Hi, I’m
Aleta Alston-Toure
Remote Customer Service
Vallejo,CA
Summary
Mission-driven community organizer with over 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, dedicated to empowering organizations to forge meaningful connections with members and the broader community. Strong commitment to the core values of equality and justice fuels a passion for creating impactful change through innovative program development and strategic leadership. Expertise in youth outreach, leadership development, and political education ensures initiatives resonate with diverse audiences, fostering inclusivity and engagement. Proven ability to inspire collaboration and mobilize communities drives success in achieving organizational goals while advancing social justice initiatives.
Overview
24
years of professional experience
14
Certifications
3
Languages
Work History
Landcorps / Reviving the Black Cooperative Movement
Lead Cooperative Member
01.2015 - Current
Job overview
- Parable of the Sower International Community Cooperative. National coordinator for cooperative strategy fellowships and networks, New Economy Coalition National policy group, state partnerships and local cooperative community involvement.
New Jim Crow Movement
Lead Organizer | political Education Instructor
01.2013 - Current
Job overview
- Performed fundraising and grant writing for statewide and southern regional strategy planning and community campaign actions.
- Advocated for city nonprofits through cultural competency, juvenile justice, and family mental health wraparound services and programs.
- Conducted social justice classes through Universidad Sin Fronteras / University Without Walls campus.
- Provided annual Freedom School, Juneteenth, Black August, Kwanzaa, and Black History Month programs for students, families, and communities.
Aces Education
Behavior Interventionist
01.2016 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Standard treatment and A behavioral interventionist, working with individuals, groups, and communities in order to facilitate positive and healthy behavior by eliminating negative or destructive conduct.
RTI Research Triangle Institute / Headway Workforce Solutions, Inc.
Field interviewer
01.2012 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Part-time field interviewer for national research study with the Drug and Alcohol Administration.
- Acted as customer service representative to clubs and businesses for research study and federal programming.
National Children’s Study, Battelle Memorial Institute
Office Administrator
01.2009 - 01.2013
Job overview
- Provided HR management, NIH compliance certifications, and monthly enumerator procurement logs.
- Designed government plans, manuals, federal compliance sheets, and policies affecting federal health institutions.
- Spearheaded community events and meetings with sponsors and organizing committees to plan scope and format of events, and to establish and monitor budgets.
- Conducted field enumeration surveys while compiling and analyzing data on economic, social, health, regulatory and physical factors affecting communities.
- Analyzed operations to evaluate the performance of staff meeting objectives to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement and policy change.
Union Mission, Inc.
Director of Community Involvement
01.2006 - 01.2008
Job overview
- Supervised and coordinated all medical students, churches, and community volunteers for our eight homeless shelters while training and presenting advocacy initiatives for staff, consumers, and the general public.
- Supervised and completed 501c3 status for consumer advisory board.
- Created newsletter and speaker’s blog.
- Attended community events, meetings, and conferences to promote organizational goals and solicit donations and sponsorships.
Star Program
Direct CarE Worker
01.2002 - 01.2006
Job overview
- Supervised and distributed meds for acute youth medical housing facility program.
- Maintained and documented dailies for patients care case history records including interventions, medications, patient responses, treatment changes and behavioral assessments for DFCS.
Christian Activities Council
Associate Director Assistant | Summer Program Director
01.2002 - 01.2003
Job overview
- Prepared budgets for approval, including those for funding and implementation of programs.
- Raised $43,000 for annual 2-month youth program.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Cambridge, MA
Graduate Department of Urban Studies and Planning Community Fellows Program
01.1997
Emerson CollegeBoston, MA
Bachelor Candidate from Film production
01.1992
Endicott CollegeBeverly, MA
Associate of Mass Communications
01.1986
Skills
Problem-Solving
Certification
40 Hours Hazwoper
Organizations
- New Economy Coalition (NEC)
- Organizers For America (OFA)
- Southerner Movement Alliance (SMA)
- Alternate Roots
- National Organizers Alliance (NOA)
- MIT Alumni Club of North Florida
- Social Investment Forum
- Free Marissa Now Campaign
- National Council on Women and Girls
- Stop Mass Incarceration Now (SMIN)
- Black Liberation Unity Network (BLUN)
- Organizers for America (OFA)
- SAMSHA Florida
- Federation of Families
- Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed (PTO)
- Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage
- Human Rights Commission Study Circle
- Boston Women’s Theological Center
- Amnesty International
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- The Gathering for Justice
- Vine Albany Task Force
- MIT K – 12 STEM
- North Florida United Way Speakers Bureau
- MIT Community Fellows Program Alumni
- Asusumas
- Interfaith Interracial Committee
- Trinity College Upward Bound Program
- Vision Crew Youth Video Leadership Program
- Parable of the Sower Intentional Community Cooperative Member
Accomplishments
Biden Justice40 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Fellowship
Solutions Project Communicating Our Power Fellowship
Timeline
Behavior Interventionist
Aces Education
01.2016 - 01.2018
Lead Cooperative Member
Landcorps / Reviving the Black Cooperative Movement
01.2015 - Current
Lead Organizer | political Education Instructor
New Jim Crow Movement
01.2013 - Current
Field interviewer
RTI Research Triangle Institute / Headway Workforce Solutions, Inc.
01.2012 - 01.2018
Office Administrator
National Children’s Study, Battelle Memorial Institute
01.2009 - 01.2013
Director of Community Involvement
Union Mission, Inc.
01.2006 - 01.2008
Direct CarE Worker
Star Program
01.2002 - 01.2006
Associate Director Assistant | Summer Program Director
Christian Activities Council
01.2002 - 01.2003
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Graduate Department of Urban Studies and Planning Community Fellows Program
Emerson College
Bachelor Candidate from Film production
Endicott College
Associate of Mass Communications