Social Media Team Leader
Resume:
Melissa Taylor
Mastic Beach, NY 11951
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Hard-working, resilient, dedicated professional looking to become a valuable member of an organization. I am an excellent leader, but also know when I could be more efficient being a team player. I have 30 years of experience in sales and marketing in my past life and 5 years of Advocating, organizing, and public speaking currently. I pivoted my career to do what I love to do.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Tribe Ambassador Leader
For the Womxn’s cohort
January 15th 2024
Remote position
Light to life
●Social media contributor
●In charge of managing the networks feed, womens challenges and circles for women to engage with, with several other Tribe Ambassador Leaders
●Acquiring Guest speakers from other organizations with resources that the women can benefit from
●Hosting my own meet ups on women's health and self care.
Panel on fines and fees and how they destroy lives at New York Law School
November 2022
Fines and Fees Justice Center
●Keynote speaker
Team Leader #turnontheTap Advocacy Day
January 2022
Remote position.
College and Community Fellowship NY, NY
●Managed posts to social media using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Slack promoting Advocacy Day and posting statistics and facts about the campaign.
●Led my team to practice persuading the legislation meetings for policies to persuade the changes we needed to make to ensure education for all incarcerated individuals.
Public speaker and website contributor
July- September 2021
Center for Community Alternatives NY, NY
●I Spoke publicly, in Manhattan, NY, in Folly Park at the fountain for the campaign “no price on justice” to end courts' current laws. This practice allows them to add surcharges and fees on top of court fines that keep low-income people in debt. They can lose their license just because their poor
●Have Website nopriceonjustice.org
Census Ambassador
March- October 2020
New Hour for Women and Children, Brentwood, NY
●Managed posts to social media using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Slack promoting census completion
●Conducted productive census outreach throughout the town of Brookhaven
●Proactively recruited and educated community members to fill out the census
●Completed documentation and maintained files
Team leader / Voting recruiter
August - September 2020
College and Community Fellowship
Bronx, NY
●Recruited formally incarcerated people to join me and vote
●Set up, lead, and arranged Zoom meetings for us to discuss who were the candidates we were supporting
●Got pledges from all participants to get out there and vote and found them their voting locations
AFFILIATIONS
JLUSA, Emerging Leader Training Program 2022
COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP completed their Arts for Justice cohort 2020, WISH fellowship for Advocacy fellowship 2021, Woman of Change Art cohort 2022
LEAP, Entrepreneurial Skills Course and for Successfully Producing a Business Plan 2022.
DEFY ADVENTURES, Completing Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2022
NEW HOUR LI FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Emerge 2.0 Financial Wellness cohort 2021.
CAPITAL ONE, Financial Literacy Program 2021
CIRCLES OF SUPPORT, Raising my Voice Master Class 2021
CIRCLES OF SUPPORT, Raising my Voice Class 2021
TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN'S DRESS FOR SUCCESS, Career Edge Program 2020
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES, Summer Organizing Institute cohort 2020
NEW HOUR LI FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Emerge Leadership and Advocacy cohort 2020
EDUCATION
Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY
Completed 29 credits / Towards associate degree, 3.1 Grade Average
I just completed a digital skills cohort with Emergent Works and 1:1 Mentoring.
Fellowships, cohorts, and affiliations
I graduated from Leap for Ladies and Defy Boot Camp, two entrepreneur programs.
I graduated from the Town of Brookhaven's Dress for Success Program
Reentry Rocks Alumni
Completed an arts for justice program through College and Community Fellowship and also graduated from their WISH Program for Advocacy.
Completed Center of Community Alternatives Summer Organizing Program
Completed Capital One's Financial Literacy Program
I have an Emerging Leader certificate from Just Leaders USA.
I got a lot of experience public speaking after graduating from Circles of Support Raising My Voice and then their Master Class.
I spoke at a live press conference in Folley Park for the #nopriceonjustice campaign and had an article written on me.
Graduate of New Hour Li's Emerge advocating program 2020 and Emerge 2.0 Financial Wellness 2022
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