EVENT PRODUCTION
Organizer and facilitator, “Student Affairs Graduate Student Summit on Diversity, Access, and Support,” over 50 attendees including students, Student Affairs administrators, and Graduate Division administrators, sponsored by Student Affairs and Graduate Division, UCSB, Goleta, CA, May 2018.
Co-organizer and speaker, “Montecito Community Panel Discussion,” event providing information to families who lost their homes or other belongings in the Montecito Mudslide Disaster, over 200 attendees, event was filmed and televised, January 2018.
Volunteer Recruitment Assistant, Pacific Pride Festival, nearly 4,000 attendees and dozens of performers and volunteers with literature at information tables at this event which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community and their ally supporters, Santa Barbara, CA, August 2017.
Co-organizer, lecture by anti-racist advocate Tim Wise. Budget $10,326. Over 900 people attended the lecture, we had only three weeks to plan and execute the event. This event was organized as an alternative program to provide a counter narrative to the Ben Shapiro talk that was happening during the same month, Fall 2016-Winter 2016. Organized in conjunction with Ad-Hoc Campus Climate Committee/Black Lives Matter group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4fbr1LlxEk
Committee member, June 2016-October 2016 “Concert Across America to End Gun Violence,” played a primary role on a small volunteer committee that organized a complex concert with dozens of performers and speakers. There were over 2,000 attendees and the event was held at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBohOV4qP24
Co-Chair, Queer Law Student Association, GGU School of Law. Organized numerous events, including a debate on marriage rights for same-sex couples, which over 300 people attended. The event was called “Marriage for Same-Sex Couples: For Better or Worse?” It was held on March 11, 2004. The debate featured Shannon Minter, Esq. from the National Center on Lesbian Rights and Jeffery J. Ventrella, Esq. from the Alliance Defense Fund. Organized lavender LGBTQ graduations for law students and other educational events, August 2003-May 2006.
Co-Chair, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network, UCSCOrganized dozens of events, both large scale and smaller social events. Largest event was “Poetry as a Catalyst for Social Change,” which was a catered event with speakers and performers, and featured an information resource fair with twenty-two non-profit organizations from the campus and community tabling with literature. Estimated 375 attendees, September 1997-June 1999 .
Volunteer/Panelist, LGBTI General Assembly and Conference, University of California, Co-organizer for February 1998 9th Annual Conference and Assembly at UCSC, 1998-2002.
