Experience

New York City Anti-Violence Project
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director of Community Organizing and Public Advocacy

  • Feb 2018 - Present


Red Umbrella Project

• Media Production

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2011 - Feb 2016

  • Management: Created organizational structure, hired and trained staff members. Developed and successfully fundraised toward growing budget, developed relationships with foundations and individual donors. Collaborated with Board of Directors, consultants and lawyers to establish and implement Board Policies and Procedures, Employee Manual, Monitoring and Evaluation Process, Board Prospectus, Fundraising Plan, and Annual Workplan. • Communications and media: Produced biannual literary journal, monthly storytelling series, feature and short documentaries, podcast, and social media content. Built relationships with journalists and got program and advocacy work covered by The New York Times, Daily News, The Guardian, The Nation, ABC News, The Advocate, and many more. • Program development: Developed and led storytelling program, including semester-long writing workshops, and trainings on media and advocacy skills. Developed community organizing and leadership development programs serving 100 sex workers annually. Created internal Creative Teaching and Leadership Guide (2014), wrote and published resources Speak Up! Guide to Media Tools and Tactics for People in the Sex Trades (2013) and Speak Up! Guide to Doing Legislative Advocacy for Change in New York (17 pages, 2012). • Advocacy: Played a lead role in development of Access to Condoms advocacy strategy, trained and organized advocates and coalition members in city and state level campaign, consulted with national and international groups working on the issue. Led research team and co-wrote Criminal, Victim, or Worker? Impacts of the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts on Adults Arrested on Prostitution-Related Offenses in New York report (2014), did community organizing to launch city-level reform campaign resulting in City Council hearing and City Council Brief.



International Women's Health Coalition

• United States
• Nonprofit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Program Officer, Communications

  • Oct 2008 - Mar 2013

  • Communications Strategy: Designed and implemented IWHC’s first online communications strategy to highlight grantee partner work, perspectives from the Global South on sexual and reproductive rights and health, and analysis of United States foreign policy. Produced and edited content for blog, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts in collaboration with program and policy staff and grantee partners. Traveled to collaborate with grantee partners, shot and edited video “SANGRAM: Sex Worker Organizing in India” and photo documentary project with survivors of early and forced marriage in Cameroon. • Technical Assistance: Collaborated with Africa, Asia, and Latin America Program Officers and International Policy Program Officer to do communications and advocacy trainings for grantee partners in preparation for Commission on the Status of Women and Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations. Designed and implemented Young Visionaries communications program grant, administered grant to young Nepalese woman who produced street theater event.



Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP)

• United Kingdom
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Strategy Consultant

  • Apr 2010 - Feb 2011

  • Conduct communications needs assessment and develop communications strategy for network with member organizations in the Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe • Recommend and implement ICT infrastructure for internal communications • Manage team of three support staff • Oversee development of NSWP’s website • Communications strategy for 2010 International AIDS Conference yielded articles in MotherJones, The Advocate, and more • Conduct communications needs assessment and develop communications strategy for network with member organizations in the Asia Pacific, Africa, Latin America, North America, and Europe • Recommend and implement ICT infrastructure for internal communications • Manage team of three support staff • Oversee development of NSWP’s website • Communications strategy for 2010 International AIDS Conference yielded articles in MotherJones, The Advocate, and more



Rutgers University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • May 2008 - Jul 2009

  • Developed and taught Human Sexuality 120:208:B6 (80 students per semester) • Human Sexuality encouraged students to think critically about sexuality and gender, assigning both scholarly readings and personal narratives • In the 15 week semester, I led twice weekly lectures and discussions and developed and graded exams and essay assignments • Developed and taught Human Sexuality 120:208:B6 (80 students per semester) • Human Sexuality encouraged students to think critically about sexuality and gender, assigning both scholarly readings and personal narratives • In the 15 week semester, I led twice weekly lectures and discussions and developed and graded exams and essay assignments



$pread Magazine

• Executive Editor

  • Mar 2005 - Jan 2008

  • Editorial: Edited news, columns, and arts features for independently published quarterly magazine about health, safety, and culture by and for sex workers. Edited best-of anthology, $pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution (Feminist Press, 2015). • Program Development: Created curriculum for Journalism for Sex Workers workshop and offered training to cultivate new writers for magazine. Managed grant from Citizens for NYC to offer tax filing assistance to sex workers. Curated two visual art exhibits showcasing work by and about sex workers as fundraisers for magazine. • Management: Created financial, distribution, and human resources policies and managed staff accountability processes. Co-managed 10 person staff and internship program. Produced fundraising events at small venues in New York City to offset costs of donating 15% of print run to community service organizations.



Gay Men's Health Crisis

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Volunteer Community Educator

  • Aug 2003 - Feb 2006

  • Provided HIV/AIDS education and prevention workshops, using popular education techniques (a high degree of participation and critical analysis based on open ended questions), to audiences ranging from Riker’s Island inmates to nursing home residents • Presented Sexual Diversity workshops and interventions at 10 school and work settings where homophobia and sexual harassment had become a problem • Provided HIV/AIDS education and prevention workshops, using popular education techniques (a high degree of participation and critical analysis based on open ended questions), to audiences ranging from Riker’s Island inmates to nursing home residents • Presented Sexual Diversity workshops and interventions at 10 school and work settings where homophobia and sexual harassment had become a problem



Museum of Sex

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Curator

  • Oct 2001 - Aug 2003

  • Managed the research, development, writing, editing and production of exhibition text for inaugural exhibition NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America • Researched, wrote, and implemented the walking tour “Street Walking: Commercial Sex in the Tenderloin,” which received positive reviews in USA Today, CityInfo Magazine and appeared on Canadian Sex TV • Curated video installations “1001 Nights: NYC Sex Now” at the Museum of Sex and “Historic Burlesque” at the First Annual New York Burlesque Festival