Angelica Salazar

I founded my own consulting group specializing in the following:

    * CommUnity Organizing     * Grassroots/ Grasstops Educational Advocacy and Outreach coordination     * Political Campaign Strategy     * Congressional Educational Outreach     * Public Relations     * Governmental Affairs      * Coalition Building     * Social Media Campaigns/ New Communication Strategies/ Blogging     * Event Planning

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) is a non-profit organization working to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities aimed at better health outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Drafted Press Releases and website announcements 
• Drafted, designed, and emailed via Constant Contact the organizational quarterly e-newsletter, MEDICC Connects 
• Coordinated internal staff communications on projects, such as website content updates and drafting/designing promotional materials, including MEDICC main brochure, conference banners, and specialized pieces for programs and events
• Promoted MEDICC programs on social and traditional media outlets
• Helped establish strategic relationships for the organization
• Led planning, attendance, set up, and in some cases drafted/submitted abstracts for key medical/public health conferences 
• Organized two local events for generating local donations, cultivation of the local donor bases, and to highlight MEDICC's work and programs
• Managed MEDICC's social media outreach 

Progreso Weekly/ Progreso Semanal is a weekly, bilingual Internet Magazine. We peaked over 4 million readers in July alone. We bring a perspective of the world from a different angle, a progressive one. Our columnists are based in Miami, Cuba, and Washington D.C. I have a featured blog at Progreso Weekly, entitled Angelica's Eyes on Washington, which covers a number of issues from my perspective working in and understanding Washington. 

WOLA is a nonprofit policy, research and advocacy organization working to advance democracy, human rights and social justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. WOLA's Cuba program supports a policy of engagement and diplomacy between the US and Cuba with the aim of normalized relations. For more on WOLA's Cuba program, visit www.wola.org

Responsibilities:

*Contracted Consultant*

• As the grassroots/grasstops organizer I am responsible for building a national network of constituents from diverse backgrounds including those from academic, religious, Cuban-American communities, as well as agricultural, travel and business oriented industries, who support a change in U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba.
• Expand an existing network of grassroots supporters of engagement between the U.S. and Cuba.
• Mobilize both grasstops and grassroots supporters to engage in educational advocacy campaigns oriented towards both state-level officials and members of the U.S. Congress.
• Provide information on how to organize and mobilize constituents nationally to set up in- district Congressional meetings and reach out to their respective members of Congress
• Coordinated National CubaGO Call-in to Congress day by organizing over 40 national "call-in activities" generating hundreds of calls to Congress across the country, (September 30th 2009).
• Led grasstops delegations in Congressional meetings on the Hill to discuss US-Cuba policy, including scheduling meetings and preparing briefing material tailored to constituents and targeted congressional district 

Responsibilities:

• Researched micro-finance pathways, community-housing development projects that can be financed through remittances via informal and formal channels of sending, and how localized banking could support such micro-finance management for Senegalese immigrants in Europe and the United States. 
• I also investigated comparative models such as Hometown Associations in Central America and Mexico, as examples for sustain community development. 

SVREP's mission is to empower members of the Latino community, as well as other peoples of color, by increasing their participation in the American democratic process through programs that train, organize, finance, develop, expand and mobilize Latino community members/leaders.

Website: www.svrep.org

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated over ten local community-based and led projects to register and mobilize new voters in Latino Communities.  Each local organization included the participants of local elected officials, community business owners, youth, educators, and other community activists/organizers.  In the city of Berkeley alone we registered over 1000 new voters and a series of GOTV (Get out the vote) services for those communities.  
• Facilitated two-day Latino Academy training for Latino SVREP leaders from across country. http://www.svrep.org/latino_academy.html

Responsibilities:

• Worked with a campaign team and traveled nationwide to organize educational speak-ins, registering voters, mobilize supporters, and educate the public about Kucinich's presidential platform.
• General outreach coordination
• Conducted briefing and coordinated candidate's scheduling.  
• Coordinated the vision/production of a Kucinich campaign commercial that was aired on CNN during the 2004 Rock the Vote Presidential Debates in Boston.

Responsibilities:

Worked to educate and mobilize the travel industry to be more involved in influencing members of Congress in order to lift the travel ban on Cuba. Website:http://www.ffrd.org/

Language Skills: 

• English Writing Skill Workshop, UC Berkeley Extension (March-May 2012)
• 2-Months of Privately Instructed Tutoring in French Language, Dakar, Senegal (2007)
• Semester abroad of an Intensive Language, History, and International Relations Program, La Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, (Aug.-Dec.,2005)
• Summer abroad of Intensive Spanish course, La Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, (2001)
• Generally a fast-learner of languages.  Acquired basic skills in Kiswahili, Wolof, Amarharic, and Arabic while traveling.