Sierra Cleveland Smith

Executive Director at Open Paths Counseling Center
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, US

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Credentials

  • Stanford Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders
    Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    Jun, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Nonprofit Accounting Professional (CNAP)
    BDO FMA
    Dec, 2021
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Open Paths Counseling Center
    • United States
    • Mental Health Care
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Executive Director
      • 2016 - Present

      Provide strategic leadership to this dynamic, growing community counseling center, including fiscal and budgetary oversight, board engagement and development, supervise a team of 50 clinicians and staff, program implementation, evaluation, and oversight, outcome measurements, partnership building and liaising, and all aspects of operations. Impact includes:-Double operating budget in four years-Successful design and implementation of our therapy outreach program which has resulted in five new organizational partnerships which increase our client impact and provide new revenue streams-Relationship cultivation with new foundations and funders-Increased clinical team by 50%-Implemented systems and processes to increase efficiencies and effectiveness

  • Antioch University-Los Angeles
    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Adjunct Faculty
      • Aug 2013 - Jan 2019

      Teach a masters level course in cultural diversity and systems of privilege, oppression and marginalization in the Masters in Psychology program.

    • Graduate Management Programs External Relations Manager
      • 2012 - 2015

      The Master of Arts in Nonprofit Management, launching this fall, is specifically customized for students who want to dedicate their time and talents to mission-driven organizations. Additionally, Antioch University Los Angeles is the only Los Angeles-area university that is a Collegiate Partner of the national Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA). Graduates of the program are eligible to become Certified Nonprofit Professionals (CNP).

  • The African American Board Leadership Institute
    • United States
    • Professional Training and Coaching
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Manager, Outreach and Engagement
      • Nov 2015 - May 2016

      The mission of the African American Board Leadership Institute is to strengthen nonprofit, public and private organizations through recruiting, preparing and placing African Americans on a broad range of governing boards. The mission of the African American Board Leadership Institute is to strengthen nonprofit, public and private organizations through recruiting, preparing and placing African Americans on a broad range of governing boards.

  • California WALKS
    • Southern California Coordinator
      • 2012 - 2012

      California WALKS is a statewide organization of affiliated nonprofit and volunteer groups dedicated to creating healthy, safe, and walkable communities. Our mission is to provide a statewide voice for pedestrian safety and walkable communities through policy advocacy, community empowerment, and a growing unified statewide network of local community organizations and affiliates—with particular focus on healthy equity and communities disparately impacted by pedestrian injuries and fatalities. California WALKS is a statewide organization of affiliated nonprofit and volunteer groups dedicated to creating healthy, safe, and walkable communities. Our mission is to provide a statewide voice for pedestrian safety and walkable communities through policy advocacy, community empowerment, and a growing unified statewide network of local community organizations and affiliates—with particular focus on healthy equity and communities disparately impacted by pedestrian injuries and fatalities.

  • k9 connection - A Project of OPCC
    • Project Director
      • 2008 - 2008

      k9 connection’s programs in continuation high schools offer teens the chance to break through learning and life barriers by training and bonding with homeless dogs. Experiential learning enables the teens to find self esteem, self determination and empathy while they in turn enable homeless dogs to develop the skills to be adopted into permanent loving homes. k9 connection’s programs in continuation high schools offer teens the chance to break through learning and life barriers by training and bonding with homeless dogs. Experiential learning enables the teens to find self esteem, self determination and empathy while they in turn enable homeless dogs to develop the skills to be adopted into permanent loving homes.

  • spcaLA
    • United States
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Assistant Manager / Animal Behavior and Training Specialist
      • 2005 - 2008

      Large Private Non-Profit Humane Society / S.P.C.A. serving the greater Los Angeles area.CPDT-KA certified professional dog trainer - knowledge assessed Large Private Non-Profit Humane Society / S.P.C.A. serving the greater Los Angeles area.CPDT-KA certified professional dog trainer - knowledge assessed

  • The Anti-Cruelty Society
    • Community Project Coordinator
      • 2003 - 2005

      Large Private Non-Profit Humane Society / S.P.C.A. serving Chicago, IL Large Private Non-Profit Humane Society / S.P.C.A. serving Chicago, IL

Education

  • Antioch University-Los Angeles
    Master of Arts (M.A.), Organizational Management
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  • California State University, Northridge
    BA, Theatre
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  • Rutgers University
    Theater - Acting
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