Experience

Pratt Center for Community Development

• United States
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Communications Associate

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  New York City Metropolitan Area - Programmed advocacy and public relation plans for civic justice campaigns ranging from rent regulation, tenant protections, disaster relief, industrial planning, and community healthy equity. - Launched Notes On—a blog of urban commentary that allows our staff and our partners to experiment ideas, demystify complex concepts, and develop the practice of community-based planning. - Oversaw the editing and managed the publication of reports, plans, and memos by our program/research teams… Show more - Programmed advocacy and public relation plans for civic justice campaigns ranging from rent regulation, tenant protections, disaster relief, industrial planning, and community healthy equity. - Launched Notes On—a blog of urban commentary that allows our staff and our partners to experiment ideas, demystify complex concepts, and develop the practice of community-based planning. - Oversaw the editing and managed the publication of reports, plans, and memos by our program/research teams. Credited examples found below: Show less



Ashoka + Brookings Institute

• Researcher

  • Jun 2021 - Sep 2021

  Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Translated complex insights from housing market and policy innovators towards a public-facing national project on solutions for closing the racial homeownership gap.



Cleveland Review of Books

• Editor

  • Jan 2020 - May 2021

  Cleveland, Ohio, United States - Editing and writing on social justice, comparative race and ethnic studies, geography, and more - Fielding pitches on critical race approaches on the American Rust Belt, as well as anything else that help facilitate just futures



Mellon Foundation

• United States
• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Mellon Mays Fellow

  • Jun 2019 - May 2021

  Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area - Orchestrated a peer-reviewed research project sponsored by the Mellon Foundation on the public relation strategies of development projects in Rust Belt cities in the wake of the Great Recession.



Bigger Picture Campaign

• Ambassador

  • Jun 2016 - Jul 2018

  San Francisco Bay Area - Represented the campaign at conferences such as the Biannual Childhood Obesity Conference, California Endowment's Fight for Fair Food, and the Aspen Health Strategy Group - Spread awareness on the disproportionate effects of Type-2 Diabetes on children of color and predominantly low-income communities



Get Lit - Words Ignite

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Artist

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2017

  Greater Los Angeles Area - Designed workshops in creative writing and social justice geared towards young adults - Organized literary art presentations for schools in Southern California - Represented the organization in collaborations with non-profits for events across the nation including Los Angeles LGBT Center, Teach for America, CreateCA, Just Keep Livin' Foundation, and more - Produced INTO ACTION, a social justice activism festival and pop-up art exhibition, by orchestrating speaker programming, event… Show more - Designed workshops in creative writing and social justice geared towards young adults - Organized literary art presentations for schools in Southern California - Represented the organization in collaborations with non-profits for events across the nation including Los Angeles LGBT Center, Teach for America, CreateCA, Just Keep Livin' Foundation, and more - Produced INTO ACTION, a social justice activism festival and pop-up art exhibition, by orchestrating speaker programming, event logistics, and marketing strategy Show less