Mercer University

Chief of Staff, Everybody Votes Campaign (EVC)

Jonesboro, Georgia, United States

Everybody Votes Campaign

Chief of Staff

National Democratic Training Committee

Trainer

Analyst Institute

Director of Partnerships & Community Engagement

America Votes

Deputy Political & Program Director

- Led the development and maintenance of relationships with community stakeholders and organizations in counties with organizational capacity.
- Assisted in the recruitment, hiring, and managing of 6 Regional Organizing Directors and 12+ Organizers in 6 regions across the state.
- Created and implemented professional development curriculum.
- Created pillars of organizational culture framework.

Aim Higher Now NC

Deputy Organizing Director

- Worked with 40+ partner organizations to implement field and issue-based campaign plans.
- Developed and maintained direct relationships with over 66% of state’s Supervisors of Elections (SOEs).
- Developed talking points and organizational goals for annual SOE outreach.
- Increased the organization’s mobile platform subscriptions by approximately 10,000 in 6 months.
- Provided 15+ trainings and created corresponding materials for network organizers and volunteers to increase organizational capacity, performance, and professionalism.
- Supervised GOTV phonebanking program completing over 700 shifts and attempting over 72,000 calls to Black and African-American voters in 33 counties over a 13-day period.

State Voices Florida

Field & Advocacy Manager

- Achieved up to 399% of weekly direct voter contact call goal.
- Assisted in increasing county-wide Democratic voter turnout by 64% in comparison to the 2011 General Election.
- Created a volunteer organization that successfully attempted direct voter contact of over 14,000 targeted voters over the final 4 days of the election.

Virginia Democratic Coordinated Campaign

Field Organizer

- Supervised canvassing of 50+ members as they collected information from over 325 constituents.

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Hotel Employees Action Team Assistant

- Built, trained, and supervised 3 grassroots volunteer teams and established campaign presence in 3 counties.
- Supervised 6 student interns and led campus outreach at 2 of Macon’s largest colleges.

Georgia Democratic Coordinated Campaign

- Created radio news pieces detailing current events that were broadcast on WMUM – 89.7 FM.
- Conducted interviews.
- Utilized basic audio editing and mixing technique.

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