Resume
Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Inclusive Excellence,Whitman College, 2021-Current
Executive Assistant to CEO, Valdemar Family Estates, 2019-2020
Freelance Event Coordinator & Venue Manager, 2015-2020
Coordinator of Campus Events & Conferences for the Office of the President, Whitman College, 2012-2017
Executive Assistant to the Vice Chair and Coordinator of the UCLA Film Festival, UCLA School of Theatre, Film & Television, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008-2011
Lisa Brown, Director of the Washington State Department of Commerce, tours the Valdemar Estates production facility
Valdemar Estates CEO Jesús Martínez Bujanda
Lisa Brown and Natasha in the Valdemar Estates restaurant and tasting room
Coordinator of Campus Events & Conferences, Whitman College, 2012-2017
Planned and executed major events for The Office of the President, coordinating all event logistics for events both on and off campus; overseeing event marketing and publicity, speaker selection and management, venue selection, catering orders, event flow and time management, budget, staffing, signage, registration coordination, AV testing and technical needs, coordinating with internal departments and external vendors, hiring and training of event staff, and providing post-event follow-up and reporting. Responsible for 60+ events a year, including Trustee retreats, Commencement, the Whitman College Undergraduate Conference (presentations and poster sessions), faculty seminars, guest speaking engagements, and numerous social events at the President’s private residence. Liaised with college constituencies - Admissions, Alumni Relations, Development, Communications, Governing Board members, facilities, and catering services - to meet deadlines and deliver event metrics that reflected the professionalism and ethos of the college and its President. Provided consistency and reliability, working independently and as a part of the larger institutional team; took on responsibilities that helped the team reach the goals of The Office of the President and Whitman College as an academic/consumer-facing brand.
Events Coordinator, Whitman College (August 2012 – April 2017)
As the Events Coordinator for The Office of the President, I collaborated with my colleagues in the Provost’s Office, Admissions, Alumni Relations, Development, Communications, Athletics, The Office of Fellowships and Grants, Residence Life & Housing, and students and faculty, to coordinate on-campus events The Whitman Undergraduate Conference, Alumni Reunion Weekend, 50th Reunion Weekend, Alumni Board Events, Summer College, Family Weekend, Opening Weekend, Spring Visitor’s Day, Fall Visitor’s Day, Admitted Students Day, The Whitman College Summer Read Program, Baccalaureate Ceremony, Convocation Ceremony, Commencement Ceremony, High School Counsellors Dinners, Parents Leadership Group Receptions, Women In Leadership, Scholarship Socials, Mentorship Dinners, Global Entrepreneurship Week Events, Communications Department Branding Sessions, Dance Events, Sports Dinners, and Faculty and Staff Socials.
On behalf of the Office of the President, I hosted the following Visiting Lecturers & VIP Guests:
Vernā Myers, Cultural Innovator & Activist
Connie Rice, Civil Rights Activist & Lawyer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of the Advancement Project
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist and short story writer
Kathleen Woodward, Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington
Shakti Butler, Educator, Filmmaker and Founder of World Trust
Gustavo Arellano, Publisher & Editor, OC Weekly
Sherman Alexie, Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker
Immaculée Ilibagiza, Rwandan author and motivational speaker
Hedrick Smith, Author, Reporter and Editor for The New York Times, Producer Correspondent for Frontline on PBS
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, Physician, Scientist, and Author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction)
Kenji Yoshino, Legal Scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law
Diane Nash, iconic Civil Rights Activist
Wade Davis, Anthropologist, Ethnobotanist, Author, Photographer, and Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society
Danielle Ofri, Essayist, Editor, physician at Bellevue Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine
Mark Strand – Poet, Essayist, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University