Experience

Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada

• United States
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Voter Contact Field Specialist

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Engage voters door to door or through phone banking to build the power needed to win 2022 midterm elections. Empower community members to make their voices heard by utilizing deep canvassing techniques to reach 1,200 voters in predominantly BIPOC areas of Las Vegas and inform campaign strategy Engage voters door to door or through phone banking to build the power needed to win 2022 midterm elections. Empower community members to make their voices heard by utilizing deep canvassing techniques to reach 1,200 voters in predominantly BIPOC areas of Las Vegas and inform campaign strategy



Make the Road Nevada

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

• Senior Organizer

  • Apr 2018 - Nov 2021

  Empowered undocumented immigrant community in Nevada through people led campaigns focused on tenant rights, immigrant rights, and worker rights. Served as a canvass director, political director and housing organizer.Served as Make the Road Action’s state lobbyist during the 2019 and 2021 state legislative sessions by cultivating local, state, and federal political relationships in addition to coordinating strategy and tactics with partner organizations resulting in the passage of legislation that granted drivers licenses for Puerto Ricans, employee paid sick days, occupational licenses for immigrants, and the creation of the Governor’s Office for New AmericansServed as the public spokesperson for Make the Road Nevada and Make the Road Action locally and nationally through the utilization of organizational values-based narrative strategies in support of organizational communications objectivesManaged the electoral endorsement process through membership training and political education, producing a comprehensive and competitive endorsement process for political candidatesDeveloped and executed nonpartisan and endorsement-based electoral and nonelectoral programming through field campaign strategies and tactics, providing a multitude of opportunities for community involvement, education, and leadership developmentAdvised the creation and implementation of issue campaigns by hiring and managing a team of three full-time community organizers advancing targeted programming on environmental justice, immigrant justice, health equity, housing and unemployment, economic justice, and the decriminalization of immigrants and youth in Clark County public schools

• Canvass Program Director

  • Apr 2018 - Feb 2019

  Implemented door-to-door fundraising strategies for Make the Road NV and Make the Road Action through performance analysis, budget tracking, strategic targeting, and testing of new technologies streamlining the recruitment of 786 dues-paying membersConducted general community field outreach by assembling and training a team of six full-time door-to-door canvass managers and 12 canvassers, leading to the identification of organizational core campaign issuesSecured grants by establishing relationships with key national funders, which strengthened grassroots campaigns and professional development training for staff resulting in a motivating, supportive, results-driven environmentSecured a membership database by developing relationships in the technology sector, thus bolstering targeted initiatives



FWD.us

• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• State Organizing Manager

  • Jul 2016 - Apr 2018

  Shaped people-centered narratives surrounding the immigration reform movement by recruiting and training surrogates on compelling storytelling and developing pitches to the press, leading to the integration of spokespeople in local and national campaignsFacilitated letters to the editor, op-eds, and press conferences by creating relationships with the press, resulting in the coordination of strategic media placementsMobilized activists across the state of Colorado and Nevada through key partnerships and coalitions, leading to the launch of year-round community-led campaigns and culturally relevant programmingAssisted in the creation of digital infrastructure for national immigrant rights work by cultivating relationships in the tech sector which led to the launch of the Informed Immigrant ambassador program Served as FWD’s Colorado and Nevada point of contact for the office of U.S. House Representatives Diana DeGette, Ed Perlmutter, Mark Amodei, Ruben Kihuen, Dina Titus, Joe Heck; U.S. Senate members Michael Bennet, Dean Heller, and Catherine Cortez Masto; Governor Polis, and several members of the state legislature, informing policy decisions at the state and federal level