Spring UpBudget & Operations Coordinator/Team Lead
Jan. 2021 - Jun. 2021Spring Up (timetospringup.org) is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy (bluelight.academy), as well as helping institutional clients tackle DE&I needs through their Equity & Accountability education, coaching, audits & strategy. As the Budget & Operations Coordinator & Team Lead, I created & onboarded the team to systems for customer relationship management, invoices, time sheets, payroll, and internal management. I onboarded and managed two team members on the Operations team with the goal of moving towards decentralized systems, shared knowledge & democratic management across an ever-evolving virtual team of popular educators. As a winter/spring core team member, I collaborated in the development & launch of the online school platform, redesign of sales offerings, and business development planning & tasks. I also communicated directly with institutional clients for speaker engagements, workshops, and organizational equity & accountability work, etc. for contract management and invoice fulfillment. In my pedagogical & artistic work with Spring Up, I co-led the creation of an exquisite corpse poem written by 16 current & former members of the Women Empowering Women writing group (including myself) from Dayton Correctional Institute & Antioch College.