Experience

The Powell Foundation
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Executive Assistant/Board Liaison

  • Aug 2021 - Present


Houston Grand Opera

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Governance and Business Manager

  • Mar 2015 - Aug 2021

  • Serves as the liaison for all governance activities including the coordination of all necessary communications, scheduling of meetings and preparation of meeting presentations, meeting minutes, and other documents as needed • Serves as the Assistant Secretary for HGO and the HGO Endowment and acts as a liaison to the general counsel on bylaws, resolutions and policy recommendations • Serves as support to the chairman of the board, board officers, committee chairs, board members and committee members • Assisted in the development of the company’s strategic plan and working culture initiative

• Development Operations Coordinator

  • May 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Acted as a liaison between the development and finance department to prepare the necessary financial documents needed for proposals and donor reporting, including reporting for government multi-year grants. • Worked alongside portfolio managers to ensure all individual donors and corporate partners receive all their allotted benefits. • Assisted with the tracking of individual donor benefits, including organizing dress rehearsal ticket requests. • Acted as a liaison to the communications department to assist publications including Opera Cues and Unleashed as well as editing surtitles, banners and production promotional pieces. • Supervised the Development Administrative Assistance, to ensure all acknowledgment letters, receipts and development communications are all timely and precise.• Served as the human resource representative for the development department by tracking employees paid time-off, keeping the rotation schedule for after-hours work, organizing departmental meetings, functions and retreats as well as assisting with developing staffing plans to enhance the department’s efficiency.



Holocaust Museum Houston

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

• Director of Board Services

  • Aug 2013 - May 2014

  • Continued with the recruitment, cultivation and engagement of HMH’s board and the young professional program, Next Generation. • Assisted with restructuring The Houston Holocaust Museum’s Foundation board, developing a granting process between the Foundation and the Museum as well as updating the Foundation’s Investment Policy Statement.• Streamlined HMH’s committees and standardized committee policy and procedures. • Assisted in creating an updated Strategic Institutional Plan for the Museum.• Created a marketing and fund development plan for Next Generation. • Developed evaluation reports to analysis visitor experience and the impact of the mission.

• Associate Director of Development, Board Relations

  • Mar 2011 - Aug 2013

  • Successfully restructured HMH’s board by taking it from a three-tier to two-tier structure and significantly increased governance efficiency.• Created better fiscal management and oversight of the Museum’s investments by assisting in establishing unaffiliated governing of the Houston Holocaust Museum Foundation, Inc. • Oversaw the governance assessment of the Museum’s AAM accreditation application.• Created a young professional program, Next Generation, and grew membership from 0 to 125 members in two years.• Developed a reporting system to track board development efforts.• Lead discussions on the creation of dashboard reporting and created an ongoing evaluation effort and committee.• Coordinated the Museum’s cultivation and community outreach through program and event planning including working with the PR department on marketing plans, volunteer outreach and social media outlets.

• Associate Director of Exhibitions

  • Jan 2010 - Mar 2011

  • Acted as project manager for the installation and deinstallation of the changing exhibitions.• Negotiated loan agreements and assisted in the transportation arrangements for borrowed exhibitions, artworks and artifacts.• Curated exhibitions to be displayed in the Museum’s library and Central Gallery, including:o Darfur: Photojournalists Respondo In Search of Hopeo Examining Restitution: The Bielitz Collectiono The Holocaust: An Artist’s Glimpse of the Past• Organized the collection of artifacts from the Houston community to enhance HMH’s exhibition of Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War.• Oversaw the inventory process of the Museum’s largest two archival collections: the Abramowitz Collections and the Levenback Collection.• Served on the collections and changing exhibitions committees.• Continued to oversee the Museum’s traveling exhibition program.

• Executive Assistant/Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator

  • Jul 2007 - Jan 2010

  • Created and managed the Museum’s traveling exhibitions program including:o Ensuring proper storage, packing and shipping of all art work, photographs and artifacts.o Creating multimedia marketing pieces to advertise and publicize the traveling exhibitions, including developing brochures, fliers, email blasts and website updates.o Negotiating and upholding all loan agreements and contracts with host venues and lenders.o Overseeing the traveling exhibitions committee.• Provided administrative support for the Executive Director including maintaining the calendar, typing proposals and letters, answering the telephone and opening and distributing the mail.