This temporary position as a full-time Federal employee included engaging community members in the Montbello neighborhood in Denver, the City of Aurora, and in Logan, Washington, Yuma and Sedgwick Counties in NE Colorado. 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

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

• 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
• working for the 2020 Census as a partnership specialist 

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
  

Responsibilities primarily involved strategic planning and operational execution in repositioning a traditional, higher-education certification agency to a high-profile, international quality assurance organization. Specific accomplishments included:

• establishing a scholarship program for the foundation started by Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Oscar Arias
• designing the public relations and communications effort for this organization
• forming new alliances with leading international organizations such as European Distance Education Network, and the American Society for Quality
• planning and executing international conferences with participants from around the world and intergovernmental institutions such as the World Bank, UNESCO

Graduated Cum Laude. Conrad N. Hilton Scholarship Recipient

International Marketing degree offered in conjunction with Vrije Universitet Brussel