Strategic Planning Data Entry
Resume:
Eman Rimawi-Doster
Seasoned Consultant with background in developing and implementing
successful business strategies in nonprofit settings. Strong track record in identifying opportunities for operational improvement, driving efficiency, and facilitating change. Demonstrated skills in project management, strategic planning and team leadership. Significant contributions made to enhance organizational growth and profitability in previous roles of other marginalized people.
New York, NY
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EXPERIENCE
Senior Community Organizer New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
NY, NY
Mar 2017 - Current
Company Overview: NYLPI is focused on social justice through advocacy, organizing and community lawyering
● Planning a number of events around accessible transportation
● Coordinating multiple campaigns on various Disability Justice issues, which intersect with race, class, environment, sexual orientation, and gender
● Connecting with and making long-lasting relationships with funders
● Travel to Albany, DC and around NYC to support, promote and enable community members to advocate
● Drafting bills with elected officials in NYC/NYS
● Facilitating a number of trainings for various stakeholders around NYS
● NYLPI is focused on social justice through advocacy, organizing and community lawyering
Executive Director/Founder Amped Up
NY, NY
Mar 2014 - Mar 2017
Company Overview: Amped up designed clothing for amputees, while bringing awareness to the public about inaccessibility and planning several fashion hip-hop shows
● Planned 3 successful and lucrative fashion hip-hop shows, which brought in thousands of dollars and got international press coverage
● Made connections and partnerships with countless businesses, which donated food and drinks to the events
● Designed and alter clothes to be more accessible for amputees and others with disabilities and limited mobility
● Ability To Love events for people in inter-able relationships
● Amped up designed clothing for amputees, while bringing awareness to the public about inaccessibility and planning several fashion hip-hop shows
Media Communications/Youth Organizer Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
Brooklyn, NY
Dec 2007 - Aug 2009
Company Overview: FUREE dedicated itself to the improvement of Black, Brown and poor people living in Brooklyn
● They ultimately got absorbed into 5th Ave Committee
● Maintained and updated the website
● Wrote press releases and maintained the blog and newsletter, The Eminent Domain
● Planned events for community members and elected officials
● Ran a youth program for young people under 21 in and out of the foster care system and/or living in NYCHA housing
SKILLS
Writing/editing
Planning events
Active listening
Facilitation
Various Word programs
Humor
Reporting writing
Strategic growth
management
Organizational
development
Work Planning and
Prioritization
Industry knowledge
Decision-making
AWARDS
Awarded Community
Organizing Citation from
NYS Assembly
● FUREE dedicated itself to the improvement of Black, Brown and poor people living in Brooklyn
● They ultimately got absorbed into 5th Ave Committee EDUCATION
Mercy College, New York City — Associates
Sept 2003 - May 2007
History
Landmark Forum, New York City — Life Coach
Aug 2014 - May 2017
CONSULTING PROJECTS:
● Company Overview: Supporting various organizations, institutions and agencies around the world to have true equity
● September 2021, Skybound Comics: Worked on Clementine, a spin-off of The Walking Dead franchise, sharing my real-life experience of being a half-Black amputee and applying it to a world with zombies
● December 2021, D.C
● Comics: Worked on 'Aliens on Earth' (not a permanent name) comic, sharing my real-life experience being a half-Black amputee and applying it to a world where shapeshifting, gender-bending aliens have come to Earth and how they interact with disabled humans
● May 2022-2024, Ghana project: Drafting a plan to build accessible living spaces and develop a paratransit service through the government of Ghana
● Meetings with the king and Vice President of Ghana are scheduled and coming up in 2022
● April 2022-present, European and UK accessibility in hotels: Meeting with lawyers and accessibility advocates about what is needed, how we in the United States can support hotels in Europe and the UK and how we can replicate those designs here
● April 2024, Transportation Alternatives: Training staff on Disability Equity and the history of Disability Justice in the workplace
● April 2017-present, Accessible/Affordable Housing Consultant: Assisting elected officials, developers, architects, and accessibility experts with accessible and affordable housing
● Supporting various organizations, institutions and agencies around the world to have true equity
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