Culturally sensitive public relations, community engagement, media relations including:

• engaging underrepresented communities and environmental justice outreach
• leading public meetings and presentations with diverse stakeholder groups
• serving as the Spanish-language spokesperson
• designing culturally sensitive bilingual communication tools
• engaging community members and increasing awareness primarily of major, complex infrastructure projects: private-public partnerships and other  construction modalities 

The main activities included:

• Collaborating to set up events to promote the importance of the 2020 Census
• Setting up partnerships to produce PSAs with key community members and
• Training and engaging diverse community members in faith-based organizations, schools, local governments to enlist their support of census-related activities

Fundraising $21,000 and coordinating with community partners for an awareness campaign on RTD light-rail advertising

Led a team of four marketing and communications professionals in one of the largest agencies in the City and County of Denver. Responsibilities included:

• implementing and coordinating over 40 campaigns and events a year
  
• being the media spokesperson for English and Spanish language media outlets
• increasing attendance to Bike to Work three-fold as co-chair of the wellness committee
  

Public information and communication duties for RTD’s Eagle P3 Project, a $2.2  billion commuter rail from downtown Denver to Denver International Airport, Arvada and Wheat Ridge. Responsibilities include:

• scheduling and organizing public events to communicate with elected officials, property owners and diverse stakeholders
  
• writing articles and content for the website, fact sheets and other collateral materials
  
• reviewing and implementing the crisis communication plan for the project
  
• overseeing Spanish language communications ranging from on air radio interviews to proofreading content for publications
  

My duties in the merger of the 400-staff  Department of Housing & Human Services, included improving the internal and external communications:

• writing daily stories and maintaining the content of the internal SharePoint collaboration site
  
• providing content and design elements for the external website
  
• creating presentations and talking points for the leadership within the department
  
• coordinating collateral material with an external graphic designer and County staff
  
• preparing news releases and coordinating with the media on different stories
  

I contributed to voter approval of two 2007 sales tax initiatives. Key accomplishments include:

• redesigning the County’s website to make it more user friendly
  
• creating new communication tools such as news releases, newsletters, surveys, and brochures, community calendar
  
• cultivating positive relations with the local and regional media
  
• organizing special events such as the Meth 101 Workshop, Colors in Concert over Montrose, County’s 125th Anniversary  celebration, C-DOT regional outreach meeting
  

Graduated Cum Laude. Conrad N. Hilton Scholarship Recipient

International Marketing degree offered in conjunction with Vrije Universitet Brussel