Senior Director for Strategy and Partnerships, Philanthropies, Trinity Church NYC 07/2022 – Present

Promoted from Director of Partnerships

• Oversee Trinity’s Special Opportunity Fund, directing approximately $2 million in 2025 to immigration, workforce, and interfaith causes
• Manage Lower Manhattan grantmaking and Trinity’s Neighborhood Council, a group of 22 stakeholders stewarding community work under 14 Street
• Led the creation of the “Heart of New York” campaign to remind New Yorkers of the vital services nonprofits provide to keep our neighbors housed, fed, and cared for
• Organized convenings focused on federal and legal threats to the nonprofit sector, resettlement, and meeting basic needs for CUNY students
• Coordinate Trinity’s efforts to ‘walk alongside our grantees,’ finding ways to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations and champion their causes
• Develop and steward partnerships with philanthropic, government, faith, and nonprofit actors aligned with housing, education, immigration, and mental health

Senior Analyst, HR&A Advisors, 01/2022 – 06/2022

Promoted from Analyst

• Helped manage a seven-month citywide civic engagement process to inform the policies and priorities of the new mayor of NYC
• Supported the policy work of a NYC philanthropic foundation focused on criminal justice reform as well as housing and homelessness, including campaign management for a coalition of faith leaders
• Proposed a conceptual plan for a food hub and distribution facility that advances local and regional food and agriculture in Connecticut
• Performed landscape assessments and power mapping for criminal legal system reform in NYC and economic mobility in four regions
• Co-led stakeholder engagement for the creation of NYC’s first-ever 10-year citywide food plan
• Conducted market analysis to propose target industries for NYC to convert businesses to worker ownership and close racial wealth gaps
• Analyzed downtown economic conditions & revitalization projects

Urban Planning Research and Teaching Assistant, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 08/2017 – 05/2019

• Led stakeholder engagement for Andres Sevtsuk’s spring 2019 Future of Streets in Los Angeles studio
• Supported Knight Foundation-funded project-based course by Lily Song focused on inclusive growth for Overtown, Miami in fall 2018
• Maintained course logistics for Lily Song’s spring 2018 Community Development course and speaker series
• Supported Ann Forsyth, Director of Urban Planning, on scholarship and outreach on healthy places, new towns

Neighborhood Planning Intern, NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development, 06/2018 – 08/2018

• Established plan goals by analyzing past plans, community input, and zoning
• Prepared data snapshots and presentations for planning studies
• Designed cohesive marketing materials for property owner loans
• Assisted community engagement strategy and execution

Digital Communications Manager, FoodCorps, 11/2013 – 06/2017

Promoted from Communications Coordinator

• Set strategy for social media, increasing following on Twitter by 189.61% to 52,782, Facebook by 106% to 18,225, and taking Instagram from scratch to 13,945
• Supervised state-level social media presence across 17 states
• Co-led organization’s first website redesign and brand refresh
• Collaborated cross-functionally on fundraising, recruitment, and advocacy campaigns across all digital channels
• Trained stakeholders such as corps members and local partners to speak in a unified voice with the support of appropriate tools

Organizing Fellow, New Yorkers for de Blasio, 09/2013 – 11/2013

Green Carts Intern, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 06/2011 – 08/2011