Experience

ONE Northside

• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Organizer

  • Mar 2018 - Present

• Volunteer Organizer at ONE Northside

  • Jul 2017 - Mar 2018



Youth & Opportunity United

• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Partnerships Assistant

  • Aug 2017 - Mar 2018

  Created strategy for engaging local community in the organization’s new neighborhood.Spearheaded push for a community advisory council to collect feedback and meaningfully involve residents in the organization’s work.Coordinated youth and family programming for low-income residents.



32BJ SEIU

• Logistics Organizer

  • May 2016 - Dec 2016

  Planned and executed logistics for a variety of events, including strike and contract ratification votes, member meetings, and rallies, including a 2000-person march.Drafted and designed communications materials, including member bulletins for the field, public leaflets, Tentative Agreement summaries, and presentations for member assemblies.Performed light research: investigated building owners and property developments, obtained contact information for board members or trustees, navigated our member databases.Supported campaigns in various additional ways, such as supporting actions and doing political work.



Tufts Labor Coalition

• United States
• Higher Education

• Organizer & Media Relations Representative

  • Jan 2014 - May 2016

  Organized with workers and students to lobby Tufts for justice in the workplace, worked on various campaigns with adjunct professors, dining workers, janitors and building trades workers.Assisted in strategizing campaigns and planning escalation while centering workers’ voices.Crafted media strategy and messaging for 2015 hunger strike and Justice for Janitors campaign.Wrote press releases, made pitches, coordinated with reporters and editors, did in-person and phone interviews, set up interviews with workers, assisted in a social media campaign, designed basic flyers.Fulfilled role of secretary, recorded meeting notes, maintained email and calendar, facilitated communication among group leadership team, coordinated meetings and events.



Jobs With Justice

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research Intern

  • Feb 2016 - Apr 2016

  Assisted with the No on Question 2 campaign against expansion of charter schools in MassachusettsResearched a pro-charter organization’s leaders and donors, using published databases and Internet sourcesAnalyzed information and compiled into report that demonstrated corporate interest in the charterization of Massachusetts public schools



Tufts University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  Served as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate class about race, racism, and White Supremacy in the United States.Worked closely with a teaching team to learn about and practice critical pedagogy, drawing on bodies of theory such Critical Race Theory and Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed.Built relationships with students and professor based in radical love. Facilitated and was a part of a collective learning process about how a system of oppression (White Supremacy) operates, and how we may be agents of transformative change, both on a personal and structural level.



Committee for Public Counsel Services

• United States
• Law Practice
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

  Supported the work of Youth Advocacy Division at CPCS, equivalent of public defender for juveniles.Wrote advocacy letters to the Commonwealth in favor of dropping charges for defendant clients.Researched and compiled database of community resources for young people facing delinquency charges.



LIFT, Inc.

• Individual and Family Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Client Advocate

  • Sep 2013 - May 2015

  Worked one-on-one with community members who were in poverty.Assisted members in obtaining public benefits, employment, housing, healthcare, and other member-identified goals.Served as and advocate and knowledge-base for community members in need of navigating complicated public and social service institutions.



Law Offices of Steven R. Hunter

• Law Clerk

  • Jun 2012 - Aug 2014

  Served as an assistant to a prominent Chicago criminal defense lawyer.Interacted with clients, answered phones and performed preliminary screenings, offered simple legal advice.Drafted motions, assisted with sentencing preparation, wrote memos and letters, researched and wrote web content, maintained company website.Helped out in the courtroom, conversed with clients before hearings.



Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts

• United States
• Legal Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Intern

  • Oct 2013 - Apr 2014

  Completed case summaries for prison brutality victims, evaluated whether cases should be taken.Compiled research for draft complaints using Pacer.Reviewed and summarized brutality victims’ medical records.



Uptown People's Law Center

• Intern

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Corresponded with Illinois Dept. of Corrections inmates seeking legal aid• Drafted case summaries for inmates’ civil rights claims that were sent out to pro bono attorneys• Performed intakes with clients seeking representation in social security/eviction claims• Helped attorneys with cases by drafting interrogatories and motions, interviewing clients