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Profile_________________________________________________________________ Ambitious, motivated and driven professional with over 25 years of management experience providing local and national best practice tools in public/private educational partnerships. Proven training in leadership and organizational management, fund development, housing development, program design and implementation, including the development of a national corporate youth leadership initiative that was successfully tested in Portland, Oregon, Baltimore, Maryland, Cleveland, Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina and Dallas, Texas. Summary_______________________________________________________________ Over 20 years of youth education lobbying on both the East Coast and Pacific Northwest 20+ years of budget development and management Housing Development Executive with multi-million dollar projects in Portland, Oregon 15 years of managing non-profit technology education programs in distressed communities Mentor for MESA (Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement) programming in North/Northeast Portland, a program sanctioned by the Oregon University System and the National Science Foundation NEFE (National Endowment for Financial Education) Certified Instructor in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco/Portland Branch Executive Producer of Vanport: The Survivors Tale, a short film designed and shot by local youth working with professionals from the Oregon Film Commission and the Oregon Media Production Association picked as an interactive history in the National Library of Congress * Producer of "Chillaxin on the Max", a safety campaign for TriMet that included a television commercial, a music CD, transportation ads and classroom material featuring the music and acting talent of community youth, in partnership with Meredith Broadcasting (UPN 49 and FOX 12) Professional Achievements_________________________________________________ 2011 The Skanner Foundation and the Office of the Governor of the State of Oregon "Drum Major for Justice Civil Rights Award" * 2011 Oregon State Royal Rosaria Newsmaker of the Year 2011 PSU Center for Academic Excellence "Community Based Learning Award"