Management and Program Experience
EXPERIENCE AND KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
Organizational Leadership: Led teams—up to 12 staff and 30 volunteers at a time—with programmatic vision and oversight for education, community building, events, programming, and program budgeting. Hired, trained and supervised staff at varied levels of seniority. Wrote and managed grants totaling over $175,000 for campus ministry and student leadership development programs focusing on vocation and meaning-making. Actively manage communication strategy, budget, payroll, and compliance for San Diego’s premier LGBTQIA+ focused psychotherapy practice; streamlined psychotherapy company policies and procedures to support overall operations.
Stake-Holder and Community Relations: Served as organization’s public liaison in various media outlets including print, online, community events and television appearances. Facilitated cross-constituent communication. Called together a campus-wide task force to create and support Safe Zone certifications for faculty, staff, and students. Served on executive advisory teams, collaborating with team members on organizational strategic planning.
Program Management: Developed, facilitated, and assessed regular educational, mentorship-based, and collegiate programs, conferences, retreats, and forums. Engaged communities in envisioning relevant programs for diverse families. Maintained program budgets providing regular budget reports to organization administrators.
Education | Academia: Have taught and lectured for 14 years at five higher education institutions in Philosophy, Theology, and Religion; Sociology; Religious Studies; Women’s Studies; and Ethics Departments. Defended Ph.D. dissertation “Gender Works in Mysterious Ways”: Making Sense of Service at UC Berkeley.
Key Achievements: Developed from the ground up, then managed, two mentorship programs: the College Achievement Program peer mentoring initiative and an annual program connecting young adults who experienced community-based justice settings with community leader mentors. Created successful organizational application for highly competitive American Psychological Association’s Sponsors of Continuing Education for Psychologists. Assumed lead role in securing the Agape House a national designation as an LGBTQIA+ affirming ministry.
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP HISTORY
Congregational Consultant, Unitarian Universalist Association| 2020–2025
Director of Operations, Waves, A Psychological Corporation | 2018–2020
Program Director and Grant Manager, Campus Ministry, San Diego State University | 2014–2019
Director of Family and Lifespan Education, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego | 2014–2018
Director of Education, Suzie's Farm | 2013–2014
Associate for Discernment and Mentoring, Wartburg College | 2004–2006