foundation is pursuing new and innovative ways to strengthen scholarship programs, raise capital and achieve ambitious goals, as we help to build great futures for students at the University of Southern Maine. We succeed by engaging with our alumni, community and employer partners, philanthropists, and others in the wider community – connecting them with meaningful opportunities to invest their time, skills, and resources.



Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters

• Executive Director

  • Sep 2017 - Feb 2022

  Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters was established in 2017 as a citizen conservation nonprofit working to preserve and protect the outstanding natural beauty, ecological vitality and distinctive cultural resources of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument and surrounding communities for the inspiration and enjoyment of all generations. In partnership with the National Park Service, Friends provides a direct way for the public to participate in the continuing stewardship of Maine’s newest park by providing a measure of excellence that can reach beyond NPS management and funding. We raise funds in support of the monument, defend it against threats, mobilize volunteers for site projects, lobby legislatures and agencies, and represent users in the betterment of monument operations.



Maine Citizens for Clean Elections

• Executive Director

  • Jul 2011 - Jun 2017

  Maine Citizens for Clean Elections is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine’s campaign finance laws, elections, and government serve the public interest, both in principle and in practice. MCCE engages Maine people from across the political spectrum, using research, education, outreach, and advocacy to further fairness, inclusion, and opportunity in our politics. Maine Citizens for Clean Elections is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to ensure that Maine’s campaign finance laws, elections, and government serve the public interest, both in principle and in practice. MCCE engages Maine people from across the political spectrum, using research, education, outreach, and advocacy to further fairness, inclusion, and opportunity in our politics.



Mainers for Accountable Elections

• President

  • Feb 2015 - Jan 2016

  The Maine "Clean Elections" Initiative, Question 1 was passed by a 10-point margin on the November 3, 2015 ballot in Maine as citizen-initiated referendum. The initiative strengthened the Maine Clean Elections Act by addressing court Citizen-United-type court rulings to allow candidates to qualify for supplemental funds, required disclosures regarding gubernatorial inaugurations and transitions, increasing funding from $2 million to $3 million for the Maine Clean Elections Fund, and increasing penalties for violating campaign finance disclosure rules. The campaign was guided by a diverse coalition of social justice organizations and employed dozens of staff working robust communications and media, field, fundraising, and grass tops coalition building tactics to win at the ballot and fully implement the law within the statehouse.



Maine AIDS Alliance

• Executive Director

  • Jun 2007 - Jun 2011

  Maine AIDS Alliance (MAA) served a network of HIV/AIDS service organizations throughout Maine through statehouse advocacy and policy development, fundraising and grant-making, as well as technical assistance and service-coordination among providers. MAA aided in restoring hundreds of thousands of prevention and care service dollars slated for elimination, advance policies to ensure strong HIV/AIDS prevention services, facilitated mergers and cross-sector efficiencies, and bolstered philanthropic revenue streams for services among providers.



Opportunity Maine

• President

  • Jan 2006 - Aug 2008

  Through a grassroots citizen-initiated referendum, the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit is a first-in-the-nation state policy that allows any Maine college graduates who has borrowed loans, lives and works in Maine, and pays taxes after graduation to receive a state income tax credit for loan payments. The effort to create the law was lead by students and community leaders, who developed the policy, devised state-wide grassroots strategies to advance the initiative, and supported the effort through C3/C4 education initiatives.