Experience

Casa Myrna

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

• CEO

  • Jul 2013 - Present

  Casa Myrna delivers solutions to end domestic and dating violence. The largest domestic violence organization in Boston, our comprehensive range of services (available in both Spanish and English), gives survivors of violence tools to recover from the trauma of abuse and begin to build sustainable economic stability. We help meet survivors' immediate needs for shelter (through an emergency shelter, longer-term residential program, and shelter for teen parents), while we also support longer term needs for permanent housing, education and employment, improved mental health, and legal assistance. Through our SafeLink hotline, we provide resources and referrals on a 24/7 basis to survivors and others. And our education and outreach activities mobilize the broader community around domestic and dating violence prevention. Each year, we support almost 30,000 callers to our SafeLink hotline, 120 survivors and their children in shelter, and over 1,000 survivors in the community. As CEO: • Provide leadership and management of Casa Myrna by directing development, operations, strategic direction, planning and agency performance. Casa Myrna is a $5 million non-profit organization working to end domestic violence. • Oversee Casa Myrna’s administrative functions and eight programs, including three residential facilities and 85 staff. Provide fiscal responsibility and oversight for revenue and expenses, including contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations and municipal, state and federal funding. • Partner with Casa Myrna’s board of directors, clients, donors/funders and other stakeholders to ensure Casa Myrna is a strong, viable and growing organization responsive to the needs of survivors of domestic and dating violence. Show less



Boston Area Rape Crisis Center

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

• Board of Directors/volunteer

  • Oct 1995 - Present

  Volunteer (medical) advocate and peer supervisor (1994-2002) Member, board of directors (2002- present) President, board of directors (2003-2007) Volunteer (medical) advocate and peer supervisor (1994-2002) Member, board of directors (2002- present) President, board of directors (2003-2007)



MA Department of Transitional Assistance

• Assistant Commissioner for Policy, Program and External Relations

  • Oct 2007 - Jun 2013

  • Appointed to oversee the Commonwealth’s administration of the $1.5 billion dollar state and federal SNAP (formerly, Food Stamps), cash assistance and employment service programs to over 840,000 low-income people.• Set the direction and tone for seven policy and program-related business units (75 staff members) and their interaction with internal and external partners. Lead efforts with other state agencies, advocates, providers, the federal government and clients. Ensure that DTA’s policies and programs are responsive to needs of clients and stakeholders.• Provide fiscal responsibility and oversight, including procurement and contract management, for over $30 million in state and federal funds and programs.• Plan, implement, promulgate and evaluate the Department’s policies, programs and other activities, including long-term strategic planning.• Direct the Department’s external relations efforts; communicate and collaborate with DTA stakeholders, including clients, employee unions, vendors, advocates, community based organizations, and federal partners, to create more effective, streamlined and accessible policies and programs for clients.• Directed the successful design, application, and implementation of the $6.4 million federal SNAP nutrition demonstration program, Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP). HIP is the only program of its kind in the nation. Show less

• Director, Housing and Homeless Services

  • Oct 2007 - May 2009

  • Direct the Department’s extensive housing and homeless resources, services and staff. Provide fiscal responsibility and oversight, including procurement, contract management and reporting, for $150 million in homeless service funds.• Lead the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the Emergency Assistance family homeless system that provided shelter to over 2,600 families nightly. Designed, reprocured and implemented an $86 million shelter transformation, moving from a system that provided shelter only to housing placement and long-term stabilization. Show less



Homes for Families

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2003 - Sep 2007

  Partnership of homeless families, shelter providers and advocates working to end family homelessness through public policy change. Partnership of homeless families, shelter providers and advocates working to end family homelessness through public policy change.



MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services

• Administrator for Domestic and Sexual Violence Intervention/Prevention Policy

  • 1999 - 2003



Jane Doe Inc.

• Policy Analyst

  • 1996 - 1999