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RESUME

SUMMARY

A savvy businessperson with over 20 years of varied experience in marketing, advertising, consulting, teaching, community organizing and nonprofit leadership.

OBJECTIVE

Take advantage of my knowledge and expertise across several verticals to start up, scale or re-brand your business.

EXPERIENCE

Teaching:

Adjunct Instructor

Columbia College Chicago

  • Returned to my alma mater to teach Concepting 1 as well as Social Media Foundations and Digital Strategies.
  • Proud to say that I have earned a decent score on Rate My Professor, which is no easy feat.

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Organizing:

Executive Director

The Southwest Collective

  • I created and designed SWC to fill a need on the southwest side of Chicago.
  • Our mission is to build up community among neighborhoods siloed by redlining, racism and other invisible boundaries.
  • In just 4 short years, I have written, won and executed three large state government grants, focused on providing pandemic recovery for small, Latine owned businesses and advancing health equity on the southwest side.

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Creating: 

  • 20 years of creative copywriting and concept direction at agencies including: 

    • Havas​

    • DDB

    • Zipatoni

    • Upshot

    • JWT's Mirum

    • FCB

    • Leo Burnett's Arc Worldwide

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