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SKILLS SUMMARY
Senior legislative advisor, lawyer, advocate and administrator with more than twenty-five years of experience in both the federal government and non-profit sector. I have developed and implemented domestic & global advocacy campaigns, and have significant expertise in policy and legislative analysis, writing and speaking. I have many years of experience as an administrator and manager of legislative programs, research and strategy. I have served as counsel to the House Committee on Government Operations where I had responsibility for numerous investigative hearings on fraud, waste and abuse in our nation’s war on drugs. I served two Cabinet Secretaries in the White House as director of legislative affairs on counter-narcotics policy. I bring exceptional strategic vision and leadership skills to the workplace.
DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Global AIDS Alliance
Washington, DC (January -April )
- Responsible for developing and implementing advocacy campaigns on policy & appropriations that impact global health and development in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Leadership role in reauthorization of PEPFAR; organized ngo coalition efforts to impact Obama transition; developed strategy to ensure US provides multi-year funds to Global Fund.
- Developed local-to-global advocacy network campaign model to implement Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
SENIOR POLICY SPECIALIST
Center for Community Change
Washington, D.C. (October -June )
- Responsible for providing analysis of and strategic guidance on federal domestic policy for national non-profit dedicated to building better communities working for social and economic justice; primary focus on immigration reform.
- Represent CCC on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CCIR) – national coalition of national and state immigration advocacy organizations.
Washington College of Law
American University (September -September )
Washington, D.C.
Open Society Institute (January -August )
Washington, D.C.
- Developed a legislative office for George Soros with advocacy agenda related to key domestic initiatives of the Open Society Institute.
- Established the Criminal Justice Alliance, a strategic coalition comprised of national civil rights, human rights and criminal justice advocacy organizations to turn around the over-reliance on incarceration in the U.S.
- Developed a legislative agenda for the Open Society Institute on drug and crime policy designed to attract bipartisan support.
DIRECTOR OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
THE WHITE HOUSE (June -January )
Washington, D.C.
- Responsible for the White House’s relationship with Congress on drug policy: House & Senate committees have oversight of some aspect of counter-narcotics programs; of appropriations subcommittees are responsible for part of the drug budget.
- Prepared congressional testimony and draft bills on counter-narcotics program, policy and budget for ONDCP Director.
- Monitored and analyzed pending authorizing and appropriations legislation on drug policy.
- Developed strategy to implement White House’s annual National Drug Control Strategy and $ billion counter-narcotics budget in Congress.
Committee on Government Operations
United States House of Representatives (September -June )
Washington, D.C.
- Directed Committee’s oversight of all Federal counter-narcotics programs.
- Organized numerous investigations and hearings on drug treatment, drug prevention, law enforcement, international and interdiction efforts. Tasked related investigations by the General Accounting Office, Office of Technical Assessment and Congressional Research Service.
- Drafted all oversight, authorizing and appropriations bills on drug policy for Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI); and Committee reports on investigations, hearings and legislation on drug policy.
- Organized Congressional Delegations to assess impact of drug policy overseas, e.g., Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Panama and Haiti.
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Washington, D.C.
- Directed domestic policy agenda and national programs within international human rights organization. Programs included the National Moratorium on Prison Construction: a national criminal justice program focused on sentencing policy, prison overcrowding and alternatives to incarceration; Children At Risk linked community organizing on children in poverty with national policy; and the Native American Community Board: a community health project on fetal alcohol syndrome on the Lakota-Sioux Reservation.
- Responsible for Federal and State legislative efforts, research projects and national media work.
- Edited national criminal justice journal.
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Sabbatical: Central America ()
San Francisco, California (JD )
Law Clerk, National Juvenile Law Center, Inc.
San Francisco, California
Amherst, Massachusetts (BA )
Major: Comparative Political Literature and Criticism
Carnegie Fellowship: Women and Career Options (/-/)
Summer
American University
Spring
Race, Class and Criminal Justice
Hampshire College
January
Do-It-Yourself Law, HALT’s Guide to Self-Help Books, Kits & Software, Second Edition, . Contributing author.
The Road to Reform: Activists Need Fresh Strategies to Win, The Nation, September , , pp.-. (A special issue: Beyond Legalization: New Ideas for Ending the War on Drugs)
The Politics of Federal Sentencing on Cocaine, Federal Sentencing Reporter, January/February , Vol. , No. , pp.-.
The Role of the Department of Defense in the Interdiction of Drug Smuggling into the United States, Staff Report to the Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives, December .
United States Anti-Narcotics Activities in the Andean Region, Thirty-eighth Report by the Committee on Government Operations together with Separate Views, U.S. House of Representatives, November , . (House Report -)
Crime and the News Media: Final Report of the Crime and the News Media project,
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Boston, MA, .
Criminal Justice in Cuba: A Report of the National Lawyers Guild, National Lawyers Guild, New York, June .
The Reduction of Imprisonment, Strategies for Social Change, International Conference on Prison Abolition, Criminologisch Instituut, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Conference Proceedings, June .
Editor, Jericho: a national criminal justice journal, National Moratorium on Prison Construction, Washington, D.C., .
July ,
Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
March ,
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Committee on the Judiciary
U.S. House of Representatives
March ,
Maryland House of Delegates
March ,
Committee on the Judiciary
February ,
Committee on Government Operations
U.S. House of Representatives
April ,
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Leadership Council, Co-Chair, (-)
Global Action for Children
Section on Individual Rights & Responsibilities
American Bar Association
National Board of Directors, .
Offender Aid and Restoration – Washington, D.C.
Advisory Committee, .
Bicentennial Commemoration of the U.S. Constitution – Washington, D.C.
President, ; Executive Board, .
National Lawyers Guild – Washington, D.C. Chapter
