Anjelica Sepulveda
Chicago,United States
Summary
Dynamic and community service-oriented professional with experience in advocacy, workshop & training facilitation, program development, strategic planning, grant writing, social marketing, and fundraising. Looking to utilize my skills, education, and professional experience to impact my community positively.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Community Relations Representative
Chicago Public Schools
02.2021 - Current
- Plan and implement positive public relations programs, including partnerships with local universities, policymakers, feeder schools, businesses, and neighborhood associations.
- Meet with school principal, staff, students, Local School Council committees, local neighborhood associations, local businesses, and members of community to develop positive school/community relationships.
- Create weekly community newsletter, sent through Constant Contact.
- Create marketing materials for various events.
- Establish relationships with community organizations and social service agencies to identify existing resources and services and meets with community organizations to obtain information and literature concerning available services for distribution to students and their families as necessary.
- Attend meetings with community to represent school; schedules and coordinates all building activities, sports events, recreational programming, and all other usages of facility promotes and encourages community's use of facility for community-sponsored events.
- Collaborate with community stakeholders to plan large-scale events including Local School Council candidate forum and election drive, Covid-19 testing and vaccination events, and NHS events
- Serve as liaison between CPS-related service providers and school.
- Work on grant writing and grant implementation.
Co-Founder
Empowered Youth Project
08.2020 - 07.2023
- Empowered Youth Project (EYP) is people-funded, non-partisan, and grassroots initiative that strives to address the disparities in civic education and increase voter participation amongst young people (18 - 24 years old) from historically marginalized communities in Chicago
- Provide young people with the resources and tools to make informed decisions at the ballot box
- Increase voter registration and voter turnout in historically marginalized communities.
Project Leader
Honeycomb
03.2019 - 07.2021
- Lead Honeycomb’s multi-generational volunteer projects on weekends
- Deliver exceptional events - ensuring satisfying experience for volunteer families and partner organizations alike
- Effectively motivate and manage team of adult volunteers, support staff and volunteer families
- Oversee and manage all day-of event logistics including set- up, break down and pick-up/delivery of supplies and donations
Substance Use Prevention Specialist
Alternatives, Inc
10.2019 - 02.2021
- Responsible for grant management, tracking all deliverables including inputs/outputs
- Lead Youth Advisory Council Teach Youth Prevention
- Education to over 40 middle school students
- Promote Illinois Youth
- Survey to 25 schools
- Create an environmental scan of the service area and create a comprehensive resource guide
- Responsible for a monthly communication campaign which reaches over 1800 high school youth.
Education
Master of Arts - Public Administration
Arkansas State University
05.2020
Skills
- Strategic Planning Grant Writing Problem Solving
- Case Management DEI Work Project Management
- Fundraising Training Facilitation
- Community Outreach Marketing
- Workforce Development Large-Scale Event Planning
- Vendor Contracts
- Outreach Planning
- Facilitating Coordination
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Meeting Coordination and Support
- Teaching Experience
- Build Marketing Campaigns
Timeline
Community Relations Representative
Chicago Public Schools
02.2021 - Current
Co-Founder
Empowered Youth Project
08.2020 - 07.2023
Substance Use Prevention Specialist
Alternatives, Inc
10.2019 - 02.2021
Project Leader
Honeycomb
03.2019 - 07.2021
Master of Arts - Public Administration
Arkansas State University