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  • AFL-CIO Department of Media Relations
  • Campaign Coordination
     
    Work daily with AFL-CIO staff and leadership in major West Coast port cities to develop outreach campaign and respond to news media inquiries during contract negotiations with global shipping companies.

     
  • Alliance for a Better California
  • Campaign Management
     
    Helped plan, hire and manage field staff in a statewide effort to educate and mobilize voters on a series of flawed initatives in 2005.

     
  • American Federation of Musicians
  • Community Relations Strategy
     
    Develop outreach plan to support casino musicians in contract campaign effort.

     
  • California Association of Highway Patrolmen
  • Media Production
     
    Wrote and designed newspaper ads and posters for public campaign and member education on proposed plan to privatize public retirement funds.

     
  • California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS)
  • Marketing and Communications Strategy, Media Relations
     
    Develop branding campaign for public health professionals and other key public service science jobs.

     
  • California Faculty Association (CFA)
  • Membership Mobilization Campaign
     
    Develop membership outreach campaign and complimentary communications effort. Goal of gathering 12,000 campaign endorsers on 23 campuses and within six weeks secured 13,152 signatures.

     
  • California Prison Industry Authority
  • Strategic Planning
     
    PIA is co-sponsoring a series of meetings to look at how they prepare inmates for jobs when they leave the prison system and how they and their partners can improve their efforts to place former inmates in jobs.

     
  • California State Council of SEIU
  • Communications Strategy, Campaign Management
     
    Develop campaign plan for local agency representative to the CalPERS Board of Administration. Serve as campaign consultants to State Council of SEIU in efforts to elect a union leader. Coordination of members communication efforts.

     
  • California State Labor Federation
  • Grassroots Campaign Strategy
     
    Pension fund trustee education and capital strategies. Campaign strategies on CalPERS’ policy for investments in emerging markets. Outreach to build a California capital strategies program with multi-union participation.

     
  • Californians for Health Care and Retirement Security
  • Communications Strategy, Policy Research
     
    Conducted research, developed binder and training program for employee organizations on approaches to the complex and emerging issue of post-employment benefits programs in public employment.
     
    Handling GASB 43/45 and OPEB 
     
  • City of Lake Oswego
  • Citizen Involvement, Opinion Research and Planning
     
    Confronting a growing population of aging Baby Boomers Lake Oswego Oregon decided to invest in a citizen engagement process that reached out to community organizations to help shape future policy on aging.

     
  • Direct Organizing Group
  • Campaign Communications
     
    Work with field staff around the country to develop direct mail, fax, video, and other communications to support ongoing union organizing campaigns.

     
  • Equality for All
  • Campaign Strategy and Management
     
    Develop campaign plan, hire and manage day to day effort to protect right to marriage for all Californians.

     
  • Healthcare Access Now (HCAN)
  • Strategic Planning, Organizational Development
     
    HCAN seeks to improve access to health care for working families. Lincoln Crow assisted in finding strategic opportunities to address this challenge to prosperity and to identify key partners.

     
  • ILWU Coastwise Committee
  • Media Training, Public Relations Program Development
     
    Develop a model public relations program for local unions in four key regional transporation centers. Train local union officers and leaders on media relations and media strategy.

     
  • International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)
  • Communications Strategy, Media Relations
     
    Develop research agenda and communications objectives regarding port and global shipping companies. Coordinate media relations in 29 ports.

     
  • Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA)
  • Media Training
     
    Tailored and taught training for local staff and leadership from throughout Pacific South West.

     
  • Maria Elena Serna for Delta Community College Trustee
  • Campaign Planning and Management
     
    Helped develop successful strategy and plan for 15 year incumbent to retain seat on San Joaquin Delta Community College Board of Trustees. Managed her grassroots effort, and produced all elections materials in a six week time period.

     
  • National Union of Security Professionals (NUSP)
  • Direct Mail Campaigns
     
    Responsible for all aspects of creative development and coordination of several direct mail campaigns to increase membership.

     
  • No on Proposition 75
  • Campaign Development and Management
     
    Consulting team to defeat a statewide initiative that would undermine the ability of working families to voice their collective opinions through their unions. Develop research agenda, key messages, field plan, and all campaign materials in coordination with other initiative campaigns.

     
  • Prewitt Organizing Fund
  • Institutional Marketing Effort
     
    Develop and implement marketing plan to increase visibility among three key constituencies.

     
  • Project California
  • Strategic Planning, Issues Campaign Management, Internet Outreach
     
    Project California, sponsored by California’s Attorney General Bill Lockyer, is an effort to look at long term policy issues raised by California’s growth. Develop outreach approach, organize meetings and public forums, and use web marketing to develop web-based public discussion.

     
  • Sacramento River Cats
  • Strategic Planning, Organizational Development
     
    Advise community and business leaders on local government processes and policies, public administration, and city managerial issues. Assist in building civic leadership council in working class community of West Sacramento.

     
  • Sacramento Valley Organizing Community (SVOC)
  • Organizational Development
     
    Advise local affiliate of Industrial Areas Foundation on building relationships with local labor unions.

     
  • SEIU Local 24/7
  • Campaign Communications
     
    Develop field communications materials for a series of organizing and contract campaign efforts

     
  • SEIU Local 614
  • Communications Strategy, Capacity Development
     
    Plan and develop a comprehensive local union communications program starting with internal capacity building and working toward broader positioning in local media market.

     
  • SEIU Local 2028
  • Strategic Analysis and Member Training
     
    Work with leadership of SEIU 2028 to assess situation with San Diego City and County pension funds and develop member training to help explain source of City problems and overall strength of County retirement program.

     
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
  • Media Strategy, Media Relations
     
    Develop and implement a media outreach plan to support statewide healthcare organizing effort under a strategic alliance with Tenet Healthcare. Build on local victories to develop a larger media story about the growing movement of health care workers uniting to improve patient care.

     
  • True Majority
  • Media Relations
     
    Coordinated coalition in news conference seeking to shape statewide policy regarding electronic voting. (True Majority was founded by Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream)

     
  • Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE!)
  • Media Relations, Coalition Building
     
    Act as representative for garment trades union to organize local coalition, hold news conference and carry out direct action on new store in men’s wear chain selling clothing manufactured by slave labor in Myanmar.

     

 

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