I joined Bob Casey’s re-election campaign team to manage the digital content strategy. My role focused on ensuring that our campaign’s primary messages and initiatives were effectively represented across our digital platforms, including social media and press outlets.

Through roles in event planning and community building, I have always loved the opportunity to get to know the people at the heart of movements and conversations. I love sitting with someone and helping them share their story and personal achievements with a new audience.

Speaking engagements include interviewing leaders, moderating panel conversations and presenting on building community at work.

As Deputy Campaign Manager for Yuh-Line Niou for New York I supported the campaign of Assemblymember Niou for US Congress to represent New York's 10th district.

I acted as the primary scheduler for the candidate, tracked internal projects across communications and political operations, and supported the candidate at in-person events in the community, fundraisers, and political forums. Additionally, I worked with press both through outreach, requests, and scheduling.

Queer Soup Night is a Brooklyn-born queer party with soup at its center and a commitment to resistance. It was founded by Liz Alpern, a queer chef and entrepreneur - owner of The Gefilteria. In November 2018, I reached out to her, looking to help bring these events to the Bay Area. Through Liz, Jessica Nguyen of Little Window and I were connected and QSN Oakland was born.

We co-organize these events, bringing together queer chefs and culture all to raise money and awareness for local LGBTQ+ non-profits. Each event hosts approximately 3 Chefs, 60 Quarts of Soup, 200 attendees and raises $2,000 + for our beneficiary.

As a member of the Women for Biden Harris team, I help recruit volunteers, onboard them through a weekly hour long zoom, manage an online slack community and introduce them to actionable ways they can work towards electing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

At Pinterest, I joined to redesign and launch our new hire orientation program which is now named Pintro. I extended the program from 3 days to a full week and added sessions to bring more activity to new hires and introduce our mission, values and social impact work.

The Wing, a social club and co-working space designed for women, launched in New York in October 2016. I was lucky enough to join the team and help open the companies 5th space in San Francisco in October of 2018.

As Community Manager of The Wing, I create opportunities for our members to connect with each other in the space through events and other opportunities as well as act as their liaison to The Wing. I manage and oversee new membership, member tours, and on-boarding. I’m also responsible for member engagements, community events, and supporting member networking.

As a co-lead of AirPride, Airbnb’s LGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group, I had the pleasure to lead our employee participation in San Francisco’s Pride celebration.

In 2017 and 2018 I worked with Airbnb’s marketing team and the SF Pride Committee to secure and produce Airbnb’s involvement in the SF Pride Parade. Additionally, we hosted LGBTQ+ leaders at Airbnb to speak with our employee base about issues facing our communities. All from our events were donate to LGBTQ+ non-profits in the Bay Area. Our LGBTQ+ community was also hugely involved in volunteerism and spent time at Openhouse’ facility as well as with the SF AIDs Foundation.

Our most successful event was Gay Prom in 2018. We hosted Gay Prom to give anyone who hadn’t felt comfortable attending their own prom a re-do. We raised $13,000+ at this event and donated it to Openhouse, the only LGBTQ+ focused senior center in San Francisco.

Partnering with Airbnb’s Engineering, Product and Recruiting teams, I worked to translate Airbnb’s opportunities to our external community through programming. These programs included Tech Talks hosted in Airbnb’s SF HQ, Conference Sponsorship execution through booth and event development for Grace Hopper, NIPs and KDD and team events like Hackathons. Photos below include all varieties of events.

Airbnb exists to build a world where anyone can belong anywhere and a big part of that means to build a workplace where every employees is treated fairly and feels like they can belong. At Airbnb, all future employees are not only interviewed based on their technical skills - they’re interviewed based on behavioral traits associated with the Core Values.

For two years I had the pleasure of running this interview program. This meant managing the work for a team of six volunteers who trained over 300 global interviewers, lead education sessions on the values, and connected with leaders on how values interviewing worked all to ensure that we continued to hire employees aligned with Airbnb’s mission and values.

A celebration dinner planned for Airbnb’s San Francisco Core Values Interviewers. This was a sit down dinner followed by surprise karaoke at Dog Patch Wine Works. At each table setting there was a note written to our team member by someone who admired them at Airbnb saying thank you for all they’d done.

A perk of my roles as Team Coordinator and Program Manager for the Airbnb Engineering Team was planning events for the teams to close their laptops and get to know each other and our hosts on deeper levels. Over the years I’ve planned dinners, Airbnb Experiences, 2 day trips and more for the team! Highlights include Paylympics, an Olympics game day for the Payments team, and two years of Growth Team retreats, first to Camp Novarro and then to Guerneville.