Communications specialist with 10 years of experience in media companies, non-profits and government. I want to become an asset in your objectives, create a strategy and produce content for visible results.
CORE COMPETENCIES
*Impeccable written and verbal communication in Spanish and English
*Detailed and Organized
*Multimedia Specialist and Content Producer
*Research and Strategy
Senate of Puerto Rico
Executive Director, Women’s Committee, March 2013-December 2016
Conferences about gender and dating violence prevention, Puerto Rico Women Committee legislation, reports, write Bills, represent office, meetings with different organizations to create policy, analyze international laws and projects to implement in Puerto Rico, organize meetings, work in strategy for policy implementation, research, work plans, writing speeches, preparing for Roll Call, organize activities .
More than 27 Bills proposed. Some highlights include: Project 389 (awareness month), 714 (dating violence law, access to protection orders), 715 (equity pay bill), 484 (gender perspective in schools), 543 (program in municipalities to assist sexual aggression victims); 573 (a law to recognize and penalize human trafficking); pilot program of women in entrepreneurship in computer technology professions; equity in commission of elections to have more women representation in politics, access to day care for working mothers; research of programs of rehabilitation for aggressors convicted for domestic violence.
Coordinating events, Forums and Awards.
Universidad del Turabo & Hogar Sor María Rafaela
Professor and Teacher August 2012-May 2013
Certified by the Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez (SUAGM) as a Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences Professor
English Teacher in School of Hogar Sor María Rafaela 7th-9th grade
Communications Specialist
Press Secretary, Eduardo Bhatia, January-July 2012
Communication Specialist, Pan American Health Organization, 2011
Multimedia Editor, Washington Hispanic Newspaper, 2010
Content Producer, Telemundo and America Teve, 2009
Content Producer and Translator, Department of Veterans Affairs, August 2007- July 2008
Ph.D. History of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean- Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Dissertation, 2017
M.S. Mass Communication –Florida International University, 2009
B.A. Information and Journalism- University of Puerto Rico, 2008
Post Graduate Certification in Documentary Filmmaking, George Washington University, 2011
Post Graduate Certification in Diplomacy and International Relations, School of Diplomacy of Santo Domingo, 2011
RESUME
Professional
info
Work
experience
Education
Skills
Social Media Manager
Content Producer
Wix - Word Press
Blog and Web Designer
Editing-Final Cut Pro
Investigative Reporter
Writer
Organization & strategy
Advocacy and Public Policy
Government Affairs
Community organizing
Event planner
Translator (Spanish & English)
Basic Portuguese
AWARDS
11 years of voluntary work in Dating Violence prevention and Women’s Advocacy
Top Outstanding Hispanic Leader, given by SOMOS , November 2016
Selected as 1 of 21 Leaders of XXI Century Women E-News Organization, New York, 2016
Selected as 1 of 10 Ten Outstanding Young Person of the World (TOYP) Japan, 2015
More than 350 conferences and trainings in schools and Universities
Speaker on International Forums in: Mexico, Thailand and Dominican Republic.
