Experience

• The Salvation Army of Greater Houston

  Data and Program Evaluation Manager

  Asks questions to drive better data quality, find and leverage effective resources, and improve service delivery to our clients experiencing multiple losses, emotional trauma, and homelessness.
  • Leads office Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) initiatives, such as improving data quality and data integrity.

• The Salvation Army of Greater Houston

  Manager of Emergency Services

  - Coordinated Salvation Army's response and recovery efforts, including mass feeding of first responders and community (provided 422K hot meals and snacks and distributed 43K food boxes in Harris County alone post-Harvey), emotional and spiritual care to meet the immediate needs of disaster survivors, and providing financial assistance to support survivors long into recovery.
  - Served as community liaison at the City of Houston Emergency Operation Center during Hurricane Harvey, interfacing directly with the Mayor of Houston, Police Chief, Fire Chief, and other government and community leaders.
  - Developed and managed relationships and strategic partnerships with 30+ community members, stakeholders, and agencies, government entities, corporations, and other organizations, to work together to develop plans with a holistic approach to identify needs, fill gaps, build community resilience, and assist highly vulnerable communities.
  -- Served as Vice-Chair of TGCR VOAD, Texas Gulf Coast Regional Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster, to help facilitate the communication, training, and collaboration necessary to coordinate the disaster efforts of organizations in the Texas Gulf Coast Region.
  - Managed the disbursement of more than $1 million in financial assistance to survivors across a 4 county region, in addition to nearly half a million dollars in grant funds.
  - Supervised 3-10 staff seasonally, providing financial assistance programs for long term recovery, donations and warehouse management, recruitment, training, and coordination of volunteers.

• First Person LLC

  Training Director

  • Served as part of a team of consultants who work with clients to assess business practices, identify needs, and create tailored plans and training to address each organization’s goals and sustainability.
  • Conducted training and workshops tailored to client needs; see projects for examples.
  • Facilitated summer programming for the Let’s Fly Learning Luncheon Series, a series that focuses on social justice issues and features experts in the fields of immigration, racial justice, foster care, LGBTQ rights, food scarcity, and more.
  • Developed proposals and cultivated community-wide partnerships to help drive prospective business opportunities.

• Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston

  St. Jerome's Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Foster Care Program - Community Case Manager

  • Provided comprehensive case management services to unaccompanied refugee minors in foster care and assisted youth as they progressed toward independent living.
  • Collaborated with youth’s biological and foster families, immigration and citizenship specialists, health specialists, and school administration to expand youth’s circle of support and for coordination of care.
  • Formed relationships with community agencies to help meet the specific needs of clients and their families.
  • Assisted foster youth in his fundraising efforts by utilizing an online fundraising site, GoFundMe.com, to raise over $1,000, which helped cover his tuition costs to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine.

• Houston Food Bank

  Government Relations Officer

  We advocate for policy change that will make a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve by listening, organizing, connecting, and amplifying the voices of people who are passionate about ending poverty and making the world a more accepting and sustainable place to belong.

• One Voice Texas

  Program Director of Voices for Change

  Voices for Change (VFC), an initiative of One Voice Texas and formerly the Texas Foster Care Alumni Coalition, is a collaborative effort among former foster youth and various stakeholders to improve policy and practice in the Texas foster care system.