Arizona State University

Hunter College

The College of Saint Rose

The Stony Brook School

Co-Founder at Aspire Talent Management

Co-founded a growing coalition of family caregivers, residents and allies seeking to support residents in long-term care homes across the US. Highlights:
•	Analyze federal and state regulations and waivers, synthesize peer-reviewed research, write legislative proposals, and advocate for their success.
•	Co-developed HR 3733, Essential Caregivers Act of 2021, contributed to months of virtual meetings with legislative staff, and engaged in advocacy events throughout the life of the bill.
•	Led the organization's co-sponsorship of the Resident Designated Support Persons Act in California (initially AB 2546 in 2022), developed from the proposal stage. Liaised regularly with legislative staff and the lead sponsor organization. Participated in a successful pivot to the budget bill for a funded workgroup in the California Department of Aging. 
•	Secure and promote key testimony, support, endorsements, and calls to action.
•	Give numerous press interviews, refer journalists to coalition members, and spoke on a KTLA segment.
•	Engage attorneys and professional advocates from various nonprofit disability, aging, and long-term care consumer advocacy organizations for advice and support concerning hospital and long-term care facility matters such as visitation, laws, regulations, waivers, quality of care, residents' rights, disability rights, and human rights. 
•	Co-produced BANniversary events in San Francisco and Los Angeles in collaboration with other grassroots caregiver and long-term care resident groups across the US.

Essential Caregivers Coalition

Co-Founder and Grassroots Advocate

Built a micro business to develop, manage, and evolve the entertainment pursuits of multi-hyphenate artists. 
•	As clients’ manager: safeguard privacy, scale multi-dimensional teams and networks, sculpt organically unique brands and marketing packages, plan career trajectories, manage reputations, coach and groom for success, extensively develop scripts and productions, solve creative problems, provide event support, champion, encourage, and advocate, among other responsibilities. 
•	As owner-operator: design core guiding principles, processes, and systems, oversee day-to-day operations, maximize team strengths, maintain corporate and employer compliance, manage contracts, utilize QuickBooks, process payroll, secure pandemic recovery funds, analyze industry trends, write persuasive pitches, support administrative tasks, graduate employees to buyers, network, produce zoom events, engage on social media platforms, and service myriad other business needs.

Aspire Talent Management

Co-Founder, Literary and Talent Manager

Temporary opportunity to cover the assistant desk for two busy talent managers with an upwardly mobile roster of working film, TV, theater & voiceover performers. Reorganized office database, electronic filing, and physical filing systems. Appointment management, prepared daily talent pitch list, answered phones and emails, provided hospitality for visitors, took meeting notes, reviewed client materials, performed research duties, and managed client vitals, contacts, appointments, bookings, and all project details inEntertainment software.

Jordan Lee Talent

Talent Assistant

Shared the corporation's operational, compliance, contract, and staffing duties with two partners in the LLC. Before disbanding, independently produced a romantic comedy feature film called Chasing Taste which had several notable film festival runs, garnered a wide range of awards on that circuit, and distributed the film on both Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. 
Chasing Taste is a fun and funny indie romantic comedy that takes place in the heart of New York City with an incredible ensemble cast. It's about food, eating it, tasting it, smelling it, loving it, critiquing it, secretly eating it, being allergic to it, knowing obscure ingredients in it, glancing at it from afar, and forgetting your troubles (all through food).

Project NYC XY, LLC

Producer

Submitted talent for project roles on Breakdown Express, processed audition appointments, managed email and phone communications, pitched talent to casting directors, and obtained necessary materials for clients' success.

Redwood Entertainment

Talent Coordinator

Temporary assistant position. Updated and managed dynamic electronic human resources data for this interior design-centric headhunting firm.

Viscusi Group

Office Assistant

Temporary position to support the marketing department in this financial firm. Proofed promotional materials, managed schedules, arranged travel, assisted at various marketing events, organized event materials, and maintained digital and physical records. Researched, created, formatted, and proofed Word and Excel reports.

Jeffries  Co

Marketing Assistant (temporary assignment)

Provided performer services as an audition reader during casting sessions. Learned about Breakdown Express scheduling on the casting side, the CastIt system, audition etiquette, actor preparation, spatial awareness in relation to an audition camera, and the casting process in general.

ABC Television

Reader for Primetime Casting Department

Assembled comprehensive proposal packages with various separate deliverables for this industrial production company. Managed a team of freelance proposal assistants, shaped Excel sheets and Word documents. Copy-edited materials, coordinated heavy print jobs, collated paper elements, bound them into books, built swag bags, and arranged all shipment and courier services. This role occasionally included long productive nights and all-nighters alongside the creative directors and sales teams to prepare complex deliverables for pitch day as projects changed or required alternative options.

The RJO Group

Proposal Coordinator

Performed & produced theater, film, TV, and webTV in addition to leading the operations of the corporation. Also performed in VO commercials, narration, promos, ADR & animation.

Maitely Inc

CEO, Actress, VO Artist & Producer

Initiated, ran and maintained this intimate theater company mainly operating in the Off-Broadway & Off-Off Broadway spaces of midtown Manhattan Theater.  Engaged in Actors Equity Association contracts from Showcase Code up to, and including, Off-Broadway agreements.

StageRight Productions

Founder & Artistic Director

Ran errands for production team and performers, collated and distributed new script pages, set and reset props, took continuity polaroids, assisted with craft services, supported performers, organized background actors, handled phone calls, and performed general gofer duties.

Brothers Productions - Victoria Pool

Production Assistant for Feature Film

Assisted the Production Manager in his daily duties during pre-production and production of an independent feature film.

Maitely Weismann